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trivia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | small beer, trifle, triviality |
| Type of | object, physical object |
| Has types | bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| Derivation | trivial |
Examples of trivia
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Many contestants participated in Quiz Bowl or other trivia teams at a young age.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Each day during the Tigers-Yankees playoff series, we'll post a new trivia quiz.
From the freep.com
Karaoke, trivia nights and pool comps keep the locals coming in during the week.
From the cairns.com.au
Evening activities and daily trivia questions will highlight this five-day ride.
From the stltoday.com
The uses ranged from religious services and receptions, to church trivia nights.
From the stltoday.com
Trivia contests each day with afternoon tea were particularly popular with some.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Brian, 70, works as an optometrist, and he also has some trivia on that subject.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
Descriptions at each display share anecdotes or trivia about the chosen country.
From the dailyherald.com
Trivia answer In 1989-90, Oregon State shared the conference title with Arizona.
From the latimes.com
- Triviality: something of small importance
- The trivia (singular trivium, adjective trivial) are the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, rhetoric and logic. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education, of interest only to undergraduates.
- Trivia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Triviidae, the trivias.
- Trivia in Roman mythology was the goddess who "haunted crossroads, graveyards, and was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft, wandered about at night, and was seen only by the barking of dogs who told of her approach" . ...
- Trivia (1716) is a poem by John Gay. The full title of the poem is Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London, and it takes its name from the "goddess of crossroads", Trivia.
- Trivia is a compilation album by the rock group Utopia, released in 1986
- The goddess of the night and crossroads, usually associated with witchcraft and sorcery as well as ghosts and childbirth, Roman equivalent of Greek Hecate
- Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information; A quiz game that involves obscure facts
- Who was it who first brought to light the fact that the Indian's nose on a Buffalo Nickel is placed conveniently opposite the animal's butt on the reverse when the coin is flipped over?
