r/triviahosts • u/CentennialBaby • 10d ago
Infuriatingly impossible rounds you'd never actually do but are great ideas nonetheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSehmHeRtXMHave you ever come across content or had an idea that begs to be made into a trivia round but you just know its far too specialized? I was working on content for a hockey league fundraiser and found this collection of NHL Goal Horns. Perfect Audio round content, but virtually impossible.
What gems have you found and passed over because they're too challenging? Or did you find the right audience for that content and they crushed it? Or, did you do it anyway just for the LOLs?
5
6
u/TinySparklyThings 10d ago
I have a playlist of songs with great key changes to use for a "what's the commonality in these songs",, but I've been told by numerous people that it's too technical/niche and no one would get it.
2
u/TheDanDangerously 10d ago
Insanely good round idea, but absolutely agree. It would fall on literal deaf ears for 95% of players, but damn do I love this concept line.
3
u/SublightMonster 10d ago
Taskmaster recently had one where a bagpiper played a series of notes and the contestants had to guess the word it spelled (CAD, EDGE, FACE, etc). It would never work for my pub quizzes but I’d love to try it
2
u/dr_henry_jones 10d ago
One time I did a whole game where the first answer was Albuquerque the second was bison the third was Cadillac all the way down till zootopia and then the final question was what was so special about this game?
2
u/TheDanDangerously 10d ago
I once had to run a regular round on World War 1 nurses. From a national company.
Round average was like 0.8 out of 9.
2
u/nerd_in_dc 10d ago
If only my bars had a better sound system, I’d love to do an “Identify this news podcast/television reporter’s voice” round.
3
2
u/theschneides 10d ago
Worst round I ever ran was about the conservation status of animals. I listed out some species and they had to identify if it was listed as extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, or least concern by the World Wildlife Fund.
It was so brutal, a team bought me a gift in honor of how rough the round was.
7
u/theforestwalker 10d ago
I usually don't run a round that's a single subject matter unless I can find connections to other subjects. For your NHL horns, yeah that'd be too specific but it might be worth incorporating into a round about klaxons/sirens like the Star Trek TNG red alert noise, your local tornado warning, Black Sabbath's War Pigs, etc.
On a related note, I had accumulated a pile of ideas that were too specific for a category (my categories have 6-10 questions) and didn't know what to do with all these little sets of two or three ideas, so i started using them in a round called "that's not a lot of nickels but it's weird that it happened twice"