KTBB Morning Trivia

Wednesday November 20, 2024
Question: We commonly refer to the Republic of China by what name?
Answer: Taiwan
Winner: Robbie Albright, Gilmer

Tuesday November 19, 2024
Question: In which Texas town will you find a pecan pie vending machine?
Answer: Cedar Creek
Winner: Anna Johnson, Hideaway

Monday November 18, 2024
Question: What 80s film from the producers of Star Wars brought animated dinosaurs to the screen?
Answer: The Land Before Time
Winner: Randall Jackson, Tyler

Friday November 15, 2024
Question: What kind of confetti-covered parade is New York famous for?
Answer: Ticker tape parade
Winner: Michael McDonald, Jacksonville

Thursday November 14, 2024
Question: What great American novel opens with the phrase “call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby Dick
Winner: David Ermis, Tyler

Wednesday November 13, 2024
Question: What are the two landlocked countries in South America?
Answer: Bolivia and Paraguay
Winner: Gary Hooker, Gun Barrel City

Tuesday November 12, 2024
Question: Which Texas town is home to the Baker Hotel?
Answer: Mineral Wells
Winner: Chris Chappa, Hawkins

Monday November 11, 2024
Question: What war is associated with the Glenn Miller song “Moonlight Serenade”?
Answer: WWII
Winner: Ronnie Davis, Tyler

Friday November 08, 2024
Question: What is the name of the metal device at the shoe store that measures your feet?
Answer: Brannock device
Winner: Sam Ford, Tyler

Thursday November 07, 2024
Question: Which actor is known as the “King of Cool”?
Answer: Steve McQueen
Winner: Teresa Kenney, Henderson

Wednesday November 06, 2024
Question: The nation of Mauritania is part of which continent?
Answer: Africa
Winner: Aaron Shaw, Gilmer

Tuesday November 05, 2024
Question: What is the oldest city in Texas?
Answer: Nacogdoches
Winner: Mike Wright, Whitehouse

Monday November 04, 2024
Question: What movie was Oprah Winfrey’s film debut?
Answer: The Color Purple
Winner: Gayla Trouse, Lindale

Friday November 02, 2024
Question: Strozzapreti, fusilli, ziti and bowtie are all types of what?
Answer: Pasta
Winner: Susan Berkhouse, Whitehouse

Thursday October 31, 2024
Question: What document is considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation?
Answer: 95 Theses
Winner: Laurel Maynard, Lindale

Wednesday October 30, 2024
Question: Which international border is affectionately known as The Slash?
Answer: US-Canada
Winner: Jack Clephas, Tyler

Tuesday October 29, 2024
Question: Which Texas city is home to the world’s longest car wash?
Answer: Katy
Winner: No Winner

Monday October 28, 2024
Question: What is the most streamed Halloween song?
Answer: Monster Mash
Winner: Trey Casper, Tyler

Friday October 25, 2024
Question: How many times have the Dodgers beaten the Yankees in the World Series?
Answer: 3
Winner: Bobby Oglesby, Tyler

Thursday October 24, 2024
Question: In what year was the first photo of the earth taken?
Answer: 1946
Winner: No Winner!

Wednesday October 23, 2024
Question: Which country is home to the longest straight road?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Winner: Ben Swain, Flint

Tuesday October 22, 2024
Question: Which Texas town is home to the world’s largest branding iron?
Answer: Vega
Winner: No Winner!

Monday October 21, 2024
Question: Which 90s film features 3 witches resurrected by the lighting of special candle?
Answer: Hocus Pocus
Winner: Manuel Rivera, Tyler

Friday October 18, 2024
Question: What is the official name of the hashtag symbol?
Answer: Octothorpe
Winner: Darlene Boatman, Tyler

Thursday October 17, 2024
Question: Of what crime was Al Capone convicted of?
Answer: Tax Invasion
Winner: Benjamin Fair, Longview

Wednesday October 16, 2024
Question: What country occupies most of North Korea, northern border?
Answer: China
Winner: Dr. Lieberman, Tyler

Tuesday October 15, 2024
Question: What is the smallest state park in Texas?
Answer: Old Tunnel State Park
Winner: Debbie Griffin, Jacksonville

Monday October 14, 2024
Question: In the classic 80s movie, they were cute and furry but you didn’t want to get them wet – what were they?
Answer: Gremlins
Winner: Stacy Oglesby, Tyler

Friday October 11, 2024
Question: Rock group The Romantics heard your secrets when you were doing what?
Answer: Talking in your sleep
Winner: Dan Forby, Tyler

Thursday October 10, 2024
Question: Which country did Kennedy refer to as “that imprisoned country”?
Answer: Cuba
Winner: Jody Garner, Longview

Wednesday October 9, 2024
Question: The Kalahari Desert covers about 70 percent of which African country?
Answer: Botswana
Winner: Michael Wilson, Big Sandy

Tuesday October 8, 2024
Question: Which Texas city is home to the “lone grave”?
Answer: Hearne
Winner: Stan Martin, Flint

Monday October 7, 2024
Question: Which actor voiced the charaters in the most Pixar animated movies?
Answer: John Ratzenberger
Winner: Angy Gordon, Lindale

Friday October 4, 2024
Question: In the 70s and 80s a product called Wisk fought what nagging laundry problem?
Answer: Ring Around the Collar
Winner: Perry Groiano, Kilgore

Thursday October 3, 2024
Question: What famous defendant benefited from a pair of gloves that were to small?
Answer: OJ Simpson
Winner: Richard Townsend, Arp

Wednesday October 2, 2024
Question: What is the only landlocked country in southeast Asia?
Answer: Laos
Winner: Melanie Whitton, Longview

Tuesday October 1, 2024
Question: Which desert covers a large part of west Texas?
Answer: Chihuahuan Desert
Winner: Kyle Wilson, Whitehouse

Monday September 30, 2024
Question: Which film centers around a record shop owner who constantly makes top 5 lists?
Answer: High Fidelity
Winner: Catherine Svesko, Flint

Friday September 27, 2024
Question: What large fish has the longest lifespan of all known vertebrates?
Answer: Greenland Shark
Winner: Kim Peterson, Tyler

Thursday September 26, 2024
Question: Who was the first woman awarded the Congressional Space Meal of Honor?
Answer: Shannon Lucid
Winner: Matt Wicks, Longview

Wednesday September 25, 2024
Question: What is the easternmost community in Alaska?
Answer: Hyder
Winner: Zachary Isaacks, Arp

Tuesday September 24, 2024
Question: Which Texas town is known as the pumpkin capital of Texas?
Answer: Floydada
Winner: Jean-Davi Pellegalle, Tyler

Monday September 23, 2024
Question: In which film does Tim Robbins play an inmate who gives a fellow prisoner a harmonica?
Answer: Shawshank Redemption
Winner: Robert Hamilton, Longview

Friday September 20, 2024
Question: What was the signal for Generation X kids to go home on a summer evening?
Answer: Streetlights
Winner: Steven & Ransom Rhame

Thursday September 19, 2024
Question: Who was the 2nd US president to be assassinated?
Answer: James A Garfield
Winner: Steven Melton, Longview

Wednesday September 18, 2024
Question: What is the name for the place in the ocean that is farthest from land?
Answer: Point Nemo
Winner: Annabel Johnson, Hideaway

Tuesday September 17, 2024
Question: Which Texas City is home of the world’s littlest skyscraper?
Answer: Wichita Falls
Winner: Betty Atchely, Bullard

Monday September 16, 2024
Question: What movie is the only on screen pairing of Cary Grant and Audrey Helpburn?
Answer: Charade
Winner: Patty Long, Tyler

Friday September 13, 2024
Question: How many Friday the 13ths are possible in a given year?
Answer: Three
Winner: Zach White, Hawkins

Thursday September 12, 2024
Question: Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Winner: Robby Albright, Gilmer

Wednesday September 11, 2024
Question: What is the world’s shallowest sea?
Answer: Sea of Azov
Winner: Richard Adams, Rusk

Tuesday September 10, 2024
Question: Which native country singer warned us against searching for gold in California?
Answer: Larry Gatlin
Winner: Terry Carter, Whitehouse

Monday September 9, 2024
Question: Which classic film features a character injured when he sits on a pair of champagne glasses?
Answer: Sabrina
Winner: Courtney Estridge, Tyler

Friday September 6, 2024
Question: What word sounds like a beer and a laugh but actually means a commotion or controversy?
Answer: Brouhaha
Winner: Randy Chatfield, Longview

Thursday September 5, 2024
Question: Which US president was targeted by a would be assassin name Squeaky”?
Answer: Gerald Ford
Winner: Ty Ford, Winnsboro

Wednesday September 4, 2024
Question: Where did Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour begin?
Answer: Stockholm, Sweden
Winner: Aaron Shaw, Gilmer

Tuesday September 3, 2024
Question: In which modern US state was the northernmost extent of the original Republic of Texas?
Answer: Wyoming
Winner: Mike Terry, Jacksonville

Friday August 30, 2024
Question: What TV marketing company pioneered the infomercial in the 70s and 80s?
Answer: Ronco
Winner: Howard Galletly, Flint

Thursday August 29, 2024
Question: What weather event brought the phrase “9th Ward” to America’s attention?
Answer: Hurricane Katrina
Winner: Gene Merriman, Longview

Wednesday August 28, 2024
Question: What nation sits on the southern border of the Netherlands?
Answer: Belgium
Winner: Jack Clephas, Tyler

Tuesday August 27, 2024
Question: In which Texas city can you visit the Cathedral of Junk?
Answer: Austin
Winner: James Meyer, Tyler

Monday August 26, 2024
Question: Which 1978 movie was the highest grossing musical film ever at that time?
Answer: Grease
Winner: Tony Cline, Rusk

Friday August 23, 2024
Question: What “hungry” product began addressing smelly feet n the 70s?
Answer: Odor-Eaters
Winner: Alan Adams, Gilmer

Thursday August 22, 2024
Question: Which big-league pitcher owns the record for walking the most batters?
Answer: Nolan Ryan
Winner: Ricky Todd, White Oak

Wednesday August 21, 2024
Question: It’s called a sea, but which body of water i s actually the world’s largest lake?
Answer: Caspian Sea
Winner: Tom Curry, Mineola

Tuesday August 20, 2024
Question: What is the smallest county in Texas by area?
Answer: Rockwall
Winner: Kyle Wilson, Whitehouse

Monday August 19, 2024
Question: What athletic film franchise is famous for its musical montages?
Answer: Rocky
Winner: No Winner

Friday August 16, 2024
Question: What sports term went from a word to an acronym and now has the opposite of its original meaning?
Answer: GOAT
Winner: James Low, Jacksonville

Thursday August 15, 2024
Question: Roy Rogers was invited to close which famous music festival held on a dairy farm?
Answer: Woodstock
Winner: David Ermis, Tyler

Wednesday August 14, 2024
Question: What is the northernmost national capital in the world?
Answer: Reykjavik, Iceland
Winner: John Wuthnow, Longview

Tuesday August 13, 2024
Question: Which Texas coastal island is part of the City of Corpus Christi?
Answer: Mustang Island
Winner: Ronnie Davis, Tyler

Monday August 12, 2024
Question: What 80’s singer rocked soundtracks in films about a golf course a pilot school and a high school dance?
Answer: Kenny Loggins
Winner: Kendal Crittenden, Gilmer

Friday August 9, 2024
Question: Which character famously said “only you can prevent forest fires”?
Answer: Smokey the Bear
Winner: James Moran, Whitehouse

Thursday August 8, 2024
Question: Which is the only stadium in major league baseball without padding on the outfield walls?
Answer: Wrigley Field
Winner: Chris Walker, Flint

Wednesday August 7, 2024
Question: Charleston is the name of the largest city in which 2 US states?
Answer: South Carolina and West Virginia
Winner: Dennis Frymark, Athens

Tuesday August 6, 2024
Question: What is the official battleship of the Texas Navy?
Answer: USS Texas
Winner: Micheal Wilson, Big Sandy

Monday August 5, 2024
Question: What Steve McQueen film is known for the featured car and its chase scene?
Answer: Bullitt
Winner: James Byrd, Tyler

Friday August 2, 2024
Question: What is the only standard brass instrument that is fingered with the left hand?
Answer: French Horn
Winner: Mike Oglesbee, Tyler

Thursday August 1, 2024
Question: What visual phenomenon changed the music industry in the 80s?
Answer: MTV
Winner: Gary Hooker, Gun Barrel City

Wednesday July 31, 2024
Question: What is the longest above water mountain range in the world?
Answer: Andes
Winner: Rick Boone, Flint

Tuesday July 30, 2024
Question: Texas is not the home to the official library of what Texas born president?
Answer: Dwight D Eisenhower
Winner: Matt Wicks, Longview

Monday July 29, 2024
Question: What 1987 film features a matricidal character played by Danny DeVito?
Answer: Throw Mama from the Train
Winner: John Moore, Whitehouse

Friday July 26, 2024
Question: What did Alfred Hitchcock fear the most?
Answer: Eggs
Winner: Tim Peterson, Tyler

Thursday July 25, 2024
Question: Did Walter Payton score a TD in his last game in 1988?
Answer: No
Winner: Wesley Vance, Tyler

Wednesday July 24, 2024
Question: What is the smallest country that sits between China and India?
Answer: Bhutan
Winner: Kevin Braley, Tyler

Tuesday July 23, 2024
Question: Which famous Texas founder lived in 4 different countries without leaving the North American continent?
Answer: Sam Houston
Winner: Lauren Maynard, Lindale

Monday July 22, 2024
Question: In the opening credits of a movie what name is traditionally given last?
Answer: The director
Winner: Kathy Green, Tyler

Friday July 19, 2024
Question: What is the nominal size of the smallest and most recent computer floppy disk?
Answer: 3 1/2 Inch
Winner: Royce Courtney, Hawkins

Thursday July 18, 2024
Question: Who was the only astronaut to both walk on the moon and fly on the Space Shuttle?
Answer: John Young
Winner: Annabell Johnson, Hideaway

Wednesday July 17, 2024
Question: Nonstop flight across which major body or water was milestone challenge for early aviators?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Winner: Carter Ahrens, Longview

Tuesday July 16, 2024
Question: Which Texas highway is the longest stretch of Interstate in any single state?
Answer: I-10 (from Orange to El Paso)
Winner: Wayne Walton, Whitehouse

Monday July 15, 2024
Question: Which 1969 musical had Louis Armstrong appearing with Barbra Streisand?
Answer: Hello Dolly
Winner: Larry Joell, Tyler

Friday July 12, 2024
Question: What geometric shape describes the condition of having all your preparations made?
Answer: Square (as in squared away)
Winner: Jerry Giles, Hideaway

Thursday July 11, 2024
Question: Which great American novel features a character named Boo Radley?
Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird
Winner: Jeff Williams, Ben Wheeler

Wednesday July 10, 2024
Question: What letter is not used in any US state’s name?
Answer: Q
Winner: Stan Martin, Flint

Tuesday July 9, 2024
Question: Which Texas city is the home to the world’s largest commercially available pizza?
Answer: Burleson
Winner: Hunter Swain, Flint

Monday July 8, 2024
Question: Which 1994 film paired Meryl Streep with Kevin Bacon?
Answer: The River Wild
Winner: Ricky Todd, White Oak

Friday July 5, 2024
Question: What was the name of the first successfully cloned mammal?
Answer: Dolly
Winner: Steve Anderson, Winona

Wednesday July 3, 2024
Question: What lake is at the highest elevation in the World?
Answer: Lake Titicaca
Winner: Tony Baker, Troup

Tuesday July 2, 2024
Question: Texas was the 28th state to join the union, when it left what number was it in the Confederacy?
Answer: 7th
Winner: Aaron Shaw, Longview

Monday July 1, 2024
Question: Which early 80s classic shows a group of college friends reunited by their friend’s suicide?
Answer: The Big Chill
Winner: Ben Swain, Flint

Friday June 28, 2024
Question: If you’re poised to and ready to call in for trivia, what 80s board game would you likely have been good at?
Answer: Trivial Pursuit
Winner: Howard Galletly, Flint

Thursday June 27, 2024
Question: Besides horses, mules and oxen, what other beast of burden did the US cavalry experiment with the Old West?
Answer: Camels
Winner: Randall Jackson, Tyler

Wednesday June 26, 2024
Question: What shipping lane connects Alaska with Seattle?
Answer: Inside Passage
Winner: James Meger, Tyler

Tuesday June 25, 2024
Question: What is the tallest statue of a man or Beast in Texas?
Answer: Giraffe Statue (Dallas Zoo)
Winner: Betty Atchley, Bullard

Monday June 24, 2024
Question: Which actor started in Disney films, played pro baseball, played Elvis and wore an eye patch in 2 movies?
Answer: Kurt Russell
Winner: Patty Long, Tyler

Friday June 21, 2024
Question: Which toothbrush company said in commercials that the only option to its product was to get a flip-top head?
Answer: Reach
Winner: Zachary Isaacks, Arp

Thursday June 20, 2024
Question: What color telephone is referenced for the Moscow to Washington hotline?
Answer: Red
Winner: Bobby Oglesby, Tyler

Wednesday June 19, 2024
Question: Which country is the world’s longest and narrowrest?
Answer: Chile
Winner: Jack Clephas, Tyler

Tuesday June 18, 2024
Question: Which Texas city is home to the world’s largest working fire hydrant?
Answer: Beaumont
Winner: Ken Popplewell, Bullard

Monday June 17, 2024
Question: Which 60s film franchise centered around a boy crazy teenager and her surfing friends?
Answer: Gidget
Winner: Eddie Shaw, Gilmer

Friday June 14, 2024
Question: What was the first commercially produced digital computer in the US?
Answer: UNIVAC
Winner: Thomas Gray, Whitehouse

Thursday June 13, 2024
Question: What “rights” does a police officer read or recite when he arrests you?
Answer: Miranda
Winner: Gene Merriman, Longview

Wednesday June 12, 2024
Question: Along with Delaware, Missouri and South Dakota, what other state capital is not served by an Interstate highway?
Answer: Alaska
Winner: Todd Korich, Tyler

Tuesday June 11, 2024
Question: What Texas body or water lends its name to a 1948 movie featuring a cattle drive?
Answer: Red River
Winner: Mason Lee, Tyler

Monday June 10, 2024
Question: What avian item opens and closes the movie Forrest Gump?
Answer: Feather
Winner: Bill, Flint

Friday June 7, 2024
Question: If you shake your head to clear your thoughts, what classic creative toy are you imitating?
Answer: Etch-a-Sketch
Winner: Roger Nixon, Bullard

Thursday June 6, 2024
Question: Who was the only elected US president to be denied his party’s nomination for re-election?
Answer: Franklin Pierce
Winner: Jonathan Earnest, Tyler

Wednesday June 5, 2024
Question: What mountain’s peak is the farthest distance from earth’s center?
Answer: Mount Chimborazo
Winner: Melanie Whitton, Longview

Tuesday June 4, 2024
Question: What town near Amarillo uses the slogan “the town without a frown”?
Answer: Happy, Texas
Winner: Chris Chappa, Hawkins

Monday June 3, 2024
Question: In Back to the Future 3 what famous actor’s name did Marty use as an alias?
Answer: Clint Eastwood
Winner: David Gano, Lindale