Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2025-11-06
What is your major malfunction?!
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Sorry for bein incommunicado for the past few days. Things kinda got away from me with my day job—nothin exciting, just been busy—plus caring for a li’l baby werewolf is a bit trickier than I expected!
Also, a li’l scheduling FYI: I’ll be off for the month of December. I’m mullin over some potential format changes for the new year ... but we can talk ’bout those in a li’l bit. I mean, fer goodness sakes, we’re hardly past Halloween! I can’t already be talkin ’bout New Year’s YET!!
Anyways, here’s last month’s results. The matey tiers are like so:
Starbuck tier (a.k.a. First mates, 50+ points)
- revdrj (62)
- MRS (54)
Stubb tier (a.k.a. Second mates, 40–49 points)
- Rarebitfiend (48)
- petesmithphd (42)
- anasing99 (42)
- alliaphage (40)
Flask tier (a.k.a. Third mates, 30–39 points)
- Tannhauser (36)
- Jay Ess (36)
Let’s have a round of grog for the mateys!!
Answers to Last Time
- A proper noun that’s arthrous is one like “The Hague” or “The Heights” that starts with an article—typically the definite article, which in English is the, although I accepted it if ya answered with the indefinite article, i.e.an.
- Matt Johnson’s band is The The. It’s ain’t just any old The! It’s The The.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Underground comix creator R. Crumb developed what anthropomorphic character that’s been described as “a kind of updated Felix with overtones of Charlie Chaplin, Candide, and Don Quixote”? This character’s also kinda notorious for bein adapted into a 1972 movie that was the first animated film to get slapped with an X rating.
Trivia 2
What BBC teevee show was inspired by the Gleneagles Hotel in the British seaside town of Torquay—& in particular its eccentric proprietor, a fella named Donald Sinclair? One relevant anecdote ’bout Mr. Sinclair is that he once tossed Eric Idle’s suitcase outta a window ’cause he thought there was a bomb in it. (It was actually a ticking alarm clock.)
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee