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[Ben-San]

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.

[V-Adore]

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.)

[jough]

I have seen Trivial Pursuit ruin many happy relationships.

[arkabee]

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.

[andalucia]

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.

[slink]

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.

[AugustWest]

I suck at trivia.

[Bozack]

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.

[Gimpson]

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.

[CortJstr]

You know, considering the content of most of our threads we might have been better off going with You Don't Know Jack categories.

[arkabee]

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.

[St_Zartan]

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.

[arkabee]

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?

[V-Adore]

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.

[wombat]

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.