It must be Hallie’s week to write the questions, because this week’s trivia is all about something weird and conceptual: calendars! We also schedule discussions of European literature, religious history, and, for some reason, two different magazines.
2:12: Q1 (Sports & Games): The yearly calendar released by what publication features a compilation of photos that rarely feature athletes?
8:44: Q2 (Music): “Calendar Girl”, released in 1960, was a Top 5 hit single for American singer, pianist, and record producer, better known for the songs “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” and “Bad Blood”? And no, it is not Taylor Swift
19:34: Q3 (Times & Places): While at the council of what Italian city in 1545 did Pope Paul III reform the Gregorian calendar, restoring the date of the vernal equinox to help with more consistent scheduling of the feast of Easter?
29:05: Q4 (Everything Else): The Persian calendar, which is still in use after almost 1,000 years, was based on the Jalali calendar created by what mathematician, astronomer, and poet?
33:43: Q5 (Movies & TV): What periodical, which provides celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and sometimes horoscopes, also includes a bi-weekly calendar of television program listings?
41:51: Q6 (Arts & Literature): What Irish poet and playwright who did 2 years of hard labor for “gross indecency” once said “Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”
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