TRIVIA: Oh, the useless knowledge you will retain!
My family spent a decent amount of time at my grandparents' house when I was a child. There weren't a lot of toys at their home, but there were two things that kept me occupied.
My grandma kept puzzles books on her end tables. This was long before sudoku, but I could always count on there being a crossword puzzle or word search laying around.
The other thing was the television. I spent many afternoons watching "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" with my grandmother. This was when "Wheel of Fortune" had a shopping round where the winner of the round would pick from an assortment of prizes, right down to the ceramic greyhound, and put the rest on their account or a gift certificate.
But here we will focus on "Jeopardy!" — the long-running trivia show featuring categories that include "Literature," "Word Origins," "World History" and one of my favorites, "Potent Potables."
"Jeopardy!" was my introduction to trivia and a show that I still find immensely entertaining. It's been fun to absorb knowledge, both useful and useless, over the course of a lifetime and then watch "Jeopardy!" to see how much I've retained.
The next step in my trivia education came when my parents bought me a Trivial Pursuit game in the early 1980s. We would play as a family and my dad would always win.
Even when I was ahead in the game and it looked like I might pull out a victory, my nemesis category would stop me could.
In the original game, the yellow category was history, which it seemed was loaded with questions about the Kennedy and Nixon presidential administrations. Being an adolescent at the time, I knew nothing of U.S. history just prior to and after my birth. My school year always ended when our history class had just gotten to F.D.R.'s administration.
I was always more comfortable with the pink category — entertainment. This meant a lot of TV shows and movies, which was right in my wheelhouse.
Enter "Remote Control," the MTV show that sat contestants in recliners and asked them questions that a teenage TV fan could gobble up. Ken Ober hosted the show with Colin Quinn as the narrator. Adam Sandler (Did I mention it was geared toward teens?) appeared regularly as a variety of characters on the show.
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