Trivia

The Best of Channel Surfing on YouTube: Week of February 11, 2013

Shira Lazar | Posted 04.14.2013 | Technology

Each Monday on Channel Surfing, What's Trending quickly flips through the best of what's happening around YouTube and serves it up for your viewing pleasure. Because no one has the time to watch everything, even when it's great!

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A HUGE Animal Attended Her Wedding

Posted 11.30.2012 | Weddings

Read More: Celebrity Wedding Trivia, Video, Crazy Weddings, Trivia, Slideshow, Celebrity Weddings, Wedding Trivia, Celebrities, Weddings, Weddings News

Sure, you watched the Kim Kardashian wedding special and pored over every detail of Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake's nuptials. But how well do you...

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Vermont Facts And Trivia For Winter Travelers

iLoveInns | Posted 01.12.2013 | Travel

Read More: Green Mountain, Maple Syrup, Ice Cream, Green Mountain College, Vermont, Trivia, Stowe, The Northeast, Ben & Jerry's, Fall Foliage, Covered Bridges, Montpelier, Skiing, Culture, New England, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Vermont's versatile virtues and vigorous values are as vast and vital as the valleys. Visionaries, virtuosos, valors and viticulturists voluntarily abide here without vociferous vituperation.

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How Kids Will Remember This 'Mitt Romney' Fella

Posted 11.07.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Mitt Romney Defeat, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Trivia, Video, Who Is Mitt Romney, What's a Mitt Romney, Comedy News

Mitt Romney is now officially a historical footnote. But future generations will likely be puzzled by what exactly a "Mitt Romney" is and why America ...

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13 Things You Don’t Know About Oprah’s Favorite Things

Posted 11.13.2012 | OWN

Oprah's Favorite Things for 2012 are coming to OWN -- and this year there's a twist! For the first time ever, you can be a part of the joy. This is yo...

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Pressing My Luck With Pat Kiernan

Howard Jordan Jr. | Posted 10.28.2012 | New York

Read More: Trivia, Game Shows, Pat Kiernan, Trivworks, More Reasons to Leave New York, TV Theme Songs, Ny1, Pat Kiernan Trivworks, New York News

As a writer, creative director and self-proclaimed man of the people, there are only a few things I hold dear. Among them, my pop culture knowledge, the ability tell smart, entertaining stories, and the undeniable New York-ness of my existence.

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Factoid Fiesta: The News God Loves August

Laurie Nadel | Posted 10.13.2012 | Weird News

Read More: Factoid, History, Trivia, This Date in History, News, August, Weird News News

If February feels like the longest short month of the year, the first to the thirty-first of August seems like a torpid run-on sentence, bracketed between the hurricane season and record-breaking heat.

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Video Casts Negative Light On Basic Knowledge Of American Teens

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 06.13.2012 | Home

Read More: Education Videos, Lunch Scholars Video, Viral Videos, High School Students, School Videos, Trivia, Student Trivia, Lunch Scholars, Students, Video, Home News

Back in February, a video shot by a student at an American public school titled "Lunch Scholars" went viral on the Internet and cast a dark shadow on ...

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20 OMG Facts That Will Blow Your Mind!

Posted 03.16.2012 | Teen

Read More: Funny Facts, Facts About Animals, Funny Twitter Accounts, Fun Facts, Trivia, Fun Stuff, Omg Facts, Funny Trivia, Teen News, Teen News

If you are obsessed with trivia (like us), you probably are counting down the days to the new Carmen Sandiego movie, never miss an episode of Jeopardy...

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QUIZ: How Much Do YOU Know About Marriage Around The World?

The Huffington Post | Jennifer Lai | Posted 03.08.2012 | Weddings

Planning on getting hitched abroad? Then you might want to know which country shuns religious ceremonies, or which requires you to live there for ...

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QUIZ: Test Your Knowledge Of Oscar-Winning Divorcees

Posted 04.25.2012 | Divorce

Read More: Elizabeth Taylor, Divorce News, Divorce, OSCAR 2012, Elizabeth Taylor Divorce, Trivia, Divorce Trivia, Slideshow, The Oscars, Oscar Trivia, Divorce News

Oscar winners may call showbiz's most coveted statue their own, but when it comes to divorce, they're just like us. Heck, they might even have it wors...

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'The Office' Plays The Quiet Game

Posted 03.14.2012 | TV

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Robert California, Trivia, Sabre, The Office, Quiet Game, Trivia Night, Tv Replay, Comedy, Reality-Free, TV News

"The Office" (Thursdays, 9 p.m. EST on NBC) continues to find fun and unique ways to spotlight how mundane office life can be by showing ways the gang...

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Dust Off Your Thinking Caps: It's Theme Song Trivia Time

Lincee Ray | Posted 03.13.2012 | TV

Read More: TV Theme Songs, Daniel Koren, Sex and the City, Trivia, The Office, Friends Tv Show, Theme Songs, Video, TV News

Before Huffington Post revokes my "TV Enthusiast" byline, help me out by listing the theme songs you hear in the comment section. Is Seinfeld really in the mix?

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Today's Daily News Quiz

Posted 12.04.2011 | Home

Read More: Trivia, Quiz, Daily News Quiz, News Trivia, News Quiz, Home News

Have you caught up on all the latest news? If not, would you like to? Try our daily news quiz below. (Photo credits - AP: 1,3,5; Getty Images: ...

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13 Things To Think About While Flying

Brian Clegg | Posted 11.15.2011 | Books

Read More: Aeroplanes, In-Flight, Slidepollajax, Flying Facts, Flight, Trivia, Airplanes, Flying Trivia, In-Flight Food, Facts, Airlines, Flying, Books News

How can being 40,000 feet up in the sky, traveling at over 500 miles per hour, be anything other than amazing?

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14 Facts From Reddit's 'Today I Learned'

Posted 11.09.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Reddit, Finding Nemo, Video, Today I Learned, Reddit TIL, Reddit Today I Learned, Trivia, Bill Murray Garfield, Facts, Til, Bill Murray, Comedy News

If you spend most of your time on the Internet surfing user-submitted aggregator site Reddit (and let's face it, why wouldn't you?), you've probably s...

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PICTURE: Harry Potter's WHAT Is 11 Inches?

Posted 10.09.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Trivia, Harry Potter Trivia, Urlesque, Harry Potter, Suggestive Questions, Trivial Pursuit, Funny Pictures, Unintentionally Sexual, Comedy News

We've been wracking our brains over here and we can't think of a single answer to this Trival Pursuit question that isn't totally inappropriate. J...

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PHOTOS: Grossest And Weirdest Facts Ever

Eric Grzymkowski | Posted 08.08.2011 | Books

Read More: Slidepollajax, Gross Trivia, Weird Trivia, Grossest Facts, Weirdest Facts, Trivia, Attack of the Killer Facts, Strange Trivia, Books News

I learned two concrete things. First, never Google "alien sex experiments" unless you are fully prepared mentally for what you will see. Second, the world is a far weirder place than I could have ever possibly imagined.

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Video: Inside Kiss's $1.6 Million Auction

Spin The Bottle | Posted 07.04.2011 | Home

Read More: Kiss Tour, Kiss Auction, Video, Rock Band, Auction, Trivia, Kiss, Music, Spin the Bottle, Home News

How much did rockers Kiss make when they auctioned their touring gear in 2000? And what kind of crazy stuff did they put up for sale. Click below ...

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10 Geeky Facts About The World's Most Famous Places

Posted 01.16.2013 | Travel

For some people trivia isn't just a game, it's a way of life. Stat junkies and info nerds alike spend hours finding new minute details about places ar...

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A Non-Trivial Advantage for Watson

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Reason, Transhumanism, Jeopardy, Jeopardy!, Trivia, Psychology, Watson Jeopardy, Human Nature, Logic, Smarter Ideas, Technology News

As a former Jeopardy contestant myself, I knew Watson was beating them where it hurt, not with superior general knowledge of trivia, but by avoiding typical human logical weaknesses.

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What The Ã¢â‚¬ËœJeopardy!Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ IBM Challenge Reveals About How Our Minds Work

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Jeopardy!, Heuristics, General Knowledge, Anchoring and Adjusting, Cognitive Psychology, Games, Trivia, Memory, Gameshows, Cognitive Understanding, Memory Tricks, Learning, Cognitive Anchoring, Smarter Ideas, Healthy Living News

Well, think about just what it is that "Jeopardy!" really tests in people. It's nothing less than the natural human ability to negotiate a vast amount of general knowledge and all very rapidly.

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"An Evening With Garrison Keillor," Carpenter Performing Arts Center

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Garrison Keillor, Marriage, Trivia, Art, New York, Poems, Arts News

As you listen to these tales, told by this prairie Homer, you realize that becoming a connoisseur of life's precious moments makes this the perfect way to spend the last day of an otherwise endless summer.

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Can You Beat Blagojevich At 80s Trivia?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago, Blagojevich Trivia, Trivia, Blagojevich Trial, Illinois, Slidepollajax, Blagojevich Scene It, 80s Trivia, Chicago News

When you're waiting for a jury to decide your fate on 24 counts of corruption, what better way to pass the time than a little trivia? As the Chicag...

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Find What You're Looking For at 92Y Tribeca

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Channel 101, 92y, The Big Quiz Thing, Noah Tarnow, Michael Ian Black, Trivia, 92Y Tribeca, Comedy, New York News

New York is home to a great deal of activities and events on any given night, spread throughout the city. No matter what your tastes or interests, the...

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