Trivia Mania

A new tradition was born in the lives of Abby McAllister, Emily Devine, Mary Power, Sarah Wilkinson and myself. That tradition is tuesday night trivia at the Cessnock Supporters Club.


Our team is called "Party of Five" because of my terrible last minute thinking, and the fact that there are five of us. This fact caused much dispute among the team of "Extreme Bipolar" who swore there were six of us, and accused us of not being able to count. In all fairness to them there were six of us at one point, but they were old and unsure of the soundness of their minds, so we played on that.


There were four rounds in this trivia, in the first round, called "Trivialities", we scored a seven out of ten, winning our points on questions such as "What fear do you have if you have cyberphobia?" and other questions I can't quite recall.

The next round was "50/50", which we scored 6 from 10.

The third round, "Around The World" was our double points round. This round was the most epic round of the whole game. The first question was "Name three states of the USA that have 4 letters in them." We answered this question with ease because three years ago I took it upon myself to learn the name and approx. location of all the american states (don't ask me why.)
We witnessed a miracle in this round. One of the questions was "What is the name of the Irish Castle where the Blarney Stone can be found?" We knew that the Blarney Stone was a stone that people leaned over the edge of the castle to kiss for good luck, or the "gift of the gab" as wikipedia informs me, but we didn't know what the castle where it resided was called.
Out of desperation we wrote "Blarney Castle" as the answer. Everyone in my teamed laughed so hard when it turned out to be the right answer. It was incredulous!

In the end we scored 34, 10 points behind first place. Which is alright for a first game!