I've been going to trivia night at a pub occasionally. It's pretty fun, but it makes me feel fairly useless - that I don't know enough useless knowledge. And it makes me feel like a Philistine. Current events? I am useless. History? Useless. Art and literature? I can sometimes get the more pop culturey questions. Music? Useless. Recognizing famous people on photographs? Somewhat okay. I'll be happy if I can contribute like more than five answers per night and I am quite pleased when I do get a more academic type trivia question.
I should learn my presidents. Every trivia night there's like one or two questions pertaining to presidents. Like... who was the first president to have an assassination attempt made on him? The following are some questions I was able to answer this week. From what state was the winner of Miss America? In what movie is Dr. Cockroach in? What instrument does Jamie Foxx's character play in the Soloist? See the kind of questions I can answer? Haha. I can sometimes get sports related current events, as I pay more attention to sports than the people I usually go with. I am by no means a fountain of sports knowledge though. I wish there was less downtime in between rounds, because sometimes it feels like the waiting goes on foreeeever. The prize is fairly worthless: six bottles of beer. Teams are capped at six people.
Answers:
Andrew Jackson, the seventh President
North Carolina
Monsters vs. Aliens
Cello
2 comments:
i always want to go to trivia night but FEAR the competition. some of my classmates are so into it that they have set teams where each team member covers a crucial area of useless knowledge. like one guy is "civil war battles, 80s-90s music, and classic tv". and they have like a jr-varsity line up in case one member can't make it. HOW CAN I COMPETE WITH THESE FIENDS?
Haha wow. That sounds pretty intense. We just go for fun and we do alright -- not unusual to rank in the top 5 teams.
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