Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2025-09-04
A.k.a. Alpha Orionis
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
In honor of the openin of the Skeletodeon, today’s themie is based on the SECOND movie I ever showed at my li’l theater!
Answers to Last Time
- The symbol that Dr. Frank N. Furter had on his lab gown was a pink triangle. A downward-pointin pink triangle was used by the Nazis as a badge of shame for gay men—but Dr. Furter wore it with the tip at the top & that’s how you’ll more often see it nowadays as a I guess ya’d call it a reappropriated LGBTQ+ symbol.
- When Brad shouts “Great Scott!” in Rocky Horror you’re supposed to throw toilet paper at the screen. Get it? ’Cause “Scott”’s a brand of toilet paper!!
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
What word follows Goliath, Elephant, Hercules, & Titan in the common names of the species Goliathus goliatus, Megasoma elephas, Dynastes hercules, & Titanus giganteus?
Trivia 2
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is more colloquially called what—which makes it sound like it might be crewed by a Queensbridge-based hip hop collective includin Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, & Roxanne Shanté?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee