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Name this Trivia Team!!!!

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by gsg

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I need some help from the TR community. It's time to pull out your thinking caps, and get creative! Here's the issue:

A bunch of us geeks where I work have gotten together and formed a trivia team. We compete in charity events about once a month or so.

Our dilemma? A good name. For all that's good and holy in this world, we cannot come up with a name for our team that does not make us sound like a bunch of boring goobers.

Any and all suggestions will be entertained. We're not in time for the Pirate themed contest (our team Captain has an authentic reproduction Renaissance pirate outfit he'll be wearing), but there's plenty of time for the next tournament!

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by maecuff

A spermologist is a very intellegent person who knows a vast amount of trivial knowledge.

I learned this from Trivial Pursuit.

by gsg

The only thing I could come up with was an acronym ending with IT, and starting with SH Team. Unfortunately, it was rejected.

by charliespencer

DON'T use 'E-Trivia', 'iTrivia', or "Trivipedia"!

What do y'all have in common besides your geekiness?

Head Crash
Random Access Memory
Google (TM)
Search Engine
Terabyte
Flash Drive
SQL
dBase III, IV, or other Roman numeral for the number of members.

by gsg

All but one of us are in Health Care. We have 1 IT Nurse, 1 nurse manager who used to be in IT, 1 Schoolteacher, and a Healthcare Marketing person. We occasionally bring in a team member's mom as a sub/ringer, who's a member of MENSA.

by seanferd

or Quadvia, to keep with word particle replacement more closely. Since the "four" bit keeps cropping up.

by gsg

If we use one here, then you can be an honorary member of the team. Since we're almost always voted "Most Rowdy Team", the TR community in general will fit right in. We're getting better. Last tournament, we missed first place by 1 1/2 points.

by maecuff

I would love that! My husband and I are trivia freaks. Between the two of us, we do pretty good. Although, my contributions usually center around the pop culture questions..nothing too deep for me. :)

by boxfiddler

The Masters of Nugatory?

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
nu?ga?to?ry /ˈnugəˌtɔri, -ˌtoʊri
?adjective
1. of no real value; trifling; worthless.
2. of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain.
3. not valid.
[Origin: 1595?1605; < L nūgātōrius worthless, useless, trifling, equiv. to nūgā(rī) to trifle + -tōrius -tory1]

?Synonyms 1. trivial, insignificant, frivolous. 2. useless, inoperative.

edit: lose some extraneous bits.

by gsg

So far, Palmetto is "winning". He suggested Random Access Memory, and someone here suggested we change it to Randomly Accessed Memory.

Tomorrow night is the big tournament that usually has about 40 teams. Last year we raised well over $70,000 for local kids who can't afford school supplies, shoes, clothes, etc... This program also sends some kids home on Friday with special backpacks full of healthy foods for them and their families.

by seanferd

Triviac

Three roads

The third way

on the corner

liberal artists

We know

Have answers, will travel

Trivial gray matter

minutiae

by gsg

We're not sure what place we got Saturday night because the organizers didn't announce it, but we know we were only 4 points off of 2nd place. We got 72 out of 100 points, and compared to last year, that's the score the first place team got. Our next contest is March 29th, and we're studying the four things they seem to be asking lately:
1) Questions on the Periodic Table of Elements
2) They always ask something from "To Kill a Mockingbird". Last 5 contests, at least 2 questions.
3) Something about the stupid gold dollar coin or the state quarters.
4) Geography

We're splitting this up and the 4 core members of the team are each going to study an area. We'll get first place or die trying!

by tig2

I know you guys can do it!

So what the smeg are y'all calling yourselves???

Considering the questions, Generivial?

Study the areas, but consider The Crucible, the $2 bill, plate tectonics, and Physics as alternative study points.

by gsg

There WAS a question on plate tectonics!

What is the only city in the world that is situated on two continents?

Scroll for answer

keep going

not there yet

this is monotonous isn't it?

And the answer is....

Istanbul

by seanferd

You can do it Duffy Moon!

Good to hear you're having fun and doing a fine job of it. More power to ya!

What is up with #s 2 & 3? Odd.

by gsg

OMG!!!!

Finally, someone else who understands the reference!

Gotta love the old after school specials.

by gsg

We have 5 more tournaments coming up in the next 3 months. You'd be amazed at how many are out there once you start looking for them.

Usually the entry fee is $10 per person, and they provide food. Chips, cookies, pizza, etc... It's a lot of fun, and we end up spending quite a bit of money to buy raffle tickets, etc... but it always goes for a good cause. The next one will benefit "A sporting chance" which is somehow affiliated with the Special Olympics.

by seanferd

I never actually recalled that the title is The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon. Now that is going to stick in my head!

by seanferd

With teams like yours, I imagine that the events get a good draw. Its great that proceeds are generated for a charitable cause. I'm amazed at how many people in the TR community are involved in raising money and awareness for charitable efforts. You all ROCK!

by boxfiddler

I'm always amazed at how much is stuffed in some dusty back corner of my brain that I didn't even really realize I picked up on at some point in pre-history. lol
I play with my department when there are campus fund-raisers. And Trivial Pursuit with some family who love it.

Have a ball and keep up the good work!

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