I like NTN trivia too. Unfortunately, the restaurant that has it around here usually isn’t very busy and there aren’t very many folks to compete against.
I have been playing NTN for a while. It’s a great way to entertain yourself in a bar. But me and the regulars at my NTN bar there have been playing for so long we kind of got tired of trying to win, and work as a team. We almost always get at least one individual top twenty for the game, and often a top 10 for the bar score. And the Bartender gives us free drinks for a bar top score.
I used to play all the time under the name MRMOJO (what a surprise, eh?). I had 7 perfect games, often got over 14,000 points, never, ever got less than 10,000, won 9 out of every 10 games I played, and finished in the top 50 so regularly that people would comment only when I didn’t make it.
Or I would, if I were any good at entertainment trivia. Ask me about isotopes of scandium? Fine. Minor characters in Wuthering Heights? Sure. The designers of the Hagia Sophia? No problem. 1930’s Yankees lineup? Child’s play. The name of Delta Burke’s character on Designing Women?