Atlantic Trivia reaches Week 3, which is by definition the most trivial of all: The word trivia originally referred to places where three ( tri- ) roads ( -via ) met in a crossing. If those slouch Romans had been more industrious builders, we might be playing quintivia or even septivia today. That three-way intersection semantically drifted to mean “an open place,” which morphed into “public,” which turned into “commonplace”—hence, trivial . Read on for questions that are anything but. Find