TALZ'S TRIVIA

Next game: Jan. 15, 2000
(5 Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central, 8 Eastern)
This game lasts up to an hour and a half,
and takes place in a special Dream for
the purpose.
  
  
  
  This upcoming Talz's Trivia
  features a stuffed
  tiger-and-cub prize*.
  A Team prize of a
  Tektite will also
  be awarded randomly to
  one member of the
  winning Champion's Team.
  (You must be around for
  all questions to be
  eligible.)



  
The traditional Talz's Trivia prize is also that the URL of the
winner's choice will be placed here:


 The October Champion was Andrea Marie.
  VISIT LOST 
LAKE!!!  






1. How It Works:

I (Talzhemir) read off a question.  The
Champions have 4 minutes to /whisper
me with an answer.  During this time,
Champions' Teams /whisper their suggestions
to the Champion.  I take the *first* answer
each Champion gives me.

The answer to every question (for a Champion)
is a *number*.  A point is scored for the
closest answer.  (The answers aren't
`true-or-false', they are `more' and `less'
accurate. :)

There are also Audience Participation
questions, called Yell Em Out's.  And,
of course, these are questions where
you yell out what you think is the answer,
just for the fun of it.  We do get rowdy.


2. CHAMPIONS and Your Teams:

Fifteen minutes before the actual game, 
I'll upload and announce the Trivia Dream.
Champions, stand on colored spots by the
box office.  Teams, stand to the southeast
of your Champion, in a line. 

The contestants chosen will be the ones
with the longest lines.  Normally, two
Champions will be chosen, but it can
vary.

It's legal to use web searches, etc. to try 
find an answer but remember: Champions get 
only FOUR MINUTES to come up with an answer.


EVERYBODY:  Please don't shout answers out.
/Whisper them to the Champion you're rooting
for.  This is a game that takes alot of 
organization and cooperation to be fun, and 
if you shout answers out, I'll Ignore and Eject 
you in less than a heartbeat.


  The bigger Furcadia
  grows, the more contests
  and bigger awards we
  will offer!

EXAMPLE GAME

1. You've just found out that your cousin is pregnant. She has one in HOW MANY chances of giving birth to IDENTICAL TWINS?

Devoumon: 2 
Zero(Guardian) 12
ANSWER: 273

This is a YELL IT OUT question, for audience participation. 8) What is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' favorite food?
ANSWER: PIZZA!!!

2. TIME WARP: A wave of Italian immigrants has come to America, bringing with them-- the first pizza parlor! WHAT YEAR IS IT?

Devoumon: 1864
Zero(Guardian) 1945  --Point for Zero (by 1!!!)
ANSWER: 1905

3. Imagine you've captured the largest clam ever found: How many pounds does it weigh?

Devoumon 7
Zero 75
ANSWER: 500

4. TIME WARP QUESTION: There's this amazing thing called a "drive-thru" restaurant. It's got a good reputation for another great development: the "shake machine". You notice something new on the menu, that nobody's ever seen before: an "Egg McMuffin". WHAT YEAR IS IT?

Devoumon 1969
Zero 1956
ANSWER: 1975

5. Now about those huge clams... Sea otters are cute, aren't they? They eat almost a fourth of their body weight in a day. How many pounds of shellfish does an otter eat in a day?

Devoumon 4
Zero 52
ANSWER: 18

6. ANOTHER TIME WARP QUESTION: People are using 1-line phone-in BBS's. Graphics cards that can handle more than 16 colors have become available. Big whoopie. --A bunch of geniuses release the HTML Standard (making possible Lynx, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Ebay, Lycos, and YOUR web page). WHAT YEAR IS IT?

Devoumon 1988
Zero 1988
ANSWER: 1991

This is another YELL IT OUT question, for audience participation. What's the maximum life expectancy... of a swan? 70 years

7. By the time the average U.S. kid is 18, how many thousands of simulated+real murders will they have seen? (Television and movies. Not counting video games.)

Devoumon 1
Zero 20
ANSWER: 26,000

8. Mata Jagdamba of India has the world's longest hair. How many feet long was it, as of 1997?

Devoumon 27 feet
Zero 27 feet
ANSWER: 15

9. TIME WARP: The monks have been put out of business and priests are extremely upset; they are afraid of what people will do when they can read it for themself... but Johannes Gutenberg goes ahead anyways, with his invention, the printing press with movable type. WHAT YEAR IS IT?

Devoumon 1796 (off by 341)
Zero 1932 (off by 477)
ANSWER: 1455

Yell It Out: What was the book? ANSWER: The Bible

And another Yell It Out
Be they black, yellow, or chocolate, the #1 U.S. breed, according to the American Kennel Club is...? ANSWER: the Labrador Retriever
10. How many thousands of Labs do they have registered?

Zero 15
Devoumon 100
ANSWER: 126K

(At this point, Devoumon and Zero are tied 5 to 5!)

Zero  4.8
Devoumon 2.9
ANSWER: 1.9 hours