Sparkly has been tormenting us lately with pleas to play Lord of the Rings trivia. I don't know why. Mr. Ether plays with her and always beats her. I just refuse; there would be no way I could answer even a fraction of the questions. I got back at her though, by forcing her to play Trivial Pursuit with us. Once we started playing I soon realized that our "Genus Edition" of Trivial Pursuit is probably 25 years old.
Here's an example of how the game goes, played with Sparkly. I'm reading the question: "What Zigfield Follies dancing girl was portrayed in Funny Girl?" Sparkly says, "What's Funny Girl?" I answer, "It was a movie. It starred Barbra Streisand." Sparkly says, "Who's Barbra Streisand?" So we never even got to the real answer to the question, which was Fanny Bryce. ("Who's Fanny Bryce?")
I got to gloat over instantly knowing the answer to "Who was married to Oona O'Neill?" (Charlie Chaplin, DUH.) But we were all stumped by "What was the name of Sir Isaac Newton's Dog?" and the unspoken corollary question, "WHY on Earth would anyone know the name of Sir Isaac Newton's dog?" although I'm sure one of you dear readers is brainy enough to know the answer to that! (Diamond, by the way. Its name was Diamond.)
So in the spirit of fun, I will periodically choose a question from our vintage Trivial Pursuit game and post it here. Then I'll sit back and wait for the answers to come pouring in, before posting the correct answer. Whee! Won't we have fun?!
Question #1: What sport features small hops called pitty pats at the end of a run of plinkers?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
I know the answer, but I suppose that would be cheating, so I'll sit on my hands and let someone else answer it.
Stone skipping.
I researched the "sport" for my book. Eddy skips stones at Rock Island.
I'm afraid I may be a ringer. I'll sit on my hands from now on.
(sits blinking like an idiot, reaches for some pretzels in that bowl over there)
Good thing I'm on Sminthia's team.
I never heared of neither of them thangs and I's the best stone skippler in the fambly.
I should have known you would know, Sminthia! But where is this sport played? Is it played competitively? I was really fascinated by it. I always thought that stone skipping was something people just DID, like bene scritto.
Rock Island is certainly an excellent place to skip stones! So is the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick.
BTW, Sminthia -- Do you happen to know the significance of Sir Isaac Newton's dog?
Apparently the dog knocked over a candle, which resulted in a fire that consumed papers he (Newton, not the dog) had been working on for 20 years.
My next book has lots of Newton's stuff in it--Motion, Gravity, Newton's cradles, etc.
Those are all common moves in the Over-80 Naked Leap Frog League.
Sminthia, I thought you might know that too.
Sorghum Crow, I had no idea you participated in that league. Is it a winter sport or a summer sport out there in the Northern Kingdom?
Post a Comment