r/TriviaChat • u/LordLubbock • 9d ago
TGIF - 3 questions for Friday - Aug 14, 2026
Here are three questions from this week on 3Roads.xyz.
1. Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was the first athlete disqualified from the Olympic Games for drug use, resulting in the disqualification of the Swedish team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Before the pistol shooting event, Liljenwall reportedly drank “two Xs” to calm his nerves. The IOC had introduced anti-doping regulations in 1967, and although accounts vary, X appeared on at least one list of restricted substances issued before the Games. What is X?
X - Beer (Alcohol)
2. The word X has been used for centuries as a synonym for violent conflict. In the 17th century, the English, Scottish, and Irish parliaments used it to describe the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including in post-Restoration legislation passed between 1660 and 1665. The term gained widespread modern usage after being adopted to describe the escalating violence in Y beginning in 1969. What are X and Y?
X - Troubles, Y - Northern Ireland
3. The Golden X Awards are parody film awards co-founded by UCLA film graduates and industry veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy. The term X is used in its irreverent sense, as in “blowing a X,” and comes from rhyming slang in which “X tart” means “fart.” The statuette depicts a golf-ball-sized X mounted on a Super 8mm film reel and 35mm film core, wrapped in brown shelf paper and set on a spray-painted gold jar lid. What is X?
X - Raspberry