Three topics share this page: Sports (free), and Video Games and Technology (part of Trivial Plus). They draw on the same kind of knowledge, records, firsts and origin stories, and the same people tend to be good at all three.
The sports questions on this page stick to records that are settled. Anything that depends on a current season or an active career was left out, because it goes out of date.
What colour is Blinky, the Pac-Man ghost?
Red
Blinky heads straight for Pac-Man's current position, which makes him the most aggressive ghost. Pinky aims a few tiles ahead of Pac-Man, Inky (cyan) works off Blinky's position, and Clyde (orange) wanders off when close.
What was Mario called when he first appeared in "Donkey Kong" (1981)?
Jumpman
Nintendo of America later named him after Mario Segale, the landlord of its warehouse in Washington state. He was also a carpenter, not yet a plumber.
What is the currency in "The Legend of Zelda" games?
Type the answer
Rupees
Rupees are coloured gems, worth different amounts by colour. The name is borrowed from the real currency of India and several neighbouring countries.
In "Minecraft", what block do you need to build a Nether portal frame?
Type the answer
Obsidian
Obsidian forms when flowing water meets a lava source block, and it can only be mined with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, which is what gates players from rushing into the Nether.
Who is the silent protagonist of "Half-Life"?
Type the answer
Gordon Freeman
A theoretical physicist with a PhD from MIT, he never speaks a line across the series. That was a deliberate choice by Valve to let the player feel like him.
Who is the only NBA player to score 100 points in a game?
Wilt Chamberlain
He did it for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The game was not televised. Kobe Bryant's 81 in 2006 is the closest anyone has come.
In golf, what is three strokes under par on a single hole called?
An albatross (or double eagle)
Birdie is one under, eagle two, albatross three and condor four. An albatross usually means holing a second shot on a par 5 or an ace on a par 4.
At which Olympics were gold, silver and bronze medals first awarded for first, second and third place?
St. Louis 1904
In 1896 winners received silver medals and runners-up bronze. Paris 1900 handed out a mix of cups and other prizes. The three-medal system dates from St. Louis.
Which programming language was first called Oak?
Java
James Gosling named it after an oak tree outside his office at Sun Microsystems. A trademark clash forced a rename, and the team settled on Java, after the coffee.
What was the first home video game console?
The Magnavox Odyssey
Designed by Ralph Baer and released in 1972, it had no sound and came with plastic overlays you stuck on the TV screen. Its table tennis game inspired Atari's Pong.
Bluetooth is named after which king?
Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson
The 10th-century Danish king united rival tribes, as the technology was meant to unite devices. The logo combines the runes for his initials, H and B. Sweyn Forkbeard was his son.
What was Yahoo! originally called?
Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web
Stanford students Jerry Yang and David Filo started it as a list of their favourite sites in 1994. WebCrawler and Archie were real early search tools, which makes them plausible distractors.
Records come with qualifiers. "Most Grand Slam singles titles" and "most in the Open Era" have different answers, so read the question twice.
Technology origin stories are mostly about names. Java, Bluetooth and Yahoo! all have one worth knowing.
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