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Trivial Pursuits => Sports & Leisure => Topic started by: Gimpson on June 11, 2004, 05:37:37 pm
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Was there a "Wild Card" in the original version of Trivial Pursuit? I seem to remember playing some of the later versions and thinking that Wild Card was a new addition, but I can't think what was there originally.
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Hmmm.
Geography (blue), History (yellow), Entertainment (pink), Arts (yellow), Sports & Leisture (orange), Science and Nature (green).
Nope, ain't no Wild Card.
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I still have the old like, 1982 version down in the basement. I'm pretty sure the bottom category in that one was brown coloured and was a hodgepodge of all sorts of stuff that didn't fit anywhere.
I'll have to go see.
There certainly have always been six categories.
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Gimpson's got something, though. Wild Card is sticking in my mind for some reason too. And it's not just from the book series (which I had been thinking about the day before the new categories came about).
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Genus 1–3/4?
Blue: People & Places
Pink: Arts & Entertainment
Yellow: History
Brown: Literature
Green: Science & Nature
Orange: Sports & Leisure
Genus 4/5? + Volume 6
Blue: People & Places
Pink: Arts & Entertainment
Yellow: History
Brown: Science & Nature
Green: Sports & Leisure
Orange: Wild Card
20th Anniversary
Blue: Global View
Pink: Sound & Screen
Yellow: News
Brown: The Written Word
Green: Innovations
Orange: Game Time
I don't know the categories for any of the other "special" editions.
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Yes, I have the Genus 1st edition and it's indeed as you have laid out.
I like how they've folded Literature into Arts & Entertainment - the "wild card" category was needed.
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Yes, I have the Genus 1st edition and it's indeed as you have laid out.
I like how they've folded Literature into Arts & Entertainment - the "wild card" category was needed.
Agreed. But maybe just because Wild Card is my category of choice.
But I do think that A&E needs more Lit questions and S&L needs less sports. I've noticed in Genus 5 that for the green questions you tend to get two dozen sports then 5 that are about food/games/etc then back to sports. Shouldn't it be half leisure?
I'm also convinced that with the 6th edition they switched from Genus to Volume simply because so many damned people either thought it was "genius" or "jen-us"
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But I do think that A&E needs more Lit questions and S&L needs less sports. I've noticed in Genus 5 that for the green questions you tend to get two dozen sports then 5 that are about food/games/etc then back to sports. Shouldn't it be half leisure?
Green's always been the bane of my existence for precisely that reason.
That and horrible horrible Canadian Trivial Pursuit. The answers to everything are "Canada" or "Wilfred Laurier". Bah.
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But I do think that A&E needs more Lit questions and S&L needs less sports. I've noticed in Genus 5 that for the green questions you tend to get two dozen sports then 5 that are about food/games/etc then back to sports. Shouldn't it be half leisure?
Green's always been the bane of my existence for precisely that reason.
That and horrible horrible Canadian Trivial Pursuit. The answers to everything are "Canada" or "Wilfred Laurier". Bah.
Damned Canadian Content laws. Isn't The Great One at least Canadian? And since 3/4 of the world's funny comes from Canada that must make A&E easier.
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Martin Luther King!
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Triumph is from Canada. And Andy Kim!
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Triumph is from Canada. And Andy Kim!
Geez, you're getting me all teary-eyed with patriotic fervor.
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I've got more!
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We played the Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit quite a few times from when it was gifted to my guy's best friend for X-mas. Like every type of Trivial Pursuit in a group setting, everyone tends to give up once it's become clear that one person/team has an insurmountable lead (usually me or this other guy who gets really annoyed if anyone beats him). I don't think I've played a full game of Trivial Pursuit in years.
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We played the Pop Culture Trivial Pursuit quite a few times from when it was gifted to my guy's best friend for X-mas. Like every type of Trivial Pursuit in a group setting, everyone tends to give up once it's become clear that one person/team has an insurmountable lead (usually me or this other guy who gets really annoyed if anyone beats him). I don't think I've played a full game of Trivial Pursuit in years.
Really? I've found it not uncommon for players/teams to come back from 5-0 deficits. The part I hate is when everybody is dancing around the center tile when we all know the category will be sports which means wrong answers and more dancing.
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I've always played Trivial Pursuit as a team game, which makes 'one player gets ginormous lead' situations less common. This is especially true since we do not play very formally so it is never entirely clear who is on which team at any given time.
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We don't play Trivial Pursuit much anymore, mostly because of insurmountable-lead problems (and card-memorization issues), but the idea of semi-feral "team" Trivial Pursuit appeals to me greatly. I'll have to see about it the next time I'm in a situation where anyone I know owns a normal version. (I steadfastly refuse to play theme TPs, if only because the people I know who own them would destroy me quickly and thoroughly.)
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I have seen Trivial Pursuit ruin many happy relationships.
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ssc:
when i was wee littler, on family trips we would take the box of trivial pursuit cards. given my poor memory for precise details, everyone had memorized the entire 2 boxes of cards through sheer repetition, except me.
to this day, i hate trivial pursuit.
i hate it.
stupid pies.
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I was raised on Trivial Pursuit, and I love it with all my heart. The only scarring memory I have from it at the moment is when I, age 11 or so, was reading a question and was mocked by my family for pronouncing Goethe as Go-eth.
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mocked by my family for pronouncing Goethe as Go-eth.
Well, it was sloppy of them to not use an umlaut. I mean it's not really acceptable.
I used to play Trivial Pursuit every year with my family. We always played it around Christmas for some reason. And power cuts.
The 1982 Scottish Genus Edition.
So the sports questions were fuck*ng impossible, and most of the entertainment ones were bizarre scottish TV shows from the 60's and 70's and shit. I used to be on a team with my mom, but then we had no orange knowhow. But our brown knowledge was tiptop thanks to my mother.
I was good at green and blue. And yellow to some extent.
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I suck at trivia.
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I was raised on Trivial Pursuit, and I love it with all my heart. The only scarring memory I have from it at the moment is when I, age 11 or so, was reading a question and was mocked by my family for pronouncing Goethe as Go-eth.
Ha, I'm actually, to some degree, verbally dyslexic; although I can write really well, and my vocabulary is pretty large (eat that, SAT! 800 WOOT!), I mispronounce basically everything. This comes, I'm pretty sure, from reading absolute tons as a child but not really having in-depth conversations with anyone. This has lead to extensive problems, the most obvious of which is the gyro/hero/gyro (pronounced "HI-YERO"), which has repeatedly resulted in me getting something random on a hero roll instead of the lamb and tzaki sauce I CRAVE.
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I used to play Trivial Pursuit every year with my family. We always played it around Christmas for some reason. And power cuts.
My folks used to play Trivial Pursuit at parties with their other adult friends, and I always used to always be able to hang in there with the adults. This used to make me think I was smart, but later I realized that everyone else was just drunk.
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You know, considering the content of most of our threads we might have been better off going with You Don't Know Jack categories.
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This used to make me think I was smart, but later I realized that everyone else was just drunk.
Truer words hath not been spoke.
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The only scarring memory I have from it at the moment is when I, age 11 or so, was reading a question and was mocked by my family for pronouncing Goethe as Go-eth.
Amazing, out of literally thousands and thousands of Episodes, the ones that stick, eh?
Same story, slightly younger, different detail: Mount Fuji (FOOGE-eye).
I had only guessed at its existence because of Pole Position.
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I had only guessed at its existence because of Pole Position.
oh my, oh my goodness.
i'm glad i was sitting down for that.
it's always a jolt when you realize why something is the way it is.
i don't think i'd thought, consciously, of that game, time, place, circumstance in a great, long while. what was it of Pole Position that transfixed so?
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I pronounced "Goethe" as "Goth," with a hard O, until about eighth grade, because before then I'd never, ever heard the word "Goethe" being actually spoken.
I have the same problem as Bozack sometimes, and I had it even worse when I was a kid; there are quite simply some words that you just never hear spoken, so you sort of have to guess.
I'm sure you've been told this before, but: hard-g "gee-roe," Bozack. Or at least "gye-roe," which is a common enough mispronunciation that you'll at least get a gyro out of it.
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Youall are lucky that these things happened to you when you were 11.
I didn't know 'epitome' was four syllables till I was in high school.
I was in graduate school before I knew that La Jolla, California was the same as the place pronounced La Hoy-uh. And that San Joachim was the same as the place pronounced San Wa-keem.
Similarly, I was a grownup before I realized that the reason that it had made sense for the Soviet Union to invade Afghanistan was that they, like, shared a border. I think I had always vaguely thought it was in Africa or somewhere and that it must have been a really big deal to get the Soviet army there.
I blame most of this on my East Coast, excessively experimental but public so somewhat half-assed high school education. But it doesn't make a person feel any less stupid to have an excuse.
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I'm sure you've been told this before, but: hard-g "gee-roe," Bozack. Or at least "gye-roe," which is a common enough mispronunciation that you'll at least get a gyro out of it.
The first time I ever heard "gyro" in the Delicious Sense said aloud was on Beavis and Butt-head, of all contexts, while they're watching a Ween video that seemed to take place in and around some sort of Greek restaurant. Butt-head pronounced it "yee-roe? yee-roe? yee-roe?" in this phony accent. I really thought that was about right. PERHAPS GREEKS HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT ME
what was it of Pole Position that transfixed so?
The first game had only one track: the Fuji Speedway (http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/P/vPole_Position.png).
As far as what made Pole Position so aesthetically resonant, well, I suppose it was just the time and place(s). I remember when just about every hotel had some sort of "game room", usually just off of a maintenance hallway, near vending machines and, perhaps, changing rooms; I would spend hours hanging around these collections of four and five games, even without a single quarter to my name, watching the attract modes, listening to the sounds, absorbing the cabinet art. The four tones that precede a race in Pole Position - the only sounds the attract mode makes - will be burned into my head forever.
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Butt-head pronounced it "yee-roe? yee-roe? yee-roe?" in this phony accent. I really thought that was about right. PERHAPS GREEKS HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT ME
This is approximately how I was told it was pronounced, at the establishment where I formerly procured this comestible. But they were equally happy to provide said dish in return for the pronunciation 'ji-row' and the appropriate amount of legal tender, and I have found this to be true at Greek places all over.
I don't want to get into another discussion of language history but... we borrow words and change their pronunciation every day, so 'ji-row' it is, I think.
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correction of my advice re: pronunciation of "gyro"
Well, hell, it's all...
... no...
I won't say it. But you know I'm thinking it. So there.
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The four tones that precede a race in Pole Position - the only sounds the attract mode makes - will be burned into my head forever.
Doot Doot Doot DEEEEEEET
Man, there were a few weeks in the 80's when Pole Position was IT. It was all that we played. We sucked, but we didn't play anything else for a while.
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Hey there's this great new thing it's called the intarweb or something and you can look up words and pronunciations (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gyro) on it
(see # 2)
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Doot Doot Doot DEEEEEEET (http://www.vgmusic.com/music/other/miscellaneous/arcade/pp_fanfare1_arcade.mid)
Man, there were a few weeks in the 80's when Pole Position was IT. It was all that we played. We sucked, but we didn't play anything else for a while.
I don't think people are making too many games, anymore, that are fun and compelling even you are just Stone Terrible at them. Maybe it's because the older games had the Whiff of Novelty about them; interacting with these Sights and Sounds was itself compelling enough to eclipse any tragic lack of skill (and believe me, at that age, I wasn't good at anything). [ESSAY OMITTED]
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Doot Doot Doot DEEEEEEET (http://www.vgmusic.com/music/other/miscellaneous/arcade/pp_fanfare1_arcade.mid)
Man, there were a few weeks in the 80's when Pole Position was IT. It was all that we played. We sucked, but we didn't play anything else for a while.
I don't think people are making too many games, anymore, that are fun and compelling even you are just Stone Terrible at them.
That would be Spy Hunter for me. Love that Peter Gunn music, though.
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Yeah, I used to love me some Spy Hunter. I played it in both arcade variations (stand up and sit-down enclosure) and had it for the Commodore 64, where you needed two joysticks to play it - one to control your car and fire the front gun and the other to fire missles, release smoke or oil slick, etc.
There is no game funner than Spy Hunter. Vice City came close, if only because of the cool 80s soundtrack. There's nothing like doing a drive-by shooting while listening to "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life."
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That was one of the reasons that Rock N Roll Racing was such an awesome game.
The announcer all being, "Olaf unleashes hot fury!" while I lay down a spray of heat-seaking missles with Peter Gunn or Born To Be Wild blaring in the background.
Good times.
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I'll see your Spy Hunter and raise you an Elevator Action.
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I swear, there is a conspiracy at Greek restaurants to make the rest of us feel stupid. If I order a "jye-ro," they say "yee-ro." If I say "yee-ro," they say "jye-ro." I should try it both ways at the same restaurant with the same counter guy, and see if he makes me out to be wrong both times.
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I swear, there is a conspiracy at Greek restaurants to make the rest of us feel stupid. If I order a "jye-ro," they say "yee-ro." If I say "yee-ro," they say "jye-ro." I should try it both ways at the same restaurant with the same counter guy, and see if he makes me out to be wrong both times.
Just point at the poster (there's always a gyro poster) and grunt.
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for the Commodore 64, where you needed two joysticks to play it - one to control your car and fire the front gun and the other to fire missles, release smoke or oil slick, etc.
My brother and I used to play this game as if he were the driver (since he was older and had a driver's license when I was seven) while I sat in the back seat and handled "demolitions." We were like Spy Kids. Except, you know, cool.
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I'll see your Spy Hunter and raise you an Elevator Action.
Super
Dodge
Ball,
bitch!
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i STILL don't know how to say it and i don't order them anyways because i don't trust the sauce.
nasty assed white sauce.
how do you make a WHITE sauce out of CUCUMBER? it's GREEN!
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You don't like the tzaki? You must LOVE the tzaki!
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how do you make a WHITE sauce out of CUCUMBER? it's GREEN!
The inside is a very pale green, though. Anyway, the marriage of yogurt and cucumber is one of the great recurring themes of world sauces. I read it in a book so it must be true.
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You don't like the tzaki? You must LOVE the tzaki!
Tzaziki (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cda/recipe_print/0,1946,FOOD_9936_1700_PRINT-RECIPE-FULL-PAGE,00.html)?
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I swear, there is a conspiracy at Greek restaurants to make the rest of us feel stupid. If I order a "jye-ro," they say "yee-ro." If I say "yee-ro," they say "jye-ro." I should try it both ways at the same restaurant with the same counter guy, and see if he makes me out to be wrong both times.
Hey, I hope he does. What a great idea. Anyone who has one of those horrible service jobs should get to do something like that to customers.
Tzatziki? But yes, love it however it is spelled.
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how do you make a WHITE sauce out of CUCUMBER? it's GREEN!
The inside is a very pale green, though. Anyway, the marriage of yogurt and cucumber is one of the great recurring themes of world sauces. I read it in a book so it must be true.
It's one of those things you find all over, too. Lebanese have it, Egyptians have it - all over the middle east and the mediterranean, and Pakistan - in India, it's called Raita. And it's all good.
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You don't like the tzaki? You must LOVE the tzaki!
Tzaziki (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cda/recipe_print/0,1946,FOOD_9936_1700_PRINT-RECIPE-FULL-PAGE,00.html)?
Man, I have no idea. I just did a google search for "tzaki sauce" and enough relevant pages came up sos I didn't feel that dumb.
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how do you make a WHITE sauce out of CUCUMBER? it's GREEN!
The inside is a very pale green, though. Anyway, the marriage of yogurt and cucumber is one of the great recurring themes of world sauces. I read it in a book so it must be true.
Yes, indeed, Logic does beat bad joke, but explaining bad joke beats logic (and bad joke beats explaining bad joke. rock paper scissors, kiss my ass!).
In fact, while i was typing that, i figured someone would point out that the INSIDE of a cucumber is not NEAR as green as the outside.
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love the tse-tse fly sauce? no, not so fly sauce. weak sauce, in fact. and i don't CARE how many people or cultures make it and/or like it. if they ALL jumped off a bridge, i, too, would not jump off the bridge, but, in fact, (use more coma's?) would jump up and down in joy that all the people who make WHITE SAUCES were in the gully, Down By The River.
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Now let's disgust Bubble And Squeak, and Cream of Mushroom based sauces, and etc, etc, et al, ad nauseum.
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wheeeeeee.
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My cat's breath smells like cat food.
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WELL THAT'S ALL THE BASES COVERED THEN
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WELL THAT'S ALL THE BASES COVERED THEN
INDEED!
TAKA ownz you all!