Master of Questions (and other Nonsense)

Trivial Problem

I’ve been asked by my boss to act as Emcee for Holiday Trivia at our Christmas Meeting/Gathering. There will be some training before hand, catered dinner, and Holiday Trivia.

I’ve never been to a Trivia night at any local bar or pub. Because of this, I really have no idea how they play. I know a few bloggers who have and some friends who go, but it seems that every place does it a bit differently. Getting questions for this is no issue – all I had to do was go into my folder of Christmas trivia I used when I was on the radio. It is the execution of the game itself that I don’t know.

The basic gist of the thing is that there are 2-5 rounds of questions. Teams write their answers to the questions on a piece of paper or on index cards. There are points for getting the right answers. Some places wager on questions based on the topic. I really am clueless. I plan on doing some sort of search online to see the best way to do this.

Have you ever been to one of those trivia nights? Any suggestions?

Our doc is probably sick…. of us!

Over the past 10-11 days, every one of us has been to the doctor. Today, I had both kids in the office again because their coughing sounded awful. We were worried that the gunk we all got was in their chest and might lead to pneumonia.

I swear, between in office visits, ER visits, telemedicine calls, and messages back and forth through the office portal, our doc has got to be sick of seeing our names! On the other hand, she might just thank us for making her house payment this month!

Chilly Fun

Daisy finally got to go outside in the snow. She wasn’t really sure what to make of it. She was biting at the falling snow for a bit and really didn’t know what to think about walking on it. It didn’t take long and she was running round and rolling in it. She was even eating it off the ground.

The kids were insistent about going outside when the snow fell. Neither was feeling great, but they wanted to see the snow. We bundled them up real good and we were outside for 10-15 minutes. In that time we started to build a snowman.

At first glance, in the above photo it looks like Andrew is putting the snowman’s head on. That, however, was not the case. He has actually removed it and about 2 seconds later, he threw it on the ground. Then he and his sister jumped on the rest of the poor snowman. Sigh.

Elfin’ Around Again

The Elf on the shelf is back and once again, I have to be creative with it. I’ve been lacking a bit, but the kids still get a kick out of it. Two nights ago, I just put it on top of the TV looking down. The laughed at that more than the Elf and Barbie looking at Christmas lights…

Last night, I printed some pictures of the elf and made it cover all our faces in the pictures on the wall…

Perfect Gift

I’m not sure who might read this, but this will be a bit cryptic. My wife’s Christmas present is on the way. All I will say is that I may have mentioned something about it in a past blog. I have seen some pictures and I cannot wait to see it in person. I truly believe that this will be a BIG surprise for her and I hope that she will love it!

I’ve had to tell her that there is a package arriving and that she cannot open it when it comes.

7 thoughts on “Master of Questions (and other Nonsense)

  1. Wish I had some advice on the trivia contest. I’m sure you’ll be great! Sorry to hear it’s been a frequent stop with the doc, that time of year but your family has been through a lot! You always bounce back, much to your credit . Our grandson has croup but the doctor said he’s not too bad and he’s on puffers so that seems to be helping. Hasn’t slowed him down much!

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  2. I was in a trivia contest once but it was many moons ago. I’m sure you will do fine and it will be tons of fun.

    Do you have to do stuff with that elf until Christmas? I’m sort of glad I never got into doing that. 😂😂

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  3. Hope you all get whatever virus it is out of your system long before the 25th so you can enjoy it fully!
    Trivia games are one of my fortes, but hard to know what to suggest to you without knowing what kind of format your boss is planning – kind of like Trivial Pursuit, like Jeopardy or what. Back when ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ was really hot on TV, a couple of my buddies and I would go to a bar across from my work when they had a weekly trivia night. I was pretty good, he says not so modestly, and won regularly (mainly free drinks, occasionally some small amount of cash) and after a while the owner got me to write questions for him! He paid me, I dunno, $10 a week or so plus a couple of free brewskis but of course, I couldn’t compete. It was quite fun. I just came up with maybe three dozen questions on random categories each week, with 4 answers to each – the right one, usually 2 that seem entirely plausible and one ridiculous joke answer. He’d add in some of his own questions still, so there’d be lots to go thru the evening. Think that lasted maybe 6-8 months then , if memory serves, he stopped the event because the show wasn’t red hot anymore and it wasn’t bringing in lots of people.

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    1. I know a bit more now. I guess we’ll have 30 minutes, so I’m guessing 2 rounds of 10 questions and tie breakers on the ready.

      I’d love to host trivia stuff. My buddy does it, but not at bars.

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  4. Man that snow looks so cool….send it this way! Martha loves snow and she goes out and rolls around in it.
    you will have a lot of fun at the trivia thingy….

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