Howdy! I'm Malphas, a Cowboy Fallen Angel VTuber. Ol Luci kinda kicked me outta Hell, and I decided to become a streamer after wandering the Multiverse for centuries. I like playing retro games (DOOM ...

Hiya Skeleton Crew, Sorry for goin silent there for a bit: I kinda lost track of time while I was out there in the Goetic Swale of Malphas. (That’s what those weird haunted woods’re officially called, turns out! Took me a li’l while[1] to find the visitors’ center.) Anyways, one thing I forgot to mention to youse all last week is that that was the last week of Season 32 here at the Trivia Zone. Sorry for not givin ya more of a heads up! But the upshot’s that I’m gonna be on break for a bit. How long? Well, uh … I ain’t exactly 100% sure on that one there. We prob’ly won’t have regular trivias again till … mmm, hold on, lemme check my calendar … Till after the winter holidays??? Ah jeez, that seems real dang far away, don’t it? Well, it is what it is. So I guess I’ll be on vacay till January 2027. But heck, I might send out the occasional li’l whatsit every now & again, just to letcha all know I’m still alive & kickin. ## Anyway While I’ve gotcha on the line, lemme fill ya in on last time’s answers: # Answers to Last Time * Reptiles of the subfamily Crotalinae are called **pit** vipers on account of the infrared-sensin pits they’ve got on their heads there. * The U.N. Building, the Griffith Observatory, & the Musée des Arts et Métiers have all got themselves Foucault **pendulums** – or is that pendula, I guess? Eh, whatever. They’re swingin back & forth, that’s the important thing. The pit & the pendulum, get it? Not a terrible way to wrap up the spooky season! ## Also I ain’t gonna officially go through the Season 32 mateys right now – though no one’s stoppin ya from peepin the Leaderboard at mister dot skeletontrivia dot com if ya really wanna see ’em. Instead, the only other order of business I got for ya is this trivia thing I found in the ol’ Airstream after I exited the Swale.[2] It was just lyin there on the floor, written on a piece of parchment in impossibly perfect handwritin. Go figure! Anyway, it’s askin ’bout a buncha stuff I ain’t ever heard of. But maybe youse guys can figure it out? Might be a fun way to pass the time, at any rate. # Trivia 1 In an effort to boost morale, the Army has begun issuing spiritually uplifting memoirs in troops’ ration kits. A particular favorite is what offering of cheese tortellini (or shredded BBQ beef, or lemon pepper tuna) paired with Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 post-divorce memoir? # Trivia 2 Beck’s music is known for being experimental and idiosyncratic, but is it _dangerous_? That’s how some superfans describe, in hushed tones, **what unreleased track from _Odelay_** that incorporates samples from an obscure sex education album that Beck supposedly retrieved from the cyclopean ruins of an impossibly ancient city hidden in the furthest reaches of Antarctica. # Trivia 3 **What short film** was a co-production between George Lucas, Walt Disney Imagineering, and the estate of Walt Whitman? Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and shot in immersive “4-D”, this historical fiction film follows Michael Jackson as a lightly fictionalized version of Abraham Lincoln. # Trivia 4 Boyz II Men and INXS teamed up to produce **what mashup** between their chart-topping singles (released in 1994 and 1987, respectively)? The music video features an apparently repentant kickboxer delivering a surprise strike on their erstwhile lover. # Trivia 5 Speaking of music videos: the video for **what posthumously released single** shows the Notorious B.I.G. crossing the Øresund strait while Mase and Puff Daddy perform in a tunnel filled with swirling kronor? # Trivia 6 Although video game heroes Rash, Zitz, and Pimple are no strangers to the use of bar seating as improvised weaponry, that’s not actually the premise behind **what entry** of a long-running beat-’em-up franchise, which instead follows the heroes as they explore the strange and exciting world of mycotoxicology? # Trivia 7 **What novel** , a postmodernist sequel to a postmodernist prequel, follows the exploits of a Yankees Hall-of-Fame pitcher and member of the “Black Aces” who must cross an Atlantic Ocean gyre in a mission to rescue Bertha Antoinetta Rochester from her confinement in Thornfield Hall? # Trivia 8 After years of traveling around the U.S. and being appalled at the inaccessibility of affordable fresh produce in low-income neighborhoods, Travel Channel host Adam Richman (and later, Casey Webb) works with local entrepreneurs on **what show** to set up local grocery stores and farmers’ markets? # Trivia 9 After enduring extraordinary hardship on the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, its leader set out to ensure that no explorer would ever find themselves in a situation without the ability to call for help. To this end, he founded **what eponymous retail chain**? It later enjoyed many decades of success as a subsidiary of the Tandy Corporation, but eventually foundered in the 21st century and filed for bankruptcy in the 2010s. * * * ## OK then Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee * * * 1. … sorta. I dunno. I guess the Swale’s one of those places where the flow of time works kinda different from usual? My subjective experience is I was wanderin out there for nearly seventy years – which, lemme tell ya, gets kinda tedious – but when I came out it was like only a coupla days’d passed. Go figure! ↩︎ 2. How’d I escape? Uff da, now THAT’s a heckuva story! Come to the Skeleplex sometime & ask me ’bout it if ya really wanna know. ↩︎

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