trivia cheats

The BEST trivia ever... complete the lyric/ name that tune. The cruise director had a whole bag of costume pieces. As he played through the song clips, he'd put on wigs, sunglasses, scarves, silly hats, etc.

When it was time to reveal the answers, we all had to stand up and sing along. There were 100 people fist-pumping, clapping, shaking their hips and having a good time as we shouted along.

There weren't any papers/pencils, and no winner... EVERYONE had fun.

On our Alaska cruise last year, they hosted "Sound of Music" trivia, as it was the anniversary of the movie.

 

Most of the players were fans of the movie, or had at least seen it several times (that's why they came, right?) but the host, a snotty assistant cruise director, had gotten all his questions from the 'pop ups' on the movie DVD. So, really obscure stuff like the cost of filming, the name of the town, etc. He said he'd "been forced to watch it" and that "he could barely stay awake to write the questions". No cheering, no laughter, it was like we were taking a math test.

 

We had expected to be asked to name the kids, list 'favorite things',sing along to song lyrics, name the Nuns, etc. I spoke to him afterward, and suggested that he swap with a crew member who had seen the movie, which would make the game more enjoyable for all.

 

Was the one and only complaint I've ever put in the feedback survey, over 15+ cruises.

With all due respect, you have made my point! Personally, I cannot imagine wasting the energy to ever complain about Trivia or any other game. DW and I would have enjoyed the challenge since it is likely that all the players were in the same boat (so to speak).

Hank

With all due respect, you have made my point! Personally, I cannot imagine wasting the energy to ever complain about Trivia or any other game. DW and I would have enjoyed the challenge since it is likely that all the players were in the same boat (so to speak).

 

Hank

I don't waste any energy on cruise ship trivia, I simply avoid it because of the contentious nature of some of the participants. The Learned League is much more fun without the drama.

I guess my question is, if the prizes are mostly cheap/old trinkets...why do you care if someone "cheats" to win them? Did you take the cruise to have a nice vacation or to "win" those trinkets? You can always get a $1.50 t-shirt for $10 in one of the shops to remind you of the cruise.

Because it's not the trinket that is the real prize. It is the buzz of knowing for that one brief moment of time that your team answered the most questions correctly, using just general knowledge and memory.

The cheats take that away from you. They are using "artificial aids" to win. It's the equivalent of athletes cheating by taking performance-enhancing drugs. ;)

Trivia (1),a nice relaxing way to while away a cpl hours in the vista lounge,with a book and a coffee,if you can stay awake.

Trivia (2) an interesting way to observe how pathetic and competitive some people are.Ramp up the comp for the cheaters i say,turn it into a full-blown contact trivia.

I was on the Celebrity Summit last year when the following took place:

1) A trivia host asked us for the first names of the four Golden Girls. Even though the names could have been found very easily through wikipedia, he managed to get one of the names wrong.

2) The same trivia host asked us to name the city in which a sitcom took place. Even though the name of the city could have been found very easily through wikipedia, again, he got the name of the city wrong.

3) Another trivia host asked us "which president of the United States did so-and-so" and he said that the president was Ben Franklin. Wikipedia could have told him that Ben Franklin was never a United States president.

In each case, none of the trivia participants agreed with the trivia hosts regarding the disputed answers.

On the Norwegian Gem, we were asked to name the long-legged insect that can walk on water. The trivia hostess said that she was provided with the answer "antelope," but she said that she didn't agree with it, and she said that everyone would get credit for a correct answer, no matter what they said.

After I got home, I searched for an insect with the word "antelope" in its name, and I couldn't find any.

Where do the hosts get their questions and answers from?

And why is it, when people say that Ben Franklin wasn't a U.S. president, or that one of the names of the Golden Girls is wrong, or the name of the city is wrong, others feel free to say that they're taking the game too seriously? Are we supposed to agree with the trivia hosts, no matter what they say?

I was on the Celebrity Summit last year when the following took place:

 

1) A trivia host asked us for the first names of the four Golden Girls. Even though the names could have been found very easily through wikipedia, he managed to get one of the names wrong.

 

2) The same trivia host asked us to name the city in which a sitcom took place. Even though the name of the city could have been found very easily through wikipedia, again, he got the name of the city wrong.

 

3) Another trivia host asked us "which president of the United States did so-and-so" and he said that the president was Ben Franklin. Wikipedia could have told him that Ben Franklin was never a United States president.

 

In each case, none of the trivia participants agreed with the trivia hosts regarding the disputed answers.

 

On the Norwegian Gem, we were asked to name the long-legged insect that can walk on water. The trivia hostess said that she was provided with the answer "antelope," but she said that she didn't agree with it, and she said that everyone would get credit for a correct answer, no matter what they said.

 

After I got home, I searched for an insect with the word "antelope" in its name, and I couldn't find any.

 

Where do the hosts get their questions and answers from?

 

And why is it, when people say that Ben Franklin wasn't a U.S. president, or that one of the names of the Golden Girls is wrong, or the name of the city is wrong, others feel free to say that they're taking the game too seriously? Are we supposed to agree with the trivia hosts, no matter what they say?

No, you can argue all you want, scream, rant, rave, write letters to the CEO, etc. And we might be sitting at the bar and laughing ourselves silly (tis really cheap entertainment to watch whiners). Perhaps you need to have legal counsel at those games who can threaten to file a lawsuit if they do not correct the answers.

Hank

No, you can argue all you want, scream, rant, rave, write letters to the CEO, etc. And we might be sitting at the bar and laughing ourselves silly (tis really cheap entertainment to watch whiners). Perhaps you need to have legal counsel at those games who can threaten to file a lawsuit if they do not correct the answers.

 

Hank

We are playing the game for fun. The people running the games are not trivia experts. Most are not from the US, but the questions are based on the US. Relax and have fun. If they have an answer wrong, so be it. Most of the time when they have one wrong, it is a question that everyone has right, so it does not make much difference

My admittedly-very small sample of cruise trivia contests (only done 3 cruises where I did the trivia) would lead me to believe Holland America organizes them better than Princess, and thus make them more enjoyable. Part of it may be due to the staff running it.

HAL also generates questions (and answers) from a computer database so the answer is set there. Didn't observe how the Princess staffers on a recent short cruise were getting the questions.

On my first HAL cruise, my wife and I won the trivia (travel theme, supposedly) by ourselves. Did quite well on the trans-Atlantic despite having leeches that didn't add anything. Prizes were just pins (have too many now).

I did notice on my last long cruise on HAL a couple of bar flies who would win many of the contests but my team, some frequent, some not, were winning quite well (our ad hoc team was doing 25%.) Since the CD was rather generous, we got drinks if the winning team was small, pins otherwise. So I (along with just 2 frequent cruisers/trivializers) won the last afternoon trivia where I got 2 of the tie round answers right (2nd dead on through a reasoned guess, not just closest) as well as the final late afternoon trivia.

Perhaps you need to have legal counsel at those games who can threaten to file a lawsuit if they do not correct the answers.

Scroll down to suitecruiser's post, and you will see that there was a trivia host who insisted that Donnie Osmond was the singer who dangled his baby over a railing.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?p=48079959&highlight=donnie+osmond#post48079959

If someone persisted in telling everyone that YOU endangered your baby, even though you strongly denied it, and kept telling everyone for weeks or months on end that you endangered your baby, would you consider consulting an attorney?

This is why I don't play trivia. Too many cheats and too many uptight people who get angry if the poor host gets something wrong. :rolleyes:

 

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Are we supposed to agree with the trivia hosts, no matter what they say?

Sadly, yes. That is Rule #1 when playing Trivia. I agree that it is frustrating when an "official" answer is clearly, and easily provably, wrong -- but if Rule #1 is not strictly adhered to, there will certainly be arguments from someone about EVERY answer.

Yes - it is frustrating -- but if you let it bother you, aren't YOU taking the game too seriously?

We look forward to playing trivia twice a day when we cruise. Because we have played so often, we do remember a lot of the answers. We wish that the Cruise Directors would get different questions from time to time -- it makes it much more often.

I ran a trivia game in a club years ago and have some great questions that are not too hard, not too easy, not too "out there" and I have given them to various CDs to be used after we leave the ship. Don't know if they use them or not.

Yes, it is frustrating when the host is wrong but the #1 rule HAS to be "The host is never wrong". Even when he/she is!

We look forward to playing trivia twice a day when we cruise. Because we have played so often, we do remember a lot of the answers. We wish that the Cruise Directors would get different questions from time to time -- it makes it much more often.

 

I ran a trivia game in a club years ago and have some great questions that are not too hard, not too easy, not too "out there" and I have given them to various CDs to be used after we leave the ship. Don't know if they use them or not.

 

Yes, it is frustrating when the host is wrong but the #1 rule HAS to be "The host is never wrong". Even when he/she is!

You are on a cruise ship with a wonderful ocean out there and you spend time inside playing trivia. I just do not get it.

DON

To those of you who insist that the #1 rule should be that the trivia host is correct, no matter what he claims is the truth, I would like to say that in that case, the dailies should tell passengers that the object of trivia contests is guessing what the trivia host thinks is the truth, so that when he claims, for example, that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers starred in the TV series "The Honeymooners," three quarters and two dimes add up to two dollars, Ben Franklin was a U.S. president, the four Golden Girls characters were Millie, Jennie, Barbara, and Sylvia, and that antelopes are insects, no one will disagree.

But I don't think that you would like it if he told everyone that you had been seen dangling your baby over the ship's railing when you hadn't done any such thing. And he persisted in telling this to various groups of people during the course of the cruise.

As for why people play trivia when there's a whole big ocean out there, well, dozens and dozens of people play during each cruise (at least, the cruises that I've been on), so there must be something about it that sounds more appealing to some people than staring out at the ocean for hours at a time.

If you do not want to accept the answers the host has, how would you administer the game? I don't like it either when they give the wrong answer, but they do what they can.

You are on a cruise ship with a wonderful ocean out there and you spend time inside playing trivia. I just do not get it.

 

DON

That's okay -- you don't have to get it. But how many hours a day do you spend looking at that ocean? Trivia games take less than half an hour and there is a chance to meet some very nice people. In fact, we have made some good friends after being on a team with them.

You are on a cruise ship with a wonderful ocean out there and you spend time inside playing trivia. I just do not get it.

 

DON

Do you ever do anything other than stare at the Ocean,my love watching the Ocean but do other things too.

Alomost never go to a show, never go to the casino, never play Bingo,mot each their own is my motto.

To those of you who insist that the #1 rule should be that the trivia host is correct, no matter what he claims is the truth, I would like to say that in that case, the dailies should tell passengers that the object of trivia contests is guessing what the trivia host thinks is the truth, so that when he claims, for example, that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers starred in the TV series "The Honeymooners," three quarters and two dimes add up to two dollars, Ben Franklin was a U.S. president, the four Golden Girls characters were Millie, Jennie, Barbara, and Sylvia, and that antelopes are insects, no one will disagree.

 

But I don't think that you would like it if he told everyone that you had been seen dangling your baby over the ship's railing when you hadn't done any such thing. And he persisted in telling this to various groups of people during the course of the cruise.

 

As for why people play trivia when there's a whole big ocean out there, well, dozens and dozens of people play during each cruise (at least, the cruises that I've been on), so there must be something about it that sounds more appealing to some people than staring out at the ocean for hours at a time.

Yep when they're wrong they're wrong. And when they go into different areas and don't adjust the answers for a different clientele,nor a nation where the answer may just be different it is frustrating.

A great example

Question

How many wheels in a semi trailer.

Now the American answer is 18 (18 wheeler).

But

In Australia you seldom see 18 wheelers, the "Norm"'is 22. So what's the right answer, keep hearing here on CC "When in Rome".

Because it's not the trinket that is the real prize. It is the buzz of knowing for that one brief moment of time that your team answered the most questions correctly, using just general knowledge and memory.

 

The cheats take that away from you. They are using "artificial aids" to win. It's the equivalent of athletes cheating by taking performance-enhancing drugs. ;)

Somehow, I don't think you can compare losing out on a $.05 trinket made in a Chinese sweatshop due to Trivia cheaters to losing out by .04 of a second on an Olympic bronze medal due to a drug-enhanced Russian…

Some people just take their fun too far. They MUST win. Just feel sorry for them.

Somehow, I don't think you can compare losing out on a $.05 trinket made in a Chinese sweatshop due to Trivia cheaters to losing out by .04 of a second on an Olympic bronze medal due to a drug-enhanced Russian…

Yes, but people do not train for years to play trivia - Oh wait a minute...:rolleyes:

We play on occasion for fun. I particularly enjoy hearing the correct answers to some of the more far-fetched questions and if someone got the answer right because (s)he "cheated", so what? I'm not going to loose any sleep over not winning the lanyard or key chain!

Somehow, I don't think you can compare losing out on a $.05 trinket made in a Chinese sweatshop due to Trivia cheaters to losing out by .04 of a second on an Olympic bronze medal due to a drug-enhanced Russian…

 

Some people just take their fun too far. They MUST win. Just feel sorry for them.

Oh no. You can compare the two things.

Shewt, you can compare apples to Orange amplifiers. After comparing them, you stand there and say 'Wow, they are not the same thing. Amazing."

Oh no. You can compare the two things.

Shewt, you can compare apples to Orange amplifiers. After comparing them, you stand there and say 'Wow, they are not the same thing. Amazing."

This made me smile… I fell into my own "can" trap…

This made me smile… I fell into my own "can" trap…

Hah! :)