Board games can be fun. One game friends and I played constantly when it first came out was Trivial Pursuit. Every player had a strength or two, and a weakness. When it comes to quiz questions, my Achilles Heel has always been sport.
This is what I know about sport:
- Don Bradman played cricket.
- Not even Msgr Willis’s sermons were as boring as cricket.
- Nothing on earth is as boring as cricket.
- Jack Clarke [Ron’s brother] wore the number 1 guernsey for Essendon, and John Coleman – whose statue is in the main drag of
- What else… oh, there are two AFL teams whose names begin with F; Fremantle and Collingwood.
Playing Trivial Pursuit, I was always the first or second person to get 5 pieces of pie. But I never, ever got that 6th piece of pie for a sports question, or won a game for about 8 months until the unreal happened:
Til the sports question I was asked was “What is the length of a tennis court?”
My first response to any sports question is HOEWIK*?
But I did it. Somehow, I pondered and chanced upon as good a guess as any, and got the right answer.
UN – REAL!
After I finally had a win I went straight into shock and forgot the answer, and to this day I have no idea how long a tennis court is.
Have you ever had an UN – REAL moment?
*How on earth would I know?
