Sorry kung ngayon lang nakapg!! Trivia BAbaWe ako!! FOr Today!! The trivia (singular trivium) are three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, logic and rhetoric. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education and an important building block for all undergraduates. The word trivia was also used to describe a place where three roads met in Ancient Rome. While the term is now obsolescent, in ancient times, it was appropriated to mean something very new. In the 1960s, nostalgic college students and others began to informally trade questions and answers about the popular culture of their youth. The first known documented labeling of this casual parlor game as Trivia was in a Columbia Daily Spectator column published on February 5, 1965.[citation needed] The authors, Ed Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky, then started the first organized trivia contests, described below. Since the 1960s, the plural trivia in particular has widened to include nonessential, specifically detailed knowledge on topics of popular culture. The expression has also come to suggest information of the kind useful almost exclusively for answering quiz questions, hence the brand name Trivial Pursuit (1982). Etymology The Latin neuter noun trivium (plural trivia) is from tri- triple and via way, meaning a place where three ways meet. The pertaining adjective is triviālis. The adjective trivial was adopted in Early Modern English, while the noun trivium only appears in learned usage from the 19th century, in reference to the Artes Liberales and the plural trivia in the sense of trivialities, trifles only in the 20th century. The Latin adjective triviālis in Classical Latin besides its literal meaning could have the meaning appropriate to the street corner, commonplace, vulgar. In late Latin, it could also simply mean triple. In medieval Latin, it came to refer to the lower division of the Artes Liberales, namely grammar, rhetoric, and logic. (The other four Liberal Arts were the quadrivium, namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, which were more challenging.) Hence, trivial in this sense would have meant of interest only to an undergraduate. The adjective trivial introduced into English in the 15th to 16th century was influenced by all three meanings of the Latin adjective: GAnda GAbi #EaT2xNa #DontSkipThatsBAd #adminmskigenesisxx
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