Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start of a new baseball season is a trivia collector's delight. Consider these tidbits last week...
...Trivia. A major consequence of the new amity in Annapolis will be a constitutional convention to rewrite the state's 100-year-old charter, a farrago of archaisms and amendments so cluttered with trivia that it even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...
Last week 1,000 college-age students filed into Columbia University's McMillin Theater to watch Columbia's defending champions battle it out with teams from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke and Barnard for the Second Annual Ivy League-Seven Sisters Trivia Contest-the closest thing to a world series that the game has spawned. On hand to officiate were Trivia's inventors, former Columbia Students Dan Carlinsky and Edwin Goodgold, whose two books on the subject, published by Dell, have sold 450,000 copies in the past year...
...championship trophy-a green Woolworth mixing bowl worth 49?-was then ceremoniously presented to the new champions, while one of Columbia's King's Men gave a rousing rendition of the Mr. Trivia Song-"There he goes/ Think of all the crap he knows...
...have to get your basic training from the time you are six until perhaps twelve or 13," says Trivia Champ Tulenko. "After that you refine your ability." He credits his success entirely to "my garbage-filled mind." But for Inventor Goodgold, the essence of Trivia is not so much in the facts themselves as the nostalgic recognition they evoke. "Trivia is concerned with tugging at the heartstrings," says Goodgold. "It's enjoyed by those who have misspent their youth and don't want to let it go. It's the least common cultural denominator...