Our corporate outing next week is going to include a few trivia questions, and we need a good way for people to answer. There will be 10 teams and a captain on each team. Money's a little tight, so those cool electronic buzzers are out. I'd prefer not to suffer the chaos of shouting out answers and figuring who is quickest. So I'd like a method that's fun and accurate. Any ideas?
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - 26 answers

Quiz night games- I'm organising a quiz night for 150+ people (argh!) and need to fill the time between rounds with games. Does anyone have suggestions for interesting and fun games for people to play at a quiz night? [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2008 - 16 answers

I love trivia! And, I love playing games on the internet. Problem is, finding both of these has been disappointing. [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2008 - 11 answers

Where can I find a complete list of questions from the Genus editions of Trivial Pursuit online? [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2008 - 9 answers

How far can you travel in a particular state (geographical, not emotional) without leaving it? I was thinking about this the other day when travelling from Asheville to Kitty Hawk, NC, and I realized that it was an amazingly long journey to take all within a relatively small (but long) Eastern state. [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 21 answers

What is a good icecast source client for leopard? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 6 answers

Spoiler inside for "Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay". Who was that one actor? [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2008 - 12 answers

Arrr. There may be Quizzo booty to divide, but I want to do it fairly. This is more math than I can handle. [more inside]
posted on Apr 24, 2008 - 11 answers

What's the chance that we're related? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - 17 answers

How do I become a trivia master? [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 28 answers

Figure skating knowledge required! I promised my mom you could identify a routine she remembered, so she could find it again. [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 5 answers

How many US presidential candidates, democrat or republican, have lost the first two primary/caucus contests and come back to become their party's nominee? [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2008 - 4 answers

I need suggestions for an application (or database) to help my employer keep better track of live-trivia scorekeeping results. They are currently doing it all in various separate Excel spreadsheets, and this is (almost) 2008, so I'm sure there must be a better way. [more inside]
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - 3 answers

In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Great, Columbus=1492, got it. What else you know? I'm looking for silly and/or clever ways to remember history. [more inside]
posted on Oct 15, 2007 - 55 answers

Help me come up with some spy trivia for a Customer Service appreciation quiz. [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 8 answers

I've read "The Dangerous Book for Boys" and I generally love those kind of books (information about anything with guides on doing stuff). What other books are out there that are in a similar vein? I'm a 21-year-old girl but would rather not have a "girly" book.
posted on Aug 25, 2007 - 22 answers

I'm looking for lists of things like: "How many strides in 100m?", "How many M&Ms in a packet?", "How many steps to the top of the Sears Tower?" Preferably with the answers too. [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2007 - 8 answers

Celebrating George W. Bush's birthday ironically - any ideas for party games, trivia questions or otherwise? [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2007 - 32 answers

Why are jails so cold inside? [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2007 - 22 answers

Radio communications trivia: What is the meaning of the term "5 by 5"? [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2007 - 9 answers

What are some really fun computer-based word and/or trivia games for one player? Online or desktop-based are fine. [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2007 - 51 answers

What country has the oldest unchanged borders, and how old are they? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - 23 answers

Who was the bowler that rolled The Dude in the first dream sequence in The Big Lebowski? [more inside]
posted on Dec 1, 2006 - 6 answers

My wife remembers reading a story about some famous person (Churchill, Franklin, ?) who, when interviewing a potential employee, took them to dinner. If the prospect salted his food before tasting it, he didn't get the job - presuming that they would rush to judgement without having all the facts. She can't remember who it was attributed to though. Anyone know?
posted on Oct 22, 2006 - 13 answers

What's with the Lyndon Johnson scene in "Forrest Gump" where Lyndon Johnson asks Forrest to see his injury? [more inside]
posted on Oct 8, 2006 - 17 answers

Office Space: Are the squirrels merry or married? [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2006 - 23 answers

I seem to remember hearing about a brewery in a European city using old utility pipes to deliver beer directly into peoples' houses. Did I make that up? A friend thinks so, and I agree: it sounds too good to be true. Has anybody else heard this?
posted on Sep 14, 2006 - 14 answers

I need more examples of "interesting" calculus (or other mathy) trivia like this one factoid I mention in here... [more inside]
posted on Aug 10, 2006 - 21 answers

MeFi has given names to volleyball teams, fantasy sports teams, and bands. Can it come through yet again? [more inside]
posted on Aug 8, 2006 - 28 answers

Examples of recurring in-jokes or motifs in film and television? Examples I can think of are the appearances of "1138" in George Lucas's movies (referring, of course, to THX-1138), and the numbers 1013 and 1121 (and, subsequently, the times 10:13 and 11:21) in The X-Files, being the birthdates of Chris Carter and his wife.
posted on Aug 4, 2006 - 51 answers

Anyone know the history and/or purpose behind /usr/share/misc/flowers ? [more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2006 - 5 answers

Where can my co-workers and I go for a bar trivia outing in NYC? [more inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2006 - 9 answers

Who is the actress that plays the naked flying woman that Billy Crudup and Dennis Leary see in the movie "Jesus' Son?" The Dennis Leary character says it's his wife, though I'm not sure we're meant to take that literally, and we never see the woman before or after that scene. IMDB and Google give no love.
posted on May 13, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm going to have an informal trivia night and it's going to involve songs with money. [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2006 - 54 answers

Help me create fun trivia questions about 1967 for a friend's upcoming birthday party. The crowd will be very international (he's from Scotland, his wife is from Japan, they now live in the US, at least one friend is from Germany) so I need to come up with questions of a global bent. (more inside) [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 8 answers

Help me identify the ten movies in these pictures: http://www.cool-movie-trivia.com/Tenpics.htm [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2006 - 24 answers

Movie trivia - killer! Trying to recall a 1960s-ish (?) movie about a knock-out female British hair dresser who decides to improve herself and take continuing-ed university classes - very toff university, very toff professor (possibly Donald Sutherland or Peter O'Toole - except I can't seem to find anything similar on their IMDB career lists). Very along the lines of 'To Sir With Love,' (shot similar also) but focusing on the female's growth from bleached blonde bimbo to an academic over-achiever. Arg, this is killing me. Anyone remember this flick?
posted on Feb 9, 2006 - 10 answers

A little help - just curious, but what are the answers to #s 8, 9, 18, 19, 23 & 24?
posted on Feb 4, 2006 - 11 answers

[TriviaFilter] What could be considered the first insult/dis/call-out song? [more inside]
posted on Jan 28, 2006 - 35 answers

Need a venue in Manhattan that will seat 100 and is able to serve booze for a charity singles trivia matchmaking event. Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2006 - 2 answers

Theatre/er question: Traditionally, when an actor played several parts on the stage - from Elizabethan times up to C20, I believe - the minor roles would be credited to a particular name in the cast. Anyone know what the usual pseudonym was?
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - 3 answers

Can anyone tell me of some regular quiz/trivia nights being held in Seattle (especially toward the U-District). Alcohol and trivia go together so well... [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2005 - 11 answers

Is there anywhere on the web I can get a template for making a Flash-based trivia game? [more inside]
posted on Oct 1, 2005 - 2 answers

Why does Q-Tip wear a mask in the "Hot Sex on a Platter" video? [more inside]
posted on Aug 15, 2005 - 10 answers

MaybeMythicalMovieFilter: abcdEFghIjKlMnOpqrstuVwxYz: What is it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2005 - 12 answers

Grand Canyon is on TV right now. It's one of those perennial reruns I enjoy enough to try to watch, but not enough to stick with it -- I always end up flippin' channels when a commercial comes on. So as a result, over the years, I've caught bits and pieces of it but never seen it from beginning to end. One story arc confuses me: did Mack (Kevin Kline) sleep with his yummy secretary? Did it happen on screen or was it just alluded to? What is the chronology of events between Mack and said delectable secretary?
posted on Apr 30, 2005 - 1 answers

MovieSexTriviaFilter: Does anyone know of any movies where a couple is sitting in bed after sex and the guy is sitting there with his chest showing, the woman has the sheets pulled up perfectly covering her breasts? [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2005 - 11 answers

I need a few hundred to a few thousand general knowledge or trivia questions that I can integrate into a application I'm writing. [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2005 - 8 answers

This page mentions, among other things, that "100 is the smallest square which is also the sum of 4 consecutive cubes." Obviously, this refers to the sum of 1^3 (1), 2^3 (8), 3^3 (27) and 4^3 (64). But it seems to me that the sequence can be pushed back to start with 0^3 (0), in which case you can get four consecutive cubes adding up to 36, which is a square. Is zero then not considered a cube? [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2005 - 9 answers

I enjoy mathematics, and I'd imagine that on these internets there are many others who are similarly inclined. Why then, am I unable to find a good "Problem of the Day" site? [mi]
posted on Nov 20, 2004 - 9 answers