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A Description of a City Shower

Among the other works said to have provided Hogarth with inspiration for his series is the aforementioned "A Description of the Morning", published in the Tatler in 1709, as well as John Gay's "Trivia".


1:43

It features trivia about and exclusive photos of its members, and a collection of feel-good original Pinoy pop songs, including their minus one versions.

2suit

As easter egg trivia, she is reading the novel Flight, by Vanna Bonta, the 2Suit's inventor.

A Description of the Morning

"A Description of the Morning" is often cited as inspiration for other works, including English artist William Hogarth's series of four paintings, Four Times of the Day, among other works and texts, such as John Gay's "Trivia", as well as Swift's own "A Description of a City Shower".

Alyce Platt

Most recently she is seen alongside former Sale co-host Tony Barber on TV1s Cash Trivia Challenge.

Andrea Haugen

Andrea Haugen says on her Trivia page that she loves Sighthounds, Arabian horses and Oriental cats.

Andy Sonnanstine

Sonnastine's 2011 book with Tucker Elliot Tampa Bay Rays IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom, published by Black Mesa books contains ten chapters of Rays history and offers up 200 trivia questions.

Assault on the Senses

In the Sept. 2007 (issue 1633) edition of Comics Buyer's Guide, columnist Beau Smith reviewed a copy of Assault on the Senses with positive reviews pointing out, "there is a very cool tint of homage to the Silver Age of comics in this story, and if you're a master of comic trivia like Mark Waid or Peter David you may just figure it out."

Atlantic City Weekly

Jerry Blavat, the legendary DJ known as "“The Geator” with the heater, the boss with the hot sauce,” answers your music and trivia questions as only the Geator can.

Brian Freeman

Cemetery Dance Publications recently published his Blue November Storms, a new novella, and The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book, which he wrote with Stephen King expert Bev Vincent.

Čađavica, Croatia

Trivia: The mother, Paula Mazaly, of the Hungarian Nobel-prize winner Georg von Békésy was born here.

Dragonlance Nexus

The plan use of the podcast is to allow for round table discussions, author interviews, book discussion, trivia, and just general information on the Dragonlance world, and was hosted by Trampas Whiteman.

EA Sports GameShow

Operating out of EA Tiburon's Orlando studios, live trivia sessions were hosted for at least six hours each day by a team of radio professionals.

Familypedia

Familypedia does not have any notability requirements for the people listed, but it does have many prominent families (including the royals of France, Germany and the UK) and people (such as the ancestry of every president of the United States) as well as trivia facts (such as the relationship between Brooke Shields and Charlemagne).

Ferdie Adoboe

Adoboe was a Sports Illustrated Faces in the Crowd in 1983, and he is also an answer in the 1984 version of the popular trivia game Trivial Pursuit.

FunTrivia

FunTrivia began at the University of Waterloo as the "Archive for Useless Facts and Trivia" in 1995, a simple website that allowed visitors to submit fun facts and information into a database.

The owner, Terry Ford, contacted Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang and the website was added under a new "trivia" category in the Yahoo directory.

Glenn Chadbourne

The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book by Brian Freeman & Bev Vincent (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005) ISBN 1-58767-116-6 (also released as a 52 copy lettered edition that came with a piece of Glenn Chadbourne ORIGINAL artwork that was used in the book)

Gorman Thomas

Gorman Thomas was featured on the 1989 Holiday Bowl episode of Cheap Seats in a trivia segment titled "Mormon, Foreman, or Gorman."

Great Midwest Trivia Contest

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, or Midwest Trivia Contest, is held each year in Appleton, Wisconsin, broadcast over Lawrence University's radio station, WLFM.

Hall Memorial School

Sample A.C.Ts are Yearbook (8th grade only), Computer Rebuild, Debate, Mathcounts, and Science Trivia Bowl.

Itbox

Presented by Noel Edmonds, the player must choose boxes and answer trivia questions to accumulate enough points to play a final cash round.

Joan Blades

Joan Blades (b. ca. 1956 in Berkeley, California) was the cofounder in 1987 with her husband Wes Boyd of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game.

Julian Morrow

His main field assignments include "Pursuit Trivia", where he poses random Trivial Pursuit questions at press conferences, and as the "Citizens' Infringement Officer".

Lauren Scala

She currently serves as the traffic reporter on WNBC's Today in New York and as a features reporter/host for the station's daily lifestyle show "New York Live." From 2010 until 2012, Lauren has been the host of WNBC's Live Interactive Trivia Game on the Saturday edition of Today in New York' during the 9am broadcast.

Let the Eagle Soar

"Let the Eagle Soar" is a song written by former Missouri Senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who is seen singing the song at a Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary function in 2002.

Michael Gandolfi

He often looks to the sciences for his subject matter, resulting in pieces such as The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (inspired by Charles Jencks' garden in Scotland that incorporates modern physics into its design, and nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 2009 Grammy Awards) and Trivia, written for the Weilerstein Trio, which counts Richard Wolfson's book Simply Einstein as a source.

Mike Royko

Every spring he would devote a column to a "Cubs Quiz", posing obscure trivia questions about mediocre Cubs players from his youth, such as Heinz Becker and Dom Dallessandro.

North Star Games

Wits & Wagers (2006): Party trivia game where you can bet on the answers of other players.

QB1

NTN Buzztime, interactive American football trivia game predicting what play the quarterback will make

Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends

Gordon Javna became a writer and editor and oversees the popular Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series of trivia books.

Reggie Leach

On the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Leach's name was used as part of a trivia contest, on the sixth season episode "Mac's Big Break."

Ricky Groves

Groves has also talked of his love of gardening shows on television, and partook in a gardening trivia quiz when he was interviewed by Tony Livesey on Five Live in October 2010.

Robert M. Isaac

During his tenure, KVUU radio aired a daily drive-time segment called "Stump Mayor Bob", in which the DJs would call the mayor's office and ask him trivia questions.

Science International

Each episode featured approximately 20 short segments on scientific developments and trivia, narrated by Joseph Campanella and Tiiu Leek for its initial seasons.

The Magic Door

Trivia: Actor Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer and other characters on the The Simpsons television series) was a semi-regular performer on The Magic Door during the mid 1970s.

The Partland Brothers

An interesting bit of Parland trivia is that G.P. Partland served as a Police Constable with the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force at 31 Division from 1976-1979.

The Tipping Point

To illustrate, he cites the following examples: the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Milgram's experiments in the small world problem, the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" trivia game, Dallas businessman Roger Horchow, and Chicagoan Lois Weisberg, a person who understands the concept of the weak tie.

TimeGate

Notable programming included a performance by the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, a workshop on Dalek building, a LaserTag event, and a Team Trivia event.

Tom the Dancing Bug

The cult of celebrity is also a frequent target, with subversive trivia such as Nicole Kidman had to work as a waitress before she became famous, and not a single person asked her for her autograph and claiming that the Universe has never been nominated for an Oscar.

Trivia Track

The show's first host was Larry Anderson, who was replaced by Marianne Curan (who also hosted Trivia Tracks companion interactive show, Super Decades) in the fall of 1997; Dave Nemeth, Nancy Sullivan, and Peter Tomarken also served as occasional fill-in hosts.

UWink

Games included "challenge games" such as "Zillionaire" (a trivia game similar to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?") as well as multi-player games such as Pong-style games that groups could play away from their tables while they were awaiting their orders.

Whitny Braun

At 18 she was the youngest contestant to ever compete on the American trivia game show Win Ben Stein's Money.

WISS Trivia Contest

In the late 1990s the trivia contest was simulcast on both of Hometown Broadcasting's radio stations (WISS and WBJZ-FM/WAUH).

Woodruff, South Carolina

Wilson Casey, Trivia Guinness World Record holder, professional entertainer/speaker, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist in 500+ newspapers.

World Trivia Night

(By tradition, the first answer is always Pierre Trudeau, as a tip of the hat to the long-running radio trivia content in Stevens Point, WI, which always begins with a question about Robert Redford.)

The questions are prepared by Paul Paquet of triviahalloffame.com and the Ottawa Trivia League.


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