Category: Geography

The Golf Round

Time flies when you are quarantining yourself with kids and still trying to work a regular day. Where we live, there are still many restrictions on what activities we can do. Golf, fortunately, is one of those outdoor activities that saw the least government restrictions. Unfortunately, because of the rise in interest (also, lack of any other outdoor activities), finding a course that wasn’t booked for months became difficult. Here is a trivia round while I am waiting my turn.

[accordion] [accordions title=”1. How many PGA Tours did Ben Hogan win in his career?” state=”closed”] 64 [/accordions][accordions title=”2. What is the standard diameter of the hole?” state=”closed”] 11 cm or 4.25 inches [/accordions][accordions title=”3. Which type of golf club is subdivided into mallet, peripheral weighted and blade styles?” state=”closed”] The putter [/accordions][accordions title=”4. What device is used to measure the speed of a golf course putting green?” state=”closed”] A stimpmeter [/accordions][accordions title=”5. Where did the modern game of golf originate?” state=”closed”] Scotland [/accordions][accordions title=”6. The world’s oldest tournament, “The Open Championship” is also known as what?” state=”closed”] The Open or the British Open [/accordions][accordions title=”7. A lost ball results in a penalty of how many strokes?” state=”closed”] One [/accordions][accordions title=”8. During a stipulated round, how many clubs are allowed in a player’s bag?” state=”closed”] 14 [/accordions][accordions title=”9. The number of strokes a skilled golfer is expected to need to complete a hole is referred to as what?” state=”closed”] Par [/accordions][accordions title=”10. The term is used to refer to a score of four strokes under par?” state=”closed”] Condor [/accordions] [/accordion]

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Canadian Thanksgiving 2019

A short trivia round on Canadian Thanksgiving. A few easy and a few hard questions to stump the family with.

[accordion] [accordions title=”1. What year marked the first annual celebration of Thanksgiving?” state=”closed”] 1879 [/accordions][accordions title=”2. When in October is Thanksgiving celebrated?” state=”closed”] Second Monday [/accordions][accordions title=”3. Which sports league holds games each Thanksgiving?” state=”closed”] Canadian Football League [/accordions][accordions title=”4. Which holidays do the United States observe on the same day as Thanksgiving?” state=”closed”] Columbus Day and American Indigenous People’s Day [/accordions][accordions title=”5. In which provinces is Thanksgiving not an official statutory holiday?” state=”closed”] Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia [/accordions][accordions title=”6. Which former Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers hockey player celebrates his birthday on October 14?” state=”closed”] Sylvain Lefebvre [/accordions][accordions title=”7. What is Thanksgiving better known as in Quebec?” state=”closed”] Action de grâce [/accordions][accordions title=”8. What province often serves Jiggs’ Dinner instead of turkey?” state=”closed”] Newfoundland [/accordions][accordions title=”9. In 2000, Thanksgiving coincided with which safety-related week-long event?” state=”closed”] Fire Prevention Week [/accordions][accordions title=”10. On what day in 1957 did Queen Elizabeth II open the 23rd Canadian Parliament, making it the only parliament formally opened by the Queen of Canada?” state=”closed”] October 14 [/accordions] [/accordion]

Random Responses #2

Addressing a Random Trivia Generator user’s email about a question related to states starting with the letter O.

I regularly receive e-mails with corrections, some of which are valid, suggestions for alternative answers, ways questions can be misinterpreted and so on. I take each one seriously and I do look into every request. I often have a discussion with users, especially those who are related to people whose names are forever immortalized, and we end up rephrasing questions or sometimes completely eliminating some from the database.

Once in a while, I get such requests submitted as questions. I take these seriously as well, but I cannot have discussions with the users who submitted these because there is no way to contact them back. When you submit a question, this site does not capture any private details, just the question you submit. Therefore, I have decided to publish some responses publicly now in the hopes that the user sees the response. There won’t be many of these posts since these submissions are rare, but here goes it…random response #2.

I received the following from a user (there are no edits):

“question” : “You suck”
“answer” : “Because your answere on how many states start with O days 4”

Like with all other submission, I took this one seriously and dug through over 3,000 geography questions. With all the database filtering options I have at my disposal, I was able to narrow down the questions that contain the words “states” and “O” to roughly 100. I read each one and the question pertaining to the states starting with the letter “O” has the correct answer:

“question” : “How many US states begin with the letter “O”?”
“answer” : “Three – Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon”

I also found this question:

“question” : “How many US states end with the letter “O”?”
“answer” : “Four”

I believe that the user may have misread the question, because both of these are correct. Or if the database indeed has an incorrect question/answer on this topic, and my filtering completely missed it, please let me know. When you do, please include a screenshot of the card so that I can find the exact question and answer.