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Trivia Night #6: Pies, Trains & Comic Strips

Trivia Night #6: Pies, Trains & Comic Strips

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10 questions
About 3 min
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Welcome to the sixth edition of our weekly trivia night series: three questions each on pies, trains and newspaper comic strips, plus a wildcard to shake up the scoreboard. Expect a slice of dessert lore, a ride on some famous rail lines and a visit to the funny pages. Play solo on your phone or read them aloud as pub quiz questions at your own trivia night, then share the bonus facts once the answers are in.

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Hosting trivia night with dessert, rails and the funny pages

Every week our trivia night serves up three unrelated themes, about three questions on each and a wildcard, all shuffled so no single topic runs away with the round. This week brings together the dessert that crowds onto holiday tables this time of year, the machines that stitched countries together and the daily cartoons that generations of Americans read over breakfast.

Pies make great quiz fodder because nearly every region of the country has a favorite, and many of those favorites have surprising backstories. Trains reward anyone who loves engineering or travel, since rail lines shaped where cities grew and how fast people could cross a continent. Comic strips are pure nostalgia: many adults can picture their favorite characters instantly, even if they never learned who drew them. A good strategy for this round is to think about where a food or a train comes from before you guess, and to remember that many beloved strips ran for decades, so the cartoonist's name is printed right on the strip and on every book collection.

Pitched at Classic difficulty, this edition mixes easy openers with a couple of real stumpers. Hosting at home? Read each question twice, give teams about a minute, then reveal the explanation before moving on. Fresh themes arrive next week.

Trivia Night #6: Pies, Trains & Comic Strips questions and answers

Show all 10 questions with answers (spoilers!)

Key lime pie is the official state pie of which state?
Answer: Florida
Lawmakers made it official in 2006; true Key limes are small, tart and turn yellowish when ripe.
Japan's famous high-speed "bullet trains" are known in Japan by what name?
Answer: Shinkansen
The first line opened in October 1964, linking Tokyo and Osaka just days before the Tokyo Olympics.
In the Peanuts comic strip, what is the name of Snoopy's little yellow bird friend?
Answer: Woodstock
Charles Schulz named the bird after the famous 1969 music festival, and the name first appeared in 1970.
Boston cream pie, the official dessert of Massachusetts, is actually what kind of dessert?
Answer: A layer cake
It's sponge cake filled with custard and topped with chocolate glaze, traced to Boston's Parker House hotel.
Amtrak's high-speed Acela trains run between Washington, D.C., and which city at the northern end of the line?
Answer: Boston
Amtrak's redesigned NextGen Acela trains entered service in August 2025 and can reach 160 mph on some stretches.
In the comic strip Garfield, the lasagna-loving orange cat famously hates which day of the week?
Answer: Monday
The strip debuted on June 19, 1978, a date Garfield celebrates as his birthday.
Wildcard: The famous Hope Diamond is on public display at which Washington, D.C., museum?
Answer: National Museum of Natural History
Jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45.52-carat blue gem in 1958, mailing it in a plain package.
Shoofly pie, a Pennsylvania Dutch favorite, gets its sweet, sticky filling mainly from what?
Answer: Molasses
A "wet-bottom" shoofly pie has a gooey layer under its crumb topping, while "dry-bottom" bakes up more cakelike.
Which cartoonist created the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes?
Answer: Bill Watterson
The strip ran from November 1985 to the last day of 1995, and its creator famously refused to license merchandise.
Standard-gauge railroad track, used across the US, has rails set how far apart?
Answer: 4 feet 8½ inches
That's 1,435 mm, a width English engineer George Stephenson popularized on his early railways in the 1800s.

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