Music to your ears

You listen to a “threnody”. How does it sound?

A) Majestic, like a march
B) Merry, like a jig
C) Monotonous, like a chant
D) Mournful, like a dirge

Click here to check your answer today on our site. A brief version of the answer (without explanatory comments) will be included in tomorrow’s DKQ posting. Mouse over this box to see yesterday’s answer.

We make no claims for the beauty of our blog, aiming no higher than sturdy simplicity and consistency with our overall site design, but as such the last bricks are now in place. No doubt certain browsers will have issues, and any reports to that effect will be duly appreciated. Meanwhile, no more on design, and back to constructing next week’s quiz on St. Patrick and Ireland.

Trade mark

If the symbol of your profession is a “caduceus”, you are a:

A) Dentist
B) Detective
C) Doctor
D) Dog trainer

Click here to check your answer today on our site. A brief version of the answer (without explanatory comments) will be included in tomorrow’s DKQ posting. Mouse over this box to see yesterday’s answer.

“May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.”

- Baron Coubertin (1863-1937), founder of the modern Olympic Games

With the Winter Olympics now completed, we have just re-released our Olympic Games Quiz, which first appeared on FamilyGames.com in 2004, but has been off-line for the last long while. Here’s your chance to test your knowledge of Olympic history with 10 probing questions covering Olympic happenings from ancient times down to (just about) the present day. As with most of our quizzes, this one also comes in a quick version, with all the questions on one page (but less supplementary information). Here’s the first question:

Elite athlete: In the early Olympic Games, only free, male Greek citizens could compete. After Rome conquered Greece, Romans participated as well. Which Roman emperor competed at Olympia in a ten-horse chariot race?

A) Augustus
B) Nero
C) Tiberius
D) Vespasian

The blog being new, and the site being old — comparatively — let’s kick off our New Quizzes category with a directory of the quizzes we’ve released so far this year.

• Caribbean pirates
• Winter Olympics
• Shakespeare
• Chocolate
• Mozart
• Afflicted love
• St. Valentine’s Day
• Oscar-winning comedies

“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”

- Paul Valery (1871-1945), poet and philosopher

Dot TV

Every country in the world has been assigned a two-letter Internet domain name such as “.uk” for the United Kingdom, and “.ch” for Switzerland. Which lucky country has the domain name “.tv”?

A) Liechtenstein
B) Terra Verde
C) The Vatican
D) Tuvalu

Click here to check your answer today on our site. A brief version of the answer (without explanatory comments) will be included in tomorrow’s DKQ posting.

Once a department of FamilyGames.com, Trivia Park finally moved away from home late in 2005. Until now, however, news for both sites was announced through the highly sporadic FamilyGames.com email newsletter. It may be that some types of brief announcement regarding Trivia Park will continue to made that way, but this blog will henceforth be taking over most of the work.

The main reason for the change is that Trivia Park generates news much more frequently than FamilyGames.com, and updating a blog is much easier and cheaper than sending out frequent newsletters. Another big plus is the blog software’s support for RSS feeds, meaning that for those who desire it, features like our Daily Knowledge question can come to you automatically through your feed reader, without your having to visit our site. For those who don’t know about RSS, here’s a quick guide to get you started.

Integrating the blog into the existing site design is a work in progress. It may be a while before everything looks perfect, but eventually we expect to solve all the puzzles and make everything ship-shape.

Enough for now. Welcome to the Trivia Park News.