Who shoots Tommy Williams in “The Shawshank Redemption”?
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Captain Hadley.
Daily Trivia Questions
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Latest Daily Trivia Questions:
Who are the only three golfers to win back-to-back Masters championships?
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Jack Nicklaus (1965-66), Nick Faldo (1989-1990) and Tiger Woods (2001-02).
Which singer wrote the song “Hallelujah”?
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Leonard Cohen.
Which is the most dense planet in the Solar System?
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Earth.
Who was lead singer of the Cranberries?
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Dolores O’Riordan.
What is the official winter sport of Canada?
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Ice hockey.
In The Lion King movie, what was the name of Simba’s mother?
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Sarabi.
Which major airline is named after a Greek letter?
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Delta Airlines.
In database programming, what does the acronym SQL stand for?
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Structured Query Language.
What was Paul Newman’s last movie?
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Road to Perdition.
What is rock singer William Bailey’s better known stage name?
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Axl Rose.
In the Moonlighting TV show, what was the name of Maddie Hayes’ detective agency?
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Blue Moon Investigations.
MMA is the acronym for which sport?
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Mixed martial arts.
Which two seas does the Suez Canal connect?
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The Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
Which musical instrument did Sherlock Holmes play?
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The violin.
The rice dish paella originated in which country?
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Spain.
What is the standard distance from the archer to the target in Olympic archery?
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70 meters (77 yards).
Florence Nightingale is famous for nursing the sick and wounded of which war?
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The Crimean War.
Halloumi originates from which Mediterranean island country?
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Cyprus.
The art or practice of garden cultivation and management is known as what?
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Horticulture.
Who was the first ice hockey player to score 100 points in a single NHL regular season?
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Phil Esposito in 1969. He went on to finish the season with 126 points.
Which country’s current capital city is an anagram of its previous capital?
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Japan. Its current capital city Tokyo is an anagram of its previous capital city Kyoto.
What is the chemical symbol for lead?
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Pb.
What year did slavery officially end in America?
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1865, with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Lake Tanganyika is shared by which four African countries?
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Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia.
The trapezium bone is found in which part of the human body?
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The hand.
How many players are there in a netball team?
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Seven.
Alaska is separated from the continental United States by which Canadian province?
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British Columbia.
Which Dutch artist painted The Starry Night?
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Vincent van Gogh.
What are the family names of the two star-crossed young lovers in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”?
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Montague and Capulet.
Who was the first female British prime minister?
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Margaret Thatcher.
Who came up with the theory of evolution?
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Charles Darwin.
Who is often considered to be the father of SCUBA diving?
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Jacques Cousteau.
What is the second highest possible three dart finish in darts?
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167 (treble 20, treble 19, bull).
Which musician was shot dead by Mark Chapman on December 8, 1980?
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John Lennon.
How long is a quarter in college football?
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15 minutes.
What is Florida’s state animal?
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The panther.
