# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/81 "2006-07-22T16:02:21Z")
Damn my lack of Three Dog Night knowledge! Well, getting the question wrong is still better than having to actually listen to the music, though. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/82 "2006-07-25T19:47:10Z")
So I have a question regarding this trivia: Does the list of questions generate indivudually for each person, or is it set for the entire group per day? It seems like a given doper will complain about a particular question (today there’s **fessie** griping about Kenny Chesney lyrics), but today I received no questions about Kenny Chesney, or music lyrics of any artist. It doesn’t seem like a fair competition of trivial knowledge if we’re not all having the SAME trivial knowledge tested. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/83 "2006-07-25T21:27:13Z")
Just signed up and played my first quiz…a little ridiculous, frankly. Most of the questions were gimmes, and the only ones I got wrong were some Bible thing and > [@funtrivia](#): > > 1. 1,500 people a year die due to a right given to us by the second amendment to the United States Constitution. The seventh most common cause of accidental death is: > > Your answer: Shootings > > The correct answer was All of these > > Of the 1,500 accidental deaths attributed to firearms in the United States every year, 75% are young males between the ages of 14 and 25. > > 76% of FunTrivia players have answered this question correctly in the past. > Question by player ClaudiaFerguson. (play this quiz!) (report correction) :rolleyes: The answers available were “Guns”, “Firearms”, “Shootings” and “All of these”. Holy crap. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/84 "2006-07-25T21:30:00Z")
Sorry to double post, but apparently I can’t report the question because I’m not logged in. :rolleyes: Even though I just logged in a second ago, I just submitted a quiz and got a score, and I haven’t cleared my cookies. Now when I go to the main page it says I’m not logged in and when I try to log in with the password I just set up a second ago it says I’m using the wrong password. Eff dis, mang. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/85 "2006-07-25T22:01:43Z")
**Fetus** ’ trials with an awful trick question confirms it. Everybody gets a different set of questions every day. Is there any way to make it so that everybody in your tournament gets the same questions? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/86 "2006-07-25T22:07:07Z")
726, 8/10. Woot. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/87 "2006-07-25T22:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] Is there any way to make it so that everybody in your tournament gets the same questions? [/QUOTE] Agreed. I don’t have any problem with the “Mixed Bag” category, but it’s disappointing that we’re not competing based on the same questions. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/88 "2006-07-26T00:11:09Z")
“Daily Mixed Bag” does seem to draw from a really large group of available questions. I don’t have any control over that; I just chose that category b/c it’s one of the defaults, is widely used, and doesn’t give anyone a particular advantage. My girlfriends have been playing using specific key words for a couple of months now; I doubt you’d want their questions though (today’s was “The Wiggles”, which I tanked). But it does seem like we’re drawing from a smaller pool - say, 15-25 questions total. We don’t exactly compare quizzes, since that would give the questions away for contestants who haven’t yet played. Us mom’s are pretty competitive about it! Anyway, that’s why I thought a few key words would be the way to go for next month’s tournament. Going by Cecil’s column (or comments thereof) is the most random way of selecting the topic. If I went to Cafe Society, it’d be LOTR half the time & I can’t abide those movies! ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/89 "2006-07-26T22:59:59Z")
Damn…I got smoked both days I played so far (7 of out of 10). I need to either watch more TV or become a better guesser. ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/90 "2006-07-27T00:09:47Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] (xposted in Cafe Society, crossing my fingers that this is “legal”, but I mostly hang out here & wanted to mention it to posters in this forum) [/QUOTE] Took me 47 seconds to get all 10 right. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/91 "2006-07-27T20:24:43Z")
Oddly, today I got a repeat question that I had gotten three or four days ago. Spoiler if you really don’t want to see a trivia question before it pops up in your own quiz. [spoiler]Bruce Willis used to be married to: a) Demi Moore b) Roger Moore c) Michael Moore d) Dinty Moore Beef Stew (The three names that are not the right name are ones I just made up to put in there.)[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/92 "2006-07-28T13:27:33Z")
As my user name might suggest - I took a long time. But did score 100%. I’m the slowest perfect score, which as of this moment makes me sixth. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/93 "2006-07-28T13:38:15Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] Oddly, today I got a repeat question that I had gotten three or four days ago. [/QUOTE] I’ve been doing the global, regional and hourly trivia tournaments, and I’ve seen a LOT of questions at least twice. Each time, it gets easier to spend only a second or three answering. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/94 "2006-07-28T18:46:48Z")
Here’s something interesting I’ve been wondering about — if you look at the “Worldwide Standings”, you’ll see that the SDMB tournament was #46 in terms of popularity yesterday, with 34 players and an average score of 750. “Horn Fans” is #1 with 75 players and an average score of 728. Comparing the 47 tournaments in the Top 100 who used Daily Mixed Bag questions, the 34 SDMB players had the 3rd highest average score! Only Jay’s Challenge and Bobby’s Trivia fared better, with 791 and 777, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/95 "2006-07-28T18:51:44Z")
Most days, we’re either tops for average score or in the top 3-4. Ignorance done got fought and beat for many of us:D ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/96 "2006-07-28T20:57:27Z")
Perfect 10/10 in 57 seconds even though I had to guess a lot! Yay for guessing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/97 "2006-07-28T21:52:54Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] Spoiler if you really don’t want to see a trivia question before it pops up in your own quiz. [spoiler]Bruce Willis used to be married to: a) Demi Moore b) Roger Moore c) Michael Moore d) Dinty Moore Beef Stew (The three names that are not the right name are ones I just made up to put in there.)[/spoiler] [/QUOTE] Well, this proves that the players aren’t competing with the same batch of questions each day. Today I was on my way to a perfect “10” when yet another genre fiction question tripped me up. Damn you detective novels! Damn you all to hell! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/98 "2006-07-29T02:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Vader’s Little Pal] Today I was on my way to a perfect “10” when yet another genre fiction question tripped me up. Damn you detective novels! Damn you all to hell! [/QUOTE] Ooh. Or, just as fun, “Here’s an easy one: Which Borgfrellbridge was the first to conquer Bravfrenging? A) Froghred B) Neighmord C) Screwmnard D) Plogfragm.” “Here’s an easy one,” unless it comes from the “For Children” folder (and even then–Pokemon, I’m looking at you–it’s no guarantee), generally begins questions about genre crap I have no business knowing otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/99 "2006-07-29T09:53:59Z")
Yeah, I keep getting those, too. Haven’t guessed right on a one of them. Tuesday, right? It’s Tuesday that’s the 1st? I’ll reset this sucker on Monday and we’ll see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756/100 "2006-07-29T12:08:43Z")
[QUOTE=iampunha] C) Screwmnard [/QUOTE] [Beavis and Butthead] Heh heh. You said “screw my nard.” Heh heh heh. [/Beavis and Butthead] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-a-trivia-tournament/361756.md?page=6)