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Ready for my Monday night trivia quiz. My wife and I compete as a team of two. Teams can actually have up to eight people. Our limited numbers mean that we generally finish in the bottom half. But we have occasional flashes of brilliance.
This week I got a spot prize for knowing the nationality of WW1 spy Mata Hari.
My teammates were all my friends. I proposed "Gizmodo Is Your Online Leader For Tech News And Reviews" as our team name but was coldly ignored.
Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the 1978 classic, “John Carpenter’s Halloween,” with a series of HALLOWEEN films on the big screen. The celebration begins in October with the nationwide release of “John Carpenter’s Halloween” and continues through the month with “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” and “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” in select theaters. Visit www.HalloweenOnScreen.com for theaters and ticketing.
ANSWER: Who’s arm is it in that early scene where young Michael opens a kitchen drawer and grabs a butcher knife? That was Producer Debra Hill’s arm!
Shots from the 2022 SMASH! event at ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre, photographed by Morgan Zhong.
Instagram: @_morg.z/
Shots from the 2022 SMASH! event at ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre, photographed by Morgan Zhong.
Instagram: @_morg.z/
The amount of wedding trivia is practically endless. Here are a few of the more interesting tidbits of information:
The Bride - “Bride” is an old English word meaning “cook.”
The Wedding - The word “wedding” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “wed,” referring to the security provided by the groom’s family to the bride’s family upon a betrothal.
Hair Rings - Early Celtic wedding rings were made of hair (their own) woven together by the bride and groom.
The Kiss - In ancient Rome, a kiss was seen as a legal bond that sealed all contracts, not just the marital sort.
Train Length - In the Middle Ages, the length of a bride’s train indicated her rank in court; the longer her train, the closer she was to the King and Queen and the greater her influence.
Evil Spirits - A Danish bride and groom could confound the evil spirits by cross-dressing.
Invitations - Before the invention of the printing press in 1447, weddings were typically announced by means of a town crier; anyone within earshot became part of the celebration.
Sock Tossing - In long-ago England, friends of the groom would take off their socks and throw them; the first to hit the groom’s nose would be the next to be married.
Cutting the Cake - Whoever had their hand on top during the cutting of the cake would rule the household.
Souvenirs - In ancient times, guests would sometimes tear off a piece of the bride’s dress as a good luck souvenir.
Falling Asleep - The newlywed who fell asleep first on the wedding night would be the first of the pair to die.
Over the Threshold – If a bride tripped or stumbled as she entered her new home, it was considered very bad luck; therefore, it became a duty for the groom to carry his bride over the threshold.
Good Luck for the Bride - If a bride married on the same day of the week that the groom was born, she would have good luck.
The Bride’s Bad Luck – Unfortunate was the bride who cooked any of her own wedding supper or looked into a mirror while wearing her complete wedding outfit before her wedding day.
More Good Luck Omens – Rain; tears; ivy and/or myrtle in a wedding bouquet; seeing a rainbow; having the sun shine on the bride; meeting a black cat; meeting a chimney sweep on the wedding day; a spider found in a wedding dress.
Back Luck Omens – Shopping for wedding rings on a Friday; May weddings; tears; seeing a pig, rabbit or lizard running across the road on the wedding day; dropping the ring during the ceremony (whoever dropped it would die first).
Prizes! Fame! Fortune! Transit Trivia is back with trivia masters Stuart Post and Chris Kelley co-hosting a contest like no other. Hustle up a two-to-six person team of transit superstars or make new friends on the spot, and don't forget to study up! Photos by MTA/Patrick Cashin.
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I guess ... aw, what the heck. It's TRIVIA TIME. I'll give ... a hardcover copy of JRR Tokien's Silmarillion to whoever can tell me exactly where this sign is.
COMPARISON of egg capsules of Lamellaria perspicua (A), T. monacha (B) and T. arctica (C & D) embedded in compound ascidian.
'A&B' based on drawings and descriptions in Lebour (1931 & 1933) and Fretter & Graham (1962), and photographs by P. Lightfoot.
Capsules of T. arctica are virtually identical with those of T. monacha.
Further information and images of egg capsule of T. arctica, at 21Ta flic.kr/p/D3iJt7 and 21.1Ta flic.kr/p/234LSrM .
Images C & D are close ups from image 21.1Ta flic.kr/p/234LSrM . The neck of the egg capsule is colourless transparent and almost invisible, so the outline has been indicated with dots. In 'C' the ventral pedal gland is inside the part-formed neck shaping the plug that seals the egg chamber until hatching. In 'D' the flexible tip of the ventral pedal gland is forming the flared lip of the funnel-shaped neck.
1: compound ascidian.
2: surface of compound ascidian raised around rim of lid of L. perspicua capsule.
3: buff ova seen through transparent side of recently deposited L. perspicua egg-capsule; eggs become white and capsule expands with age.
4: long neck of T. monacha capsule projects well above surface of ascidian.
5: plug at base of funnel mouth of T. monacha capsule.
6: orange ova (colour reported by Lebour, 1931) seen through transparent side of recently deposited T. monacha egg-capsule. Lebour reported that bright-yellow or orange forms of Diplosoma were preferred and rearing succeeded on it. Orange Botryllus and Trididemnum were also used for egg-laying in captivity, but rearing failed.
Photographs; Zierikzee, Netherlands, March 2017 © S. Verheyen.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/Cfnfpb
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This is Paseo de Roxas in Makati City, Philippines.
Back in the 1940s, this street used to be an active runway where Philippine Airlines (Asia's first airlines) took off for Baguio City, located north of Manila.
The Techhive.com Meetup was the place for Boston-area geeks to be on Thursday night, and not entirely for the two free drink coupons, either: the presence of many cool people was a not-insignificant factor, worthy of a footnote.
The capper was a bar trivia contest.
I've only done bar-style trivia twice. Both of these experiences underscored my many weaknesses and few strengths in this kind of event. During my years as a journalist, I've trained my mind to doubt every fact and conclusion at my disposal. So I'm truly not the go-to guy when "Instant recall and total certainty" is the sine qua non.
But! I also have to dig into lots of different sources of information. There's always an excellent chance that I'll be the one who comes through when everyone else is drawing a blank.
(I had a similar role on my high school math team. I wasn't exactly Professor Digits, The Human Buzzcalculator. But when there was a real stumper, I could usually figure out why everyone else's conventional methods were failing. I deduced how the question had been constructed, and then "rewind" it back to the lateral First Step required to get the final answer.)
Lex Friedman (@lexfri) hands out answer pads (sourced from a helpful but doubtlessly confused Marriott desk clerk across the street).
Stupid judges are stupid and ask stupid questions and are too stupid to know that we've given them the right answers.
Tech trivia is...dangerous. Doubly so when I'm competing, because my other real skill at pub trivia is bickering about questions that (I imagine) were poorly-composed.
(To be more specific: "Questions where everyone in the world but me knows damned well what the question means, but I somehow see some wiggle room for insisting that I'm still right.")
"In what year was Microsoft founded?"
Yeeps. Do they mean "what year was the company incorporated?" or "what year did this entity known as 'Microsoft' begin to exist?" 1975? (correct).
"What year was the first digital camera introduced?"
Oh, dear. I have no idea. First consumer model? First time a company assembled something shaped like a camera that could take photos and said "Behold! A digital camera!" despite the fact that they had no intention of selling it? First time an image sensor recorded a digital image?
I do pride myself on lateral solutions. I was in an onstage trivia thing at Macworld Expo one year, and one question challenged the teams to use the MacBooks before them to transmit a specific message to the moderator without using anything on a long list of obvious technologies or features. No email, no IM, etc.
Alas, my instinct is to find and exploit a weakness in the question. It didn't take me long. I smiled, launched TextEdit, typed in the message, placed my microphone on the speaker...and then activated the Text To Speech feature. Done.
Yes, of course, the moderator was looking for "search through the address book, notice that there's an entry with my name on it, notice that there's also a mobile number attached, and then use the OS' frequently-ignored SMS feature." It was a clever challenge. But he had failed to phrase the question in such a way that I couldn't use the auditorium's speaker system.
Yeah, I was technically right. But you can't be a party pooper by arguing balls and strikes.
Its astounding to see works of our ancestors and the legacy they left behind.The precision with how it was constructed,the purpose behind it,the people who have given it form and the final outcome.
Is'nt it all about having a purpose in life,resting on it and shimmering it.
the final question was which six of the afi's top ten films won academy awards for best film. not only did we get it exactly right, ryan named the top ten.
It is my birthday... Here are a few bits of trivia from the year I was born.
* The Planet Pluto was discovered as the 9th planet.
* The first woman Flight Attendant began working for United Airlines.
* The comic strip first appeared in newspapers. Blondie started out as a pretty girl romance and became the most widely read strip in comic art history.
* Babe Ruth was given a two year contract worth $160,000
* Snickers Candy Bars were introduced by Mars, Inc.
* Hostess Twinkies were introduced by Continental Baking.
* New York City rejected the use of "amber" colored traffic lights and started installing "red" lights on a test basis.
* Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label.
* Toll House Cookies were invented by Ruth Wakefield.
* Dry Ice was introduced commercially in the United States for keeping ice cream.
* Clint Eastwood, Neil Armstrong and Sean Connery were born.
* The Veterans Administration was created to help America's veterans.
* Grant Woods completed "American Gothic."
* L-T-L was born in Meadville Pennsylvania :-)
It was an interesting year! Some might even say a good year!