Skeleton Trivia for Wednesday, 2024-09-18
Despite being ripped from the headlines, today’s theme is NOT Law & Order
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Normally I spend a lotta time thinkin’ ’bout the themes I do on Wednesdays ... but if I’m bein’ honest, I kinda just ripped today’s theme straight outta the headlines.
Answers to Last Time
Those li’l pores in plant leaves, they help with photosynthesis ’n’ they’re called stomata (or stoma if yer talkin’ ’bout just one).
The 4 Xs a’ so-called “4X” games are: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, ’n’ eXterminate.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What 2004 play, subtitled A Parable, won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama ’n’ the Tony Award for Best Play? Playwright John Patrick Shanley went on to direct the movie adaptation that came out a couple a’ years latter, starrin’ Hollywood heavyweights like Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, ’n’ Viola Davis—all four a’ whom got nominated for Oscars, although none a’ them actually won for those performances.
Trivia 2
Much to lotsa folks’s surprise, convicted fraudster Billy McFarland claimed in a Wall Street Journal article earlier this month that what event would be takin’ place in ... well, somewhere in the Caribbean, at ... at some not-exactly-specified future time?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee