This is Jeopardy!

This relates to trivia, so I'll post it in this thread.

At work every month, they get a large birthday cake and everyone (50 people or so) who is around that day gathers and enjoys the cake to celebrate a month's worth of birthdays. Last August to liven things up, they introduced a trivia game. I'm not sure what platform it is, but it is cool. Everyone scans the QR code with their phone and plays along. It's mostly multiple choice, the questions are put together by a co-worker. The questions are usually either pop culture or sports, or they will show a baby picture or something and you have to figure out who around the office that might be. So about half the questions are office related. You play on your phone, but after each question they reveal the answer on the big monitor and also the standings up to that point.

The first game in August, I finished middle of the pack, but I started to notice that if you answer correctly and fast, you might get 80 points, but if you answer correctly and slow, you might get only 10 points. So I went into September's game with a plan. I was going to answer as super fast as I could for each one.

September game. I'm the winner. (Crowd reaction = Yay Aaron, good job)

October game. I'm the winner. (Crowd reaction = oh wow, Aaron wins again)

November game. I'm the winner. (Crowd reaction = booooo, I mean they turned on me in a hurry)

December game, I'm now the villain, Goliath. Everybody is gunning at me.
I didn't win.

In fact I didn't win January or February either. Maybe I lost my touch. Maybe everyone caught up to me. Oh well. I enjoyed my moment in the trivia sun.
 
Aaron said:
The first game in August, I finished middle of the pack, but I started to notice that if you answer correctly and fast, you might get 80 points, but if you answer correctly and slow, you might get only 10 points. So I went into September's game with a plan. I was going to answer as super fast as I could for each one.
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That's how they beat Harvey tonight.
He didn't seem like he was buzzing in fast enough.
 
In Whatsamusic (basically Name That Tune), I figured out that when you guess someone else's song you get more points the sooner you type the answer in, but when it's YOUR song that the others are guessing, it doesn't matter if they figure it out quick or at the last second - you get the same amount of points. So I started choosing clips where the name of the song is sung in the last 5 seconds of the clip. So if all 10 guessers type it in at the end, they each get like 20 points. But I get full credit for each person who got it right, walking away with hundreds of points. Over time though, other people figured it out too and do the same thing, so I've lost that advantage.
 
Aaron said:
In fact I didn't win January or February either. Maybe I lost my touch. Maybe everyone caught up to me. Oh well. I enjoyed my moment in the trivia sun.
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I'd say lay low for a bit, then come back when they don't expect it.

I've talked about Mrs. Scotch and I doing the Saturday night trivia at the Shipyard Ale House near us. We did it for about 3 months straight, always finishing mid-pack. The main problem is that the teams are by party, so if you have a family of 6, or 2 tables slid together with 4 couples, or any other configuration, you can play against the 2 of us. We are both around the same age, and we don't see a lot of movies or read tons of books. So inevitably, there are topics that millennials would know better, or that moviegoers would know better.

We stopped going for a while, and then every so often, we'd go back. And it's always the same result. There was the one time we had our daughter and stepdaughter with us, and squeaked-out a win; so there's that.
 
I don't know if I've ever seen a contestant like Brian, on the right.
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He looks like he just came out of the half-pipe on his skateboard. And his annoyingly high voice matches the shirt. Thankfully, he didn't win, so I won't have to see that anymore.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I don't know if I've ever seen a contestant like Brian, on the right.
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He looks like he just came out of the half-pipe on his skateboard. And his annoyingly high voice matches the shirt. Thankfully, he didn't win, so I won't have to see that anymore.
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A high voiced skater dude would probably piss me off so I get what you're saying..... But I like a dude who takes control of his little podium hands on both sides like that. I don't know. It shows me a dude who has confidence and I like that.
 
JHDK said:
A high voiced skater dude would probably piss me off so I get what you're saying..... But I like a dude who takes control of his little podium hands on both sides like that. I don't know. It shows me a dude who has confidence and I like that.
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Gotta have confidence to wear a shirt like that on Jeopardy.
 
Holy shit! What is with these walking brains not getting the simplest questions? Today's final Jeopardy was the classic TV set with a sign that said "Maximum Capacity 75 Persons". It took me a millisecond to come up with Cheers. But nobody got it! WTF?
 
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