The Watergate Scandal was made into a movie in All the President's Men with Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward.
triviality: something of small importance
Trivia (1716) is the name of a poem by John Gay, loosely based on the Satires of Juvenal. The full title of the poem is Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London, in three books (the whole of the poem running to just 474 lines). ...
Trivia are unimportant (or 'trivial') items, especially of information. In the late twentieth century the expression came to apply more to information of the kind useful almost exclusively for answering quiz questions: a perfect 'trivia question' is one that initially stumps the listener, but ...
Trivia in Roman mythology was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, crossroads, and the harvest moon. She was an underworld titan-goddess who assisted Jove in the Titanomachy and was therefore able to keep her powers. ...
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