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Score Sheet
Fill this in with team names and scores. Better yet, recreate it in Excel and have it do the math for you.
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Preface
We’ve asked questions about religion to a room full of priests and nuns.
We’ve asked NBA stars about their own accomplishments and NBA franchises about their own origins. (Both got the questions wrong.) We’ve asked Olympic gold medalists about their moments and Superbowl champions about football.
We’ve asked architects about astronomical calculations and subway employees about art.
We’ve stumped doctors with medical questions and unwittingly asked the head of a government agency about his own organization. Like everyone else, we’ve asked meteorologists about the weather.
We have asked Crayola about crayon colors and Parker Brothers about tiny metal dogs. We have stumped Jeopardy champions and had players spin the Wheel of Fortune. We have corrected the National Archives.
We’ve facilitated engagements, married couples, and…we have celebrated life. But we have yet to ask you a question.
City Trivia…what can we ask you?
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Opening Script
The opening script is how you can welcome everyone into the bar, pub, your home, or other venue for your trivia night. We have provided you a tongue in cheek example that you can use if you need one. Once you become comfortable with the main concepts, don’t be afraid to change it up and add your own personal touch.
Hello and welcome to trivia night at NAME OF VENUE every DAY OF WEEK at TIME OF EVENT.
My name is YOUR NAME and I will be your host for the evening.
We have three rules that you must follow tonight.
Rule #1: No shouting out answers. Real or fake, don’t do it. Everybody is trying to show off what they know and shouting out answers makes people unhappy. Including me…and I run the scoring. Making me unhappy is a bad idea.
Rule #2: No cheating. No googling answers, no phoning your friends. If you all had any friends they should be here by now. We want to know what you know, not how fast you can work your smart phone.
Rule #3: This is my game. That means I make the rules. I am not looking for the correct answer to the question, I am looking for the answer that is written down on my answer sheet. Luckily, those are usually one in the same.
So without further ado… Round One, Question One…
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Game one
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
—Bertrand Russell
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Round One
Q8 Aldebaran is known as the Red Star. Which is funny because it is actually classified as an Orange Giant Star. This debunks the myth that the guys at NASA are smart.
Which common beverage is nicknamed “moo juice”?
Which international holiday promotes the planting of trees?
In which country are the D-Day beaches located?
Which siblings debuted as directors with the 1984 movie Blood Simple?
Which city in Thailand is nicknamed “The City of Angels”?
Until their falling-out in 2011, which role did New Zealander Steve Williams perform for Tiger Woods?
The name of which citrus fruit comes from the Cantonese for “golden orange”?
In which constellation does the star Aldebaran (al-deb-brr-en) mark the “red eye”?
In which hobby does someone use the technique “intarsia” (in-tahr-see-uh)?
The movies of which comedy act share names with two albums by the rock group Queen?
Bonus Question Which U.S. president was the only person named TIME magazine’s “Man of the Year” three times?
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Q6 Being a caddy for Tiger Woods in his prime seems like an easy job. The kind of job that I would be good at.
Hey Nick, can you hand me that 7-iron?
Absolutely Tiger, you sure you don’t want the 8?
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