Trivia night

[eve_prime]

J kindly joined me for our company’s team at trivia night, at the Drop Bear Brewery. He hasn’t enjoyed it much in the past, because very few of the topics are related to his interests, but tonight we got to contribute. I knew all the answers for the category on Iran, and we both knew them for the category on the chemical elements whose names don’t match their standard abbreviations. After three rounds, our team of 10 was in the lead! We didn’t do so well on the category with photos of artists, and J and I had nothing at all to contribute to the music round, but the other members did okay, and we finished in third place. Since we had more than eight (or is it six?) players, we just won bragging rights, and the fourth place team got whatever our prize would have been.

Comments

[heleninwales]

G and I always try to answer the questions if we're watching a quiz show on the TV, but I've only taken part in a quiz as part of a team once or twice. My problem is I'm useless at sport questions or anything to do with popular music or celebrities. Usually, the more esoteric the subject, the better I do.

[eve_prime]

We were fortunate in that there were zero sports questions last night - I don't think anyone on our team would have known those. I'm best at the relatively esoteric ones, especially relatively esoteric and classic questions that someone would also have been asked 40 years ago. As we were driving there, J pointed out that he only knows things related to his very specific interests (older science fiction and fantasy books, video games, math, some types of science, and AI), but he did relatively well last night.

[claidheamhmor]

Nice going!

[eve_prime]

Thanks! It was fun!

[kaishin108]

How Fun! It does help when the topics match things you know about.

[eve_prime]

It certainly does!