Skeleton Trivia for Wednesday, 2024-05-22
You Could Make This Place Beautiful with a Spare Woman in Me
Hi Skeleton Crew,
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Beyond that, it’s a no-news-is-good-news kinda day today here at Chez Skeleton. So, ah, let’s hop right to it!!
Answers to Last Time
The Chatham Islands are named for William Pitt the Elder, the British PM who was known as “the Great Commoner” ... or at least, he was until he was elevated to Earl a’ Chatham back in 1766. Awkward!
The antipode a’ French Guiana pops ya out at the Maluku Islands (or as I more often see ’em called the Moluccas) (though they’re maybe best known as the Spice Islands since that’s basically where all the cloves ’n’ nutmeg in the world came from for a spell there).
Today’s Questions
Question 1
Oath and Honor, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, ’n’ Pageboy are all books that’ve hit #1 on the NYT Bestseller list in the past couple a’ years—
Ah jeez, wait a sec, the way those titles got formatted is kinda confusin’. Let’s reformat, why don’t we?:
Oath and Honor,
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, ’n’
Pageboy
...are all books that’ve hit #1 on the NYT Bestseller list in the past couple a’ years. What word do they all got in their subtitles?
Question 2
When folks try ’n’ explain the social role a’ the hetaira in Ancient Greece, they’ll sometimes draw comparison to what I guess ya could call it a kinda-sorta Japanese cultural analogue? The answer’s closely associated with the Gion district in Kyoto.
OK then
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