Winning isn't everything...
Dec. 26th, 2008 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thoreauWinning isn't everything, particularly where Trivial Pursuit is concerned. This afternoon we played a nice game of Trivial Pursuit (Genus IV) with the Michaels and Paully. Here's a clue folks don't play Trivial Pursuit with a librarian, a math genius, a hardware store manager with a photographic memory and a seasoned game player with a sharp mind. Why? because you lose. You lose horribly!
Oh the carnage!
I spent an hour trying to get a goddamned history question right. I kept receiving these esoteric questions like "on this date in 1329 Saint Agnatious Fidgypot predicted this world event" - and I'd not have any idea - and everyone at the table would roll their eyes and say "Of course it was hugeamaflippywadgymot - I mean, come on Bob! HUGEAMAFLIPPYWADGYMOT how could you NOT know that?!"
All this going on for me personally while everyone around me scored pie after pie - sweeping by me with multiple rolls.
I swear of one David's turns lasted 45 minutes.
How many out of ten Britons bought a lottery ticket on January 4, 1973 on the 65 Million Dollar lottery?
Nine
correct. roll again.
How many licks to the center of the blowpop?
we may never know.
correct. roll again.
the useless, unbelievable storage vaults of information the four of them had stored in their heads was staggering!
What election year saw bumper stickers reading "Wallace, Wallace, Uber Alles"?
1968.
correct. roll again.
at one point I strolled into the Castro - got a manicure, a gin and tonic - and returned.
It was still David's turn.
What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?
A net.
correct. roll again.
David clearly established his trivial pursuit superiority today - but the Vicodin'd post-appendicitis patient Michael Golden won in the end - on a sports question no less.
Was Bob glad the game was over?
yes.
correct. roll again...
Oh the carnage!
I spent an hour trying to get a goddamned history question right. I kept receiving these esoteric questions like "on this date in 1329 Saint Agnatious Fidgypot predicted this world event" - and I'd not have any idea - and everyone at the table would roll their eyes and say "Of course it was hugeamaflippywadgymot - I mean, come on Bob! HUGEAMAFLIPPYWADGYMOT how could you NOT know that?!"
All this going on for me personally while everyone around me scored pie after pie - sweeping by me with multiple rolls.
I swear of one David's turns lasted 45 minutes.
How many out of ten Britons bought a lottery ticket on January 4, 1973 on the 65 Million Dollar lottery?
Nine
correct. roll again.
How many licks to the center of the blowpop?
we may never know.
correct. roll again.
the useless, unbelievable storage vaults of information the four of them had stored in their heads was staggering!
What election year saw bumper stickers reading "Wallace, Wallace, Uber Alles"?
1968.
correct. roll again.
at one point I strolled into the Castro - got a manicure, a gin and tonic - and returned.
It was still David's turn.
What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?
A net.
correct. roll again.
David clearly established his trivial pursuit superiority today - but the Vicodin'd post-appendicitis patient Michael Golden won in the end - on a sports question no less.
Was Bob glad the game was over?
yes.
correct. roll again...
