RUF Trivia Night

Media: What was the first movie to be rated PG-13?

Host's Choice: What fictional character is titled the "King of the Monsters" and turned 70 years in 2024?

Media: The 1933 King Kong was a possible inspiration for both Godzilla and the Loch Ness Monster.

Science: What are the 2 most common elements found within the Earth?

Host's Choice: What 1990's movie brilliantly combined CG and practical effects and help push the study of paleontology?

Host's Choice: How old are the movies Jurassic Park and Jaws, as of 2025?

Sports: What college in 2024 won national in baseball, was in the elite 8 in basketball, and top 10 in football?

History: George Washington was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Sports: Who is one of the greatest basketball and athletes of all time?

History: Abraham Lincoln is considered to be the worst president in US history.

History: How old will the US be in 2026?

Religion: Who was ordered by God to build a large ark to his family and 2 of each animal from a global flood?

Host's Choice: In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a group of Japanese men scream "we left Japan to get away from this".

Sports: Which pair of MLB teams have gone against each other the most in the World Series?

Music: Which Jack Black song was played in a movie and made it onto the Top 100 in music charts across the world?

Media: Which actor is the highest grossing in movie history?

Sports: What is the international name of "soccer"?

Music: Who is the "King of Pop"?

Sports: What MLB team currently has won the most World Series games?

Science: What animal is the Loch Ness Monster believed to be?

Religion: Which of these is not a prophet?

Science: Physics is the study of matter, motion, and energy.

History: What is the date of D-day

Music: Which song is one of the state songs of Tennessee?

Music: Which singer has a whole fandom named after them?

History: George Washington Carver didn't create peanut butter?

Media: Which sci-fi franchise helped change the genre and movie-making with its use of effects, characters, and themes?

Media: Which TV family was the 1st animated sitcom that paved the way for future ones and adult animation?

Music: This band is named after a southern state and one of their songs is one of the themes of a college team.

Media: Which fictional character doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

History: Thomas Jefferson was both an US president and an amateur paleontologist.

Media: What was the first movie to be fully CG-animated?

Media: Which of these movies is considered to be the first blockbuster?

Music: Which female singer is a country legend, has made a decent career acting, and has a theme park?

Sports: Which NFL team has won the most super bowls?

History: What is the date that the US Constitution was created?

Media: This movie was the first one to win the "Best Animated Feature" Academy Award in 2002.

Science: What domain and kingdom are animals in?

Religion: Who was brought back from the dead by Jesus, after being dead for 4 days?

Religion: Which of these is not one of the 10 commandments?

History: Who said "history is a set of lies agreed upon"?

Host's Choice: King Kong can beat Godzilla.

Host's Choice: What is considered to be the greatest dinosaur and who's name means "tyrant lizard king"?

Music: Which composer made the music for films like Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones?

Science: Sharks are younger than the dinosaurs.

History: When did the Wright Brothers make their first successful flight?

RUF: What year was RUF founded?

Media: The failed development of a Popeye game helped lead Nintendo to create the Donkey Kong arcade game.

Science: It is a common practice to name species of animals after pop culture icons.

Religion: Who wrote the most books in the Bible?

Science: The Himalayas is older than the Appalachian Mountains.

Religion: Which of these is one of the 10 plagues put upon Egypt?

RUF: Who is currently the campus minister for RUF at MTSU?

Sports: As of 2024, the best sport teams at MTSU are tennis and men's track.

Music: What state is the Alabama song "Dixieland Delight" about?

Sports: The hockey game between the US and Russia teams at the 1980 Winter Olympics is one of the best games in history.

Science: Which is the study of the remains of prehistoric animals?

Host's Choice: How many dinosaurs are named after people involved with Jurassic Park?

History: In what year did Tennessee become a state?

Host's Choice: The velociraptors from Jurassic Park are based on other family members like Deinonychus and Utahraptor.

Host's Choice: Spinosaurus is smaller than Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Music: Who is the singer and creator of songs like "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"?

Sports: What is the oldest sport?

Music: Which singer set off a wildfire that pushed the California Condor closer to extinction?

Science: Oil has a lower density than water.

Sports: When and where was Super Bowl I held?

RUF: Who is the founder of RUF?

Science: What is the largest living animal on Earth?

Host's Choice: At the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One is the first movie in the franchise to win an award.

Religion: Who is the youngest son of Jesse and kills Goliath despite his small (and runt-like) stature?