Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 21 September 2025
Answers
Robin Williams
They are contesting a claim made by Candace Owens last year that Brigitte Macron was born a male. The Macrons are going to provide scientific evidence to a court in Delaware to prove the falsity of Ms Owens’s claims who is a controversial figure and promoter of various conspiracy stories.
Gettysburg
Campanology
President Trump is pressuring the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to pardon Jair Bolsonaro, his erstwhile ally, who’s been sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup after his loss in the last Brazilian elections.
c) – French – Dominican Republic.
True – also referred to as Bartholomew.
Robert Redford – b) 1, which he won as Best Director for the 1980 film Ordinary People. He was one of six people (Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Richard Attenborough, and Kevin Costner) to win an Oscar for Best Director although they are more recognised as actors. He also was awarded an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 2002, as the creator of Sundance – so technically he had 2 Academy Awards.
Justin Timberlake
Laura Branigan – it is believed to be about Eduardo Vincent (a.k.a. Spanish Eddie), a New York City youth worker who was shot (not fatally) while trying to broker a truce between rival gangs. The song was certainly not a worldwide hit, and the only countries where it performed reasonably well were Sweden, Austria and South Africa.
c) – it is the 14th time he has broken the record over the past two years. This time he cleared 6.3m . It is taking place in Tokyo and is a biennial event – every two years.
False – reading glasses were around in 1300 (if not before) and the first telescope was only put together in 1608, so it was actually more than 300 years.
Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
a) – confused or perplexing situation which one would rather avoid.
The opening of the first public passenger railway in the world between Stockton and Darlington. It’s remarkable how swiftly the technology spread across the world given the communications at the time.
JMW Turner – in a 2005 poll it was voted as Britain’s favourite painting.
b) – IT a 2017 supernatural horror film adapted from a Stephen King novel of the same name.
Elements by Euclid. Written in 300 BC it is often described as the most successful textbook ever. It exerted a huge influence on mathematics in the medieval Islamic world as well as in Western Europe. Its logical rigour was not surpassed until the 19th century.
a) – searching sewers for valuables.
France was ruled by the House of Bourbon during this period.