It's a little known fact

Today I'm celebrating National Trivia Day!

Many observe National Trivia Day by playing the Trivial Pursuit game or other game of knowledge. Others celebrate the day by sharing their wealth of little-known facts, that some may consider utterly useless.

Trivial Pursuit is a board game where the object is to move around the board by correctly answering quiz questions. The questions are split into six categories. Special editions are available, including a set of easier questions for younger players and sets with questions on popular subjects, such as Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, The Lord of the Rings, the 1980s, biographies, Disney animated pictures, the 90's, and books, to name a few. Supplemental card sets are available too, including Silver Screen, All Sports, Baby Boomer, Welcome to America, The 1960s, Rock and Pop, and TV, to name a few. With so many options, surely there is a game set that interests you and your family. You can see several videos of the gameshow version on YouTube. Here's a link to one video of the Trival Pursuit gameshow. It's been said that a new gameshow version is in development for airing next autumn and it will involve the viewers. In the '80s, I'd frequently meet with some friends to play Trivial Pursuit. It was a group of lawyers, engineers, and programmers -- all with advanced degrees with complex knowledge and heads crammed full of trivial knowledge too. They were all very competitive --- it was not my favorite game. They were way too serious about that game for me! I'd always rather play a card game, like spades, or catch a movie instead.

If you're one who enjoys having a collection of trivial facts to share with your friends, you're likely to enjoy this day tremendously. If, instead, you don't have that virtual storehouse of facts stored away, you may find the following websites handy today:
Trivia Collections
AmusingFacts.com
The Trivia Directory
Trivia Cafe
Google's trivia directory of sites

Perhaps you have a friend who's known for their trivial knowledge, but that friend is frequently forgetful about where they've shared their knowledge gems. In the words of Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680): Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? This will be a particularly fun day for those types. Typically, we must grin and bear those types and patiently hear the triva or story again and again. However, you too can be prepared today with some trivia of your own.

If you don't have the time to do any research to get trivia for the day, here are two videos from YouTube that will hopefully provide you some useful trivia for the day:

Did you know? (100 facts that I bet you DIDN'T know)

As posted on YouTube by SupaDupaFlyGirl

Part 2 of 101 facts I bet you didn't know

As posted on YouTube by SupaDupaFlyGirl

Today I hope that you enjoy the day of trivia and both learn and share something new with someone else.


Image credit: Pressman Toy Corp