This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: Jumbo, Jr.
I spent a significant amount of my time today in the surprisingly exhausting process of writing trivia questions for a campus program. That’s pummeled away any energy I have for making a meaningful written contribution to this space this evening. Instead, I’ll share my favorite question of the night, with a special hat tip to a dear friend: “What is the name of the fictional school that has as part of its campus both North Cafeteria, named after Admiral William North, and the English Memorial Spanish Center, which is named after a Portuguese sailor named English Memorial?” And the answer … Continue reading Give me your hands, show me the door
My team, The Cakers, had another resoundingly successful weekend in the annual staging of The World’s Largest Trivia Contest by WWSP-90FM, the student-run college radio station at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Adding to the satisfaction of our fifteen place … Continue reading 15
As per tradition, the One for Friday format can shift on the day the World’s Largest Trivia Contest begins, in large part because I feel obligated to post a certain #1 hit from the nineteen-eighties. And so I once again present a version of my team’s theme song. The only way this track could be better would be if it utilized the sound effects from different version of Pac-Man. Continue reading One for Friday: Super Morrissey Bros., “Come On Eileen (Blinky’s 8-bit Chasers version)”
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: “From Collier, Who Wants to Make You Jollier”
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: The Oklahoma Kamikaze
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: Hot Buttered Soul
This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll return to … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Finally home. Still exhausted. I can’t believe it’s another year before I get to do that again. Continue reading Perfect Hours
Since I devoted most of last week to stories of Trivias past, I should probably acknowledge how my team did in the contest completed so recently that it still feels like the present. We finished in 13th place, which is … Continue reading 13th place
Coffee for Two 