Skeleton Trivia, Throwback Edition! for 2025-12-03

Hiya Skeleton Crew,

While I’m on Holiday Hiatus, I’ll occasionally be publishin some oldie-but-goodie trivias from months & years past. It’s a li’l somethin I like to call Throwback Trivias™!

As opposed to my usual routine of “youse all send in submissions for scoring & I’ll give ya the answers the next day”, the answers for these Throwback Trivias are just gonna be in there at the bottom of the email.

Anyways, enjoy!

[Note: This issue’s from May 3, 2023, & it’s got a li’l bit of a hidden theme to it. Can ya figure it out?]

Question 1

Have ya heard about this app called Mastodon? I was so excited when I heard about it 'cause I'm a big mastodon lover, but when I tried it out I gotta say I couldn't figure it out one way or the other.

I guess it's s'pose'ta be some kinda Twitter replacement? I dunno, I never really figured out how ta use Twitter, either.

Anyway, can ya finish this little analogy for me?

Twitter : tweet :: Mastodon : ______

What goes in that blank?

For those of ya who are like me and maybe aren't so technologically inclined, I'll throw ya another bone: this answer is also the name of Puddle's porcine pal in a series of children's books by Holly Hobbie.

Question 2

There's this familiar trope in trivia where the triviameister gives ya the real name of a musician and then asks for what stage name they use – like if I asked ya who's Robert Diggs or Gary Grice or Solána Rowe better known as. (That'd be RZA, GZA, and SZA, respectively.)

Ya see this type a' question so often that I kinda feel like it's maybe a bit … meh. Y'know, familiar. Typical. Humdrum, even. It's just a regularly-done thing, is what I'm saying.

Anyway, by what stage name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn more typically known?

Answer 1

Toot

Answer 2

Common

Hidden Theme

If ya say “Toot & Common” out loud, it sounds like the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen. I, uh, don’t really remember why I came up with that theme when I did it, but when I read it again I thought it was kinda fun.