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#Trivia QOTD: Plains, Woods, Moose, Swampy and Montagnais are among the most common dialects of what language? (Like or comment if you know it but please don't give the answer away. I'll post it Tuesday.)

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Chuck Lorre is responsible for a lot of the best and worst sitcoms on television, and also a lot of the best and worst vanity cards, all of which he archives on his website in case you didn't have time to read them.

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#Trivia QOTD: What producer is known for his sometimes unhinged vanity cards that appear after episodes of shows such as Mom, The Big Bang Theory and Dharma & Greg? (Like or comment if you know it but please don't give the answer away. I'll post it tomorrow.)

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Actual Nobel prize winners hand out the Ig Nobel prizes each year. One person, Andre Geim, has one of each -- one for studying the inherent magnetic properties of frogs and the other for studying the inherent magnetic properties of graphene. Which was which is left as an exercise for the reader.

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#Trivia QOTD: The Annals of Improbable Research sponsors what punnily named awards ceremony that recognizes scientific research that seems trivial, unnecessary or just really odd? (Like or comment if you know it but please don't give the answer away. I'll post it tomorrow.)

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K is more common than J, X, Q and Z and less common than the common letters, so it's worth 5.

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#Trivia QOTD: Scrabble tiles have values of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 or 10. What's the only letter worth 5? (Like or comment if you know it but please don't give the answer away. I'll post it tomorrow.)

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Florence Nightingale basically invented modern nursing and also, somewhat unexpectedly, infographics.

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#Trivia QOTD: International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12th each year, marking the birthdate of what English woman who was actually born in Tuscany and is most associated with the area around the Black Sea? (Like or comment if you know it but please don't give it away. I'll post it tomorrow.)

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Pura Vida is like the Costa Rican version of Hakuna Matata.

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Jacquilynne
@jacquilynne.bsky.social
Mostly trivia. Occasionally PWHL.
33 followers23 following572 posts