Up For Another Quiz?

Jack Flash · Mar 3, 2016

Sometimes I buy a newspaper and read through it at breakfast. I often do the puzzles and quizzes. One I usually have problems with is Isaac Asimov's Super Quiz. A lot of the answers are just trivia about movies or "literature" (like Harry Potter) which I don't know anything about (nor will I ever). The thing is, if you miss too many, the rating you get is downright insulting.

So for once, I aced one. Trust me, I'm not bragging, this is very rare. I thought Forum Members who grew up in the '50s might want to try their hand at it.
Super Quiz | Seattle Times Newspaper

SW MP15 · Mar 3, 2016

Quizzes make my brain hurt!

BearBio · Mar 3, 2016

Got one hundred per cent!

deadin · Mar 3, 2016

I thought it was Joe Dimaggio...I guess he was earlier..

The rest were easy

Alpo · Mar 3, 2016

Same as deadin. Picked the wrong husband.

BigBill · Mar 3, 2016

Up for another quiz? No not really. But I will it was fun. Thanks. It's too early to think. It's JAC. Just after coffee, the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet. I'm up early today. Not my usual time.

Salty RI · Mar 3, 2016

BearBio said:
Got one hundred per cent!

You didn't say wrong or right.

Doug627 · Mar 3, 2016

What deadin said.

loknload · Mar 3, 2016

Did it,,,,100%

johnnyflake · Mar 3, 2016

Oh well, I though it was Joe as well. Got that one wrong! Got the rest right!

rwsmith · Mar 3, 2016

I like meaty trivia....

History, Art, Literature, Science, Old cinema/TV, Famous People, Religion, Geography, Language. Untrivial trivia.

But NOT SPROTS.

I used to play 'trivia online, I was always in the top and none of us liked sprots questions. The key is to quickly scan the question enough to know if it's a subject you should know about, click in, then decipher exactly what the question is asking for because time usually counts.

My wife and I compliment each other very well. Both of us know what the other one doesn't and we know who knows what best. We make a great team. Unfortunately, I don't play anymore because more than a few times we have been accused of cheating. One time a group expressed surprise that my wife was so knowledgeable because she was a southern school teacher. (slow burn) One thing that attracted me to her was that she's smart.

Look, I'm not real good at sports, or doing math in my head, my wife is better on English/grammar, Royalty, old movies etc. I don't know why being very good at a dang game of recall is any different than being a really good athlete, or mathematician, or car mechanic, or airplane pilot, or fisherman. Most people are good at at least ONE thing and you have zero control over what that is.

Alpo · Mar 3, 2016

Ahh. Trivia.

Remember when Trivial Pursuit first came out? The brother-in-law of a friend of mine had one, and they were playing one night.

Now, as I recall the rules (and it's been a while), there are colored squares. Each question card has several different questions, and each question has a color. So if you land on a red square, they pull the next card and read you the red question.

But when you make it to the winner's circle, you have to answer ONE MORE QUESTION to win, and while they again pull a card, they can, themselves, chose which question to ask you.

So Keith is at the winner's circle, and his brother-in-law pulls up a card, and his sister looks over her husband's shoulder, points, and says, "Ask him that one. He SUCKS at geography."

So they ask the question - Where is Ulan Batar?

Keith says, "That's the capital of Outer Mongolia."

He was right. And they are in shock. "How in the world did you know that?"

Keith was a huge fan of pro wrestling.

"That's where the Mongolian Stomper comes from."

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