Why I love Moldovan Teenagers
Over the course of the last two months, the kids in my village's youth council have been putting on an intellectual game they invented called "Harta Europei" or in English, "Map of Europe." It's actually a fairly simple trivia game, pulling questions from all different areas (history, geography, chemistry, pop culture, politics, odds and ends, potent potables etc). However, they added a risk-ish aspect to the trivia contest by having teams (3) compete to conquer Europe. Essentially, each right answer allows them to color in a country in Europe with their team's colors. You can also "attack" other team's countries (which area already colored in) by challenging them to a trivia duel.
Anyway, it has been really fun -- and we invited teams from neighboring villages to come and compete. We represented our village very well as hosts -- with 250 well researched trivia facts, and 3 lightbulb/battery/doorbell rigged buzzers (Thanks Dr. Hadad, high school physics is finally paying off!).
Today was the last contest in the "semi-final" round. And it ended up being a three-way tie, with each team having 10 countries and no more questions left. As the American, and thus the oddball (seriously the trivia questions I think are hard, they all memorized the answers to when they were 12. The ones they think are hard... who wrote the declaration of independence), I was asked to pull out a random, hard trivia question.
The question I chose, knocked out all of the teams -- thus it wasn't that great of a tie breaker, after all.
The question: Name the four members of the Beatles.
The answers: "John Lennon, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star", "We don't know", and "weren't there only 3"
Apparently, the British Invasion never made it to Moldova. Thankfully, the MTV one did.
Anyway, it has been really fun -- and we invited teams from neighboring villages to come and compete. We represented our village very well as hosts -- with 250 well researched trivia facts, and 3 lightbulb/battery/doorbell rigged buzzers (Thanks Dr. Hadad, high school physics is finally paying off!).
Today was the last contest in the "semi-final" round. And it ended up being a three-way tie, with each team having 10 countries and no more questions left. As the American, and thus the oddball (seriously the trivia questions I think are hard, they all memorized the answers to when they were 12. The ones they think are hard... who wrote the declaration of independence), I was asked to pull out a random, hard trivia question.
The question I chose, knocked out all of the teams -- thus it wasn't that great of a tie breaker, after all.
The question: Name the four members of the Beatles.
The answers: "John Lennon, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star", "We don't know", and "weren't there only 3"
Apparently, the British Invasion never made it to Moldova. Thankfully, the MTV one did.
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on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 1:14 PM.
