Bar Trivia Question-Writers

Monday, 11 August, 2008

Really, Authors of the Poorly-Researched Pub Quiz I Played Recently?

You have so little regard for getting your facts straight, even though your game is dependent on them, that although our answer was mathematically closer to correct, having been arrived-upon via formulaic long division, we were marked incorrect because we didn’t round to the nearest whole number? Maybe you should take a look at this:

We answered “What is the kilometers per hour equivalent of 50 miles per hour?” with “80.6,” making our answer a full 0.13 kilometers per hour closer to the actual amount than the only answer you accepted, which was nothing besides a flat “80.” Of course, this later threw us into a double-overtime wherein we lost to some hackneyed dopes on questions about the TV show Friends…you know, lousy trivia. Not that the question to which this Really? primarily refers was good trivia, or anything.

To get a little Tom Swifty for a second, I ask you metrically: Really?