Trivia Tuesday

~ No matter how sure we are with the spelling choice we choose, it will always be wrong.  There are 2 spellers on our team - me and another girl.  We each spell a word differently - usually only one letter is different - and we always choose to go with the incorrect version. Every single time!  In this case, idiosyncrasy may look weird when spelled with "sy" at the end, but apparently it's correct and isn't spelled with the more normal looking "cy."

~ My friend tried to "liven up" her Professional Development day at work by having an apple tasting.  Clearly my friend misunderstood the definition of "liven up."

~ There's a Guiness world record of 140 hula hoops that one person has hooped with.  How does that even work?  Is there someone who's job it is to play horseshoes wherein you're the spike and the hula hoop is the horseshoe?

~ When it comes to Entertainment and current events, I'm good to go.  I had a great night this evening knowing the answer to at least 9 questions.  But throw in questions about Basketball or Presidents and I'm terribly out of my depth.

~ The girls at the table are HUGE readers.  So imagine just how excited a table full of readers can get when the half time question is all about chapter titles in novels.  We get even more excited when there's a character question as well as a grammar question.  It was a good night for word nerds.

~ Spending the longest 2 minutes of my life watching the Derby paid off since a question on the winner was asked.  Yay Nyquist!

~ After reading an amazing book in the last 24 hours, wherein I learned that Carl Bernstein (of Woodward and Bernstein) was married to Nora Ephron, I was convinced Karma was going to give us a question on that very topic this evening.  Alas, my fun fact to know and tell went to waste.

~ Seeing a question on musicals made the musical theatre nerds at the table very happy.  We were less than thrilled when it turned out to be such a soft ball question.  Is there anyone that doesn't know that 76 TROMBONES led the big parade?  Even non-musical people know that song.

~ Even though I've been to the Grand Canyon, I had zero idea how large it was at it's furthest poles - 18 miles.  This is a fact that I feel someone in my family will harass me for not knowing : )