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The Schmooze The Worst Possible Answer: Scott Rogowsky Is Officially Leaving HQ Trivia
When the people of Israel reached the edge of the Promised Land, their leader, Moses, was not permitted to enter. He gave one last goodbye to the people, with whom he had journeyed from slavery into freedom. And then he climbed to the top of a nearby mountain, and God blessed him. And then he…
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Fast Forward HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies of Apparent Drug Overdose
The co-founder of the popular gaming app HQ Trivia app was found dead of an apparent drug overdose Sunday morning in New York, The Wall Street Journal reported. Colin Kroll, 34, was well known in the tech industry, with HQ Trivia one of his most notable creations. Launched in August 2017, the app became a…
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The Schmooze Meet HQ Trivia’s Fiercest Competitor: MajorityRules
Imagine if there was a free program that predicted correct answers on the popular gameshow app HQ Trivia with near-perfect accuracy, helping countless people cheat the system and win cash? For a while, there was. When Jonathan Nassimi and Jake Mor created HQuack, they created a phenomenon within a phenomenon. Nassimi and Mor’s site “predicted…
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News HQ Trivia Host Scott Rogowsky Dishes On His Cringeworthy Bar Mitzvah
NEW YORK (JTA) — Trivia is having a major moment — and that’s thanks, in large part, to Scott Rogowsky. The Jewish comedian has played a huge role in the runaway success of HQ Trivia, the iPhone app turned massive phenomenon that now has some 500,000 people glued to their iPhones at 3 p.m. and…
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Food Exploring the Pickle’s Storied Past
Flickr November 14 is Aaron Copland’s birthday. It’s the day that Chicago Bears’ quarterback Sid Luckman passed for seven touchdowns to help defeat the New York Giants 56 to 7 in 1943. And it’s the day Ivan Boesky confessed to illegal market activity in 1986. But for readers of The Jew and the Carrot, November…
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Food 7 Jewish Things About Pickles
In honor of National Pickle Day, we’ve been marinating some fun facts about our favorite fermented food. Photo: Thinkstock. 1) Cucumbers are mentioned twice in the Bible (Numbers 11:5 and Isaiah 1:8) and history sets their first usage over 3,000 years ago in western Asia, Egypt and Greece. (Source: NY Food Museum) 2) Americans consume…
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Books Dan Lewis Is Obsessed With Knowing It All
Here’s something you probably didn’t know: Back in the 1990s, advertisements for a drink called Limonana featuring celebrities such as soccer player Eli Ohana were placed on Israeli buses. But customers who actually tried to buy the lemon and mint lemonade in local stores wound up disappointed. The drink didn’t exist, but had been made…
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