Hard Miscellaneous trivia quiz questions and answers.
What is Oprah Winfrey's real name?
A: Oprah Winfrey.
What star sign is "Gladys Knight?
A: Gemini.
Discovered in the 30s, Jonker and President Vargas were types of
what?
A: Diamond.
Where were murdering sisters Delfina & Maria de Jesus Gonzales
from?
A: Mexico.
Who has been Pope the longest in the 20th century?
A: John Paul II.
How was film director Emil Anton Bundmann better known?
A: Anthony Mann.
Who directed the classic movie High Noon?
A: Fred Zinnemann.
Which Pope died in 1978 after a mere 33 days in office?
A: John Paul I.
The Sicilian Specialist by Norman Lewis is a thinly disguised
fictional account of which assassination plot?
A: J F Kennedy.
In which state is Temple University?
A: Pennsylvania.
Which astronaut said, "Four days vacation and see the world?"
A: Jim Lovell.
In square miles, how big is Lake Ontario?
A: 7,550.
How old would Otis Redding have been had he lived to the end of
the 20th century?
A: 58.
Stephens College is in which state?
A: Missouri.
John F. Kennedy was one of how many children?
A: Nine.
What is Fidel Castro's real first name?
A: Ruz.
Where is the world's largest soccer stadium?
A: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (the Maracana).
Who wrote that the female of the species is more deadly that the
male?
A: Rudyard Kipling.
Jeffrey Hunter was the lead in the original pilot for which
successful series?
A: Star Trek.
Who was Herbert Hoover's Vice President?
A: Charles Curtis.
Which veteran rock musician said, "If I had my time again I would
like to take up archaeology?"
A: Bill Wyman.
What was Van Halen's first album after Dave Lee Roth left?
A: 5150.
Which was the last US battalion to leave Vietnam?
A: 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry.
What was the only hit single by Jaggerz?
A: The Rapper.
What were ladies asked not to wear at Prince Edward's UK wedding?
A: Hats.
Who was Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1993 to 1994?
A: Gulbuddin Hematyar.
Which year marked the bi-centenary of Kentucky joining the Union?
A: 1992.
In what year did the US death toll in Vietnam first exceed that
in Korea?
A: 1969.
Which convenience food did Joel Cheek develop?
A; Instant coffee.
Which controversial book contained the line, "You can't ravish a
tin of sardines?"
A: Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Which book did Mark Chapman read while waiting to be arrested
after the murder of John Lennon?
A: The Catcher in the Rye.
What did the M stand for in J M Barrie's name?
A: Matthew.
By what name is Emmanuel Rudnitsky more widely known?
A: Man Ray.
What is Meg Ryan's real name?
A: Margaret Hyra.
Which Italian actress was voted the Most Beautiful Italian Girl
in Tunis 1957?
A: Claudia Cardinale.
Who was the Chicago police commissioner at the time of the St
Valentine's Day massacre?
A: William F Russell.
What star sign is shared by John Major and Sir David Frost?
A: Aries.
Why was Finn Volmari Iso-Hollo's 1932 steeplechase win
exceptional?
A: He ran an extra lap by mistake.
What was the profession of "Arnold Newman?
A: Photographer.
Which middle name did UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill share
with Charlie Chaplin?
A: Spencer.
What was officially called the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of America?
A: Hays Office.
Which capital city has the fewest cinemas in relation to its
population?
A: Cairo.
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