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…
This is kind of a bummer of a round. Don't blame me; blame the news. On April 7, the Syrian Army conducted a chemical weapons against a rebel faction based…
This one is dedicated to my high school chemistry teacher, Mrs. Carol Bowers. Muriatic acid is the industrial name of an acid with what chemical formula? What New Zealand-born British…
Witness the triumphant return of Shoeless Trivia. I plan on resuming posting daily but I find myself increasingly employed these days so I may have to cut back if the…
This is the 87th one of these I've written, so how about a round on 1987? In Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, John Candy's Del Griffith was a salesman for what…
A brief moment of personal privilege: Yesterday was the last day of the Learned League season, and I managed (just barely) to finish high enough in my rundle to earn…
A Wednesday tradition. What technology company known for its gaming oriented graphics chips has suspended all autonomous vehicle testing in the wake a of fatal accident involving a self driving…
Enjoy the following groovy round of trivia. Who is the man pictured here? In addition to the accomplishments alluded to in the image, he was also one of the people…
Why Norway? Why not? It's no joke: In 1947 five Norwegians, a Swede, and a parrot traveled nearly 7000 miles from Peru to the Tuamotu Archipelago in a balsa wood…