I've been exposed to what I call quiz snobbery quite a lot (a form of I-can-answer-quiz-questions-so-I-am-very-intelligent.) . A quiz may reveal someone's knowledge. More often, it reveals that person's store of information. And all too often I get into what I call the DKDC questions...Don't Know, Don't Care! I belong (as do several others on this list) to a very mango-public, high-ignorance-quotient (oh, the joy or groping for, and stumbling on to, the right answer at times!) make-a-lot-of-noise quiz group, that I joined in 1992, moderated for many, many years, and still belong to and help moderate.
Mastermind, to my mind, was the champion of quiz snobbery. "My topic is the relative use of the comma in Shakespeare"...and there follows a series of incomprhensible questions, which the audience watches with awe! Oh, dear, I know several people here have participated in Mastermind...but I stand by my opinion. Also, in the two minutes allotted, the questions could vary, depending on their length (yes I counted) from 8 to 14. Not fair! The whold Brit pomposity of it stopped me watching, even though I enjoyed the general knowledge rounds.Seems to me that quizzing is dying down, but I may be mistaken. American trivia nights that I've attended are very different indeed, in content and culture. I personally wouldn't like to take any quiz that I participate in, beyond the level of enjoyable trivia...but, I guess, DSFDF...Different Strokes For Different Folks. I participated in the Economic Times quizzes back in the day where audience prizes were a little Eco Times note pad, thrown rather inaccurately at one! Has anyone watched the Sunday afternoon quiz that's supposed to have started on some TV channel, I forget which? On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26/08/16, 6:14 PM, "silklist on behalf of Thejaswi Udupa" > <[email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> wrote: > >>I have a fairly simple model for quizzing. I treat it as an >amateur sport. >>And derive the same joy out of it, that a guy > > Ah, but when you treat quizzing as an amateur sport, you read for enjoyment > as well as subconsciously pick out quiz worthy facts from here and there. > What you do isn’t prep for a landmark final – once you become a quizzer, you > just can’t help noticing and retaining facts. > > Similarly, people who enjoy their early morning outing at a cricket net will > be quite happy to watch robelinda2’s youtube videos or pick up old flip books > from blossoms for the sheer fun of it, while subconsciously figuring out how > they can improve their cover drive. Not as batting practice or match prep. > > For the sheer fun of it, not because they dream of an envelope full of > landmark coupons or becoming the next Sachin Tendulkar. > > Of course you get people who obsess over quiz archives and force themselves > to watch movies just because they know for sure it is going to occur as a > Landmark prelim question that will give them the extra one point that will > take them through to the final. > > And professional cricketers routinely go frame by frame through match footage > as part of their prep and formulate strategies to hit some bowler out of the > park when they next face him. > > I am not sure just where the boundary lies where it stops being good clean > fun and suddenly becomes work, but it exists. > > > >
