Trivia Game (No googling allowed)

goodsamaritan · #1 10-26-2006, 01:13 AM

Okay, let's see if we can get this to work.

Here's how it goes: Poster A asks a question, then people try to respond with the correct answer. The FIRST person to get the answer right then gets to ask their own question and the process starts again. In order to avoid confusion, no one can post a new question until the last question-asker verifies who got it right first by quoting their answer and saying "correct." Even if you are really sure you got the question right, don't ask a new question until the other guy verifies it because it could be a trick question.

For example:
Poster A: "Who invented the light bulb?"
Poster B: "George Washington"
Poster C: "Thomas Edison"
Poster A: "Poster C is correct."
Poster C: "Who hit the most home runs in baseball history?"

A couple more rules:
1. No googling, looking stuff up on wikipedia, or outside research of any kind is allowed. Obviously this will have to be enforced by the honor system. If you get satisafaction out of looking up an answer and pretending that you knew it, you are a tool.
2. Don't ask questions that you are not 100% sure of the answer.
3. Don't ask ridiculously obscure questions like "Who played Prison Guard #2 in Ernest Goes to Prison?"
4. Don't ask questions that have disputed or subjective answers. For example: "Who shot JFK?" It was most likely Lee Harvey Oswald, but there's a small chance it wasn't. Avoid disputed questions like that.
5. Don't ask a question and then go AWOL. There is a 1 hour time limit on all questions, so it shouldn't be hard.
6. If any question is not answered in 1 hour, the first question posted after exactly 1 hour since the previous question becomes the new question. For example, if someone posts a question at 2 am and it is not answered correctly by 3 am, the first question to be asked on or after 3 am is the new question. The timestamp on the post is the official clock for the purposes of this rule.
7. If someone answers a question correctly first, they have 15 minutes to come up with their own new question. If they fail to post a new question in 15 minutes, then the previous question-asker posts another question. If that guy does not post a question after another 15 minutes, then the guy before him posts another question, and so on.
8. Any obvious troll questions like "Who is the gayest poster in OOT?" will be ignored. It will be up to the previous questioner to ask a new question.
9. These rules may be amended by me as necessary to keep this thread running smoothly.

I'll get the ball rolling with a relatively easy question:

Under the current United States Constitution, what is the longest consecutive term that a person could possibly serve as President of the United States?