Trivial Pursuit

I absolutely love trivia. Any kind, any form, about anything. I love knowing information that has really no relevant purpose. Do I need to know that the Queen of England was the first head of state to send an email? No. But do I like knowing that fact? You bet your ass.

Don't know why, don't have any reason for it. Maybe I like it because knowing arcane facts gives people the illusion that I'm smarter than I really am. For instance if I found myself in a conversation with people talking about peeing I could say,"On average 400 gallons of blood filter through your kidneys each day." See? Useless yet completely relevant and in turn, making me look like I know something about kidneys. I got books of trivia. One I bought and one I got as a gift. I had a trivia contest in my away messages freshman year even. (It was a little lame...not going to lie) Oooooh! I should start trivia Mondays! Give me something to blog about that's fo sho.

Ok ok here! From The Penguin Ultimate Trivia Quiz Game Book: (# 878)

1. When is St. Martin's Day?
2. Which Chancellor of England lifted his daughter's nightdress to show her off to her future husband?
3. How deep is the Grand Canyon?
4. Why is Boccaccio's Decamerons so called?
5. In golf, what was a baffy?
6. Which sport is features in the 1980 film Breaking Away?
7. Which fish can you catch between January 15 and October 14?
8. Which huntsman immortalized in song used to hunt in the Lake District?
9. What is the other name of the snow leopard-the same as a weight?

Yeah ok some of those are lame. I just opened to a random page.

You know, there is one topic I'd like to blog about but can't because it could get me in some trouble. And we all know that the last time I kept an online journal before this beaut, it almost got me in some deep trouble. I've learned my lesson that I must be weary of my readers and what I say. Ah, censorship so early on in my writing.

Want the answers to the trivia, see how smart you are? Ok.

1. November 11
2. Sir Thomas More
3. 1 Mile
4. It is made up of ten tales; they are told by ten people over ten days during a plague in Florence in 1348.
5. An obsolete hickory-shafted club rather like a no. 4 wood.
6. Cycling
7. Salmon
8. John Peel
9. Ounce.

Yeah I knew none. And I doubt that I'll keep up the trivia on a regular basis. Ok that's all I got. Buh-Bye.