The Boy Who Lived has finally made it over the hill. Harry Potter was (fictionally) born on July 31, 1980, which means today he has hit the big 4-0. Time for birthday trivia! Ron Weasley is heading back from Diagon Alley to Harry and Ginny’s place with a bunch of black balloons and graveyard party […]
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Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire. My trivia soul, that is! Brainwave Trivia is so stoked to be a sponsor of the inaugural Sporcle TriviaCon, happening in Vegas from April 3-5. And we’re going to be doing a live game there as well! Come join us at the
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I give thanks for trivia. And turkey. Thanksgiving is this Thursday, so it’s time to talk turkey. Or, you know, trivia about turkeys. Fast facts: The state that produces the most turkeys annually is Minnesota. TV dinners were born out of a surplus of Thanksgiving turkeys that Swanson didn’t want to waste. Big Bird is
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James Dean famously starred in just three movies before his tragic and untimely death in a car accident in 1955: “East of Eden,” “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant.” But according to a production company made up entirely of — presumably — monsters, he will soon have a fourth credit: as a CGI recreation. No.
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It’s finally time to get schwifty. After an interminable two-year wait, “Rick and Morty” is coming back. Cartoon Network dropped a trailer today for the upcoming Season 4 of the wildly inappropriate, beautifully animated, filthy and hilarious animated cult hit. It’s only five episodes long (what the hell?), but it looks fantastic. Can’t wait for
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Jennifer Lopez was announced last week as the Super Bowl halftime show headliner for February’s game in Miami, along with Shakira. Is it 2002? Just kidding, I love them both. There will be so. Much. Hair flipping. And I love that we’re going to get some pyro and choreography and lasers and stuff, because J.
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I just learned that Jonathan Van Ness from “Queer Eye” has a book coming out this month: “Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love.” That makes three of the “Queer Eye” guys to post up in the celebrity memoir section, along with Karamo and Tan. (Antoni’s got a cookbook, but that doesn’t count. We
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The man who was Edward Cullen has been confirmed as the new Batman, and if you have a problem with that, you’ve come to the wrong trivia blog. I think Robert Pattinson is going to be terrific as the Caped Crusader. He’s got the edgy, manic quality and deep reserves of emo melancholy that made
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Netflix recently announced a premiere date for the long-awaited Season 3 of its acclaimed drama, “The Crown.” Beginning Nov. 17, we’ll be able to see if Oscar winner Olivia Coleman can make us forget about Emmy winner Claire Foy when she slips into Queen Elizabeth II’s sensible shoes. Entertainment Weekly has the new monarch on
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A new teaser for “The Morning Show” was released today, and as a huge stan of “The Newsroom,” my antennae are tingling. The new show looks at morning cable news hosts and the struggles they face trying to be objective journalists in the face of a 24-hour news cycle machine. It stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese
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