Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2025-02-04
Immediately boost the classiness of your broken stuff by describing it as “crack’d”
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
I’m runnin’ late today, no time to chit-chat!!
Answers to Last Time
Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack’d, ’n’ she played “the American Miss Marple” a.k.a. Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote.
Helen Hayes was the first woman—’n’ the second person overall—to win an EGOT.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side gets its funny-soundin’ title from the poem The Lady of Shalott by what British poem-writin’ guy? He’s written some other famous lines, includin’:
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all
’n’ also:
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s but to do and die
Ah jeez, who IS that guy???
Trivia 2
This paintin’ by John William Waterhouse is a representation a’ the end of The Lady of Shalott:
Although Mr. Waterhouse was workin’ a li’l while after this group disbanded, this paintin’s usually regarded as bein’ in the style a’ what artistic school? Co-founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, ’n’ John Everett Millais (among others) these guys were interested in gettin’ back to the days before Mannerism became all the rage.
OK then
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