Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2025-06-19
Honestly, we’re gonna save a fortune on our apostrophe budget
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
So, on the matter of apostrophes: one of youse guys suggested I keep spellin my words kinda funny-like—y’know, elidin the final Gs in gerunds n whatnot—but I could just not use so many apostrophes, so’s to keep things visually less distractin.
I like that kinda lateral thinkin! It’s a kinda splittin-the-baby sorta idea. Except ... y’know, in a good way. A way that don’t involve choppin up li’l babies. Anyway, I’ll give it a go, see how it feels for a bit.
I AM gonna start spellin “of” out in full, since I think it’d look too weird for me to shorten it like a or o without the apostrophe.
Answers to Last Time
It’s called imprinting when a li’l baby duck see its mama for the first time and thinks “THIS IS MY MAMA, I LOVE HER AND WILL FOLLOW HER FOREVER”.
The big game hunter who debuted in King Solomon’s Mines was Allan Quatermain, whose name is only spelled with one R. (Don’t worry, I gave ya credit if ya wrote QuaRtermain, I only mention it because I made that same mistake myself for about eighty years before I noticed.)
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Several different types of critters in the scarab beetle genus Phyllophaga go by what common name? This name’s also sometimes used for Cotinis nitida (a different scarab species)—but dont’t get it confused with the Melolontha cockchafer (a.k.a. doodlebug)!
These crawlies have a yearlong life cycle that begins with eggs gettin laid in midsummer. Once they hatch, there’s a few larval stages—the last of which features nine months of overwinter hibernation—before they finally pupate n metamophose into full-fledged adults. Classic bug stuff!
Since we’ve gone pretty heavy on the science trivias as of late, I’ll set ya up with one more hint: this answer’s also the name of a 2005 movie that helped put Amy Adams on the map when it got her a Best Supporting Actress nom.
Trivia 2
Ms. Adele Adkins (a.k.a. just Adele) has released a grand total of four studio albums; they respectively began production in 2007, 2009, 2013, & 2018. What was the title of that first album (i.e. the 2007 one)?
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