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Trivia Answer of the Day: Pendleton J. Badger

Dan Seeger

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 a bit of a tradition around these parts and share a few personally memorable answers from the twenty-five years or so that I’ve been involved with this contest, in one way or another. In this instance, I’ve reminded myself of the answers by flipping through our team’s old answer sheets. One of the requirements of being a competitive team in … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: Pendleton J. Badger

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Give me your hands, show me the door

Dan Seeger

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

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One for Friday: Super Morrissey Bros., “Come On Eileen (Blinky’s 8-bit Chasers version)”

Dan Seeger

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)”

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Trivia Answer of the Day: “From Collier, Who Wants to Make You Jollier”

Dan Seeger

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”