Hiya Skeleton Crew,
What’d ya think a’ those Curtis trivias yesterday? I mean, who’d’a thunk he’d a’ gone in THAT direction with the questions, right?? Pretty great, eh???
Ope, but I guess maybe not everyone got to read ’em, didja? Ah jeez ...
Well, that ain’t such a huge problem. ’Cause ya can always sign up for a paid membership! That’d give ya access not just to Curtis’s weekend specials, but also ya get FULL ACCESS to my whole trivia archives!! Wowza!!!
Or if that don’t appeal to ya, maybe ya could still tell a friend or two ’bout this newsletter? I mean, I don’t mean to be pushy or anythin’, it was just somethin’ I was thinkin’ ’bout.
Anyway, here’s the link to share, I put it up top in all the emails, but I think it’s prob’ly pretty easy to ignore:
Answers to Last Time
That X-Man who goes by the name a’ Gambit? He was born Remy Etienne LeBeau an’ he’s Cajun.
Mr. Chopin’s Waltz in D-flat major usually gets called the “Minute Waltz”—though if ya finish playin’ it in only sixty seconds, yer playin’ it TOO FAST!! It’s minute as in pronounced my-NEWT, i.e. they call it that ’cause it’s a li’l smol bean waltz, that’s all.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What’s maybe the most famous gambit in chess is the Queen’s Gambit, not so much for its use in the game but more ’cause it was the title a’ that big Netflix series, remember the one? (I think it starred Anya Taylor-Joy? It was pretty good, in my opinion!)
But the fact a’ the matter is that the Queen’s Gambit IS a perfectly popular chess openin’—there’s no doubtin’ that! Basically, it’s a response White can play to the Closed Game, which looks like this in algebraic notation:
d4 d5
What’s the explosive second move that White’s gotta make if she wants to execute the Queen’s Gambit? All’s I need is a single move in algebraic notation, please ’n’ thank ya.
Trivia 2
Olympic skier Suzy Chaffee got to be known by what brand name owin’ to how she was a spokesperson in commercials for the product back in the ... I wanna say ’70s? That feels about right to me?
It was a pretty clever sponsorship for a skier, I’ll give ’em that! It’s definitely the sorta thing ya’d imagine a skier—or any other winter athlete, really—to wanna use. Though I don’t really find myself usin’ this stuff myself all that much, if I’m bein’ honest.
Oh, also, if any a’ youse guys are pop punk fans, ya might recognize this bit a’ trivia since it gets namechecked in the title of a song from that new Green Day album, Saviors.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee