DEAR LOGOS, Are we having fun yet?

I know there is a large backlog of tagging to be done, features to be finished, modernizing of functions to fit modern computing standards ... and I know that all that stuff takes up all your resources. And using all that stuff and reporting errors should take up all my time but ... what I sometimes would really like to see in Logos is simply something to entertain me - think absolutely useless trivia (don't think of Bible content trivia as used in Sunday School) like:

what is the earliest translation of a book of the Bible into Icelandic?
what is the most commonly referenced verse of Matthew in the Logos library?
what is the earliest surviving commentary on the book of Nahum?
why is Malachi sometimes divided into 3 chapters and sometimes into 4?
what is the least common letter in the Greek Septuagint?
what is the maximum number of forms of a single verb in the Hebrew scriptures?
what canons considered the Book of Odes canonical?
are there other items like the ephod that we don't really know what they are?
What is the average depth of the Sea of Galilee?
How long is the Jordan River today?
What is the circumference of the Dead Sea?
In Jerusalem, how long is there daylight on the longest day? shortest day?
List all the folk etymologies in the Bible.
Whose name is a palindrome in the original language?
Explain a Biblical pun that is lost in translation.
What verse is referenced most frequently in the Babylonian Talmud?
Give literal translations of idioms such as God's red nose ...
What is the longest single speech by a prophet?
What is the shortest proverb?
What is the name of Noah's wife according to the Book of Jubilees?
How many parables mention a vineyard?
What is the most commonly read verse in the Lutheran RCL?
Quote some humorous mistranslations ...

There are days when I need a break, or want to put a break in a lesson, when I would pay you good money for a trivia feature -- even a simple trivia of the day or click for a random piece of trivia. A search would be nice but I could live with that being an eventual add-on. I would suggest using users to suggest additional entries as that would give a broad mix of languages, canons, and interest. Logos would need a fact-checker but ...

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Willem J. de Wit

Although it functions somewhat differently, isn't the "Facilitate Serendipity Discovery" command intended to give you this kind of a break?
For quick access, I've bookmarked that function as Ctrl+5.

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280304#Comment_1280304

Although it functions somewhat differently, isn't the "Facilitate Serendipity Discovery" command intended to give you this kind of a break?
For quick access, I've bookmarked that function as Ctrl+5.

Thank you for that, Willem. For Mac users it is Cmd+(x) bookmarked on Favorites.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280304#Comment_1280304

isn't the "Facilitate Serendipity Discovery" command intended to give you this kind of a break?

No, in that FSD gives me an excerpt from my library which may be an interpretation I agree/disagree with or may raise an issue that I need to check on to see if it is accurate ... What I am proposing is a collection of factoids to which the only response is "Really, I didn't know that" or "That surprises me" or "How'd they figure that out" ... nothing that one might have to judge, think about, research ...

Rosie Perera

Might I suggest some of these books for your Library:

The Zondervan one doesn't appear to be available anymore, but the others are:

365 Trivia Twist Devotions: Fun Facts and Spiritual Truths for Every Day of the Year

The Extreme New Testament Bible Trivia Challenge

The Extreme Old Testament Bible Trivia Challenge

Fun Bible Q & A: 1250 Challenging Trivia Questions

And you can find more by searching:

https://www.logos.com/search?query=title%253Atrivia

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280326#Comment_1280326

And you can find more by searching:

https://www.logos.com/search?query=title%253Atrivia

No, no, no ... these are exactly what I don't want although thanks for trying. These are the kind of questions used to test your knowledge of the Bible - the Sunday night youth group standard of my youth. I want factoids about the Bible not about the contents of the Bible. They may be Bible based in the sense of "how much would 40 pieces of silver weigh" but the answer can't be in the Bible.

As for the trivia books, I understand their appeal but I have developed an "allergy" to them. Sometime in the middle grades, I figured out that it was more efficient to read the trivia books than to read the Bible. I was very, very good at knowing the answers but it rather defeated the purpose of encouraging the reading of scripture. It taught me to read about scripture rather than read scripture ... hence my adult "allergy" despite using them on occasion.