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Members of trivia team "The Best Event Ever" brainstorm during trivia night At the Brick in Kansas City Mo., Friday night while host, Megan Metz读, regs off trivia questions.
TRIVIA TIPS FROM THOSE WHO
KNOW IT BEST
Play with a small group, say Andy Morton, host of Smackdown Trivia. If a team comes in with 12 people, from our standpoint that team is well and safe — will it many people to
s too many people to argue with."
Vary your expertise, Morton says. Don't bring your two roommates who also share your Star Tear obsession.
Question: What is trivia?
Answer: A better way to spend your time at bars.
Listen to NPR or watch CNN, listen to Pianolie, Olaf the senior, because there's usually a current events category.
If you're an expert in something, those skills that I know not embarrassed to admit I know my celebrity gossip!
says Laura Watkins, 2006 graduate; "I keep up on all of the online grssin blogs."
Don't take yourself too
Don't take yourself too seriously. "This one time, a team was trying to prove that a wrong answer they had given was right, and someone said No, that's right, I saw it on eBay!" Mattkins says. "Now people repeat that as a joke if
they answer wrong
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The host announced the final category, this day in history. Laura Watkins, 206, graduate took a swig of her Newcastle and decided with the three guys on her team to bet all of their points. They were far behind the other 11 teams playing at the Brick, St. Kilda Ski, in Skamia City, Mo. That friday night, and had no trouble
"On what show was John Lennon's death first announced?"
Watkins was worried. Under pressure her memory is horrible she says.
"Just from a time I randomly
gawked out in front of WH1 for
like, 20 hours. I remembered
that night," Walker says.
"Night Football." Walks says
Because of Watkins's ability to retain this uniquely useless piece of information, her team was the only one to answer the question correctly. They won first place.
Watkins is one of several dozen regular players in Lawnery. She plays almost every week in different bars
around town. Watkins says she enjoys triaity because she's naturally competitive and learns interesting random facts. But the main reason she plays is to spend time with her friends, she says.
So if you lose in Lawrence over spring break, avoid the usual get-drank and-standaround routine, and give trivia a try — you just might learn something useful.
What is trivia?
Trivia first took off in the United States in 1927, although the term wont been used in the 1960s. The publication of a series
of popular quell questions called Ask Me Another. fillowed with questions like "what is a Bunsen burner?" and "how do Kangaros carry their offspring?" got Americans hooked on squirting themselves. We then used a system similar to the one used on jeopardy! Teams select categories and answer questions for points. One team can challenge another team if they think the other team won't be able to come up with the answer. The team will win. The team receives double the points. If the team being challenged answers the questions correctly.
PLAY TRIVIA THIS WFFK
Cost SS
Wednesday, March 19
Live Action Pub Tivla Show at Conroy's Pub. 313 15 W.6th St.
Thursday. March 22
Smackdown! Trivia at the Bottleneck, 737 New
Hampshire St
Wednesday, March 19
Brainville Trivia Show at Johnny's Tavern, 410 N. 2nd St. C
they receive double the points.
Friday, March 23
Tritav Riot at the Brack, 1722
McGee St. Kansas City, Mo.
The points are also doubled in the second round, and at the end come a final question, for which teams know the category and answer. The teams are asked the question. The team with the most points wins.
Several bars around town host trivia nights. Andy Monton hosts what is araguably Lawrence's most popular trivial night, smackdown Trivia at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
"There are a lot of people that just remember the strangest things." Morton says. "Where else would you go?" Vomit up all of that knowledge.
Jon Nicklas, Overland Park senior and a regular navigator, says people that who are into trivia are usually relatively smart people who like to learn ecteic knowledge in handy during conversation.
"For some reason,I like knowing obscure facts."Nicklas says.
The best moments in trivia are when the answer hits you like a bolt of lightning, says Dan
Pierron, Olathe senior, who plays and hosts trivia regularly in Lawrence.
Some people might be naturally more inclined than others to soak up tuprival information, says Ray Hamel, a former tupriva writer for the New York Times and co-author of The New York Times Quiz Book. He says that the ability to recall trivia is a talent that to recall crisma are born with.
Perron's love of trivia began with Trial Prison when he was a kid. He participated in schoolbanks in high school and now plays in the movies, breaks the books, he usually doesn't miss an episode of leopardry he says.
"I've known people who try 'blunt force' memorization of facts." Hamm says. "Try people who don't have stuffing takes the fun out of it."
Both Hamel and Morton, the trivia host, have experience on the other side of the trivia asie as well; they have it to write it. Hamel says that most of the puzzles he writes begin with a basic theme and he then formulates questions related to that theme
Most of the questions come straight from his own trivial-filled memory. Hamel says, He then film himself, showing online looks in a thriller
Morton has to write 100 new questions each week for Smackdown Trivia, an event he has hosted for seven years. Do that math, he says. Sometimes it feels like a chance for Morton and his team to create the 12 categories and questions to fit them he says.
Morton says that sometimes he intentionally tries to iRk people with the categories he knows (for example) example? Full House questions
Trica is a creative effort; hosts come with categories like 'celebrity pedophiles' and 'famous cheater's and teamwhos named by the names like the "fibonacci" sequels and the "amazing Racists."
The winners of trivia usually earn a small cash prize, but they also walk out with enough tidbits of worthless information they have been obsessed with and several weeks worth of bragging rights.
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