Skeleton Trivia for Wednesday, 2025-09-10
Nudes always be descending staircases, am I right??
Hiya Skeleton Crew,
Happy Wednesday! So far, no taker-uppers on my offer of free trivias in return for sharin this here newsletter. But I’m sure someone will take me up on it at some point! Right?
Right???
Answers to Last Time
- Internet oldheads might remember the chat app ICQ, which came out in the late ’90s. It actually only got shut down just last year!
- Marcel Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. is a defaced reproduction of the Mona Lisa.
Today’s Trivias
Trivia 1
Mr. Duchamp’s most famous painting has probably gotta be his Nude Descending a Staircase, which looks like this:
Ha! Just kiddin, it looks like THIS:
That painting was first shown off at a gallery in Paris in 1912, but it made a MUCH bigger splash the next year when it got exhibited at the International Exhibition of Modern Art.
The folks who ran the exhibition held it at a location they’d rented out on Lexington Avenue in New York. But what purpose did that location serve when it wasn’t shocking Americans with the most recent developments of the European avant-garde?
Trivia 2
Whenever I see the name Mona Lisa I always think of that movie Anomalisa that came out a few years ago? Didja ever see it? It came out in like 2015, it was a stop-motion animated movie, it actually got nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars (it lost to Inside Out). The movie’s about a guy who perceives everyone in the world as a basically nondescript identical person (all voiced by Tom Noonan).1 Then he meets someone named Lisa who is different from everyone else—& hilarity ensues!2
It was good! I mean, I didn’t LOVE love it, but it was real solid!!
Anyways, Anomalisa was written & co-directed by what screenwriter who also wrote Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
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