Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2026-01-08
Oh, that’s just Joe, his potash is always laden with blood
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
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Answers to Last Time
- There are 36 Radio City Rockettes onstage at any given time durin their Christmas Spectaculars. Can ya believe I’ve never seen the Rockettes perform? I dunno, it’s just somethin I ain’t never got around to doin. Maybe I’ll make a trek out to NYC next year to check it out.
- Mr. Hokusai’s first View of Mount Fuji is the super duper famous Great Wave off Kanagawa—but all’s I needed for an answer from youse guys was just the word wave.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Here’s that Great Wave picture in case ya wanna refresher:
Ya see that be-yootiful blue color? It’s a pigment that Wikipedia says is produced “by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts”, whatever that means. Apparently a fella named Johann Jacob Diesbach accidentally made it back in 1706 when he tried mixing up some red cochineal dye with potash that was tainted with a buncha ... blood? Enough blood that it changed the chemistry so the dye came out blue instead of red???
Look, I get that folks were excited to have a cheap blue pigment, but ... did anyone ask Herr Diesbach why his potash was soaked with a large quantity of blood?
I dunno, youse guys. I’ve got questions.
But my question for YOU is: what name did they first use to market this intense blue color? It comes from where the dye was first synthesized.
Trivia 2
If ya head ’round 200 miles west of where Johann Jacob Diesbach created his new color, you’ll end up in a city that’s home to the fifth-largest sports club in the world (and second-largest in its country). What’s that sports club, which got knocked out in the quarterfinals by Real Madrid at the FIFA Club World Cup last year?
OK then
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