20 posts · 468 views · started 2016-07-22 14:43 UTC
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-22 14:43 UTC
#1
I typically hate trivia, but I have been obsessed with the idea of writing trivia questions entirely from my existing knowledge (ie without research) (except to check that they're right). Here's the second day of my 5 Days Of Trivia - without googling or checking the comments, answer as many of these as you can. No cheating!
I genuinely tried to put as much sports in as I could. I do not know much of the sports.
Sports & Leisure: 1) What is the nickname for the Australian national soccer team? 2) What is field hockey called in Australia? 3) Who is (widely considered) to be Australia's greatest batsman? 4) Combine dodgem cars, a basketball court, lacrosse scoops, and a wiffleball and you'll get which sport? 5) Which famous piece of Harry Potter fanfiction analyses the faults of Quidditch? 6) In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, who brought tennis into existence from an alternate dimension? 7) I spend hours in the garden. I walk alone to the store. And it's quiet uptown. I never liked the: 8) Rubik's Cube and Codenames have both won which award? 9) Name three games which have achieved #1 in the BoardGameGeek rankings. 10) Who voiced Abe in Abe's Oddysee and its various sequels?
Days One and Two: https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/peters-trivia-day-one-and-two-9165
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Ario
2016-07-22 14:55 UTC
#2
Peter, you've stumped me again:
7. Quiet before.
9. Pandemic Legacy Season 1, Puerto Rico, Twilight Struggle
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Matchstickman
2016-07-22 14:57 UTC
#3
Weeee!
RICHARD'S TRIVIA, I know the answer to one of them!
Chuck Goodrich. And don't you dare say that's a zero there Peter
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Trajector
2016-07-22 15:10 UTC
#4
Jai alai?
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grysqrl
2016-07-22 15:17 UTC
#5
4 is Whirleyball
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-22 15:24 UTC
#6
@Ario: 2/10!
@Matchstickman: 1/10!
@Grysqrl: 1/10!
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Pydro
2016-07-22 15:37 UTC
#7
And there’s a place in Chicago to play!
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-22 15:38 UTC
#8
@Trajector: 0/10 :(
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Donner
2016-07-22 15:55 UTC
#9
5) Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-22 16:05 UTC
#10
@Donner: 1/10!
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Trajector
2016-07-22 17:54 UTC
#11
At least this time I tried, instead of being facetious!
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jffdougan
2016-07-22 18:04 UTC
#12
I can only take stabs at 8 and 9:
8 is a Mensa award.
9 includes (but isn't limited to) Puerto Rico, Agricola, Twilight Struggle, and Pandemic Legacy: Season 1.
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padcurtin
2016-07-22 18:51 UTC
#13
The Australian soccer team is the Socceroos
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-22 19:06 UTC
#14
@jffdougan: 1/10!
@padcurtin: 1/10!
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Lord_Flash_Fire
2016-07-23 03:38 UTC
#15
Sports & Leisure: 1) Hockeyroos, oh wait soccer. Socceroos. Not very creative, if you ask me. 2) idk 3) idk 4) idk 5) Methods of Rationality 6) idk 7) Quiet before 8) idk 9) Agricola, Tigris&Euphrates, Pandemic Legacy Season I 10) idk
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-23 04:04 UTC
#16
@Lord Flash Fire: 4/10!
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Ameena
2016-07-23 08:46 UTC
#17
Okay, I've not looked at anyone else's answers to any of the questions (I just scrolled past them without looking)...this forum doesn't have spoiler tags, does it? That would make it easier. Anyway, I know a grand total of two of the answers - the fifth is "Quidditch Through the Ages" and the tenth is Lorne Lanning, who also voiced Munch :).
No idea on any of the othes, but they seem to be mainly sport-themed...I've never even heard of a wiffleball but it sounds pretty silly :D.
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PeterCHayward
2016-07-23 09:03 UTC
#18
@Ameena: 1/10!
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Matchstickman
2016-07-23 09:59 UTC
#19
You can use my spoiler tags Ameena!
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Ameena
2016-07-24 09:03 UTC
#20
I was looking at that thinking "Huh? How did I get either of those wrong?"...then I re-read the two questions I answered and realised it says "Harry Potter fan-fiction", lol, oops. Well, at least I got one right :P.