December 21, 2024 - "2024 Bonus Trivia Puzzle" - Chuck Terhark (via Trivia Mafia)
Puzzle Notes
Dear Friends:
I know, it's confusing to receive an AVCX Trivia email on an off week, but I (Aimee Lucido, the head editor of AVCX Trivia) am here with a bonus puzzle for your holiday enjoyment (see attached pdf), as well as an end-of-the-year note as our big subscription drive enters its final 10 days.
First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to those of you who play AVCX Trivia. Whether you're a regular contender for All Questions Correct Answer Getter (trademark pending), whether you just started playing recently and are wondering if there is actually a trademark pending on such an absurdly long title, or whether you pulled the questions out at a single Saturday morning bottomless brunch a year and a half ago and tipsily guessed at questions with your old college roommates, you rock. It can be strange managing the one trivia feature at a publication that otherwise only produces crosswords, and it's been tough to run the feature as a mostly-solo operation on the editorial side, but you, dear solvers, have made it all worth it. I love watching your answer submissions roll in over the weekend, I love reading through the love people send in the comments section, and I love laughing at the joke answers some of you put as your responses (at least... I think they're meant to be jokes. No one here really believes Kermit the Frog won an EGOT right?). Alas, I repeat myself: you rock.
But AVCX Trivia's continued existence in the new year is not a guarantee. I know you've been hearing a lot about our big subscription drive over the past few weeks. In fact, many of you are probably here because you heard about us on Good Job Brain or read about us in Yu Oughta Know or played one of our games through Trivia Mafia (more about Trivia Mafia below...). As our subscription drive enters its last few days, the future of the AVCX Trivia feature is still very much up in the air. So if AVCX Trivia is something you solve regularly and you want to contribute to the effort to keep us around, here are some things you can do:
1) Upgrade Your Free Trial to a Subscription!
If you are currently on a free trial and you are likely to purchase a year-long subscription to AVCX once that trial has expired, we would be hugely grateful if you chose to upgrade your free trial to a subscription before the end of the year, when our drive ends. The earlier you subscribe, the earlier we will know what our finances look like, and the earlier we will know how much content we can offer you going forward.
2) Contribute to Our Tip Jar
If you aren't due to re-up your subscription for a few months, but you still want to participate in our subscription drive, you can always donate money to our tip jar. You can donate to the general AVCX fund, or you can earmark your donation as specifically intended for a certain feature. If you donate money to AVCX Trivia directly, your money will go towards bonus puzzles, paying our editors and authors fair wages, prizes for the All Questions Correct Answer Getters at the end of the year, an increased social media presence, money set aside for our test solvers, and much more.
3) Gift AVCX to Your Friends and Family! Or Enemies! Or Strangers! We Aren't Picky!
With the big gift-giving holidays rapidly approaching, we would be remiss if we didn't remind you that an AVCX subscription is a present that a) will DEFINITELY arrive before the holidays begin b) doesn't go bad if you don't eat it within the next week c) your 16-month-old can't unwrap and destroy in the two seconds you take to answer the front door, like she did Mommy's copy of James that Daddy bought for her (totally hypothetically, not taken from real life or anything).
And with that, I would like to share a little bit of bonus trivia content, brought to you by Chuck Terhark at Morning Rounds, which is a weekdaily trivia newsletter from our pals at Trivia Mafia, the Midwest's largest bar and taproom trivia operation. Find out more about Trivia Mafia at triviamafia.com. And while you're there, do your noodle a favor and sign up for The Morning Rounds! Check out the pdf attached! And tune in next week for our *championship puzzle*! (N.B. that because this is a bonus puzzle, there will be no All Questions Correct Answer Getter. It's just for fun.)
And now, the puzzle:
See you next week for the championship! Happy trivia-ing,
Aimee, T.J., Chris & the expanded AVCX crew
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