Remember my animated LED Easter basket? It's back... in pog Christmas form. To recap: In 2020 maths YouTuber Matt Parker made a video about his animated LED Christmas tree. I…
First things first: I put the blog back up. Whoopee! Whether I'll do much with it remains to be seen but it's useful for sharing things that don't fit nicely…
This is not a sponsored post, but if Disney would like to send me some money I would not object. John DeLorean's father was born Alsó-Fehér County, then part of…
They weren't all happy days. Who was the losing candidate in the United States presidential election of 1952? Four years later he also lost the rematch. Of the two films…
This round is Toto-lly awesome. The flag of Zanzibar is a tricolor of blue, black, and green with the flag of what sovereign nation in the upper left corner? In…
I don't know why, but for some reason I have been thinking a lot this week about people who seize power extralegally. Remember, remember the 5th of November. What monarch…
It's time for a sports category but I don't feel like wading in up to my neck with any particular sport. In recent years, both Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid…
For a fairly self-indulgent trivia related (and not, as you might assume, sexual) reason, the theme today is 96. The single "96 Tears" was originally recorded in 1966 by what…
First day of the new Learned League season. Haven't looked at the questions yet, but it's probably time to dig back in to my weak spots. What country is pictured…
Sorry for the extra long weekend. Once more unto the breach! What is the name of this woman, a former Obama aide and the subject of recent controversial tweet? What…
In a hurry today, and math is a low research area for me, so.... Name either of the two mathematicians (one German, one English) generally credited with discovering calculus. The…
Weirdly, I almost did this category last Thursday and then got a Lovecraft question at trivia that night. The plaque seen below can be found in what US city? Graboids,…
Same as it ever was. What African nation recently applied to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations (aka the British Commonwealth) after leaving in 2003? Prior to the Las Vegas Golden…
The academic subject, not the lifestyle store. Louis, Mary, and Richard are three famed paleoanthropologists who did much of their work studying human origins in east Africa. What is their…
People seem to like the art rounds, and it's been a while. The house of worship pictured below is named for what Russian-born abstract expressionist painter? "A Waterloo" and "A…
Mostly the video games, but also some other stuff. What is the name of this iconic mascot? The unit known as the curie is equal to the radioactivity of one…