CROSSWORDS: General Knowledge; Trivia

Summary | Quotes | References

Summary

• A fun way to access useful information about a variety of subjects
  -- for love of learning, or obscure facts for trivia games.
• Search for "crossword" and add a subject -- puzzle format & quality will vary widely;
  practice 'safe browsing' with any new web site!
• e.g., Shakespeare: NYT Learning Network; Reagle: Playing with Shakespeare;
  MyCrosswordMaker
• e.g., Beer
• e.g., Ham Radio: RF Cafe; W2PA

Quotes

• Laid up in the hospital, a man passed the time doing crossword puzzles.
  One day he asked a nurse,... "What seven-letter word has three u's in it?"
  She said, "I don't know, but it must be unusual."
• "When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?',...
  any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject,
  the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and
  starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."
  ~David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
• "If you play the NYTimes crossword regularly, you know exactly 2 things:...
  - Oona Chaplin played Talisa Stark on Game of Thrones
  - The Ford Edsel was a m***f*** FLOP"
• "The great god Ra,... whose shrine once covered acres,
  is filler now for crossword puzzle makers." ~Keith Preston (except it's 2 letters...)
• "I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark...
  And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour.
  I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award." ~Robert Sean Leonard
• A man in a bar... notices that the guy at the next stool appears to be stuck
  on a crossword, so he leans over and says "Go on then, give me a clue".
  
  "Ok, Mr. Smart Guy, here's one; 12 across, Overworked Postman, question mark"
  
  "Let me see now", says the other man, "Overworked postman, hmm, how many letters?"
  
  "Thousands of them! Now mind your own business!"
• It is said that once a Pittsburgh clergyman put up a crossword... on the blackboard
  for his congregation, asking them to solve the puzzle before his sermon;
  the text for the next sermon lay in the answers.

References

• topics: "All I Know I Learned From...", learning, subjects
• International History Olympiad: Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 2022
• Can You Solve the Atlas Obscura 2018 Crossword? test your knowledge of
  the world’s wonders with this challenging puzzle; AO; 12/31/2018
• The Learning Network (NYT) American History, Civics, Economics, Fine Arts, Geography,
  Global History, Health, Journalism, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology,
  Misc. (Sports and Games, Holidays and Seasons, Retrospectives, Skills and Learning); NYT; 9/7/2016
• All I Ever Learned, I Learned from the Crossword Puzzles 9/13/2014
• The Crossword Revolution the value of knowledge, education, pop culture; 12/20/2013
• Crossword blog: 10 things I've learned from crosswords in 2011 The medical term for man-boobs,
  and nine other things Alan Connor has discovered from -- and about -- cryptic crosswords; 12/29/2011
• USA Today Crossword Puzzle Grants False Sense Of Intelligence Onion; 8/29/2007
• Crossword puzzles: a teaching strategy for critical care nursing 2/1994
• about.com Energy, History, Holidays, Kids, Religion, etc.
• FunTrivia.com Animals, Brain Teasers, Celebrities, Entertainment, For Children, General, Geography, History,
  Hobbies, Humanities, Literature, Movies, Music, People, Religion, Sci / Tech, Sports, Television, Video Games, World