Skeleton Trivia for Monday, 2024-06-10
In which the trivia devolves into “What number am I thinking of?”
Hi Skeleton Crew,
Programmin’ note: after this week I’m gonna be takin’ a li’l time off, ’bout a month or so. I’ll be travellin’ a bit, off to Ye Olde Londonne Towne. Pip pip cheerio ’n’ whatnot!!
Then we’ll be back at it in July—I think maybe July 15? That’s what I think I’ll aim for, anyway—an’ then we’ll wrap up our trivia SUMMERSTRAVAGANZA!
Answers to Last Time
Fenty is Rihanna’s surname (full name Robyn Rihanna Fenty) ’n’ also the name a’ her fashion house.1
The flag a’ Barbados features Neptune’s trident flanked by a pair a’ ultramarine bands.
Today’s Questions
Question 1
I think I mentioned last Friday how my pal Vermeer liked to use ultramarine in his arts, like in that Girl with a Pearl Earring paintin’.
Now, I was readin’ ’bout Vermeer on Wikipedia—as ya do—an’ I noticed that there aren’t really all that many definitely-for-sure Vermeer paintin’s floatin’ around these days. Matter a’ fact, Wikipedia says there are only how many extant works “universally attributed” to the guy?
Now, a’ course, I don’t really expect youse guys to know this number off the toppa yer head. Nah, the real reason I took note a’ this number at all is ’cause it’s a number that’s been in the news lately for a pretty different reason—one that some folks are pretty charged up ’bout, if ya catch my drift.
Question 2
Sometimes I’ll connect each new trivia to the last one ... but not always! Sometimes I’ll shift gears to somethin’ completely different. Like for example, today at the restaurant I saw a guy wearin’ a tee shirt with the word STURGIS on it, an’ I thought that might make for a good trivia! So here it is: what form a’ transportation is most closely associated with the town a’ Sturgis, South Dakota?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Someone mentioned in their answer that they only got this right ’cause they’d looked up creeper shoes on Wikipedia after that was an answer a couple a’ days ago. “Only”! Lemme tell youse guys: this sorta thing right here warms the cockles a’ my definitely-existent heart!! I absolutely LOVE that someone learned a thing from doin’ a trivia, then researched some stuff ’n’ learned even MORE things, ’n’ then they got a DIFFERENT trivia right because a’ those things they learned!!! That’s one a’ the reasons why I like to write these questions in a kinda stream-a’-conscious sorta way, ya know. Like, if ya manage to predict where my mind spirals off to, all the more power to ya!