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  "description": "Who’re you callin’ an idiophone??",
  "path": "/skeleton-trivia-for-thursday-2026-07-02/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-02T18:00:13.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.skeletontrivia.com",
  "tags": [
    "💀 Submit Your Answers 💀",
    "💀 View Season Leaderboard 💀"
  ],
  "textContent": "Hiya Skeleton Crew,\n\nDidja catch any of the World Cup games yesterday? England was playin the DRC, so as ya can imagine everyone here in London was glued to the teevee: folks standin outside of pubs & watchin the game from the sidewalk, that sorta thing. Pretty cool! Even though I’m not a huge soccer guy, it’s kinda hard not to get caught up in the fun a li’l bit.\n\nBut I can’t chat! I’m in the middle of a kinda sorta errand, ya see. I found this cool … I guess ya’d call it— an artifact? It’s a cool thingamajig, at any rate. Only thing is it’s kinda … well, it’s doggone HUGE is what it is! I’m strugglin to find a box big enough to ship it back to the States.\n\nBut none of that’s neither here nor there! So let’s get to business – TRIVIA business!\n\n#### Answers to Last Time\n\n  * It’s ****South Africa**** that the Canadians beat in the knockout round. I wonder who __Les Rouges__ ’ll be playin next??\n  * The phrase I redacted from the English lyrics to “O Canada” was ****True North**** , eh?\n\n\n\n## Today’s Trivias\n\n# Trivia 1\n\n**What comedian** was moderator for the National Geographic Society’s Geographic Bee from 2016 to 2019, & also played Vice Principal Douglas Panch in _The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee_ on Broadway?\n\nA geography AND a spelling bee? I guess this guy loves bees!\n\nOr maybe it’s just that he’s a trivia nerd: after all, he was also on _Jeopardy!_ a coupla times, PLUS he’s a regular on NPR’s _Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!_\n\n# Trivia 2\n\nAn _idiophone_ might sound like some kinda insult, but actually it just means an instrument that makes sound by its own vibrations – & NOT with strings or membranes or blowin air through it or whatever. **What idiophone** , which shows up ’specially often in Latin music genres like _son cubano_ & _guaracha_ & _bomba_ , probably traces its origins back to Indigenous American ethnic groups like the Araucanians or the Guaraní – but was also probably independently developed in multiple parts of the world?\n\n* * *\n\n💀 Submit Your Answers 💀\n\n💀 View Season Leaderboard 💀\n\n* * *\n\n## OK then\n\nByeeeeeeeeeeeeee",
  "title": "Skeleton Trivia for Thursday, 2026-07-02",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-02T18:00:15.413Z"
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