Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2025-02-06
Is mistletoe tea really a thing? I’m ... I’m not sure how believable this story is
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
OK OK, lemme just wrap up my story from yesterday:
So there I am at the corner coffee shop, hangin’ out with Bast ’n’ Baldur, feelin’ like death warmed over. If I’m bein’ honest with youse guys, I don’t remember remember what we’re talkin’ ’bout. Real generic chit-chat-like stuff, I bet. But so I’m just tryin’ my best to hold it together an’ not make it super-duper clear that I’ve got some kinda horrible virus that’s makin’ me feel like clatterin’ to pieces right there in the middle a’ the café.
Now, I’m the sorta fella who likes a nice herbal tea to boost me up when I’m feelin’ under the weather. An’ this particular café, I happen to know they do a real nice mistletoe tea. Mistletoe’s s’posed to boost the immune system—1 I dunno if it REALLY does, but who knows, an’ anyways there’s always also the placebo effect that might help me out.
So here’s me—I’m comin’ back with my tea—an’ me ’n’ Bastie are hardly able to say more ’n a “it’s been so long!” when Baldur looks at me with those piercin’ blue eyes a’ his ’n’ says:
“What did you order?”
Which is when I realize, ah jeez ah jeez, I’ve made a big honkin’ mistake!!!!
Well! Youse guys can probably fill in the blanks from there. Baldur FREAKS OUT, he runs outta there, Bast is honestly super self-possessed but still I’m sure I’ve embarrassed the heck outta her, I’M embarrassed as all get-out, ’n’ basically that’s the end a’ coffee.
So, uh, yeah! That’s how that went!!!
I dunno youse guys. Let’s just ... let’s just get to the trivias, eh?
Answers to Last Time
The actor ’n’ activist Ruby Dee was the first person to play Ruth Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun.
Accordin’ to the Sonic Wiki Zone on fandom.com,2 the Emerald Hill Zone got its name from Emerald Lake Hills near San Francisco.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
A big part a’ the plot of A Raisin in the Sun revolves ’round how the Younger family is a Black family tryin’ to buy a house in a white neighborhood in Chicago. What 2010 Pulitzer-winnin’ play by Bruce Norris is set in the larger Raisin in the Sun Theatrical Universe (RitSTU) an’ follows the drama a’ the white family who’s sellin’ their house to the Youngers? The play is named for the Chicago neighborhood where all this stuff happens.
Trivia 2
The gemstone emerald is a variety a’ the mineral beryl, whereas ruby’s a variety a’ what mineral that’s a natural form a’ aluminum oxide? Sapphires are actually this same mineral, but obviously they’ve got a different color.
If ya think this question is hard ... well, ya ain’t wrong! Matter a’ fact, if it were any harder—why, it’d be diamond!!
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Which is something I definitely have in my normal human body!!
Which cites the official Sonic Jam strategy guide, which I gotta admit I haven’t gotten my grubby phalanges on to double-check that this factoid is accurate, so maybe take it with a grain a’ salt.