Just in time for the Sunday Pub Quiz @ Union Jacks in Knoxville.
• The first book of triva was called Orwick's Guyde to Interesting Facts, published in 1791.
• Actress Scarlet Johansson dominated after-school games of Trvial Pursuit while attending The Professional Children's School in Manhattan.
• The Chinese word for trivia is a combination of the ideograms for cheese and head.
• The first trivia column in a newspaper was written by Joseph Pulitzer and published in The New York World on May 8, 1901.
• Winston Earle was the first person to make a career out of trivial knowledge, moving from town to town to call into radio quiz shows during the Great Depression.
And then there is this:
The computer mouse was almost called a "dongle" until researchers with Xerox had a last-minute change of heart.
2 comments:
We miss your heckling too. We are in the process of interviewing prospective hecklers, but to no avail.
The search goes on. None of the prospective applicants have the tone or sharp rapier wit of the "Great and Magnificant Greg"
Oddly enough ... I too miss the heckling.
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