Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2025-10-14
If my name was Pelham Grenville I’d probably go by “P.G.” too
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
I’m in the market for a large quantity of wolfsbane; lemme know if ya know somewhere I can get some, ’cause I already cleared out all my nearby garden shops.
Answers to Last Time
- The word kill, as in NYC’s Kill Van Kull or Arthur Kill or Fresh Kills Landfill, is from the Dutch word for “river”.
- The titular train in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was a 6 train that departed from the Pelham Bay station at 1:23pm.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Didja know the P in P.G. Wodehouse stands for Pelham? It’s true! The guy’s whole name is Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
Ya probably know P.G. Wodehouse for bein the fella who invented Jeeves, the super-competent manservant who became the prototype for characters all the way from the Fresh Prince’s Geoffrey to Batman’s Alfred.
Lotsa folks like to call Jeeves a “butler”, but that ain’t actually accurate: a butler’s in charge of managing a household, whereas Jeeves is more of a personal assistant who does stuff like handling his boss’s personal care, taking care of clothes, making travel arrangements, & I guess probably parking cars, too.1 Jeeves’s job is usually termed more accurately as what five-letter word?
Trivia 2
Can ya tell me who’s Batman to Jeeves’s Jeeves in the “Jeeves” novels? If that question didn’t make sense to ya, lemme phrase it this way: what title character did Hugh Laurie portray opposite Stephen Fry’s Jeeves on British teevee in the 1990s?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee
1 Cf. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves: “‘Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman’s gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.’” ⬏