trivia
noun/ˈtrɪviə/
/ˈtrɪviə/
[uncountable]- unimportant matters, details or information
- We spent the whole evening discussing domestic trivia.
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- (usually in compounds) facts about many subjects that are used in a game to test people’s knowledge
- a trivia quiz
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from modern Latin, plural of trivium ‘place where three roads meet’, influenced in sense by trivial.
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