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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 10pm ET 4/8/26
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google/AI/ChatGPT/Gemini IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions



...About me?

Not every creator is a huge fan of their own work, which creates quite a conundrum when it actually becomes popular.

In this game, we look at some of the more notable examples of this phenomenon.

FINE ARTS Q1. Required Resurrections: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hated writing stories about what signature protagonist so much that he actually killed him off in 1893’s “The Final Problem.” He bowed to public outcry and resurrected what guy in 1902’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”?



SCIENCE & TECH Q2. Single Servings: In 2015, creator John Sylvan said "I feel bad sometimes that I ever invented it. They're kind of expensive to use. Plus it's not like drip coffee is tough to make...It's like a cigarette for coffee, a single-serve delivery mechanism for an addictive substance.” What mid-’90s invention was he referring to?



SPORTS & GAMES Q3. Animated Animals: Who would have thought that an animal icon flying through pipes would be so controversial, but ultimately creator Dong Nguyen took down what 2013-2014 video game because he acknowledged that his little pastime had become too addictive for players?



FINE ARTS Q4. Piss Poor Paintings : In a letter to his brother Theo dated November 1889, what artist wrote about his newly finished painting of an evening dotted with celestial bodies, “Once again I let myself go reaching for stars that are too big—a new failure—and I have had enough of it.”?



POP CULTURE Q5. Denny Duquette : “Grey’s Anatomy” fans were disturbed when deceased former patient Denny Duquette appeared as a hallucination that gets intimate with his ex-fiancee. What show runner has come out and said that of the many plot twists she’s written in her life, that was clearly the worst?



POP CULTURE Q6. Razzie Recipients: Accepting her Razzie for 2004’s “Catwoman,” what leading woman said, “First of all, I want to thank Warner Bros. Thank you for putting me in a piece of ****, god awful movie”?



SCIENCE & TECH Q7. Tripod Tech: Working for Tripod.com in the late ‘90s, Ethan Zuckerman wanted to allay advertisers' concerns that their brand would be associated with the actual content on the page. It led him to come up with what idea that he’s since gone on to profusely and repeatedly apologize for?



MISCELLANEOUS Q8. Walkable Whiffs: He intended for them to mimic the car-free, walkable plazas of his native Austria, but by 1978 Victor Gruen said what “b*stard developments” turned grotesque by “the ugliness and discomfort of the land-wasting seas of parking”?



SOCIAL STUDIES Q9. Capitalist Celebrations: One would imagine that the inventor of a holiday would appreciate her creation, but ultimately Anna Jarvis came to despise what annual celebration as she claimed that “charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and other termites” were profiting from the sale of the white carnations that she popularized?



POP CULTURE Q10. Capacitor Creators: "I wish I'd never invented that infernal time machine. It's caused nothing but disaster." So says what scientist character about his accursed flux capacitor?



TIEBREAKER Stadium Serenades: On the other hand, songwriters Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe absolutely loved their Four Seasons song “Can't Take My Eyes Off You,” which was re-popularized by Heath Ledger dancing in a high school football stadium. How many years was it between when Frankie Valli first sang it and when “10 Things I Hate About You” came out?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 4/8/26