In many ways, Google has killed the Trivia competition. if I want to find the answer to an obscure fact, I can get the answer immediately online. Magazines, radio shows, late night TV call ins - all those examples of testing someone remotely with obscure questions for prizes has just about died. But Trivial Pursuit is still huge in my house, because it gives you the fun of competing against other real people, in real time, and proving they're idiots and you're a God.
Enter Trivia On Net - an online Trivia game that lets you compete against other in real time, for points or cash. In a way, this is to Trivia what all those online poker sites are to Texas Holdem. If you're a genius and enter the big money games, you can win ten grand. Take that, Howie Mandel.
Warning: some of the questions are extremely hard. Maybe we should set a time and have a YesButNoButYes Pop Culture Trivia challenge? Anyone interested? Let us know in comments. I'm thinking Jellio might be Trivial enough to rule us all.
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Oh Scara, that's so nice?
Flashback, January 23, 2005:
"Browsing through this week's Entertainment Weekly, I cam across a Trivia contest that you can enter online. The grand prize is poor ( "a selection of DVDs") but the questions are reasonably challenging. The trouble is, if you actually do enter online, it's ludicrously simple to just search for and find the answers online. Google Killed The Trivia Competition. We now live in a world where even the most superfluous detail can be tracked down online immediately. Which not only makes trivia competitions stupidly easy, it brings into question the whole concept of "fact-based" learning. Why bother to try and remember dates, places and people when there's always Google?"
-Scaramouch
Glad to see things come full circle. That was one of the first-ever posts here.
I knew I'd read that somewhere recently!
Yeah, I'm up for it. I'd suck on any pop culture trivia from the last ten years or so, but I'm hell on wheels on earlier stuff.