Nerdy Trivia: January 9, 2025

Nerdy Trivia: January 9, 2025

Happy National Word Nerd Day!

Nerdy Trivia: January 9, 2025

Some people read dictionaries for fun as kids and pretended not to notice their parents' concerned looks. Now they're part of a whole community that gets excited about etymology and solves crossword puzzles in pen (you brave souls). The world needs more folks who geek out over grammar rules and get into friendly arguments about Oxford commas - we're all 4-across and 7-down with that.

Morning Trivia: What do you call a person who loves crossword puzzles?

While chess masters are "grandmasters" and stamp collectors are "philatelists," crossword puzzle enthusiasts have their own fancy title. As these grid-based brain-teasers grew from newspaper novelties into cultural phenomena, the puzzle community needed a proper term for their passionate practitioners. What's the official name for these devoted solvers?

Guess The Title

Retro Trivia: What is Superman’s biological birth name?

Taking the name "Superman" has to be one of the boldest hero moves of all time. You have to be pretty damn confident in yourself to look around at other men and decide you are not just way better than them, but SUPER better.

Guess The Name

🎂 Celebrity Birthdays for January 9, 2025

Credit: Tenor
  • Joan Baez (1941)
  • Jimmy Page (1944)
  • J.K. Simmons (1955)
  • Imelda Staunton (1956)
  • Al Jean (1961)
  • Dave Matthews (1967)
  • AJ McLean (1978)
  • Kate Middleton (1982)

Morning XP Boost

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