Does anyone else NOT like Trivia?

[Julie MacCoy]

You didn't say if the questions from the book had crazy answers or factual answers.  So I still don't know who is responsible for crazy answers, and I still don't know why the trivia hosts are so opposed to hearing that the answers they supply are incorrect.  

 

I mentioned having "learned" that Benjamin Franklin was President of the United States.  The question we were asked was "Which president of the United States is on the $100 bill?"  We were told that the answer was Benjamin Franklin, and upon hearing a chorus of "he was not a president," the trivia host got very angry.  When I told him that in the future, he should just ask "Who is on the $100 bill?", for some reason, that just made him angrier.  I don't know why.

[hallux]

I don't recall exactly, it was a year ago.  I was just saying that they had a book, might have actually been a binder of printed pages, that they pulled the questions and answers from.  There may have been some challenges, with the host confirming the challenge and correcting the book.

[AdoraBelle]

I've only popped into one onboard trivia game, and there were people gaming the system (one giant group as a team, for example). Obviously a team of eight people will possess more trivial knowledge than a team of two people. So, meh.

[Velvetwater]

 

Love Trivia and if people do not then it's easier to get a seat 🙂

 

We tend to do quite well on occasion especially on our last cruise. We just kept winning to the point a rather loud lady shouted 'bloody teacher pommies always winning!' on the last trivia of the cruise.

 

Context: We were on a P&O Oz ship surrounded by Aussies and due to various social activities and chatwe were the known teachers from the UK.

 

Good times.

Edited March 28, 2019 by Velvetwater

[Velvetwater]

duplicate post.

Edited March 28, 2019 by Velvetwater
duplicate post.

[ldubs]

3 hours ago, Julie MacCoy said:

When I told him that in the future, he should just ask "Who is on the $100 bill?", for some reason, that just made him angrier.  I don't know why.

 

 

Because cruise directors like to hear themselves talk, not other people.   

[Julie MacCoy]

I was just saying that they had a book, might have actually been a binder of printed pages, that they pulled the questions and answers from.

I'm sure you'll agree that there's a big difference between a book and a binder of printed pages.

There may have been some challenges, with the host confirming the challenge and correcting the book.

The poster who said that a trivia host insisted that Donny Osmond was the popular male singer who dangled his child over a balcony said that the host refused to listen to anyone who disagreed with him.  The poster actually said that he wrote to the cruiseline afterwards in protest of the incorrect answer being given out (probably on every single cruise). 

there were people gaming the system (one giant group as a team, for example). Obviously a team of eight people will possess more trivial knowledge than a team of two people.

I've heard of a maximum of six people being allowed to be on a team.  But if you're part of a smaller team and can't find anyone else to join you, them's the breaks.  However, I was annoyed when a few times, it was announced no teams, everyone would take the quiz on their own, only to have a married couple win.  When people protested that the couple was a team of two,  the trivia host said that she was a big fan of marriage, and she wasn't going to penalize them for breaking the rules because they were married. 

Because cruise directors like to hear themselves talk, not other people.

This particular trivia host was not the cruise director.  In fact, he was a DJ who regularly filled in for the activities people.

[bonsai3s]

Love trivia.  Love jeopardy.  We've met many friends playing trivia.

During our last cruise on the Navigator of the Seas, one of the questions was: "Which country produces the most pineapple?"  We didn't know the answer and argued...guessed it could be Brazil or Mexico...we went with Brazil.  We were wrong.

The trivia host gave the answer: "Hawaii!"  (Huh?)

A few of us yelled and said "Hawaii is not a country!".....she just kept going and ignored us....oh well. 🙄

 

[Julie MacCoy]

"Which country produces the most pineapple?"  We didn't know the answer and argued...guessed it could be Brazil or Mexico...we went with Brazil.  We were wrong.

The trivia host gave the answer: "Hawaii!"  (Huh?)

A few of us yelled and said "Hawaii is not a country!".....she just kept going

That's what I'm talking about!  I doubt if it's written in a book somewhere that Hawaii is a country.

[GUT2407]

I love real Trivia, but not a fan of ones that become rearrange this face, or that are very much country centric, questions that are unspecific also bug me (one that I recall well was what side of the Apple is the night out of on the logo, depends if you mean the apples view or mine, most answered the right side, their answer left, the apples left) and as for wrong answers, uggggg.

[GUT2407]

Team sizes.... I prefer just me and Mrs Gut, don’t fancy getting into an argument with team members.

[DirtyDawg]

1 hour ago, bonsai3s said:

Love trivia.  Love jeopardy.  We've met many friends playing trivia.

During our last cruise on the Navigator of the Seas, one of the questions was: "Which country produces the most pineapple?"  We didn't know the answer and argued...guessed it could be Brazil or Mexico...we went with Brazil.  We were wrong.

The trivia host gave the answer: "Hawaii!"  (Huh?)

 

 

 

I kwew it!!!!

 

That last President of yours wasn't an American at all!

 

😁

 

 

[lenquixote66]

11 hours ago, jagsfan said:

Erasmus Hall?

My onetime neighbor Barbra Streisand

Billy Cunningham,Mae West,Barbara Stanwyck,Bob Arum,Al Davis,Clara Bow,,Oscar Brand

[lenquixote66]

21 hours ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

Hmmm, let's see what I can remember:

 

Woody Allen - Midwood (my alma mater)

Barbara Streisand - Erasmus

The Tokens (Lion Sleeps Tonight) - Lincoln

Lou Ferrigno - Brooklyn Tech

Chris Rock - Madison

Marv Alpert - Lincoln

Paul Sorvino - Lafayette

........

 

 

 

Midwood alum :Noam Baumbach,,Paul Ben-Victor,Didi Conn,Morty Gunty

[Dr. Jack Daniels]

Best part of trivia is watching the trivia nerds treat it like it is Game 7 of the World Series..

[Gwendy]

Don’t generally do Trivia as I travel on my own and not keen to join groups.  One cruise I was in the lounge having a coffee when Trivia started, watched it to see if I had the correct answers, that’s when it got interesting.  One of the older players disputed an answer and got so hot and bothered he was going to punch the cruise staff member running the show.  Security had to be called.  So much for an quiet activity to fill in the day.

[Hlitner]

14 hours ago, bonsai3s said:

WLove trivia.  Love jeopardy.  We've met many friends playing trivia.

During our last cruise on the Navigator of the Seas, one of the questions was: "Which country produces the most pineapple?"  We didn't know the answer and argued...guessed it could be Brazil or Mexico...we went with Brazil.  We were wrong.

The trivia host gave the answer: "Hawaii!"  (Huh?)

A few of us yelled and said "Hawaii is not a country!".....she just kept going and ignored us....oh well. 🙄

 

I guess you don't need an education to be a CD :).  But what makes that answer even worse (besides Hawaii not being a country) is that Hawaii does not even grow much Pineapple these days.  And being a trivia buff we do know that the correct answer is Costa Rica....(which is an answer missed by many).  We have watched trivia games (on peaceful HAL) deteriorate into shouting matches over answers and cheating!   On the Prinsendam, DW and I would often be sitting at the bar while they were playing Trivia in the Crows Nest....and it was sometimes the best entertainment on the ship (watching the antics of some of the teams).

 

Hank

[dkjretired]

20 hours ago, hallux said:

When I was on Anthem of the Seas last year they had a book of questions and answers they used for the trivia sessions.  We even saw it, and when one host picked a question another had used in another session (and were called out for it by those that were regulars), they pulled another from the book.

 

Had to laugh when you mentioned about the notebooks with the questions.   Several years ago on the Celebrity board there were loads of complaints about the trivia games.   Seems that a couple of very frequent cruisers on Celebrity were traveling with notebooks in which they had put previous trivia questions and answers into and were taking them to the games.   As some others have said these people go bat crap crazy over Trivia and all this to get  a keychain.

 

The other issue now is people cheating with cellphones.  I saw this the last couple of weeks at  a resort in Florida.   I like trivia and am pretty good at it on certain subjects but not bothering to play anymore. 

Edited March 29, 2019 by dkjretired

[dkjretired]

12 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

Midwood alum :Noam Baumbach,,Paul Ben-Victor,Didi Conn,Morty Gunty

 

The trivia in these posts is most people probably don't know who these people are.  

[hallux]

39 minutes ago, dkjretired said:

The other issue now is people cheating with cellphones.

On cruise ships it may be new, but it's not new in general.  I was supporting a conference in 2007, we went out to dinner and drinks as a group and there was a trivia night, someone in our group was using a Blackberry to, ahem, "verify the host was answering the questions right..."

[XBGuy]

I've sat in on the trivia thing once.  When I walked in, they were already on Question #4, but I picked up an answer sheet and found a seat for myself.  I was a bit surprised to learn that people compete in teams.  Until that moment, I had not realized that.

 

One and done.

 

Of course once is one more time than I have ever:

 

• Attended an art auction
• Placed a bet in a casino
• Played Bingo

Somehow or other I still find cruising enjoyable.  It does not surprise me at all, nor does it disappoint me, that other people enjoy things that do not intrigue me--and, happily, they feel the same way.

[lenquixote66]

5 hours ago, dkjretired said:

 

The trivia in these posts is most people probably don't know who these people are.  

Everyone that I know does.

[dkjretired]

2 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

Everyone that I know does.

I’m talking mostly young people.

[lenquixote66]

31 minutes ago, dkjretired said:

I’m talking mostly young people.

 

31 minutes ago, dkjretired said:

I’m talking mostly young people.

Most people who play trivia on a cruise are age 40 and up.

[lenquixote66]

23 hours ago, Julie MacCoy said:

 

 

That's what I'm talking about!  I doubt if it's written in a book somewhere that Hawaii is a country.

A vice president of a bank in my town and a retired English teacher are both of the opinion that Alaska is a country.