Skeleton Trivia for Wednesday, 2025-09-03
“Ethereal estate”, oh jeez
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
So this past weekend I finally opened up my new movie theater: the Skeletodeon!
There were a few kinks in the process last week, but I mostly got ’em resolved. See, what I didn’t realize was that the theater I bought was located on a convergence of three different ley lines. Thank goodness I sprung for the supernatural title insurance, ’cause it turned out that meant there were three different historical claimants to the ethereal estate—which meant I had to sort through a whole mess of paperwork involving spectral easements, interdimensional zoning law, & a multi-day excursion to the Unseelie Courthouse over in the other side of the mirror.
Anyways, like I said, we got it all sorted! I mean ... I did hafta make a few concessions ... but y’know, we can talk more ’bout those later!!
Answers to Last Time
- Mark Twain was the travelogue writer who liked Lucerne’s Lion Monument so much.
- Pips is the NYTimes’s new video game (but even if ya didn’t know that, maybe ya picked up on my Great Expectations hint—seein as how that book’s protagonist is named Pip, get it?)
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
I decided it’d be auspicious to kick things off at the Skeletodeon with a midnight showin of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, ’cause I think that’s the kinda vibe I’m going for. & for the most part it went super well! So here’s a Rocky Horror trivia for ya:
What symbol (color & shape, please) does Dr. Frank N. Furter wear on his green lab coat? I redacted it in this movie still:
The symbol actually got adapted from a prison ID badge that was used in Nazi Germany, but over time’s been reappropriated so that now it’s probably most famously used by the group ACT UP.
Trivia 2
Even if you’ve never been to a midnight show of Rocky Horror, I’m sure ya’ve heard how it’s tradition to do wacky audience participation stuff—oh, you know, like throwin rice at the screen durin the wedding scene, or throwin toast when Dr. Furter proposes a toast.
Well, this past weekend I put together these li’l Rocky Horror kits with all that sorta stuff in ’em & gave ’em away to anyone in the crowd who forgot to bring their own. The kits had rice & toast, plus also newspapers & party hats & rubber gloves—& what else that’s supposed to get punnily thrown at the screen when the character Brad shouts out “Great Scott!” when Dr. Scott comes into the scene?
OK then
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee