What was bad about 90's trivia?
Two words: Free. Beer. That may sound great, in general, but free beer served to competitive people? Bound to get rowdy. In fact I did see two adult men in superhero costumes literally swatting each other, and it seemed all in fun, but one foul slap and it's kindling for the eventual melee.
The rowdy crowd was packed in a church basement. (As an aside, as a former Southern Baptist (feel free to laugh), it's always odd to see beer served at church (second only to wine on the altar).) Church basements aren't known for their acoustics, so we in the back of the hall couldn't hear anything. No problem, we said, the questions are on a projector. The projector was set a smidge too low for the people mid-hall, so they stood up to see it, so back of the hall really couldn't see it, and while blocking the crowd by standing up may fly at a concert, it really doesn't fly at trivia. The hall was divided against itself all night.
But I addressed the real problem to my table during round six of ten. "Trivia's no fun when you aren't winning!" We have aged out of 90's trivia. We failed so badly on round 1 that we were in 16th place out of 50 tables. We were 28th out of 50 at the penultimate round. Unthinkable! I don't know where we ended up, because Ann and I left the lost cause early to beat the exit traffic (free beer).
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