Skeleton Trivia for 2026-05-07
A math question? What is this, MATHer’s Day?
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Mother’s Day is comin up! In its honor, let’s have a li’l quote from Anna Jarvis, i.e. the lady who invented it:
A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.
Answers to Last Time
- The name I blanked out from yesterday’s Canterbury Tales quote was Grisildis, which is spelled a li’l more modernly as Griselda. Not itself such a popular name nowadays, but it’s ultimately where we got the name of the video game princess (by way of Zelda Fitzgerald).
- We’re smack dab in the middle of the sign of Taurus, which lasts from April 20 to May 21.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What mathematical shape’s defined by the formula:
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I can give ya the extra hint that, much like a cylinder, this shape’s surface area is 4π2R•r & its volume is 2π2R•r2.
Trivia 2
What waterway separates Australia & New Guinea? The indigenous folks from the islands here’ll sometimes get lumped together with Aboriginal Australians into the umbrella category of “First Peoples of Australia”.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee