trivia day: NATIONAL TRIVIA DAY
- 01/03/20 06:37 PM
According to the National Day Calendar site today is National Trivia Day! Each year, the holiday recognizes the collectors of unconnected, irrelevant data, facts, history, and quotes in the recesses of their brains. They are the ones who usually proffer these sometimes astounding bits of history when friends and family least expect it. The word trivia is plural for the word trivium. In ancient times, the term “trivia” was appropriated to mean something very new. Nostalgic college students in the 1960s, along with others, began to informally trade questions and answers about the popular culture of their youth. After writing trivia columns, Columbia University students Ed … (7 comments)
trivia day: National Trivia Day!
- 01/04/18 10:38 AM
According to the National Day Calendar's site today is National Trivia Day! The word trivia is plural for the word trivium. In ancient times, the term “trivia” was appropriated to mean something very new. Nostalgic college students in the 1960s, along with others, began to informally trade questions and answers about the popular culture of their youth. After writing trivia columns, Columbia University students Ed Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky created the earliest inter-collegiate quiz bowls that tested culturally (and emotionally) significant, yet virtually useless information, which they dubbed trivia contests. Trivia (Dell, 1966) was the first book treating trivia in the revolutionary new sense, authored … (7 comments)
According to the National Day Calendar site today is National Trivia Day!
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