Brain Busters 4
Put your best trivia players to the test in our continuing general trivia game series featuring fifteen harder-than-usual questions.
15 questions · Published January 30, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Who is the only person to win a Golden Globe Award on the same night that someone else won a Golden Globe for portraying him/her?
At the 77th Golden Globes on January 5, 2020, Elton John won the award for Best Original Song for "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from the movie "Rocketman." At that same ceremony, and for the same film, Taron Egerton won the award for Best Actor -- Musical or Comedy, for his portrayal of John.
- Multiple Choice
2. When it went off the air in 1980, what long-running police drama was the only remaining fictional primetime series that premiered in the 1960s?
"Hawaii Five-O" debuted on September 20, 1968, and ran for 281 episodes, ending on April 8, 1980.
FUN FACT
"Hawaii Five-O's" standing as TV's longest-running police drama lasted from 1980 until November 6, 2002, when "Law and Order" aired its 282nd episode.
- Multiple Choice
3. In what country did the English language originate?
The roots of the English language trace back to the Angles, a people living on the seaside in Germany, who ultimately settled in Great Britain.
- Multiple Choice
4. Well-known "foreign" actors Mel Gibson, Saoirse Ronan, Christopher Lambert, and Sienna Miller were all born in ____________.
Although each of these actors is associated with a foreign country, all of them were born in New York:
- Mel Gibson was born in Peekskill and moved to Australia at age twelve.
- Saoirse Ronan was born in NYC and moved to Ireland at age three.
- Christopher Lambert was born in Great Neck and moved to Switzerland at age three.
- Sienna Miller was born in NYC and moved to London at age one.
- Multiple Choice
5. Anatomically speaking, cerumen, or earwax, is classified as a type of __________.
In addition to dead skin cells and hair, earwax is made up of the discharge from two different glands in the outer part of the ear canal and is classified as a type of sweat.
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