trivia

Meaning

Noun

• insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information
• A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
• Plural of trivium

Origin

• From Latin trivia, plural of trivium. The term came to be used for any public place, and then for anything commonplace. Furthermore, because the beginners' course at university was called trivium, the word came to be used only for anything basic, simple and "trivial" (quod vide).