Trivia

Miscellaneous Trivia questions and answers.

In boxing, what is the top weight allowed a flyweight?
A: 112 pounds.

Who was the only American to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
A: Figure skater Peggy Fleming.

What hard-hitting football great once said: "I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important. Like a league game or something."
A: Hall of fame linebacker Dick Butkus, who helped the Chicago Bears earn the title "monsters of the midway" in the late 1960s and early '70s.

Of what Colorado mining town was heavy weight boxing champion jack Dempsey a native?
A: Manassa--thus his nickname, the Manassa Mauler, coined by Damon Runyon.

Where would the 1940 Olympic Games have been held if World War II had not intervened?
A: Tokyo, Japan.

According to ancient chronicles, why were trainers required to be nude at the original Olympics?
A: To enforce the ban on women at the competition. The nude requirement for trainers went into effect after a mother attended the men-only event unnoticed, disguised as her son's trainer, until her robe fell open when she leaped over a barrier to congratulate him for winning.

Who made a cameo appearance as a man who thinks he's singer Ethel Merman in the 1980 film Airplane!?
A: Ethel Merman.

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's movies The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo were remade as the westerns The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful of Dollars, respectively. What American classic did his 1958 offering The Hidden Fortress inspire?
A: Star Wars, in 1977.

What film star lives in a house that once served as a hideaway for gangster Al Capone?
A: Burt Reynolds--in Jupiter, Florida.

What famous leading man turned down the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and predicted it would be "the biggest flop in Hollywood history"?
A: Gary Cooper.

On what day of the week was actress Tuesday Weld born?
A: Friday--August 27, 1943.