Skeleton Trivia for Monday, 2025-10-13
Huh, I guess we’re doing a werewolf arc now
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Happy Monday the 13th!
Ever since last week’s Harvest Moon I’ve been getting reports from neighbors about howls & horrible shrieks & the ghastly sound of flesh bein torn asunder comin outta the movie theater in the middle of the night.
Ah jeez! Obviously I know who’d I call if this was ghosts, but WEREWOLVES?? I can’t say I got anyone on speed dial for that.
Answers to Last Time
- The funny stuff in the middle of your eye is the vitreous humor.
- The Roman architect Vitruvius wrote ’bout the importance of proportions, which is how he got to be the namesake of Leo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.
Vitreous, Vitruvius ... they kinda sound the same? That’s what Thursday’s mini-theme was, for better or worse.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What (sorta distressin-sounding) word, from the Dutch for “river”, is used to name a buncha different bodies of water in & ’round the New York area, like for example the tidal straits that separate Staten Island & New Jersey? In the plural, this word shows up in the “freshly” named landfill that used to be New York’s primary dump (now slated to become the city’s second-largest park at some point in the 2030s).
Trivia 2
Didja know that New York’s largest park ... ain’t Central Park? Nah! Matter of fact, the largest one ain’t even Flushing Meadows in Queens. (Those are 6th & 5th biggest, respectively.)
Nah, the LARGEST park is up in the Bronx, & it’s named after what “bay”? (I put “bay” in quotes ’cause accordin to Wikipedia it’s technically actually a sound, & who’m I to argue with Wikipedia?) The 6 train’ll getcha there—although you’ll wanna make sure ya don’t get on one of those 6 trains that gets hijacked by John Travolta or Robert Shaw, ’cause I can’t 100% guarantee that Denzel Washington or Walter Matthau ’ll be around to save ya.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee