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On Wednesday, January 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, the Transit Museum, in downtown Brooklyn, opened its doors after hours for a trivia showdown hosted by trivia masters Stuart Post and Chris Kelley. Photo: MTA / Patrick Cashin
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Test your knowledge about some trivia facts. Do you have what it takes? Find out!
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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.
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.
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.
Ovoid with flatter apertural/ventral face. Some vernacular names liken it to coffee bean (Dutch, French) or kernel of oats (Scots).
L: left side profile. R: right side profile.
1: approximate position of enveloped spire at posterior of animal.
2: ventral/apertural face white.
3: pinkish shell-material deposited in grooves on dorsum.
4: no lip on body-whorl on left of aperture.
5: thickened white labial varix on right side near outer lip.
Height (longest shell-dimension) 11.2 mm. Ardnamurchan, Scotland. April 1976.
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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.
Shots from the 2022 SMASH! event at ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre, photographed by Morgan Zhong.
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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.
Shots from the 2022 SMASH! event at ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre, photographed by Morgan Zhong.
Instagram: @_morg.z/