Are you better at trivia than a stripper?

[jpmassar]

terrencechan posted a hilarious journal about trivia

Comments

[prock]

I got all the stripper questions right.

[markgritter]

I know about Buddy Holly but the other three are just way over my head.

After googling Cuyahoga it was somewhat familiar.

[barking_iguana]

Wasn't the day the music died in 1962 or something? If it were the 1950s, I suppose it could have to do with an induction, but I thought it had to do with an unplanned encounter with the ground.

[barking_iguana]

OK, 1959. Right subject, wrong time. I'm not sure how to grade myself. I had the subject right for all four, but didn't know exactly what CO stood for, nor that the other one was the particualr book that it was.

[jpmassar]

Getting the subject right is a good portion of the battle; knowing the
significance of the subject, historically or culturally, is
the rest. Knowing the exact details is generally not all that
important.

[barking_iguana]

Then I guess I'm four for four.

[hgfalling]

Translation of this post:

"I saw 'Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader' on TV today. With that in mind...here's Quiz Bowl!"

[jpmassar]

Don't you have class tomorrow morning?

(-:

[hgfalling]

Ha! I have class whenever I want to.

http://cvn.columbia.edu

[hgfalling]

On second thought, it doesn't seem these are superhard...more like they are timedated. If you were there, you might remember. If you weren't, they didn't make it into the things that future generations learn about.

Kind of reminds me of the time I tried to play Trivial Pursuit: Baby Boomer edition with my parents when I was about fifteen. That didn't work out too well.

[jnala]

"The day the music died" is a Don McLean lyric, and "Cuyahoga" is an REM song.

[schmengie]

Cuyahoga is a song but I thought Randy Newman did it first and I am pretty sure its about an event in the 60s which is what JP is referring to.

Same thing on the day the music died. Song 10 years after the event

[prock]

Heh, those are the exact two I got.