How to Use trivia in a Sentence
trivia
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That’s trivia, mainly, and not the worst thing in the world.
— Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Apr. 2021 -
The 90-minute trivia event will include a Q&A and meet and greet.
— Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022 -
Trebek had been the face of the trivia show since 1984.
— NBC News, 26 Nov. 2020 -
In the new game, one player takes the stage and is asked a trivia question.
— Jake Dressler, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2022 -
The Buckeyes are the squad that would stump you in this trivia question.
— Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 14 Mar. 2022 -
There are theme nights, trivia nights, food and drinks.
— John Pana, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021 -
Anything from karaoke, and trivia, to emo and vinyl nights.
— Chevaz Clarke, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2020 -
GameDay premiered in 1993 and has amassed a lot of trivia along the way.
— Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2020 -
By the way, some trivia to stump your friends: Who was the last person to throw a pitch for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
— Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023 -
And, a bit of trivia — Carter is the daughter of the late actress Dixie Carter.
— Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2021 -
Nobody wants to play a trivia game that’s too easy, nor one that’s too hard.
— Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022 -
Play games like charades or trivia to keep the mood bright and happy.
— Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 30 Dec. 2020 -
Plan a spooky corn hole game, hide-and-go-seek tag or a Halloween movie trivia.
— Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 28 Oct. 2020 -
There will be pregame trivia and a bunch of great beer and liquor specials during the evening as well.
— Amanda Kondolojy, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Feb. 2022 -
The box contains 24 cards with Christmas movies to watch, along with a bit of trivia on each film.
— Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2023 -
Halloween facts to make for a fun game of Halloween trivia for adults and kids alike.
— Ashley Leath, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022 -
For a while, that fact was little more than a fun trivia question in a bar quiz.
— Charles Finch, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021 -
Some were full of random trivia, such as the fact one out of every two people in the world live in Asia.
— Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2021 -
Sign up to be one of up to ten trivia teams, with one ticket required per team.
— Washington Post, 17 June 2021 -
He’s now the answer to a trivia question, and one of the dreamers in the Pacific Northwest.
— BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021 -
Gone was all the trivia, whirling away in a sandstorm of memory.
— Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Sep. 2020 -
In a bit of trivia, Schwindel became the 2,000th player to play in a game for the A’s in franchise history.
— Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2021 -
On Monday nights, bar bingo brings in quite the crowd, and trivia takes place on Thursday nights.
— Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023 -
This isn’t just a trove of record-collector trivia, though.
— Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021 -
But there’s a code of honor here at Walsh’s online trivia.
— Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 20 Sep. 2020 -
Then half of each group did the cognitive training, while the rest played a simple trivia game.
— Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022 -
This game invokes the world’s greatest trivia question: Who is the only man to coach two teams in the same city and the same team in two cities?
— Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2020 -
Halloween trivia time for tweens and teens will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m., via Zoom.
— courant.com, 13 Oct. 2021 -
But that choice is more than a way to test our recollection of trivia.
— NBC News, 9 Dec. 2021 -
Our only advice is brush up on your local Swedish hockey trivia (a hot topic here).
— Michelle Tchea, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2024
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