Saturday, February 9, 2008

Double Duty - Random Trivia Questions

Since this is the second random quiz of the second month of the year, I thought I'd double your trivia pleasure by giving you two chances at each answer this week. Each of the dozen questions gives you two clues to the same answer. Enjoy, enjoy!

Double Duty Questions

  • Q1) What four-letter nickname is shared by the Major League Baseball player who set a record with a 252-million dollar contract on December 11, 2000 and a tennis player who set a record with a 155-mile-per-hour serve on September 24, 2004?
  • Q2) In 1978, 1989, and 2003 what company sued another company with a similar name for trademark infringement, the last case finally being settled on February 5, 2007?
  • Q3) What World War II rocket launcher shares its name with a chewing gum named for a musical instrument?
  • Q4) What quadruple-platinum self-titled debut album by a 15-year-old in 1994 shares its name with a fast Scott English song that Barry Manilow slowed down in 1974 and took to the top of the Hot 100?
  • Q5) What 1982 to 2005 CNN current events show shares its name with a hockey-like 1971 Milton Bradley game using guns to fire ball bearings at and redirect the puck?
  • Q6) What Batman television series villain, played by Vincent Price, shares his name with a computer software store that opened in 1984, converted to online-only in 1998, and sold its remains to Amazon in 2001?
  • Q7) What codename for the Mac OS X 10.2 operating system is also a British auto maker that began as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922?
  • Q8) Who is the only American Gladiator to appear in all seven seasons of the original show and shares a name with cars from Chrysler (based on the Dodge Daytona), Ford (based on the Mazda 323), and Plymouth (based on the Misubishi Eclipse)?
  • Q9) What title character of Ludwig Bemelmans's famous 1939 children's book shares a name with the French cake that triggers memories in Remembrance of Things Past?
  • Q10) What 1982 Fleetwood Mac album, featuring "Hold Me", "Gypsy", "Love in Store", and "Oh Diane", shares its name with the 3,000-room Las Vegas hotel and casino opened by developer Steve Wynn on November 22, 1989?
  • Q11) What NCSA web browser was the first to be popularly used in 1993 and shares its name with Wang Chung's 1986 album featuring "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and "Let's Go"?
  • Q12) What codename of the business version of Windows Neptune, a never-released successor to Windows 2000, shares its name with the first video game console released in 1972?

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