Misc. History
Of the initially proposed member states of Australia in the The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK), which 2 did not become part of Australia?
Fiji & New Zealand.
How many rounds long is the NASCAR Cup Series championship?
36.
Which film was the first recipient of the Best Animated Feature award?
Shrek (2001)
Which household name Voice Actor voices Skips throughout the show?
(Hint/giveaway: He also voices the Joker)
Mark Hamill
Blinx the Time-sweeping Cat was a short-lived attempt by which console manufacturer to give their debut console a mascot of their own?
Xbox/Microsoft.
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was the largest rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, and one of the bloodiest wars in recorded history.
The leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan, prior to anointing himself 'Heavenly King' of the Heavenly Kingdom, had a stress-induced hallucination whilst attempting the Imperial Test for the third time, which lead to him believing he was the brother of which Biblical figure?
Jesus Christ.
(The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a Christian Theocracy, which, despite the lack of Christians in China at the time, garnered much of its support on the back of prevailing anti-Manchu sentiment amongst the Southern Han population of China, and on the promise of major land reforms.)
How many 24 Hour races exist in the world?
(Hint: The 24 hours of Le Mans is one of them)
4 - The 24 hours of Le Mans, The Daytona 24 Hour, The Spa 24 hour, and the Dubai 24 Hour- in order of oldest to newest.
29 of the films Disney has produced have been nominated for Best Animated Feature by the Academy of Motion Picture (18 of them being Pixar films).
how many of the films Disney has cancelled have been nominated?
1 - Nimona (2023).
In the episode 'Death Punches', Rigby steals a page from an instruction booklet for moves from the in-universe martial art of 'Death Kwong Do', in an attempt to finally win at a game of 'Punchies'.
What is the full name of the move Rigby stole?
(Hint: Yes, I am going to be a pedant and demand that you include the redundancy in brackets)
The Death Punch (of Death).
Not counting re-releases or cross-generation titles, How many Sonic the Hedgehog games were released for the Sega Saturn?
None- every Sonic game released for the Saturn was either a re-release (Sonic Jam) or a cross-gen title (Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic 3D Pinball). Sonic X-treme was cancelled in late 1996.
Following the 2nd Punic War, the military strategy of deliberately ignoring an enemy's provocations is oftentimes known by what name, honouring it's creator, Roman Consul Fabius Maximus?
The Fabian Strategy
The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded to the victor of which over-century-old Open-wheeler race?
The Indianapolis 500
In 2004, the Best Animated Feature nominees were The Incredibles, Shrek 2, and which other, odd-man-out, film?
Shark Tale
Regular Show features 2 named characters with the forename 'Thomas'.
The one introduced in Season 4 is an anthropomorphic Goat, who is a member of the extended friend group of Mordecai and Rigby, whereas the one introduced earlier is the nephew of which recurring character?
Death/the Grim Reaper.
How many of the entrants in the Super Mario franchise are in 3D?
8- 64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, 3D Land, 3D World, Odyssey and Bowser's Fury respectively.
During the Risorgimento (Italian Unification), The Pope threatened Excommunication on any catholic who lead a military action against the Papal States.
To circumvent this problem, Giuseppe Garibaldi and the pro-unification Red Shirts entrusted the invasion of Rome to a general of what faith?
Jewish.
Not counting Non-FIA Sanctioned series, how many official tiers are there on the Formula 1 feeder series ladder?
5 - Formula 4, Formula Regional, Formula 3, Formula 2, Formula 1
(I would also accept 4, as F1 probably shouldn't count as it's own feeder series).
Of the nominations Hayao Miyazaki has received (4), how many of the films have won Best Animated Feature?
1 - Spirited Away (2002) is, at the time of writing, still the only one of Miyazaki's films to win Best Animated Feature.
In the episode 'The Night Owl', Mordecai, Rigby and Muscle Man enter a radio contest, which sees them being inadvertently cryogenically frozen until the year 4000.
What were they initially competing for?
A Car.
If you were to get every single Platinum Relic in every mainline Crash Bandicoot game (i.e., not counting ports or spin-offs), how many Platinum Relics would you have in total?
209.
Across all games, there are a total of 252 Relics to collect.
Which order do the following events go in:
a) The Zulu War
b) The First Boer War
c) The 'Bush War'
d) The Second Boer War
b, a, d, c
Excluding co-drivers, how many different drivers have won the Bathurst 1000 since 2014?
5 - Chaz Mostert, Craig Lowndes, Will Davison, Scott McLaughlin & Shane Van Gisbergen
at the time of writing, Pixar has the most nominations for Best Animated Feature of any studio, with 18.
which studio presently has the fewest nominations?
(Hint: It's a 4-way tie- I'll give you the points if you can name 1 of them)
Nickelodeon, ImageMovers, Folimage and Paramount Animation are all tied at 1 nomination a piece, for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Monster House (2006), A Cat in Paris (2011) and Anomalisa (2015) respectively.
If we are to take Mordecai's comments regarding his and Rigby's age in Season 1, Episode 1 'The Power'- as well as every subsequent time skip- at face value, how old would that make the 2 in the epilogue of the final episode of Season 8?
34
(The epilogue takes place 11 years after the events of the show).
A Hat in Time is a Super Mario Sunshine-inspired platformer which saw its last content update in 2023. Which Mario title did it initially release in the same month as?
Super Mario Odyssey (2017).