Bits of knowledge
Back to traditional Wednesday fare this week. What state saw the first death attributed to an autonomous vehicle when an Uber-operated car struck a pedestrian? Who has Donald Trump appointed to replace Gary Cohn as Director of the National Economic … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Current Events
Is Asia a good trivia topic? I chose it in the heat of the moment. The Kunlun mountains are home to Shangri-La, a hard to find heaven on earth first mentioned in what 1933 novel by James Hilton? What South … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Asia
As I’ve pointed out before, the main goal of writing these questions daily is to make me grapple with my weaker trivia categories and hopefully improve on them. Sports is definitely one of those weaknesses, and while I’ve done a … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Recent Sports
I’m trying to churn this one out quick so I’m going with a topic I can do off the top of my head. What language whose dialects include Clojure and Scheme is somewhat infamous for bugs caused by lots of … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Programming Languages
They’re magically trivialicious. What band can be heard in the clip below? In 1996 Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition merged with another organization also founded by Jackson. By what four letter acronym was this second organization known? In a 1986 episode … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Lucky Charms
Let’s close out the week with a few more trivia questions from the late 19th century. This is mostly an excuse to empty the old brain bucket of detritus I picked up doing research this week. NB – There was … Continue reading Shoeless Trivia: Fin de Siècle Miscellany
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
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
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