At Geek Bowl V last year, my team The Anti-Social Network ended up winning all the marbles, except the marbles were actually considerable sums of cash. Hooray! This year, the event moved from Denver to Austin, Texas, and we didn't fare quite so well, coming in 10th out of 146 teams. Still a respectable showing! But not enough to get paid, as only ( Read more... )

If you tend to read what I write here, you'll know that this has been quite a trivia year for me. The most recent highlight is that I played in another pub quiz tournament with the Anti-Social Network (renamed The A-OK's for this event), i.e. the same team that won The Geek Bowl. And we won again! This time the purse was $1000. It is astonishing, ( Read more... )

I had another great trivia day last Saturday, this time a "Clubhouse Bowl" -- just like a Basement Bowl, except held in a guy's apartment clubhouse rather than a basement. There were trivia bowl-style games along with a bunch of Jeopardy! games run on a magic Jeopardy! simulator created by one of the gang. There was even "Trivia Battleship" -- a ( Read more... )

As promised/threatened, here's another installment of "Paul's Random Thoughts About Trivia Questions." Carrying on with question-writing principles:

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This is something I sent out at work, and it got a good enough reception that I decided to post it here as well. We're in the midst of a massive project at CU, replacing the student system and a bunch of peripheral systems with Oracle PeopleSoft products. There is a lot of pressure, a lot of intensity... and a lot of status reporting. Some of that ( Read more... )