Doesn’t trivia come from the Latin trivium, a division of the seven liberal arts in medieval education? The trivium consisted of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic while the quadrivium was arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and music.
I’m not sure about where Young was playing when he retired, but the other six all began and ended their careers in the same city, but for different teams.
Aaron - Milwaukee (Braves, Brewers)
Ruth - Boston (Red Sox, Braves)
Mays - New York (Giants, Mets)
Dean - St. Louis (Cardinals, Browns)
Gooden - New York (Mets, Yankees)
Strawberry - New York (Mets, Yankees)
Young - Cleveland (Spiders, Indians(?))
I think it’s a tennis ball hitting a drum.
Here’s mine: What is the “short form” of Kaz the Minotaur’s grandfather? (where Kaziganthi is the long form and Kaz is the short form)
Very small quibble. They were the Oregon STATE Beavers. As a University of Oregon Duck alumnus, I’d like to make sure the * other * Division 1 team in the state gets its proper respect.
trivium = three roads, the junction of which had a post to attach various news and info for travellers
O.K. Which Ministry song samples Tuco’s last line?
hardygrrl: Love Buzz by Shocking Blue, their hit “Venus” was covered in 80’s by Bananarama
O.K. What KMFDM song steals a Slayer riff (not a sample)?
That’s it! Congratulations!
Zev Steinhardt
Very good eunola 
That’s my favorite Nirvana song.
Ok, who invented the “flow chart” type of analytic system of categories and subcategories pictorially linked together on a page with little “branches” and sub-branches (best way I can describe it)?
What event prompted the painter Caravaggio to kill a guy?
So far so good-----tho I DO NEED TO CLARIFY----it’s an ONGOING character, not a one time character.
KIRK was the one I was SURE of—SAVAGE was one I THINK. Was he ever in the actual military or just a mercenary? The third one, if it’s who I think it is----comic strip.
So, Zev, did you actually sit there and watch all the cells scroll by, or were you more efficient and just pressed “End->RightArrow” and “End->DownArrow”?
capybara: Caravaggio lost a tennis match and killed his partner. Quite a character, that guy.
Here’s my contribution: How did the practice of fading out the music at the end of a track on an album get started?
Uncle Bill asked:
I’m not accusing or anything, but this is exactly the format that they use when they ask the final question on ESPN’s Two-Minute Drill. You ever watch that show? Amazing! Those guys know everything! It blows my mind.
Still looking for an answer to my “Toughest Celtic Question Ever Asked:”
What little-known Boston Celtic was asked to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter?
[sub]Hint:
He was not a “little-known” player; it’s just that most people don’t know he ever played in Boston.[/sub]
Close! Not quite but close!
Still looking for a winner here!
trick question. Jo Jo White
I may have seen it once, but it was too depressing. I know NOTHING, I’M WORTHLESS, I’M IGNORANT AND STUPID! Or at least that’s how I felt with these freakin inhuman computers up there.
No, I went to Duke, and their football team the last twenty years make me long for the 40’s.
and if you don’t like that answer…maybe Hot Rod Hundley?
What do the following have in common?
Steven Spielberg
H. Ross Perot
former president Gerald R. Ford
basketball legend and former senator Bill Bradley
astronaut James A. Lovell
They’re all left-handed?
Yer pal,
Zappo the Southpaw
nope. Small clue…beagledave would also have the same thing in common.
I’m gonna wag the Celtic q. There was a hammy baseball player who also played some b-ball before he went Hollywood - Chuck Connors?