tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233985392024-03-07T06:23:32.283-06:00They Call It Trivia......because it is trivial. A soon-to-be-abandoned new quiz blog.Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-47799554280473856522023-06-24T14:13:00.004-05:002023-06-24T14:14:35.843-05:00My Spoon Was Too Big I've had this trivia question floating in my brain for a few years now:What website did Spin Magazine name as its Album of the Year for the year 2000?The answer being "Napster". That's a fun fact. Anyway, I thought I'd post it on my Facebook wall, so I looked up the magazine to make sure I had the details right. And boy, there's no way to spoil a good trivia question than by getting the Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-9584020275260788372023-05-07T16:43:00.005-05:002023-05-07T21:11:43.828-05:00Trivia Hall of Fame, concludedI was finally able to locate the issues of Trivia Unlimited with the first 2 inductions to the National Trivia Hall of Fame. Please enjoy.May 1980: Robert L Ripley, "Believe It or Not!"May 1981: Art Fleming, "Jeopardy!"Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-32380345554816312552019-04-12T15:58:00.002-05:002019-04-12T15:59:22.111-05:00Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! articles from Games MagazineMore scanner fun. Here are a pair of game show-related articles from my stack of back issues of Games Magazine. You'll have to open each picture in a new tab or window in order to get them big enough to read. Answers to puzzles in the articles are at the bottom of the page.
"Nailed to the Wheel of Fortune, The Anatomy of a TV Game Show" by Roger Dionne (March/April 1980 issue)
I thoughMyronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-77678911448389219462015-08-04T09:36:00.001-05:002015-08-04T09:53:37.045-05:00Trivia Hall of Fame, continuedIn anticipation of this weekend's induction at TCONA of Brad Rutter & David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace to the Trivia Hall of Fame, I dug up my old copies of Trivia Unlimited magazine to find the write-ups for the earlier inductees to the original Trivia Hall of Fame. (I did Casey Kasem last year, and I wanted to finish the set.)
It looks like I don't have a copy (either Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-23691134263337133992014-06-15T13:41:00.002-05:002014-06-15T13:41:27.303-05:00Casey Kasem (1932-2014)In remembrance of the life of Casey Kasem, I've scanned the article about his induction in the Trivia Hall of Fame, from the May 1983 issue of Trivia Unlimited magazine. Enjoy.
Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-90661826035484483442014-01-09T17:00:00.000-06:002014-01-09T17:00:03.051-06:00Come On Down! (Answers)Here are the actual retail prices from the Price is Right game posted earlier today.
Click to early seasons of Drew Carey-size.
Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-81155232775961629412014-01-09T11:22:00.000-06:002014-01-09T11:26:23.293-06:00Come On Down!Today's featured article is from issue 14 of Games magazine, dated November/December 1979. It's one of those "how much did it cost" nostalgia pricing games, which usually wouldn't be of any interest to me at all. But not only does this one feature Bob Barker and The Price is Right, it features the byline "Credit permission by Bob Barker and Price Productions, Inc." which to mind mind makes it at Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-20283334219106923972014-01-01T19:40:00.000-06:002014-01-01T19:40:39.632-06:00Wheel of SassyThe cover of the September 1994 issue of Sassy featured the intriguing come-on
"Our Harrowing GAME SHOW Audition".
You have my attention.
I had a few guesses what the show might be. It turned out to be Wheel of Fortune.
Here are scans of the 3 pages of the article. Notice the fascinating picture of the circa 1994 audition setup on page 2.
I've heard that modern-day auditions Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-55739803321881241072014-01-01T18:59:00.000-06:002014-01-01T19:01:37.266-06:00"J.J." Must be John Jacobson, Jr.I got a new scanner for Christmas, and I'd like to share some of the things in my collection.
I'll start with this article from the July/August 1978 issue of Games Magazine, about the very first Marriott Crossword Tournament.
Click to Sunday-size.
Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-45248776755174165182010-09-15T11:18:00.009-05:002010-09-15T12:44:28.626-05:00Roger, Over and OuttasiteI haven't seen yesterday's Jeopardy yet. But I've read about it, and I've glanced at the J-Archive page for it. And I must say one thing:Wow.In 2002, I set the single day record on Jeopardy, in the process becoming the first player to score $50,000. Since then, if I'm not mistaken, 3 other regular season players have broken the 50G mark, in each case setting a new one day record:Brian Weikle (Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-88289331863580566552010-05-14T08:40:00.006-05:002010-05-14T09:33:46.113-05:00You Gotta Know Your Australian CapitalsSo, you're playing in the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions. It's the 4th quarterfinal game, Double Jeopardy round. The categories come up and "Australian Capitals" is one of them. Is the year 2003 or 2010? The correct answer is: both.I remember watching the 2003 ToC, keeping score as I always do. I believe I got 3 of the 5 correct, all of them from the extra hints in the clue, and not because Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-17989438572987483592010-02-15T09:02:00.010-06:002010-02-15T09:46:19.852-06:00Marty!In the February 1963 issue of Bullwinkle Comics (from Gold Key), that machine that Peabody and Sherman use to travel back in time is spelled "WAY-BAC" (capitalized as in the original comic, although everything Peabody says in the original comic is capitalized). This is as close to a contemporary reference to the actual spelling of the thing I've been able to find:Bullwinkle and Rocky Number 4 (Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-63446430160962205442010-02-09T16:48:00.003-06:002010-02-09T16:57:52.613-06:00Blue PeopleSmurfsThe Na'viThe Blue Man Group (and wannabe Tobias Funke)The Fugates of Troublesome Creek, KentuckyHank "The Beast" McCoyAnd Nightcrawler. And Mystique.Who am I missing?-MMyronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-10126122919571852752008-06-08T13:54:00.004-05:002008-06-08T14:33:32.463-05:00The continuing adventures of "Good Trivia That's Good For You".According to the April 2008 edition of the Harper's Index in Harpers magazine, Radiohead has won the exact same number of Grammys as Barack Obama—2.Radiohead:Best Alternative Music Album, 1998: OK ComputerBest Alternative Music Album, 2001: Kid A (shared with producer Nigel Godrich)Barack Obama:Best Spoken Word Album, 2006: Dreams of My FatherBest Spoken Word Album, 2008: The Audacity of Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-32775505645033849432007-11-27T13:50:00.000-06:002007-11-27T14:33:19.359-06:00Prior ArtI scanned this article 6 or 7 years ago to test some new OCR software, and I thought it might be of interest to this blog's readers. Enjoy!---"YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A GENIUS TO BE A CONTESTANT" "We Want Average Americans Who Are Aware of What's Going On" From Daytime TV magazine, July 1974On March 30, Art Fleming celebrated the 10th anniversary of Jeopardy. "People are always asking me if I'm Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-56453187161259412292007-11-18T14:29:00.000-06:002007-11-27T14:08:07.439-06:00L L Cool LangstrothLast Saturday (November 10) the Fourth European Quizzing Championships were held, in Blackpool, England. Three of my favorite trivial-minded bloggers have weighed in on the festivities, and an interesting common theme has emerged.Those bloggers -Ken Jennings, Bob Harris, and "The Quiz Blogger"- all make mention of how difficult or obscure the questions were by mentioning similarly formated listsMyronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-84105535767127863902007-11-17T00:03:00.000-06:002007-11-17T00:08:54.470-06:00A quizI've had this sitting on my hard drive for a while, and pop culture questions don't get any fresher as they sit. Questions have been pulled from various sources, mostly magazines I've purchased or acquired in the last 6 months.1. The name of what 1980 album by The Police comes from the Sanskrit for "top of the world"?2. For much of the summer of 1967, what group's "Headquarters" was the Number 2 Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-54979698820360695332007-04-15T20:13:00.000-05:002007-04-15T20:24:34.041-05:00The Owl without a VowelA discussion over at the Ken Jennings Message board has led me to dig up an old piece I composed about 10 years ago for the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.trivia, regarding the letter Y and its use as a vowel and a consonant. It's one of my favorite things I've ever written, and I present it here for your enjoyment. Quoted email addresses have been truncated by Google Groups.---From: "Myron M. Meyer Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-68136381614014143302007-01-28T10:47:00.000-06:002007-01-28T10:58:43.097-06:00The Man Without a ClueJust entered into the j-archive is the first game of 5-day champion Rich Lerner. It has a really good Final Jeopardy! clue. Let's dissect it, to have a gander at how good FJ!'s work and what makes a good Jeopardy! champion. The category is LITERATURE.It's where Philip Nolan asked to be buried.That's all there is. 8 words. Final Jeopardy! clues are written to be able to be figured out if you don'tMyronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-28655494701869106082007-01-14T23:10:00.000-06:002007-01-14T23:44:09.982-06:00It all adds upCalculatrivia is a contest created by Games Magazine in 1978. In it's most basic form (which, in that first issue, it was) you'd answer a bunch of trivia questions with numbers for answers. Then you'd plug those numbers into a formula, solve some math, and end up with a final value for X, which was your entry to the contest. The contest was so popular that Games would run sequels and spinoffs (Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-1988047808340748772007-01-12T18:18:00.000-06:002007-01-12T18:23:06.157-06:00Learning things is funPicked this one up from "How Much is Inside Granola Bars?" at cockeyed.com: matryoshka.Had no idea what is was, so I looked it up at my old nemesis Kelly Clarkson wikipedia. Click on the link and you can too......Learn. Something. New.Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-53880404331860541712007-01-07T11:14:00.000-06:002007-01-07T11:57:17.333-06:00Speaking of WhichIn this post, I mention that I think there should be more quiz questions about prescription drugs. I mean, they're advertised on TV all the time, most people are on 1 or a couple, and I'm a pharmacy technician which means that I'd get plenty of extra points you wouldn't get, since I'm around prescription drugs all the live-long day.A couple of weeks ago, I ran across this quiz from mcsweeneys.netMyronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-1168189500648824512007-01-07T10:57:00.000-06:002007-01-08T00:11:53.262-06:00I Enjoy Being a Pretty GirlOn of the advantages of j-archive is that you can see patterns emerge which would not be so visible by simply watching the show in it's chronological format. Take this game, for instance. This is the first game from the week I was on the show, taped June 10, 2002, aired September 2, 2002. I saw this one from the audience. I hadn't noticed until right now as I entered the game into the archive Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-1161533887159113832006-10-22T10:51:00.001-05:002006-10-22T11:51:13.153-05:00The Brute Force QuizOne of my favorite books in college was Neil Steinberg's "If At All Possible Involve a Cow," a history of college pranks. The book gave a general history of college pranking, but it also featured detailed chapters on U of Wisconsin, Madison's Pail and Shovel Party, and Caltech's Ditch Day. It was from that chapter on Ditch Day that I developed my Dichotometric Theory of Trivia Writing. Just as Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23398539.post-1148250247840742782006-05-21T17:19:00.000-05:002006-05-21T17:30:20.006-05:00Trivia Book of the Year, 2002I finally again have the computer that had my "Trivia Book of the Year" master list on it, so I can review my choices. Most years have two or three choices, a winner and then some honorable mentions. However 2002 has only a single book listed: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know 3rd ed., by E.D. Hirsch, et al.I'm pretty sure I picked this one because it cameMyronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977781487816210942noreply@blogger.com0