#anyways I'm like this on p much any trivia show I ever watch | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thepandalion · 2 days ago

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nothing in this world is more satisfying than watching trivia shows where, for all intents and purposes, you're not the intended audience and you are fully aware you're not gonna get anything right, and then you get something right either before the contestants do or that the contestants get entirely wrong

#has previously been about only connect (which is very british and I have been to the uk twice in my whole life for less than 2 weeks total)#(the question was a music question)#(they had flight of the bumblebee and the flea waltz and idr what else and I went “insects” like 4 seconds before they got it)#currently about “um actually�� wherein there was a question about discworld #and. I have never read a single terry pratchett book in my life #but they had a maps question and instead of a map one time it was the sentence “you cant map a sense of humor”#to which I went “oh that sounds like a thing terry pratchett would do. is this discworld?”#which. none of them got #also makes me feel vaguely confident in my nerd abilities when they show book covers #and I see enders game and know it immediately despite having last read the book a decade ago #(in my defense enders game changed my brain chemistry in slight untracable ways)#((there was also a timelines question on time travel media and I got bttf2 but also groundhogs day which none of the contestants got??))#((despite. the very visual way they did the timelines showing the fucking Loop??))#anyways I'm like this on p much any trivia show I ever watch #like I only get 2-3 questions right but on Every trivia show I watch. all of them #which. yknow. who has space for all of that in brain at 21 and passively #sometimes I still think abt that one time a trivia show asked abt white pepper #and I went immediately “oh its the same as black pepper they just make it differently”#which. is correct btw. but absolutely flabbergasted my mom that I pull this out of nowhere #I aspire to know tiny bits of irrelevant knowledge #like its not even my party trick. thats recognizing birds on sight and knowing random undertale facts #but then you sit me down in front of a trivia show and usually I'm wrong #and then everyone gets something wrong and I get it right and its like where did I even learn this #its great fun #I should assemble a trivia team at some point

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