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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 110 (Current Events)
The world may be post-truth, but it'll never be post-trivia. James Harrison, known as "the man with the golden arm", is an 81 year old Australian recently ended a record…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 109 (The Renaissance)
The triumphant return of Learned League after a couple of weeks of downtime is the inspiration for today's round. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Da Vinci's Adoration of the…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 108 (Elevated States)
We lost at trivia last night thanks to a question about the ten US states with an average elevation of greater than 3000 feet. As sort of a hair shirt…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 107 (Current Events)
One day I'm going to do a current events round and it's going to be all about electricity. Today is not that day. The Nobel Academy announced that due to…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 106 (Middle School CS)
These questions are among those I asked for Computer Science Education Week when I was teaching full time. CSED week is in December, so there is no particular reason why…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 105 (Cinco de Cuatro)
Try not to make any huge mistakes. Brothers Jim, Chad, Matt, Ben and Tyler Murrell are all still involved in the day to day running of what Virginia-based restaurant chain…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 104 (Germany)
Come for the beer, stay for the capitalized nouns. What power ballad by the Scorpions that celebrates the fall of the Soviet Union is the all-time best-selling song in Germany?…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 103 (Current Events)
All the news that's fit to ask niggly little questions about. Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian is associated with an online community known a five letter portmanteau of what…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 102 (Taco Tuesday)
Honestly, the theme was just the first thing that popped into my head. Let's see what kind of questions I write. When Taco Bell introduced breakfast service in 2014, its…
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Shoeless Trivia: Episode 101 (Infinity, War)
A 100% Avenger free round. The surprising fact that there are different "sizes" of infinity and that in particular there are more real numbers than rational numbers was proved by…