Today's Trivia Questions

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The Americans call it the English Channel. The English call it the Channel. What do the French call it?

16

This 2007 Filipino drama film, starring Judy Ann Santos and Ian de Leon, explores the harrowing experiences of a woman wrongly accused and imprisoned for drug trafficking. What is the title of this film?

13

Truly mid-life: according to life expectancy charts in this country, which age is truly the mid-point of the average person's life? i.e. your life expectancy equals the number of years you've already lived?

52

This Netflix series, a South Korean adaptation of a popular Spanish show, depicts a high-stakes heist orchestrated by a criminal mastermind known as 'The Professor' in a newly unified Korean Peninsula.

18

Which classic novel opens with the lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." And who was the author?

11

What Hindu festival is known as the Festival of Lights?

1

What advisory group, composed of the commanders of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marines, counsels the President on military affairs?

18

In 1973, this 10-year-old became the youngest performer to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, in a film which starred her father. Name the youngster, the father, and the film.

8

In order to convince the Egyptian Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves, god imposed 10 plagues upon the Egyptians. What was the tenth, and worst of the 10 plagues of Egypt?

16

The witty former Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once said, "A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open ..." what?

3

If a diamond is the hardest known substance , what is used to cut diamonds?

19

In what city that relatively recently hosted the Olympics was the hockey stadium built totally inside a mountain?

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Which pioneering 1995 animated film, featuring a cowboy doll named Woody and a space ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear, was the first feature film to be entirely computer-animated?

10

Name the inventors of each of the following common items: a. In 1895, who invented the safety razor? b. In 1928, who invented the electric razor?

12

Which long-running Taiwanese variety-comedy talk show, co-hosted by Kevin Tsai and Dee Hsu, became a cultural phenomenon known for its candid interviews and humorous segments from 2004 to 2016?