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Blogocentric Formulations
Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).
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Prompt #95: If you were to join a "trivia night" at a local bar/restaurant, what topic would be your specialty? What topic would you be completely lost on?
I suppose if I had to choose a specialty topic that I'd be an expert in, it would probably be movies/television. I used to keep up on everything way better than I do currently, but I'd say most of my random trivia knowledge probably falls into the general entertainment or pop culture category. Movies, television, books, games, music, etc. are all things I tend to invest time in, so unless we're talking about a super-specific type of trivia question, there's a good chance that I'll know a fair number of general questions about this particular field.
After that, I'd say that my strongest trivia game knowledge categories would be politics/current events, geography, history, or technology/innovation. I couldn't go too far into the weeds in any of those specific areas, but I think I have a strong enough general knowledge that I could do pretty well if the specific topic of the trivia night was like, "departments and branches of the U.S. Government" or "countries of the world" or "past presidents of the United States" rather than something highly specific and specialized like "legislation passed by the U.S. Congress" or "flags of the world" or "cabinet secretaries from the 1950s."
Where I think my true strength would be as a trivia game competitor is that I'm more of what you'd call a "jack of all trades" (and master of none), where I know a little bit about a lot of things, rather than a lot about one or two things. For example, with sports, I'd be an asset to a trivia team if you didn't know what sport you'd be asked questions about. I'd probably be able to answer general questions about anything from baseball and football, to tennis, to Formula One, to the Olympics, so I'd be great in a situation where "Sports" was the broad category and anything could go. I'd be less great in a situation where the sporting category was ultra specific, like, "Quarterbacks of NFL Teams" or "Record-holders in the NBA" because I don't follow any one sport that religiously.
Which is why I tend to prefer games like Trivial Pursuit over trivia nights, because I enjoy being challenged on a breadth of knowledge... and a lot of trivia nights these days get ultra-specific because that's how you draw a crowd. If you have a "Friends Night" that's all about the TV show FRIENDS, that's great and all, but I'd be of very limited use if the trivia questions get ultra-specific about the names of specific episodes or during which season a particular storyline happened. Disney has a lot of trivia games like that too, where they have to make it super-tough because some competitors are fanatics that know the smallest nuances of the company's history. And I'd rather compete in a trivia environment where it's like, "This round's question is to name a particular movie, but the next round might be asking you a home improvement question, and the one after that might be to name one of Obama's Chiefs of Staff, and the one after that might be to name any of the ten countries with smallest population." I think I'd be a big benefit to a team where the questions could come on any particular topic.
The areas of knowledge I would be terrible at, though, are anything involving fashion (most of the time, I can't tell one designer from the next), college sports (just not something I follow), and anything requiring more than a surface-level understanding of science and mathematics (not my strong suits when it comes to academic subjects).
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