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…
These are always fun. What 17th century pope is depicted in the two portraits seen below, one by Diego Velázquez, the other by Francis Bacon? What titular fruit has been…
In honor of yesterday's Bostock decision. Who was the first Jewish justice to serve on the Supreme Court? Though he was born in Kentucky, he attended Harvard and ultimately established…
Since trivia is like food for your mind. What protein source is generally associated with the tomato-based Mediterranean dish known as shakshouka? Dogfish Head's Beer For Breakfast is brewed with…
Wet and wild. The Dancing Girl statue, seen below, is an artifact on the ancient civilization associated with what river? Though it was found by a British archaeologist in 1926,…
The play's the thing. What Tony winning musical that premiered on Broadway in 1992 (and had a 2016 revival) ends with a bar mitzvah in a hospital room? What American…
I hope that this topic will not be seen as trivializing (no pun intended) what is going on in the United States right now. To my shame, I just realized…
Pride month means it's time for more LGBT+ trivia. Dreamer (secret identity: Nia Nal) is a transgender hero who appears on what TV series? There are currently three openly gay…
Because you can't spell "Vatican darling" without T-R-I-V-I-A. St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital was founded by what Lebanese-American comedian and actor whose long running eponymous sitcom was originally titled Make…
Dolla dolla bill y'all. The acronym LIBOR stands for the London Inter-bank Offered Rate and is an average of the interest rates banks are charging each other. To what other…
For Memorial Day. The cartoon map below references a plan to blockade the Confederacy during the American Civil War. By what specific serpentine name did this plan come to be…