Quote: "In a town like Oxford, it's easy to tell the difference between the two. The bad ones will struggle to half-fill the pub on a quiet quizzing night. The quiz machine will have more interest. However, for the good ones, you have to arrive at least an hour beforehand to get a table." There were two trivia games in Sioux Falls, SD. Buffalo Wild Wings had NTN (and according to my sister, a few more places have added it since I left). The other was at the Ground Round on Fridays. The game started at 5:15, and if you weren't there before 4 o'clock, you probably wouldn't get a seat. This was because the guys from Gateway would get there at three (two guys, usually), pull the two biggest tables together (round tables, even), and then wait until their buddies all got there at 5. God I hated those yo-yos. I had my revenge in the simple fact that their table, as Marcus Berkmann would put it, was not "Bulging with intellectual muscle." I won the $25 in cash and the $25 in gift certificates more often than not. (Granted I only played maybe once every 6 weeks because of work.) The game was an individual affair, One card per person, 6 questions read over the couse of an hour. Most answers right wins. Ties broken by random draw. The giant malstrom that was the Gateway Trivia Tribunal was crushed, I suppose, under its own weight. Good luck getting consensus among 15 people. I've got an ego the size of all outdoors, so I'm not going to defer to anyone over my right answer. If I wasn't sure between 2 answers, I'd pass the second one over to my sister. -continued
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