Skeleton Trivia for Tuesday, 2025-09-02
Pardon me while I set my alarm to wake me up when September ends
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Wowza, last week was CRAZY! I can’t even begin to get into everything that went on, ’cause otherwise I wouldn’t have any time for all today’s bookkeepin. Maybe I can yammer atcha ’bout it tomorrow.
Here’s last month’s leaderboard. The tier cutoffs are a li’l funky ’cause technical difficulties meant I missed two trivia days last month; I scaled everything down a bit so’s to be fair & all.
Starbuck tier (a.k.a. First mates, 44+ points)
- revdrj (50)
- MRS (46)
Stubb tier (a.k.a. Second mates, 33–43 points)
- Rarebitfiend (39)
- petesmithphd (39)
- anasing99 (38)
- Jay Ess (37)
Flask tier (a.k.a. Third mates, 26–32 points)
- ACH (30)
- Tannhauser (29)
- alliaphage (29)
- Alan Kreisel (26)
A round for the mateys!!
Answers to Last Time
Thanks to my bro W. Skeleton-Boney for fillin in last week!
- I guess my bro asked ya ’bout lucerne a.k.a. alfalfa last Thursday.
- Oh, & also he asked a question ’bout that classic play Romeo & Juliet, which starts off with ol’ Romeo lookin for a glimpse of his mad crush Rosaline. (Obviously, he forgets about her pretty quick into the play.)
So ... oh, hah! The questions had “alfa” & “Romeo” in ’em. Like that fancy-pants car manufacturer, i.e. Alfa Romeo!! My bro’s always into racin cars & stuff, so that’s pretty on brand for him.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Alfalfa’s always gonna be “alfalfa” in my book, no matter what those Brits call it! Nah, Lucerne’s a city in Switzerland, not some kinda hay for goats or whatever.
Have any of youse guys ever been to Lucerne? Cute place! It’s got pretty much all the normal Swiss stuff ya’d want outta a Swiss town—chocolate, alps, old chapels, etc.—but a real can’t-miss-it sight if you’re ever in town is this big stone monument of a lion, which represents the Swiss Guards who got killed in 1792 when the revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
Anyways, who described Lucerne’s Lion Monument as “the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world” in his 1880 travelogue A Tramp Abroad? Other collections of this guy’s travel writin include The Innocents Abroad, Following the Equator, & Roughing It.
Trivia 2
If ya ever play those fun li’l games that the New York Times puts out—like the crossword & Connections & stuff—ya mighta noticed a new one they put out recently that involves figurin out the right way to place a buncha dominoes down on a board so that all the dominoes satisfy some set of constraints. What four-letter plural word are they callin this new game?
Even if ya don’t play the NYT games, I’ve got some Great Expectations that you’ll figure out the answer regardless! I dunno why, I guess it’s just that I believe in ya!!
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee