Before Wilson Casey became the “Triv Guy” for the Coeur d’Alene Press, someone else held that honor 78 years ago.

Who, exactly, we couldn’t determine. Maybe it was, like Wilson’s, a syndicated feature that the newspaper subscribed to.

Yet the timelessness of something as trivial as trivia made an impression.

Here’s how the front page of the April 15, 1942, Coeur d’Alene Press quizzed readers providing the answers on that day’s Editorial Page.

We leave it for you to decide which trivia feature, back then or now, is more fun.