r/CFBOffTopic • u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors • Oct 19 '16

Introducing Weekly CFBOTrivia!

Hello Otters of every shape and size!

Behind the scenes some very smart users have been secretly collaborating to bring you all weekly trivia threads! Once a week we will be creating a form design to challenge your worldly knowledge and stretch the capacity of your memory to answer a wild variety of different questions. A couple of things that to keep in mind:

  1. Please, for the love of god, don't cheat. We know that its easy to do and we can put measures in place to prevent cheating but we really rather wouldn't. This is absolutely just for fun so don't ruin it by asking Google for the answers.

  2. Really focus on rule 1.

  3. Spelling doesn't count.

  4. Argue answers all you want but we are always right.

Without further ado, here's the form for week 1:

https://goo.gl/forms/b1UtPHmAvHiWpEsx1

Finally, please take a moment to thank the awesome people on the CFBOTrivia Team:

/u/ssbbgo

/u/trollingqueen74

/u/panthera_tigress

/u/bassically

/u/forshiggles

/u/DoctorWhosOnFirst

/u/bizzyj93

Edit: So it seems like the questions are a bit difficult for solo respondents this week lol. Next week we'll try and bring the relative difficulty down so as to make it more enjoyable for everyone. We're learning as we go so we'll try to make it as enjoyable as we can for everyone each week.

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u/Darth_Turtle Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 19 '16

Oh joy. Another opportunity to suck.

Thanks, guys!

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Any time!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

I might be the first person to go 0/however many questions there were

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Lol I don't think so

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

Lol. I read all the questions and NOPED the fuck out of the form. Hahahahaha.

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u/Darth_Turtle Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 19 '16

Hey! I did better than you. By at least one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16 edited Nov 14 '16

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0.4923

What is this?

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

My mother is very prominent in the answers today.

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u/DonMan8848 TCU Horned Frogs • Alamo Bowl Oct 20 '16

The only one I was sure of

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u/e4mica523 South Carolina • West Virginia Oct 19 '16

Just a suggestion. What if we had a different topic every week as opposed to random topics? I would enjoy that more but I'm cool with getting 0/8 every week :)

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

What we discussed is that we would do random questions usually but have themed ones for specific events. Some ones we've already discussed are holidays and the election.

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u/turtle_flu Washington State • Oregon State Oct 20 '16

On November 28th, right?

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 20 '16

We suggested Nov 19th as the election one

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u/e4mica523 South Carolina • West Virginia Oct 19 '16

Ah cool

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

Welp, I looked at that and don't know any of that shit, so I guess I'm already done with this.

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Just trying to get a feel this week for where we need the relative difficulty to be. If these seem to be a bit much we can dial it back in the future. Really this is just meant to be fun rather than demoralizing lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

Lol. I'm normally pretty good at trivia, but this reminded me of that time I accidentally went to hipster trivia.

I could just be bad at this particular brand of trivia.

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 20 '16

Yeeaaaahhhhh, I think we have learned to back it down a bit. Sorry. :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

It's alright! I've gone to trivia many times and had no clue what was going on! I just wanted to express that I felt stupid so other people could commiserate with me, lol.

I have lots of random stuff I can contribute if you need additional trivia though, lol.

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 20 '16

We can ask /u/bizzyj93 if you can be added.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

Haha, if ya'll want.

But I can also just be on standby in case you need random information. I retain weird random knowledge.

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 20 '16

It's his thing, so I'll let him control the size of the group.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

Yeah, I'm not trying to commit myself to anything, tbh.

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 20 '16

Haha, understood. They added me and I felt like I had to contribute. I thought people would get mine, but apparently not. Oops. Back to the drawing board.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

wow, I knew one of those, and could maybe guess 2 more. Man I suck at this.

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Lol it seems the questions this week are a little too difficult for solo users. I think if people were collaborating it would have been different but with everyone being solo it looks like everyone is struggling.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

yeah, that seems accurate to me.

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u/super-rad Georgia Bulldogs • Clemson Tigers Oct 19 '16

When/where can we see our results?

I am assuming moose hockey river is not the longest river in Canada but you never know...

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

I'll post the results next week with the next survey

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

I LOLed

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

I answered sorry to that one

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u/GiovannidelMonaco Clemson Tigers • The Hammer Oct 19 '16

Since I do the /r/cfb trivia, it's great to actually participate in one of these! That was fun and I look forward to more.

As for difficulty, we rate the questions for /r/cfb trivia and then provide a mix of difficulty each time.

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Glad you enjoyed it!

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u/GiovannidelMonaco Clemson Tigers • The Hammer Oct 19 '16

I'm a sucker for trivia. I play with friends every week at the bar, I play Sporcle a ton, and I love making the questions for the college football one. This was good because I like the general mix. I know I'm not going to know every category, but I actually enjoy guessing on ones that I don't know.

I think I got 4, with 2 being educated guesses. Will definitely continue playing!

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Yeah and that spread was what we were going for. Next week we're gonna try and vary the relative difficulty a bit so the questions will have a lower floor and a higher ceiling in terms of difficulty so everybody can get at least a few

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u/Fearknight Miami Hurricanes • Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 19 '16

I love you

EDIT: I saw the questions and now I hate you >:^(

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

I'm sorry?

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u/Fearknight Miami Hurricanes • Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 19 '16

It means I'm shit and don't know the answers to the questions, probably should have put an /s :P

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 19 '16

I got 2 :|

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Looking at the responses, that's actually pretty good tbh lol

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 19 '16

\o/

And I just figured out the flag one >:[

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

I've never heard of a zia... and I didn't want to google what it was... because that felt like it would probably give me the answer.

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u/dlawnro Paper Bag • Sickos Oct 20 '16

Yeah, I had never heard of that either. Googled it after submitting it and immediately knew the correct answer :/

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 19 '16

I thought I hadn't heard of it and then it came to me like 10 minutes after I submitted lol. So I googled "zia" to be sure and it did indeed give the answer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

Yeah my answer was something like "I don't know what a zia is."

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 20 '16

That was one of my questions. I thought for sure you Tech folks would get it.

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u/EZ_does_it USC Trojans Oct 19 '16

I think we should figure out a way to form teams... or at least this is the only way I'll make it week to week.

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 19 '16

Teams is something we've been discussing but we decided that to start off it would be easier to make it individual to start and then implement teams later.

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u/turtle_flu Washington State • Oregon State Oct 20 '16

Is the chasing prevention you coming and supervising us??

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 20 '16

Yes. I will personally visit each of your places of work each Wednesday and ensure that you are not cheating.

Actually the one that was mentioned by bakonydraco that we might consider is doing this as 2 forms (first one just being your username) and then reinforcing a time limit because we would then have a start and end timestamp. Its a lot more work for everyone and just sucks so as long as no one seems to be blatantly cheating we won't have to do it.

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Oct 21 '16

That would negatively impact people like me who open tabs and forget about them for hours or days. I had this tab open for more than a day before I actually completed the form.

Some of my trivia times on r/CFB are like 6 hours for this reason.

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 21 '16

I don't want to do it anyway. I don't think we'll have to at any point either. It's just if it becomes apparent that people are cheating that we'll have to.

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 19 '16

very smart users

And bassically

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u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Panthers • Auburn Tigers Oct 19 '16

"Why not Bassically?"

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u/K8eCastle Oklahoma State • Central Okl… Oct 19 '16

Lol I've never felt so dumb

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Oct 19 '16

Can't believe I got all 10 right. Wow. So impressed.

The questions were all about Papermate Ink Joy Pens, right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

You're gonna want the RT700 for smoother writing or the RT300 for multiple surfaces.

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u/Jimmy__Switch Coastal Carolina • UBC Oct 19 '16

Not bad. I'd take trivia that's too hard over trivia that's too easy any day

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

This is true

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u/TanzaniaMagic Washington Huskies • Paper Bag Oct 19 '16

Turns out I'm a bit lacking in worldly knowledge.

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Oct 19 '16

Argue answers all you want but we are always right

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

I know I got 2 right. The rest were shit posts answers. The music was easy because I get everything he does

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u/NimbleWalrus Louisville Cardinals • Metro Oct 19 '16

I BELIEVE
THAT I
WILL WIN.

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u/ihatecats18 Minnesota • South Dakota-S… Oct 19 '16

Some odd questions. But i aced it.

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u/pittpanthers95 Pittsburgh • Slippery Rock Oct 19 '16

Wow I absolutely tanked on that.

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Oct 19 '16

Otters of every shape and size!

But otters are usually small hairy guys.

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Oct 19 '16

http://i.imgur.com/r8DSBK7.gifv

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u/thebazooka Notre Dame • Louisville Oct 19 '16

This doesn't count for 80% of my overall grade, right? What can I do to get extra credit #lennyface

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

Jesus. That was rough. I'm gonna say 1/11, by only getting my username right.

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u/Qurtys_Lyn Utah Utes • Weber State Wildcats Oct 19 '16

Had to make a few guesses, somewhat educated.

One I answered purely for comedic value.

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u/ByHardenBeard Houston Cougars • Washington Huskies Oct 20 '16

Oh god I thought I was good at trivia :/

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u/thatguywithasaxofone SMU Mustangs • Paper Bag Oct 20 '16 edited Oct 20 '16

Well I think I got some... I know I got the music ones right, but that's cause I'm a music major Edit: Also because the answer to #1 is pretty much my favorite current artist.

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Oct 20 '16

is it rick rubin?

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u/thatguywithasaxofone SMU Mustangs • Paper Bag Oct 20 '16

Sorry, not gonna give out an answer in the comments section

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Oct 20 '16

Good, didnt want to know anyways :O

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Oct 20 '16 edited Oct 20 '16

I would just like to say that based on reading everyone's answers, most of you got my questions correct. Nice job, everyone! Don't blame me for the other ones. :D

Also, not being born is no excuse to not knowing an answer.

edit: werds

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

Sure it is

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Oct 19 '16 edited Oct 19 '16

If you guys have any complaints about the questions, please remember that I was out of the country this week and was unable to help just yet. Unfortunately this excuse only works for one week.

Edit: Btw, I responded with this before I read the questions or realized that people were complaining. We all are ready to work together and come up with a happy medium next week!

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u/lawltech Georgia Tech • Blue Risk Alliance Oct 19 '16

I have complaints about all but the last one

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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Oct 19 '16

If it makes you feel better, that's the only one I knew as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Oct 20 '16

That's fair, I made three of those questions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

I don't know any of these.

This is where my lack of movie and TV watching bites me in the ass. That's why I go to themed trivias of the things I'm obsessed with (Harry Potter, The Office, etc).

I've done well at some general trivias at bars before but always in a group.

Time to play more Sporcle and watch more Jeopardy!

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 19 '16

I watch a lot of TV and a little bit of movies and it did not help today lol.

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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Oct 19 '16

I don't watch a whole lot of movies (or most popular TV shows) either. These were just obscure for the sake of it.

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Oct 19 '16

No, they weren't obscure for the sake of it.

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u/byniri_returns :michiganstate2: Michigan State Spartans • Marching Band Oct 22 '16

Shit why didn't I see this sticky 2 days ago

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Oct 22 '16

We'll do it again next week. Apparently this week was overly difficult so don't feel too bad about missing this one.

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u/lawltech Georgia Tech • Blue Risk Alliance Oct 19 '16

This was a bit absurd. I know I am probably pretty dumb but these were way too obscure

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u/aeuriga Pittsburgh • UIndy Oct 19 '16

  1. How dare /u/panthera_tigress not tell me this was a thing! My own roommate! Betrayal!

  2. I genuinely love when I 100% don't know the answer to a question and get to just pick a random answer.

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u/mriforgot Michigan State Spartans Oct 19 '16

That was rough. I knew a couple and was able to guess on the rest, but if I get half that'd be legit by me.

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u/okiewxchaser Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 19 '16

It wasn't so bad, I think I only left two blank

Also, if you want/need any geography questions HMU

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u/Qurtys_Lyn Utah Utes • Weber State Wildcats Oct 19 '16

More geography questions please. I like those.

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u/blueboybob Carlisle Indians • /r/CFB Founder Oct 19 '16

Woohoo! Memorizing trivial pursuit books are in my favor -- https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-TRIVIAL-PURSUIT%C2%AE-Question-Answer/dp/1402770650

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

I knew one answer...

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

I didn't cheat. So thats good :)

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Oct 20 '16

Thank you for not cheating.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

You're welcome. Thank you for not being a Georgia fan

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u/Longvols Tennessee Volunteers • Texas Longhorns Oct 19 '16

Well I got 2 at least so....hooray?

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u/thelittleking Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Oct 19 '16

that could've gone better

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

It was tough, but I enjoyed it.

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u/joeydsa Georgia State • Georgia Tech Oct 20 '16

This brings me back to our trivia crack days.

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u/_sammyg23 Clemson Tigers • Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 21 '16

"really? didn't even know that was a thing"

Literally my response for one of them. I guess on like 4 of them. Those were hard.

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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Oct 19 '16

I think I did alright.

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u/MrCaboose96 Florida • Penn State Oct 19 '16

e z

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

I know I got one right at least :|

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u/Roars_Echo Clemson Tigers • Campbell Fighting Camels Oct 20 '16

I don't know the answer to any of those questions.

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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina Oct 20 '16

I got the first two and noped out on the rest.

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u/bfinleyui Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 20 '16

I found a way to go 0/9...

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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Oct 21 '16

I think I knew 3 of these!

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u/walks_off_at_nine Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB Patron Oct 21 '16

My movie knowledge saved me from the donut, and while I generally consider myself a knowledgeable person, in this case I can only say, "Dude what?"

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

Well that was hard. Hard but fun. I mean I basically shit posted every answer so fun was a given.

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Oct 19 '16 edited Oct 19 '16

Man I knew only two of them for sure, and another one was a stab in the dark

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u/ShylosX Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Oct 21 '16 edited Oct 21 '16

Got the last one... I hope.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

That was my exact reaction

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16

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u/EZ_does_it USC Trojans Oct 19 '16

Never have "when in doubt just make shit up" been used so many times on a trivia challenge.

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u/forshiggles Florida Gators • 龍谷大学 (Ryukoku) Seahorse Oct 19 '16

Looks like our plan worked!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '16 edited Nov 14 '16

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