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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…