THE WEEK IN TRIVIA

Hey there! We hope you enjoyed this week's show on the Mercator Projection, Gerardus Mercator's successful attempt to make a workable map for navigators. On the show, we talked about Mercator's brilliance in constructing a map that allowed navigation by drawing straight lines between points that were easy to plot. But the downside of the Mercator Projection is that it progressively distorts the size of landmasses the further you get from the Equator. This happens because Merc

Hey triviaheads, Happy August! Do you know what happened this week? 1) August 3: In 1936, he famously won the 100m sprint event at the...

July 20: In 1969 the lunar module for this NASA mission, carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the moon July 21: In 1996,...

July 13: The first football (soccer) World Cup is held in this country in 1930 July 14: In 1789, the French Revolution begins with the...