Issue: January 15, 2026

Season: Season 29 | Status: Closed

These trivias are over! No more submittin answers, sorry.

Questions & Answers

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Question 1:

Another famous opera house that ya gotta know for Trivia Purposes™ is La Scala:

It’s a fisheye lens photo of the inside of a opera house. Maybe ya’ve seen it in a movie or something? It’s got lotsa red & gold in it & it just looks overall pretty sumptuous & whatnot.
Efarestv, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Well, can ya tell me: In quale città si trova il Teatro alla Scala?

Answer: Milano (or just Milan is OK, but for the theme to work ya need “Milano”)

Question 2:

Out on the Island of Lewis back in the 1830s, reportedly somewhere ’round Uig Bay, some folks found a trove of what type of object that folks think were originally made in Trondheim?

The hoard’s got 93 items1 in it—which is a li’l surprisin, ’cause more typically ya’d expect a modern set to have closer to a third that many pieces. But it’s because the hoard’s actually probably a BUNCHA different sets that a merchant was carryin around with him.

  1. Or 94, depending on exactly what ya count as a “piece”. Also, the collection’s growing! Apparently someone ID’d a new piece not too long ago & auctioned it a few years back for a cool £735,000. ↩

Answer: chessmen (or chess pieces or somethin along those lines, but for the theme to work ya need “chessmen”)