New Trivia Games

Earlier today I received an email from FunTrivia.com, the website that hosts our daily trivia game:

Hello ToTG,

FunTrivia.com, the World's Largest Trivia Site, has grown enormously over the past year to include over 1.5 million trivia questions and 90,000 quizzes. Here are some of the NEW things at FunTrivia:

- We are happy to announce the opening of a new game, Mind Melt! Can you match definitions, opposites, and relationships between words faster than your opponents? Come try it out:

http://www.funtrivia.com/mindmelt

- Over 150 Challenges, each with unique goals and awards. Enough here to keep you entertained for a decade!

- "Who's the Expert" - A new topic is chosen each hour and the best scorer crowned.

- "Fill me In" - new hourly game that asks you to fill in the blank.

- "Who Am I?" - new daily game that tests your knowledge of famous people.

- Create a team and play team trivia every day!

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That sounds interesting, and I will probably check out the new games, but it was another bit of info. in the email that threw me for a loop:

Your achievements to date have advanced you to Trivia Level 1.
So far you have played 1 of 90,000 quizzes and scored 130 points.
You are ranked #5510 of the 10,000 players in your class (class 168).

That means I'm just a little bit above average. That's all I really want out of life, to be just a little bit above average.

Flu Square Dance

Choose your partners, one and all,
Aspirin, Advil, or Tylenol!

Now fling those covers with all you’ve got,
One minute cold, the next minute hot,

Circle right to the side of the bed,
Grab the tissues and Sudafed.

Back to the middle and don’t goof off;
Hold your stomach and cough, cough, cough.

Forget about slippers, dash down the hall,
Toss your cookies in the shower stall.

Remember others on the brink;
Wash your hands; wash the sink.

Wipe the doorknob, light switch too,
By George, you’ve got it, you’re doing the Flu!

Some like it cold, some like it hot;
If you like neither, get the shot.


via Bits & Pieces

The Music Died

But ToTG lives!

I have a Google alert set to notify me of any mention of this blog on the 'net. I get a notice every day because Google frequently indexes this site and each post brings an email, but sometimes other websites give us a mention.

Nowble.net is the most recent site to give us a link; it was our post about Buddy Holly and we were mentioned along with other sites and blogs that wrote about the anniversary of Holly's death.

inexorable

inexorable \in-EK-sur-uh-bul; in-EKS-ruh-bul\ , adjective;

1. Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless.

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When I ask a woman out, she suddenly becomes inexorable.

Check Your News IQ

At the Pew Research site:

(click graphic for larger view of my score)



Check your news IQ

vivify

vivify \VIV-uh-fy\ , transitive verb;
1. To endue with life; to make alive; to animate.
2. To make more lively or intense.

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I didn't know this word, but I used to know a Vivian.

She was pretty lively.