Skeleton Trivia for Monday, 2026-02-09
Did you see the Super Bowl halftime show?
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
I’ve been fallin behind in scorin up all the answer submissions youse guys have been sendin in, but I think I’m all caught up again.
This is the last week of the trivia season before I take a li’l break, so make sure to submit those answers to get as many points as ya can! Submissions seem like they kinda fell off last week, I dunno if maybe some of youse were too hungover from a crazy Groundhog Day to submit? Or maybe a buncha youse are still stuck in a Groundhog Day time loop & couldn’t submit on account of re-livin the same day over & over again into eternity??
Ah jeez!! I hope everyone’s OK!!!
Answers to Last Time
Themie Thursday was all ’bout featurin the it’s-not-just-sometimes-but-actually-pretty-often-a-vowel, Y.
- The Sondheim musical based on the memoirs of the “deciduous” ecdysiast (a.k.a. burlesque performer) I quoted? That was Gypsy.
- The Glaucidium gnoma is a li’l gnomish owl, Sorex minutus is a minute shrew & Cercartetus nanus is a nano-size possum – & they’re all called pygmy animals in their common names.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What 10-letter word comes from the Latin for “deprecate, as an ill omen”, & NOT from the Latin for “away from humankind” as folks sometimes say?
The word’s main modern association froze into place after a guy named Henry Newman wrote an article for The Statesman newspaper in Kolkata & mistranslated the phrase metoh kangmi in 1921.
Trivia 2
A leveret is the word that’s used for a young what type of animal, the largest of the lagomorphs, that’s less than a year old?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee