Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2026-01-26
Treat yourself to something more distinctive™ than a Girl Scout cookie
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
On this Themie Thursday, I think youse guys should all treat yourself a bit. Like, I dunno, have an ice cream or a cookie or somethin? Youse guys deserve it!
Answers to Last Time
- The phrase I was lookin for yesterday to describe the social order in pre-Revolution France was ancien régime.
- I showed youse guys a picture of Paris’s Palais Garnier, which is one of the more famous opera houses in the world.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Another famous opera house that ya gotta know for Trivia Purposes™ is La Scala:
Well, can ya tell me: In quale città si trova il Teatro alla Scala?
Trivia 2
Out on the Island of Lewis back in the 1830s, reportedly somewhere ’round Uig Bay, some folks found a trove of what type of object that folks think were originally made in Trondheim?
The hoard’s got 93 items1 in it—which is a li’l surprisin, ’cause more typically ya’d expect a modern set to have closer to a third that many pieces. But it’s because the hoard’s actually probably a BUNCHA different sets that a merchant was carryin around with him.
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee
1 Or 94, depending on exactly what ya count as a “piece”. Also, the collection’s growing! Apparently someone ID’d a new piece not too long ago & auctioned it a few years back for a cool £735,000. ⬏