HawaiiThreads Trivia Game

[kimo55]

Re: HawaiiThreads Trivia Game

I say again, "Eehhhh??"

uuuuhh. maybe you can explicitly describe what ya have a problem with here?

[scrivener]

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Here are the questions for Day 29 (whew!), due by 9:00 in the evening on April 1. Last day of the game!

question 1
category: HawaiiThreads
On what date and at what time was the first post at HawaiiThreads submitted?


question 2
category: HawaiiThreads
Which HawaiiThreads regular was born on August 13, 1972?


question 3
category: HawaiiThreads
"In a word," what does HawaiiThreads "bring to the party," according to its administrators?



Send your answers to me in PRIVATE MAIL by 9:00 p.m. April 1!

[helen]

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Scores, day 27:

66.1: Surfingfarmboy
63.8: ZZType
57.1: EastCoastTropics
33.8: Moto
30.85: Helen
22.6: Kalei99
***************

Scores, day 28:

69.1: Kalei99
66.8: Helen
59.1: Moto
36.8: EastCoastTropics
30.85: ZZType
25.6: Surfingfarmboy
***************

It seems that Surfingfarmboy and Kalei99 got each other scores, as well ZZtype and myself being switched and Moto and EastCoastTopics.

[zztype]

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Mitchell is sitting there, laughing his 'okole off, I'll bet!!!

[EastCoastTropics]

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Good one scrivener! Have a good April Fools Day everybody!!

[zztype]

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...April Fools Day...!!

Doh! Nailed before I even set foot out of the house!

[Kalei99]

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What's the problem? I don't have a problem with those scores!

[Moto]

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I agree, the scores look great to me....

Happy April Fools day Everyone!!!!

[scrivener]

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Here are the answers for Day 29 the last day of this round of the HawaiiThreads Trivia Game!

question 1
category: HawaiiThreads
On what date and at what time was the first post at HawaiiThreads submitted?

The First Post went up on April 9, 2004 at 7:14 p.m. That means it's about time for the first birthday. Anyone wanna meet for ice cream on the 9th? I'm totally serious. Anyway, ZZType (who almost missed it but noticed his typo and sent in a correction!), Helen, EastCoastTropics, Surfingfarmboy, Moto, Kalei99, and Mel knew their stuff and get one point each!

question 2
category: HawaiiThreads
Which HawaiiThreads regular was born on August 13, 1972?

That would be Kilinahe. It turns out that even with a question like this, Google was your best option, as a search for HawaiiThreads with "August 13, 1972" in quotation marks returns exactly one match. High fives to ZZType, Helen, EastCoastTropics, Surfingfarmboy, Kalei99, and Mel!

question 3
category: HawaiiThreads
"In a word," what does HawaiiThreads "bring to the party," according to its administrators?

Wow. That's quite a claim, isn't it? I mean, when that was written, "everything" was a lot! But now that we've seen a trivia game here, I think we can say we've seen just about everything after all! So points to ZZType, EastCoastTropics, Surfingfarmboy, Kalei99, and Mel for finding it in the FAQ. Turns out Google was the best option here, too. I swear, the next time we do this we're either going all-Google or all-Google-PROOF!

Those of you who were taken aback by last night's scores can thank MOTO, who suggested it as an April Fool's joke! Woo! That was just...classic! Classic, I tellya. I was giggling so hard last night I think I wet myself!

Okay, so here are the actual, honest-to-goodness final scores!

72.1: Surfingfarmboy
69.8: ZZType
62.1: EastCoastTropics
37.8: Moto
32.85: Helen
28.6: Kalei99
26.9: Mel
11: Linkmeister
9: Kimo55
6.5: Miulang
5: Kilinahe
3: LikaNui, Mokihana
1: Glen Miyashiro

Congratulations to everyone who participated and had fun--'cause fun was the whole point. I've got the munchies like crazy, so I'm going to have some food and then I'll be back to (a) discuss the (small but) nice prizes and (b) do a little wrap-up on the whole game. Back in half an hour or so!

[Moto]

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Thank you for your time in putting together this challenging Trivia Game. Really enjoyed it.

[scrivener]

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The question was about the Hasegawa General Store, but Surfingfarmboy's answer included this:

Side note: When I hear the name "Hasegawa" I don't think of the Hasegawa Store; rather, I think of the first girl in my life I thought I couldn't live without..Vickie Hasegawa..she was my first crush.

Perhaps it is the romantic in me, or perhaps it is the English teacher in me ('though come to think of it, one of those mes is probably the reason the other exists) that sees something important here. Something in this response resonates for me, so please indulge a little bit of my expositing.

In the eighties, Irving Wallace (bestselling author of The Word), Amy Wallace, and David Wallechinsky wrote a book of what appeared to be trivia, but they considered what they were compiling to be exactly the opposite of trivia, so they called their book Significa, and what a great title that is; truly, the opposite of something trivial is something significant, and if something is lodged in one's brain for no apparent, immediate, practical reason, the temptation (or perhaps the societal pressure) is to call it "useless knowledge." I have been proclaimed the king of useless knowledge by my friends. All my life.

Here's the thing, though. If it was truly useless, and by that I mean significant only to me, I'd be the only person who remembered this stuff. Yet clearly, I am not the only one who remembers this stuff. Google-hunting aside, very few questions I've put forth in this space this past month went unanswered. If you remembered this stuff and I remembered this stuff, that sounds pretty dang significant, wouldn't you say?

I came up with the vast majority of these questions myself; they are the product of my own wandering mind, so clearly, they are not trivial to me. The Hasegawa question reminded Surfingfarmboy of his first crush, and how could that ever be trivial? The day we remembered those commercial spokespeople, Moto sent me a whole list of local commercials I didn't include. The day we matched high schools with their sports teams' nicknames, ZZType had occasion to remember the alma maters (almas mater?) of his father and father-in-law. Linkmeister thought the Steven Wright quote sounded like Lily Tomlin, and although it wasn't, it prompted him to look up some of his favorite Lily Tomlin quotes. Helen gave me a small piece of information that I can't imagine I'll ever use, so of course I'm filing it away for when I'll need it (I now know the names of TWO Klingon warships!). That squid luau question gave EastCoastTropics reason to think about those times when she gets to come home, and that's the word she used: Home. Yeah. It's still her home.

This is just a small sample of some of the great stuff I got to read in private mail, and it was all prompted by seemingly silly, seemingly useless knowledge. I really felt that we connected in small, perhaps temporary, perhaps lasting ways.

And you know, that's what we do here. Here-HawaiiThreads and here-the-Internet. We find ways to make connections and we get involved in each others' lives and sometimes we have amazingly profound conversations prompted by the silliest of topics and sometimes what seem like topics of extreme importance are springboards for uncontrolled silliness.

I say all this because I'm very, very grateful for your participating in this silly little contest; it was a lot of work, but every day when I came home from work, I got to read these wonderful stories from you all about stuff that had significance to you and to me. Your participation was an encouragement, not only as an affirmation of my efforts to do something we'd consider fun, but as an affirmation of my belief that there is no such thing as useless knowledge.

Neither is there such a thing as meaningless conversation. So if you've mostly been lurking, experiencing vicariously the connecting that the bananas who frequent this place get to experience, I encourage you to put something out there. There are threads here about tiny cans of soda! Anything is fair game, anything can lead to something really nifty, and it's all significant, if only for being a record of what you felt like talking about on some particular day.

We'll do this again sometime, perhaps in a few months. Meanwhile, there's nothing stopping anyone else from coming up with their own similar (or dissimilar) activity!

[scrivener]

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The prizes are not a big deal, but I do want to award them. Surfingfarmboy's getting the first pick; after that, ZZType chooses from what's left, then EastCoastTropics.

There are two booby-prizes: one is for the most consistent participant and one is for the funniest or most creative answers. It turns out that both booby prizes go to the same person: Helen. I'm going to exercise executive authority and award Helen one of the booby prizes and the other to the participant who placed second in both these categories: Moto.

You'll hear from me in private mail, and once everything's been distributed, I'll post an announcement here!

[zztype]

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Mitchell, and all who participated, thanks so much for the hard work. This was a blast. I found myself stressing over the answers when they didn't come quickly and spent time calculating and plotting how I was going to pass SurfingFarmBoy!!

I can say that I blew off truly important tasks for the benefit of this contest. (Yes, I know, it was for me, not the contest.) Evidence, my ranting the other night on seeing the scrambled scores. I was serious! A few posts, a few private messages and even an email sent directly to Mitchell went unanswered! I was FUMING! Imagine my embarrasment the next morning on seeing MOTO's "April Fools" message.

Frankly, that was TOO FUNNY!!!

Thanks so much, mahalo, mahalo, mahalo!

Blaine

[EastCoastTropics]

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Mahalo for the trivia game Mitchell! There were a couple days there where I couldn't participate because I was too busy with planning my daughter's baby shower (I going be a Nana for da first time). But I tried to play everyday and it was a lot of fun!

Your April Fool's Day joke was a good one...I'm usually the one who plays jokes on others...hehehehe!

Again, mahalo!!!

L

[Linkmeister]

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A good game indeed. Thanks, guy.

I came up with the vast majority of these questions myself; they are the product of my own wandering mind, so clearly, they are not trivial to me.

I'll bet each one of us could come up with some questions, although certainly not the exhaustive 30 days worth that you did. I know my mind has more small facts in it than is absolutely necessary for my continuing existence. Forex, from 7th grade English:

Who was "the man without a country?"

I got that question once in an interfraternity contest similar to GE College Bowl, and without hesitation said "Phillip Nolan."

"Ding!"