Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2025-11-11
Between remembering the Fifth of November and Remembrance Day, November’s a real month for rememberers
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Happy Armistice Day! Or Vet’rans Day or Remembrance Day or Poppy Day or whatever ya wanna call it.
Answers to Last Time
- A katzenjammer is the German loanword that means hangover that also shows up in the title of The Katzenjammer Kidscomic strip.
- The fellas who played Hans & Franz on SNL were Dana Carvey (Hans) & Kevin Nealon (Franz).
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Armistice/Veterans/Remembrance Day is sometimes called Poppy Day, with the association between red poppies & WWI coming mainly on account of their featuring in what poem by a fella named John McCrae, a Lietenant-Colonel who wrote it after his pal died in Belgium at the Second Battle of Ypres?
Trivia 2
The Katzenjammer Kids was (were?) one of the several short-lived bands of heavy metal guitarist Randy Rhoads. Name ring a bell? Ya might know him better for his work with Ozzy Osbourne (RIP) or maybe his band Quiet Riot.
Quiet Riot’s biggest single was actually a cover of a 1973 hit by the glam rock band Slade. What’s that song, which was spelled funny in the way that Slade liked to misspell a buncha their songs. (Other examples include “Look Wot You Dun”, “Mama Weer All Crazee Now”, & “Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me”)
OK then
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