Trivial

Last night, I attended a reading by Ken Jennings at a somewhat local bookstore. He talked for a bit—and was super charming in his dorky way—before getting down to business and starting the trivia contest.

(On a side note, the crowd was pretty good people watching – game show fanatics are not known for their ability to dress themselves.)

The contest was divided into two rounds - Seattle-specific trivia and general trivia. My mother and I tied for third in the Seattle round, winning tote bags. The questions I missed concerned Bill Gates’s successor at Microsoft, a Sonics player who was the first unrestricted free agent in the NBA, what Ichiro means in Japanese, and the location of the first Dick’s Drive In. And in the second round… I was flawless. Well, I did argue with Ken about one of the answers, (Carolina is not a state.) but it was a poorly worded question.

And now I am the proud owner of a $15 gift card to the bookstore. Not bad for a day’s work.