Trivia

Last night Sweet Hubby and I did something I've wanted to do for a long time; something I thought would be loads of fun.  We attended Trivia Night at a local pub.

There were lots of people there, making up about 13 teams.  We were the only team of two.  A couple were as big as 8 or 9 people, so we were up against a lot of heads being put together.  And the questions, oh my lord.  They were so much tougher than I had imagined.  

There were 6 categories of 9 or 10 questions each, and although SH and I got at least a couple right in each category, we basically sucked scissors.  The first category, for example, consisted of questions about Agustus Gloop, one of the child characters in the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and the 1971 film "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory".  I've never read the book and haven't seen the movie in several decades (I didn't bother with the Johnny Depp remake).  I was useless on every single question.  Thank goodness SH was able to pull a few out of the deep recesses of his memory.

There was a category all about the number 13, one asking that we identify by their Italian names 9 kinds of pasts based on faint photos, one about heavy metal, both music and earth metals.  I don't remember the other categories.

It was humiliating. Certainly we were there for a good time and managed to get into the spirit of the game.  But both of us pride ourselves on being super-smart, so this demonstration of how much we don't know about an awful lot of subjects was humbling, to say the least.  It got me thinking that there really are only a few subject about which I would feel completely confident, and none of those were included in this particular game.

I was also reminded that I find crowded, noisy rooms to be rather tiring.  If the game had lasted only, say, an hour and a half I would probably have been all right, but this one went on for two and a half, and there was a lot of talking and laughing throughout.  I'm glad we went, but gladder to come back home to our quiet house and kitties.