I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry...

The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture.

Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While ‘Hussain’ is a derivation of ‘Hassan’ that...

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can’t we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No...

I’m always trolling for trivia.

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school....

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read one of the ubiquitous time-travel Austen adaptations and somebody picks up a single-volume...

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective.

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

I mean it, guys,” I said. “Why don’t you play Two Foot Trivia instead? It’s just as fun and much safer.””First of all, this is completely safe,” Grayson replied. “Second, if we had both feet...

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don’t comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can’t google for knowledge.