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Giving Good Trivia (part 3) |
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again be careful of your audience. If your game or league is full of classical music lovers, you'll be fine; otherwise, stick to popular music. There are lots of other ideas for audio rounds. Some others that we have used with success are: Animal noises (identify the animal) Sing the next line of... (extra marks for tunefulness) Elevator music (quiet orchestral versions of standards) Covers (other people performing hit tunes; I have an album featuring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Muhammed Ali, and others. It's awful!) Bridges (instrumental passages from hit tunes) TV show themes Current Events This is another area where there is great scope for the question setter. Even within the "good players should be able to score seven out of ten" limitation, there are a number of ways to go. You can, of course, be very straightforward and serious, and concentrate on the big events of the world's headlines for that week. Disasters, awards, ceremonies, heads of state, election results, notable deaths, sports news, celebrity marriages and divorces, lawsuits, crimes, and so forth are all grist for the mill. As well, this is a great area to bring in some local colour, by using events and news items from your own city or community. And there's nothing wrong with that approach at all; in fact it's a lot easier to find your questions than the one I usually take. As I mentioned earlier, I like to look for weird and unusual pieces of news; things that are funny, and will amuse the players when they hear the answer. But they have to have been mentioned in a major newspaper or TV or radio newscast, so that everyone has some chance of having heard of them. You can bring in local material nicely here, too. Here are a couple of typical examples: Question: A Brampton man, witness to a robbery, was asked by police if he had got the license number from the getaway car: He was able to give them much more than that; what did he give them? Answer: He gave them the actual license plate, which had fallen off the thief's car. Question: Two residents of a Manitoba community were arraigned on assault charges last week after being involved in a brawl following a heated argument between them. What was the vocation of the two men that made this remarkable? Answer: They were both Trappist monks. (continues) |