Hiya Skeleton Crew,

Long time no see, eh? Hope the past coupla weeks have treated youse guys OK.

“How’re things over by you, Mr. S,” I can hear ya askin. Well, first off, thanks for checkin in, I’m doin pretty good. Longtime readers’ll know that last year I took on a big new venture, I opened up a li’l movieplex in town near Micimec University. Things’ve been chuggin along on that front – though if I’m bein honest, I feel like attendance hasn’t been super great. So I’ve been thinkin of runnin a kinda PR stunt or two to get some folks in the doors here.

But that’s not the real news, at least not as far as concerns this here trivia newsletter. Nah: the REAL news is that I got a cool li’l website up & runnin to handle your trivia submissions!

A few important things to know:

• I tried to make it so ya could submit your answers even without signing in! All ya need is to give your trivia name & the computer-box will try to keep track of all your answers.

• The trick is that there’s no real good way to ensure other folks won’t STEAL your user name! Now, we’re all friends here at the Trivia Zone, I don’t think anyone here’d really act so mean-like … but (1) accidents happen! & (2) the Internet’s a big place & ya never know what kinda troublemakers might show up. So,

• ya can log into the website & claim your very own username! Right now I just use Google’s account sign-in thingamajig to manage user accounts, so ya DO need to have a Google account.^[1]

• Uh, hopefully the rest is pretty self-explanatory?

Of course, things might be HORRIBLY BROKEN, ’specially as we’re just rollin out the new site. So please please PLEASE email me at mister@skeletontrivia.com & I’ll try to iron out any kinks ASAP.

OK, on to the trivias!!!

Trivia 1

What word does Wiktionary define as “the ancient Mediterranean ritual based on the belief that bees were spontaneously generated from a cow’s carcass”? It’s notably NOT pronounced like a type of flower named for a French colonial governor, as I’m sure Emma Stone could tell ya.

Trivia 2

So just in case ya were confused: bees aren’t actually spontaneously generated from cow carcasses. I know, I know, it might SEEM like they are – I mean, who ’mongst us HASN’T taken a look at a dead bovid & thought to themselves, “Clearly, bees!” – but as it turns out, nah!

In point of fact, female bees come from eggs laid by queens & fertilized by drones. (Male bees come from unfertilized eggs, natch.) Pretty standard stuff. But how do ya get a queen? Simple! The female worker bees who’re in charge of feedin bee larvae make sure to give the li’l queen plenty of what substance that’s got special proteins in it to help the larva grow into a full-fledged honest-to-goodness queen bee?

Some humans’ll also take this stuff ’cause I guess they think it’s got anti-inflammatory properties or that it might help with menopause symptoms, I dunno. I mean, it might?? But I ain’t a doctor! Don’t take your dietary advice from a trivia newsletter, I guess is all I’m sayin.