I’ve always felt it was a shame that the “trivia” moniker stuck to trivia so firmly. Referring to your hobby with a word that quite literally means “petty” or “insignificant” doesn’t strike me as the best way to popularize it. Would football ever have caught on if gridiron fans had insisted on calling it “that stupid sport with the weird-shaped ball”? Do philatelists call postage stamps “little gummed squares that we pointlessly collect and pore over when we really should be out meeting girls”? And yet trivia fans happily adopt the language of the oppressor, tacitly but cheerfully agreeing
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