# Wanna Play a Trivia Tournament? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756 "2006-06-22T19:32:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/41 "2006-06-27T23:07:12Z")
Woo! A different quiz today and I got all ten right and moved into third place! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/42 "2006-06-28T01:05:44Z")
10/10 in 95 seconds, putting me in fifth place! Forty-five of those seconds were waiting for the page to load or submit, though. Stupid dial-up. I want a handicap! Woohoo! I feel smart! ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/43 "2006-06-28T05:28:19Z")
Stop asking me questions about candy and cartoons from before I was born, dammit ☹ ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/44 "2006-06-28T12:41:30Z")
10/10 - 939 - 61sec Jeez **Priceguy** , hou must be a fast reader - 10/10 in 38 seconds! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/45 "2006-06-29T11:07:33Z")
A new day dawns and I am the man to beat (at least for the moment). 10/10 in 52 seconds 948 points ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/46 "2006-06-29T11:11:09Z")
[QUOTE=antechinus] 10/10 - 939 - 61sec Jeez **Priceguy** , hou must be a fast reader - 10/10 in 38 seconds! [/QUOTE] I am, but it doesn’t help when you don’t know the answers. Damn, **astorian** is dominating. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/47 "2006-06-29T13:33:08Z")
Indeed. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/48 "2006-06-29T14:56:59Z")
I got eight out of ten today, 734 points. Posied to take it all tomorrow!!! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/49 "2006-06-29T23:21:11Z")
I think I’m doing pretty good. Third place overall, and I haven’t actualyl won a single day, and today I sucked ass with only seven right. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/50 "2006-06-30T15:33:24Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I got eight out of ten today, 734 points. Posied to take it all tomorrow!!! [/QUOTE] 8/10 again today but 725 for taking longer. Oh, I guess I should have been **poised** to take it all! :o ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/51 "2006-06-30T15:43:52Z")
Wooooo! I’m number one! I’m number one! Probably not for long, but I just had to gloat a little. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/52 "2006-06-30T16:19:16Z")
Given the number of questions today that I had no idea whatsoever on, I should be happy with my placement. On the other hand, I don’t like answering trivia questions that I have no hope of figuring out the right answer, so it doesn’t encourage me to keep competing. but, we’ll see. I think it was yesterday that I got them all right, though I wasn’t at the top of the standings even then. (How some people can read all the questions in the allotted time is beyond me.) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/53 "2006-06-30T20:09:32Z")
Damn, another day of ass sucking. 8/10 right, though the first one I got wrong because I read it too fast and thought it was asking what food _isn’t_ good for a baby to eat, and I saw hard candy and checked that before reading any other answers. Turns the question was asking what food _is_ good for them to eat. Damn. And I missed a Lord of the Rings question. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/54 "2006-07-01T02:44:43Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] I am, but it doesn’t help when you don’t know the answers. Damn, **astorian** is dominating. [/QUOTE] Dominating? Nah! I’m pretty good at trivia (no false modesty here), but I’ve also had some luck. In most games, I know 8 or 9 of them… and have no clue at all on the other 1 or 2 (say, when the question revolves around some cult author I’ve barely even heard of). When that happens, I guess blindly. Sometimes, I get lucky and end up with a 10. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/55 "2006-07-01T15:30:12Z")
No game today? Why does it list four people as having played? ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/56 "2006-07-01T18:25:47Z")
I dunno, it surprises me that it let people play on the weekend when I had set it up for M-F only. How about if I change it to run all 7 days? The Cumulative Scores reset each month, remember. Oh, and just so you know, it’s on “Daily Mixed Bag - Intermediate”. Not “Easy”. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/57 "2006-07-01T19:10:15Z")
Man alive, I sucked today. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/58 "2006-07-01T20:48:17Z")
> [@](#): > > I dunno, it surprises me that it let people play on the weekend when I had set it up for M-F only. How about if I change it to run all 7 days? I don’t think the game stops and startsover at midnight, the game switchover is earlier. So I think when it started a new game it was still Friday, so it let us play untill actual midnight. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/59 "2006-07-01T23:23:56Z")
I just took the quiz. 9/10, 51 seconds, score of 849. Fifth place baby! Stupid geography questions, anyway. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/60 "2006-07-02T15:35:34Z")
Ack! I was out yesterday and missed the trivia, and today I got about 4 music and motorsport questions. DEATH ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756.md?page=4)