Typed Trivia

Step 1: Choose your preferred edition of Trivial Pursuit™ (Genus II).

Step 2: Choose your preferred typewriter (Ezra Pound-Katie, Kevin Arnold-Whitney).

Step 3: Beginning with player on the left, draw card from front of deck, ask each of the 6 questions.

Step 4: All player type their answers as questions are read (N.B. points may be deducted for poor alignment &/or irregular margins).

Step 5: After 10 cards have been asked, pass answers to player on your right.

Step 6: Read answers aloud, allot 1 point for each correct answer.

Step 7: Lose to Whitney.

Round 1 - Head 2 Head Trivia (W-25, K-19)

Round 2 - Trivia 2.0: Back in the Habit (W-23, K-16)

Final Score: W-2, K-0

How to Begin...

Pop quiz, hot shot. You've got one chance to slightly redeem an otherwise undistinguished night of Trivia by correctly identifying the novel which begins thus:

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

What, you can't decide? Better thumb wrestle for it then, time's running out. And also, too bad, because  both The Old Man and The Sea and Moby Dick are wrong anyway.

Moby Dick: 

Answer: Jaws

To be fair though, if we had had the complete first sentence that might have been a lot easier. We would have definitely said The Old Man and The Sea.

Internet Wanderings, or: Hello Wikipedia; Goodbye Productivity.

I would like to begin by saying that it would be impolite to ask how many hours I spent creating the above flowchart.

Yesterday morning I woke up to the latest Strange Maps post that overlays the results of the 2007 Polish election with the imperial borders of the last century (seen above, center). This chart is a rough recreation of the ensuing hours of my life as I eagerly followed hyperlinks across the interwebs. I had an amazing time. Did you know the term 'Cisleithanian' or 'palimpsest'‽ How about that the Aral Sea has been in 2 pieces since 1987? The difference between the Kingdom of Prussia, The Duchy of Prussia, and Royal Prussia? When the British Monarchy lost its claim to Hanover, and why? These are just a few of the things I learned yesterday. And so many maps! [I loved seeing this old friend again.]

Fortuitously, that map of magnetic anomalies was this week's Morning News map quiz. In addition, I expect some of this raw data to be put to good use tonight at JD's game night.