<p>Hi Skeleton Crew!</p><p>I guess the link I sent out for ya to submit your answers yesterday was the wrong one? Oops!</p><p>Here’s the fixed link:</p><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSej7vjqhqvNctBZHe8sJ_NN39-FEhs-st7P8bL3eBeg9vBvfg/viewform?usp=dialog" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">THIS BUTTON SHOULD WORK NOW</a></div><p>Sorry ’bout the confusion!!!</p><p>–Mr. S</p>

<p>Hiya Skeleton Crew,</p><p>We’re nearly at the end of January – but don’t worry, ’cause the Skeleton Trivia fun’s gonna keep rollin till mid-Feb! Remember that instead of the old-style monthly leaderboards of yesteryear, now that it’s 2026 I’m tryin out a thing where I do a quartet of six-week “seasons” instead.</p><p>Okey doke, now with all that fanfare outta the way, let’s quit the prelude &amp; waltz on over to the real show – i.e., the trivias!</p><div class="kg-card kg-toggle-card"> <div class="kg-toggle-heading"> <h4 class="kg-toggle-heading-text"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Answers to Last Time</span></h4> <button class="kg-toggle-card-icon"> <svg id="Regular" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24"> <path class="cls-1" d="M23.25,7.311,12.53,18.03a.749.749,0,0,1-1.06,0L.75,7.311"></path> </svg> </button> </div> <div class="kg-toggle-content"><ul><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">I showed ya a picture of the </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap">Brandenburg</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> Gate, so called ’cause it’s the place in Berlin where ya can hop on the road to the (I guess it’s now former) Margraviate of Brandenburg.</span></li><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Yesterday’s whole story ’bout the snowstorm &amp; my nearly-missed jazz show &amp; the unlikely horse-drawn carriage was to set you up for a pun where I took a </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap">gig</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> (a type of carriage) to my </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap">gig</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> (a concert).</span></li></ul></div> </div><div class="kg-card kg-header-card kg-v2 kg-width-full kg-content-wide " style="background-color:#000000"> <div class="kg-header-card-content"> <div class="kg-header-card-text kg-align-center"> <h2 id="todays-trivias" class="kg-header-card-heading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Today’s Trivias</span></h2> </div> </div> </div><h1 id="trivia-1">Trivia 1</h1><p>Early in Season 2 of <em>Breaking Bad</em>, the protagonists get basically kidnapped by a drug dealer named Tuco. They manage to orchestrate an escape &amp; head back home – but while Jesse doesn’t really gotta explain his absence to anyone, ol’ Wally White needs SOME kinda excuse for his multi-day disappearance, don’tcha know?</p><p>So he comes up with this invention: he strips naked, heads to a supermarket, &amp; starts kinda wanderin ’round in a disoriented state. <strong>What rare but real psychiatric condition</strong> does he try to pass off his sudden disappearance &amp; inexplicable bout of amnesia as?</p><h1 id="trivia-2">Trivia 2</h1><p>The suite of laws governin ecclesiastical life in the Catholic Church is generally described usin <strong>what word</strong> that comes from the Greek for a specific type of stick used by architects to make straight lines?</p><hr /><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="http://localhost:50607/2026/Season%2029/%E2%88%86" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">💀 Submit Your Answers 💀</a></div><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oK5aa8_6GEa_3QAOZLZ01Bu3jK5N9Mhd6f0Oa2l__B8/edit?usp=sharing" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">💀 View Season Leaderboard 💀</a></div><hr /><div class="kg-card kg-header-card kg-v2 kg-width-full kg-content-wide " style="background-color:#000000"> <div class="kg-header-card-content"> <div class="kg-header-card-text kg-align-center"> <h2 id="ok-then" class="kg-header-card-heading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">OK then</span></h2> <p id="byeeeeeeeeeeeeee" class="kg-header-card-subheading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></p> </div> </div> </div>

<p>Hiya Skeleton Crew,</p><p>Can ya believe it’s still only Thursday? So excited for the weekend to be here.</p><p>Wait a sec ... it’s only WEDNESDAY???</p><p>Ah jeez! It’s just one of those weeks, y’know?</p><div class="kg-card kg-toggle-card"> <div class="kg-toggle-heading"> <h4 class="kg-toggle-heading-text"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Answers to Last Time</span></h4> <button class="kg-toggle-card-icon"> <svg id="Regular" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24"> <path class="cls-1" d="M23.25,7.311,12.53,18.03a.749.749,0,0,1-1.06,0L.75,7.311"></path> </svg> </button> </div> <div class="kg-toggle-content"><ul><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Phaethon was </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap">Helios</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">’s ill-fated kiddo.</span></li><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">One of those four-horse chariots is called a </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap">quadriga</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></li></ul></div> </div><div class="kg-card kg-header-card kg-v2 kg-width-full kg-content-wide " style="background-color:#000000"> <div class="kg-header-card-content"> <div class="kg-header-card-text kg-align-center"> <h2 id="todays-trivias" class="kg-header-card-heading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Today’s Trivias</span></h2> </div> </div> </div><h1 id="trivia-1">Trivia 1</h1><p>Here’s a pic of one of the more famous <em>quadrigae</em> in the world:</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.skeletontrivia.com/content/images/2026/01/2026-01-quadriga_monument.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="It’s a big columned gate with a bronze quadriga sculpture at the top of it." loading="lazy" width="960" height="640" srcset="https://www.skeletontrivia.com/content/images/size/w600/2026/01/2026-01-quadriga_monument.jpg 600w, https://www.skeletontrivia.com/content/images/2026/01/2026-01-quadriga_monument.jpg 960w" /><figcaption><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thomas Wolf, </span><a href="http://www.foto-tw.de/"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">www.foto-tw.de</span></a><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, CC BY-SA 3.0 </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0</span></a><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, via Wikimedia Commons</span></figcaption></figure><p>That monument there’s situated at a certain city’s gate on the road to <strong>what Margraviate</strong> that’ll be familiar to any Baroque-heads in the audience?</p><h1 id="trivia-2">Trivia 2</h1><p>I have a funny li’l story ’bout horse-drawn vehicles that happened recently.</p><p>It snowed this past weekend, ya mighta heard. Here in Micimec we got hit pretty bad – which I don’t usually mind too much, I kinda like the snow, don’tcha know? – but the problem is that on Sunday I had to get to Frankie’s downtown to play sax in this li’l jazz ensemble I’m a part of. (Betcha didn’t know I played sax! Baritone, to be precise.)</p><p>Well, I was runnin a li’l late on account of troubleshootin an issue I’ve been havin with Screen #2 at the Skeletodeon (long story). But finally I get all that sorted, &amp; I hop into the ol’ skelemobile, &amp; ... uff da! Wouldn’t ya know it, the car battery was dead!!</p><p>So there I am, I’m stuck in the middle of the snow, I’m flippin my parietal wonderin what the heck I’m gonna do — when all of a sudden, this li’l two-wheeled open carriage comes rollin down the street, pulled by one of the doggone prettiest horses ya ever seen! I flag ’em down &amp; ask the driver if he can give me &amp; my barry sax a ride. He says “of course” in the neighborliest voice ya could ever imagine, &amp; at that point I’m more relieved than a walleye gettin' tossed back in the hole.</p><p>So I hop on in there &amp;, thank my lucky stars, I was able to make it to the show JUST IN TIME!</p><p>The kicker is that I was tellin the driver my li’l story on the way there, &amp; at the end of my li’l speech he tugged his beard &amp; smiled &amp; said, “At least now you can say that you took a ___ to your ___!”</p><p><strong>What word</strong> fills those blanks?</p><hr /><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJXuEsj-u7Ae9QgV8l5QtPsjql2QO38-AF_KTGIvwiZR_stQ/viewform?usp=dialog" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">💀 Submit Your Answers 💀</a></div><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oK5aa8_6GEa_3QAOZLZ01Bu3jK5N9Mhd6f0Oa2l__B8/edit?usp=sharing" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">💀 View Season Leaderboard 💀</a></div><hr /><div class="kg-card kg-header-card kg-v2 kg-width-full kg-content-wide " style="background-color:#000000"> <div class="kg-header-card-content"> <div class="kg-header-card-text kg-align-center"> <h2 id="ok-then" class="kg-header-card-heading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">OK then</span></h2> <p id="byeeeeeeeeeeeeee" class="kg-header-card-subheading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></p> </div> </div> </div>

<p>Hiya Skeleton Crew,</p><p>Y’know, I don’t think we’ve heard from any of the extended Skeleton Trivia family lately! Longtime readers’ll remember that we’ve had visits from a sentient A.I. named Sophia, a non-corporeal body-hoppin spirit named Curtis, a pirate named Vermes, my dear bro W. Skeleton-Boney, plus my good pals Jen &amp; Roy &amp; Milo who sometimes show up.</p><p>I’m not mentioning it for any particular reason. I just noticed I ain’t heard from any of those guys lately, is all!</p><p>Anyway, on with the trivias.</p><div class="kg-card kg-toggle-card"> <div class="kg-toggle-heading"> <h4 class="kg-toggle-heading-text"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Answers to Last Time</span></h4> <button class="kg-toggle-card-icon"> <svg id="Regular" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24"> <path class="cls-1" d="M23.25,7.311,12.53,18.03a.749.749,0,0,1-1.06,0L.75,7.311"></path> </svg> </button> </div> <div class="kg-toggle-content"><ul><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Evangelos Papathanassiou – who ya might know better by his stage name, Vangelis — did the soundtracks for </span><i><em class="italic" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Blade Runner</em></i><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><i><b><strong class="italic" style="white-space:pre-wrap">Chariots of Fire</strong></b></i><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></li><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Those folks I mentioned yesterday were all </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap">European Central Bank</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> presidents.</span></li></ul></div> </div><div class="kg-card kg-header-card kg-v2 kg-width-full kg-content-wide " style="background-color:#000000"> <div class="kg-header-card-content"> <div class="kg-header-card-text kg-align-center"> <h2 id="todays-trivias" class="kg-header-card-heading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Today’s Trivias</span></h2> </div> </div> </div><h1 id="trivia-1">Trivia 1</h1><p>Lemme tell ya, a chariot of fire is a lot trickier to manage than ya might expect! The most famous example of this probably being poor li’l Phaethon, who asked his dad to drive the Chariot of the Sun for just one day. It, uh ... it didn’t go so good.</p><p>See, basically, Phaethon couldn’t keep the chariot on track: it got too close &amp; burned up the earth, then it got too far &amp; froze everything. The stars started complaining, then the sky bellyached too, &amp; even Gaea said to Zeus, “this has GOT to stop”! So Zeus zapped Phaethon &amp; he – well, I won’t sugarcoat it, he got barbecued.</p><p>Anyways, <strong>who was Phaethon’s Titanic dad</strong>, the Greek personification of the sun?</p><h1 id="trivia-2">Trivia 2</h1><p>Since we’re talkin chariots, do ya know <strong>what’s the specific word for a chariot pulled by four horses</strong>? It’s from the Latin for – surprise! – “four yokes”.</p><hr /><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIIqdpB1VzYbkb4OoOYW_k1SHqlSY1iI0IGb6B-GXZCeQt3w/viewform?usp=dialog" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">💀 Submit Your Answers 💀</a></div><div class="kg-card kg-button-card kg-align-center"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oK5aa8_6GEa_3QAOZLZ01Bu3jK5N9Mhd6f0Oa2l__B8/edit?usp=sharing" class="kg-btn kg-btn-accent">💀 View Season Leaderboard 💀</a></div><hr /><div class="kg-card kg-header-card kg-v2 kg-width-full kg-content-wide " style="background-color:#000000"> <div class="kg-header-card-content"> <div class="kg-header-card-text kg-align-center"> <h2 id="ok-then" class="kg-header-card-heading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">OK then</span></h2> <p id="byeeeeeeeeeeeeee" class="kg-header-card-subheading" style="color:#FFFFFF"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></p> </div> </div> </div>

Never let anyone tell you something is impossible! Except for Kenneth Arrow

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WARNING: today’s trivias should only be attempted by the smartest of cookies!

Treat yourself to something more distinctive™ than a Girl Scout cookie

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The Mummy’s Revenge!

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Go forth and purchase!

Lux ET veritas? In hac oeconomia??