Trivia Questions Week 03/20/14

By Eldon Combs | March 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Trivia Questions Week 03/20/14
  1. Sierra Nevada couple walking their dog used a stick to dig out a rusted can.  Leading them to find 8 cans filled with 1,427 mint condition gold coins dated 1847 to 1894.  The coins now are worth closer to 300 or 1,300 times more than their face value.  (Face Value:  $27,980 – Current Appraised Value:  $10 Million – 357 Times More)
  2. A completely smooth (No Dimples) golf ball hit by a good player will travel more or less than 140 yards?  (150 – 155 yds)
  3. How many Mammals are extinct because of humans:  Closer to 10 or 100?
  4. A couple of weeks ago in the final round of the 2014 Honda Classic – Tiger Woods withdrew from the tournament with 5 or 6 holes left in the tournament?
  5. The Pierre DeCoubertin Medal is something your Mom would or would not be proud of you for winning? (Olympic Sportsmanship Medal – very rarely awarded – name after sailing captain that abandoned a race to save others)
  6. The highest number of dimples ever put on a golf ball is more or less than 900? (812)
  7. A 1885 Gold Coin or an 1885 Baseball Card which is worth more?  (No Cards until 1886)
  8. The World Chess Federation does or does not feel the need to drug test their players?
  9. “Iron Man” or “The Thing” from the fantastic four – which Super Hero was cut from the cast of Saturday Night Live?  (Robert Downey Jr – was released from Sat Night Live)
  10. Baseball’s or Frisbee’s are the #1 selling item in Sports?
  11. From the movie “Monty Python – In Search of the Holy Grail” – The Knights of Ni or King Arthur to bring them a Shrubbery:  One that’s “Not To Expensive” and either “Looks Nice” or is “Not Too Big”?
  12. Drinking Milk after winning the Indy 500 became a tradition before or after 1940? (1936)
  13. PETA or the NAACP – which group is trying to rid the Indy 500 of it’s tradition of the winner drinking a bottle of “Milk”?  (They claim it’s unfair to the calf’s, wasteful and racist because most blacks have a problem ingesting “Milk”)
  14. A 16 yr old golfer was killed by the broken shaft of a 3 wood – when in disgust, after hitting a bad shoot the Boy or His Father slammed the club into a wooden bench?  (The shaft broke and pierced him thru the heart)
  15. Mosquitos live 2 days or 2 weeks?
  16. 1st Corinthians 13:4 starts with:  Love is patient – Love is kind – It does not envy – It does not boast and the next line to follow says:  It is not proud or It is not easily angered?
  17. The US military does or does not allow War Dogs to receive “Letters of Commendation”?
  18. A Free Dive is diving as deep into water as you can and returning to the surface with just one breath – The record for the Deepest Free Dive without the aid of Flippers is more or less than 100 meters? (101 meters)
  19. How much money was Ellen Degeneres able to collect from the star studded celebrities in the Oscars Crowd to tip the Pizza Delivery Man:  $300 or $600. ($600 from the stars and Ellen put $400 in to make the Tip $1,000)
  20. From the Olympic Curling Launch Line to the center of the target is more or less than $125 feet? (126 feet)
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