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| Trivia |
Q. It is generally accepted that there
are six simple machines. What are
they?
Give an example of each as found on a
bike.
are six simple machines. What are
they?
Give an example of each as found on a
bike.
roads or, colloquially, crossroads. The derivative trivialis
carried the sense of common, ordinary, of the crossroads,
modern meaning of trivial as of no importance.But trivium
played an important role in Medieval education that led
more directly to our modern sense of trivia. The trivium
classical education at the university level, composed of
rhetoric, grammar and logic. This was followed by the
more advanced postgraduate quadrivium (four ways) of
arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. Since the
trivium was considered the basics, the derivative trivia
eventually came to mean less important matters.
carried the sense of common, ordinary, of the crossroads,
modern meaning of trivial as of no importance.But trivium
played an important role in Medieval education that led
more directly to our modern sense of trivia. The trivium
classical education at the university level, composed of
rhetoric, grammar and logic. This was followed by the
more advanced postgraduate quadrivium (four ways) of
arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. Since the
trivium was considered the basics, the derivative trivia
eventually came to mean less important matters.