Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2024-09-24
FYI, I talked Mr. S out of asking a question for the word “ratiocination”, you’re welcome
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
I’ve been thinkin’ ’bout ways to maybe make the newsletter more interestin’—just some brainstorms, nothin’ too concrete yet. One thought is I might do somethin’ like a “Best Wrong Answer” competition every month, I think maybe that could be fun? Some a youse guys are pretty clever with yer wrong answers ’n’ I think it’d be fun to share the cleverness around, ya know?
Anyway, I’ll keep youse guys posted if I institute any changes like that.
Meantimes, here’s some trivias!!!
Answers to Last Time
In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the unlucky winner gets stoned to death. Yikes-a-roo!!!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Robert W. Chambers wrote The King in Yellow, ’n’ Gaston Leroux wrote The Mystery of the Yellow Room.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
I think maybe the least famous a’ the three Yellow stories I mentioned above is The Mystery of the Yellow Room.
It was pretty big in its day, though! Plus it was one a’ the earliest locked-room mysteries, which makes it sorta important, at least as far as the whole mystery genre goes. But it wasn’t, like, THE first locked-room mystery. Nah, Mr. E. A. Poe usually gets credited for that with “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, which predates Yellow Room by like more ’n sixty years!
But so like I said Yellow Room was plenty popular in its day, but basically I just dunno how much it gets read nowadays. I wouldn’t feel too bad for author Mr. Gaston Leroux, though! He’s attained a degree a’ literary immortality for a certain novel that’s set at the Palais Garnier an’ which got adapted into a super mega popular musical. All I Ask of You is this: What’s the name a’ that novel/musical?
Trivia 2
“Murders in the Rue Morgue” was the first a’ three mystery stories featurin’ the famous detective C. August Dupin, the other two bein’ “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” ’n’ “The Purloined Letter”. All those tales have a rich history a’ adaptations in all sorts a’ mediums ... but only the last a’ those three was ever adapted by what kid’s teevee show (as an episode titled “The Pawloined Paper”) that ran on PBS from ’95 to ’97?
OK then
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