For what it’s worth, my definition of the Gilded Age here is a little bit broad, extending up until the turn of the century. The two monuments pictured below commemorate the same event, though each with decidedly different sympathies. What … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: The Gilded Age
I was planning on interrupting the history lesson and doing a math round in honor of Pi Day, but with the death of Stephen Hawking it seems appropriate to shift the focus to physics (which still plenty mathematical). In Einstein’s … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Physics
Day two of “late 19th century history around the world” trivia takes us to merry old England. Queen Victorian ruled for a loooong time; these questions are focused on the latter part of her reign. Tennis was introduced at Wimbledon … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Victorian England
This is the first of several categories this week that will cover roughly the same period from the perspective of several different countries. Nous commençons en France. What “roi des hommes de la frontière” brought his popular show to Paris … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Belle Époque
My weekend categories tend to be more self indulgent, so some of these are probably kind of tough if you didn’t grow up on CTW shows. Whenever there’s trouble, they’re there on the double, unless they’re too busy doin’ it … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Children’s Television Workshop
Out and about today so getting this up early. What is the name for the smallest tradable fraction of one bitcoin? Equal to .00000001 BTC, this unit is named for bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. What televised courtroom drama aired a 2012 … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Cryptocurrency
I’m pleasantly surprised at how many people said they enjoyed the art round yesterday. I mostly did it because the artist and work in question 5 came up in my current events research and I really wanted to use them … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Central America
Ooooooh, pretty pictures. Henri Matisse is often associated with what early 20th century art movement? The movement, whose name derives from the French for “wild beasts”, tends towards the abstract and is characterized by wild brush strokes and bright colors. … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Art
While writing questions will always be my bread and butter, I’d like to expand the scope of this feature a bit to occasionally include some broader discussion about trivia as a pop culture topic in itself. Towards that end, I’d … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Current Events
Canada has made a few cameos in Shoeless Trivia already, but now it’s time for the Great White North to step into the spotlight. What is the newest of Canada’s 13 main administrative divisions? Split off from the Northwest Territories … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Canada
I know it’s a bit early for baseball trivia, but what are you gonna do? What spicy actor and former man-animal starred as Roger Maris in HBO’s 2001 docudrama 61*? What Dodgers southpaw and three time Cy Young award winner … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Baseball
Let’s celebrate Oscar night with some Hollywood-themed Before & After clues. Remember, each clue will reference two titles, names, or phrases where the last word or syllable of one is the same as the first word or syllable of the … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Hollywood Before & After
I spent most of the afternoon at a bottle share, which seems like as good a reason as any to do beer trivia. Name any one of the characters from The Simpsons pictured below. What surname is shared by Stone … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Beer
Weird Al’s “The Hamilton Polka” dropped today, inspiring this round of trivia. Before Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote music and lyrics for and starred in what Tony award winning musical set in a mostly Hispanic New York neighborhood? Name both the … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: The Hamilton Polka
The UNESCO World Heritage Sites come up a lot in trivia, so I’ll be revisiting this topic frequently. This round also demonstrates my fondness for incorporating another one of my hobbies by basing questions on board games. The Palaces and … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Wednesday is (usually) current events day. One of the stranger things to happen during Super Bowl LII was a series of surprise commercials for Tide featuring what Hellboy actor? It’s not a dicey financial instrument but a way of the … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Current Events
A fairly tough round, I think. Margaretha Zelle, who was executed via firing squad in France in 1917, was better known as what? Though though she often claimed to be a Javanese princess, her parents were actually Dutch. Holy Roman … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: European History
Some classical music trivia to make your day classier. The pop song featured in the clip below is named for the genuinely fanatical adulation showered on what Hungarian composer in the 1840s? An old joke defines an intellectual as “a … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Classical Music
Here’s one we haven’t done before: The first seven questions are general knowledge. Then question eight is to name the theme that ties all the previous answers together. Easy peasy. What still popular game show was hosted by Chuck Woolery … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Mystery Round
As I mentioned when I started posting, I began this project with the idea of writing rounds on topics that I’m not good at to force myself to learn and study. That’s one reason a lot of the questions thus … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: You’re Going to Need a Bigger Butte
This is the 51st entry of these I have posted on my personal blog, so I thought 51 ⇒ Area 51 ⇒ Aliens. What ABC sitcom about aliens living beside humans in the New Jersey suburbs featured characters named Larry … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Aliens
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