TGIF Trivia Lovers! You’re The Dozen Daily Trivia Answers Explained for Friday April 12th, 2024, continued providing background on what has been a pretty friendly week of quizzes. We should have had a lot of perfect scores out there.
How did you do, Frank? Missed one. My perfect eludes me.
Here we go!
NFL: During the 2002 season, this AFC franchise went to the Super Bowl, then wouldn’t make another playoff appearance until more than a decade later.
Answer: Las Vegas Raiders
Explained: Jon Gruden’s first group of players. You guys typed Oakland or Los Angeles. Didn’t ya?
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NBA: This guard didn’t make his first All-Star team until his 9th NBA season while playing for the Raptors in 2015, he’d then go on to become a 6x All-Star.
Answer: Kyle Lowry
Explained: You probably weren’t aware that Lowry played for that long.
MLB: Barry Bonds spent the first seven seasons of his MLB career with this National League team from 1986-1992, winning two MVP’s before even joining the Giants.
Answer: Pittsburgh Pirates
Explained: Many would tell you that Bonds was at his all around best in Pittsburgh with Andy Van Slyke and Jim Leyland.
Science: “Sn” is the symbol on the Periodic Table for this element with the Atomic Number of 50.
Answer: Tin
Explained: The letters don’t match. Science is stupid.
Celebrity Mashup Answer: Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close
Explained? You really can’t mistake the face or the hair. That picture of Cooper is pretty frequent.
Chain Restaurants: The Cravings Value Menu can be found at what major fast food chain?
Answer: Taco Bell
Explained: Back in the good ole’ days, the entire Taco Bell menu was a cravings menu. What happened to the game I loved?
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Television: Winning a Best Actress Emmy for the role, Toni Collete played a wife and mom coping with dissociative identity disorder in this Showtime dramedy from 2009-2011.
Answer: United States of Tara
Explained: This question destroyed you guys. Toni Collete is one of the most underrated actresses of our time.
Movies: This 2014 superhero sequel film featured villains such as Jamie Foxx as Electro, Dane DeHaan as Green Goblin, and Paul Giamatti as Rhino.
Answer: The Amazing Spiderman 2
Explained: A movie so bad, they were making fun of it in No Way Home.
Music: Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, Lil Nas X released this 2019 country rap single that set the record for the most consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Answer: Old Town Road
Explained: My post hint of the day. The song that kicked off the pandemic.
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