Anyone else a trivia junkie?

Chi_archie · 04-09-09, 05:37 PM

I like it alot.... but mostly sports trivia../.

Mudcat · 04-09-09, 05:38 PM

I qualify as a trivia junkie.

Not only do I watch Jeopardy, I have qualified to be on the show 3 times.

The first two times I was eligible for a 1 year period but you just have to hope you get lucky and get the call. Didn't happen.

I am currently eligible again - I took the test and qualified again a few months back. I keep hoping for the big news. I guess it's always a longshot but I've done all I can.

It would be a bloody exciting experience if it ever happened. Plus I would kick butt.

Boner_18 · 04-09-09, 05:39 PM

Yes. I'm not much on pop culture. I also like the sciences.

Boner_18 · 04-09-09, 05:40 PM

Originally posted by Mudcat

I qualify as a trivia junkie.

Not only do I watch Jeopardy, I have qualified to be on the show 3 times.

The first two times I was eligible for a 1 year period but you just have to hope you get lucky and get the call. Didn't happen.

I am currently eligible again - I took the test and qualified again a few months back. I keep hoping for the big news. I guess it's always a longshot but I've done all I can.

It would be a bloody exciting experience if it ever happened. Plus I would kick butt.

That is awesome Mudder. You would think that as a Canadian you have a foot in the door. But, alas Alex doesn't select the contestants himself.

Mudcat · 04-09-09, 05:58 PM

Yeah I don't even have a clear idea of my odds. I guess they use about, what, 400 new contestants a year? 2 a day for about 200 days out of the year?? Maybe not even that many.

But I don't know how many qualifiers they are picking from. It used to be a more reasonable number when they only had in-person testing and you had to fight for spots in that.

But the way they do it now is an on-line test which anyone can take so there are probably much larger numbers.

pico · 04-09-09, 07:30 PM

i am a walking dictotionary of gambling related movies.

RogueScholar · 04-09-09, 08:17 PM

I'm a trivia junkie too. I have a season pass to Jeopardy on my TiVo and I never turn down an opportunity for Trivial Pursuit or a good bar trivia session. I'm stuck with all these facts in my head, I might as well dust them off every now and then.

Shortstop · 04-10-09, 02:24 AM

Trivia is cool, it may win you a lot of money one of these days. Knowledge is power.

Bread · 04-10-09, 07:01 AM

I like trivia. I like winning free drinks at that trivia game at the bars.

Chi_archie · 04-10-09, 07:03 AM

in 1977 the ROY of NBA, MLB, and NFL all had the initials A.D

who were they....

wait it miight have been 1978

Shortstop · 04-10-09, 07:09 AM

Dantley, Dawson and Dorsett.

Willie Bee · 04-10-09, 12:01 PM

Boner, is the bar game you play that NSN Trivia thingy? We used to play that all the time at the BW3 near Rice U in Houston, quite a kick in the pants. That game and ogling the bartender's backside were the only reasons we went to the place.

louisvillekid · 04-10-09, 01:18 PM

i've played that trivia thing at BW3's also, but i used to play the shit out of those little bar-top machines you play for a quarter at local taverns. I watch that cash cab show alot.

Willie Bee · 04-10-09, 01:46 PM

That BW3 location would give free shots to the bar when we finished tops in the nation. There were a couple of trivia kings there (no, I wasn't one of them) who would just shout out their answers all the time and the bar consistently finished in the Top 10 of bar rankings. Used to be an expensive day for us since there were several occasions my buddy and I would have to call a cab to take us from the Medical Center area of Houston out to the burbs when we were too sauced to drive ourselves.

Brock Landers · 04-10-09, 02:41 PM

Yes, and i will beat anyone out there who cares to challenege me, no bullshit, i am the best you have ever seen, outside of that one freak on jeopardy who never lost in like 3 months.

Boner_18 · 04-10-09, 02:45 PM

Yeah Willie I play on the NTN system. Ranked and all that jazz. It is really the only reason to go to the restaurant, the food and the service are terrible.

Brock Landers · 04-10-09, 02:48 PM

i got in the top 5 nationaly more than once playing NTN, and its no small task most of the time.

Tried out for college jeopardy in 94, didn't make the cut as the test is MUCH tougher than the real game.

Boner_18 · 04-10-09, 02:56 PM

Originally posted by Brock Landers

i got in the top 5 nationaly more than once playing NTN, and its no small task most of the time.

Tried out for college jeopardy in 94, didn't make the cut as the test is MUCH tougher than the real game.

Yeah that is damn good. There is usually 1-2 perfect scores in any given game. I've only made the top 20 in the nation once.