Last week I wondered out loud about what year did the name Armistice Day change to Veterans Day in order to honor all American veterans.
The year in question is 1954 and Marianne Hageman is the predominant military historian on campus who knew the answer.
It’s a new day and a new question.
This month marks the anniversary of the founding of a Minnesota town in 1855 by members of a very popular group of family singers.
Name the group and you have named the town.
Submit or hum an answer to arhudson@ssthomas.edu by this Friday. As always no prizes will be awarded, but we will sing the praises of correct answers on this site.
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Andrea Koeppe
Last week I wondered out loud about what year did the name Armistice Day change to Veterans Day in order to honor all American veterans.
The year in question is 1954 and Marianne Hageman is the predominant military historian on campus who knew the answer.
It’s a new day and a new question.
This month marks the anniversary of the founding of a Minnesota town in 1855 by members of a very popular group of family singers.
Name the group and you have named the town.
Submit or hum an answer to arhudson@ssthomas.edu by this Friday. As always no prizes will be awarded, but we will sing the praises of correct answers on this site.
Welcome Bulletin linkers and regluar UST Libraries blog readers. I am in a musical mood and it makes me wonder –
According to Mojo Nixon who is everywhere?
Please send your guess to arhudson@stthomas.edu
As always no prizes will be awarded to winners, just the opportunity to add your $.02 to the blogosphere.
Thankyouverymuch
While quite a few of you all knew the name of the governor I had in mind was Harold Stassen, only a handful of the few of you knew that Stassen ran not once not twice but nine, count ’em nine times for president of the United States. Please join me in congratulating Minnesotan historians –
Kevin West
Laurie Dimond
It’s a new week and a new trivia question!
A dismal day warrants a question about the Dismal Science
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics were announced this morning and included on the list of three American recipients was Leonid Hurwicz from the University of Minnesota. What is interesting about the economics prize is that it is the only Nobel prize that was not specified in the will of Alfred Nobel.
What year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
If you don’t know the answer off your head (I sure didn’t) why not search one of the many online encyclopedias and dictionaries in the library collection. Need more help? Ask a friendly librarian.
Please send guesses to arhudson@stthomas.edu by noon Friday. As always no Nobel prizes or any other prizes will be awarded for correct answers, only the satisfaction of a job well done and your name on this blog.
While quite a few of you all knew the name of the governor I had in mind was Harold Stassen, only a handful of the few of you knew that Stassen ran not once not twice but nine, count ’em nine times for president of the United States. Please join me in congratulating Minnesotan historians –
Kevin West
Laurie Dimond
It’s a new week and a new trivia question!
A dismal day warrants a question about the Dismal Science
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics were announced this morning and included on the list of three American recipients was Leonid Hurwicz from the University of Minnesota. What is interesting about the economics prize is that it is the only Nobel prize that was not specified in the will of Alfred Nobel.
What year was the Nobel Prize in Economics first awarded?
If you don’t know the answer off your head (I sure didn’t) why not search one of the many online encyclopedias and dictionaries in the library collection. Need more help? Ask a friendly librarian.
Please send guesses to arhudson@stthomas.edu by noon Friday. As always no Nobel prizes or any other prizes will be awarded for correct answers, only the satisfaction of a job well done and your name on this blog.
Please join the UST Libraries in congratulating trivia winners and campus pomologists
Roderick Teh
Mary Edel-Joyce
Lindsey Hines
Henry Bishop
They knew the name of the notorious fruit I was looking for is a Durian. One responder noted that the durian smells like ‘rank cheese’ and is so potent that even an unopened fruit smells like a ‘decomposing zebra.’ Needless to say I am dying to exerience this first hand.
In the meantime if you are looking for more trivia I would like to point you to the UST Libraries Banned Books Week page set up to commemorate Banned Books Week starting Monday, October 1st. There will be a daily book related trivia question and an actual prize for one correct answer every day.
Good luck!
The question last week revolved old time Broadway shows and a great classic movie with John Barrymore and Carole Lombard
What classic play and movie written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur was recently revived on Broadway in 2004?
The answer is Twentieth Century and the new version starred Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche.
Congratulations to winners and theater scholars Marianne Hageman, Linda Hulbert and Laurie Dimond!
It’s a new week and a new question!
What notoriously stinky fruit indigenous to South East Asia was given its own festival this year in Bukit Gantang Malaysia?
If you can’t find it in Google try to find the answer in Quicksearch or ask a librarian. Send your guesses to arhudson@stthomas.edu
Good luck!
It is the start of another week which means another trivia question. We know that if you don’t know the answer off of the top of your head it is tempting to use Google, but with the new Quick Search feature in Central Search it is now possible to search multiple scholarly databases at the same time to find the answer to this weeks question. You can access Central Search from this page and as always if you have a question about Central Search, trivia or class research always feel free to contact a librarian.
No matter how you find the answer you have until this Friday @ noon to reply. Remember no prizes will be awarded for corrent answers, just the satisfaction knowing that you are one of the premier experts in Broadway history on campus.
What classic play and movie written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur was recently revived on Broadway in 2004?
Reply back to arhudson@stthomas.edu
Good luck!
I know the song that at least three people were humming this first full week of school. The famous song ‘School Days’ is 100 years old yet the Gus Anderson tune is still very much known along with its equally famous chorus
School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
“I love you, so”
When we were a couple of kids
The correct answerers are Zachary Wefel, Linsey Hines and Barbara Rath. Congratulations!
Thank you all for playing and get set for a new question to be posted next Monday afternoon.
While you are all filling your head with important, useful information in classes why not take some time to learn something pointless or show off how much pointless information you already know. The UST Libraries are kicking off a weekly trivia challenge that will be hosted on or very close to this blog.
The question will be posted on Monday morning, and the deadline for guesses is the following Friday at noon.
There are absolutely no prizes for correct answers! The winners’ names will be posted on Friday afternoon along with the correct answer and that is reward enough.
Without further ado here is the question for the week –
Submit (or sing) the very famous chorus of this nostalgic ode to school composed by Gus Edwards which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
Submit your answers to arhudson@stthomas.edu
Good luck and happy guessing!!