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…
I'm being super lazy today. Five minimal research Simpsons questions. What is Comic Book Guy's real name? What Knoxville landmark did Bart, Milhouse, Martin, and Nelson destroy in the episode…
Remember, we lighten things up on the weekends. But even if it weren't the weekend, I'd pretty much have to do Spinal Tap for episode 11. What is the name…
I'm also pretty bad at fine arts questions. This is not your Dada's art installation. In fact it might piss you off. A photo by Alfred Stiegletz is all that…
If Trump and Kim don't kill us all today, please feel free to enjoy these five questions about world leaders. For what former Prime Minister and President of France is…
I was frighteningly bad at current events during my rookie season of Learned League, so this one is probably going to come up weekly-ish. For our purposes "current" encompasses approximately…
I made a lame pee joke yesterday. Seems only appropriate to follow it up with some talk about dribbling. Rim shot. Anyway, here's some basketball trivia. Last year's champion Golden…
You probably had too much to drink last night and ur a peein' this morning. So why not enjoy some European geography? Though Brussels is generally considered the de facto…
All the cool kids are doing it... Here's the obligatory round of end-of-2017 trivia. What Obama-era deputy attorney general served as acting AG in the early days of the Trump…
At some point I may decide to not do episodes on weekends, but since I'm still having fun writing these every day I may as well. Besides, the weekend seems…
It's a big continent with a long and consequential history, and I don't know nearly enough about it. This is a category we'll be returning to a lot. Crossword clues…