Skeleton Trivia for Monday, 2026-07-20
A footballer so nice, they named him twice
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
I think we’re finally back to a normal routine here at Trivia Zone Central, which is very excitin for me. Last week was a real pain in my ilium, since it seemed like a kinda perfect storm of mishaps & inconveniences! I won’t bore youse all with the details, but suffice it to say that the folks at customs can be real persnickety with respect to correct paperwork!
Didja know that it apparently REEEEAALLY matters to customs whether an artifact is hexed, haunted, or ensorcelled? Who knew! Just somethin to keep in mind next time ya gotta fill out CBP Form 3113X (“Declaration for Free Entry of Cursed Articles – Binding Required”).
Answers to Last Time
- The every-six-months swap of Pheasant Island happens on account of the Treaty of the Pyrenees that ended the 17th century’s Franco-Spanish War.
- Whether ya call ’em the Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas, the name ultimately comes from some kinda Celtic roots: the O.G. Falkland’s a town in Scotland, while the name Malvinas comes from a Breton saint called St. Malo.
The mini-theme here, if ya missed it, was to do with the World Cup semifinal matchups: the Pyrenees are the mountains between Spain & France, whereas the Falklands are a famous point of tension between England & Argentina.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Congrats to the Spaniards on their big World Cup win! Somethin that trivia-heads might wanna be aware of is that Spanish superstar Lamine Yamal’s full name is Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana. That is to say, like a lot of big-name football superstars, he goes by just his first name – think like Ronaldo or Neymar – but in this case “just his first name” is actually TWO names!
Which is all to say that if ya wanna answer his name to a trivia question, ya technically shouldn’t say just “Yamal”. (But “Lamine Yamal” should be fine, at least unless yer trivia master is a real jerk.)
As for what ya’d wanna answer if ya get asked to give Mr. Lamine Yamal’s LAST name … well, huh! I guess it kinda depends. I think it’s most usual to give the first surname? That’s what folks do for Rafael Nadal (Parera) & Isabel Allende (Llona) & Pedro Almodóvar (Caballero) – so I guess that’d be Nasraoui in this case.
BUT! If the first surname is super common, ya might see just the second surname bein used. That’s the sitch for folks like Pablo (Ruiz) Picasso & Federico (García) Lorca. Or ya might just use BOTH names, like’s the case for what Nobel Prize winner – who folks also sometimes skirt around the whole issue with by just callin him by the nickname Gabo?
Trivia 2
Can ya tell me what royal’s reputation took a real bad hit in the so-called “Affair of the Diamond Necklace”? The scandal involved a scammer named Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy who forged her signature – which meant that even though this lady didn’t actually do anythin wrong, the whole situation still kinda soured people on her. (I mean, even more than they already were!)
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee