ACT English practice test 62

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The End of Trivia?

Ever since the 1960s, when trivia was popularized as a pastime by the invention of collegiate Quizbowl and the premiere of the beloved quiz show Jeopardy!, bars and restaurants all over the country patrons

with quiz patrons form teams with friends or strangers and compete for prizes of food, beverages, or even cash. Of course, the environment is

much than on a game show: instead of using buzzers, players sit with their teams and write down answers to the questions a bar employee asks over a microphone, then turn in their sheets to be scored at the end of the night. But now that nearly everyone carries a phone or some other portable device with Internet

cheating has become nearly impossible to control.

trivia questions involve information that is obscure but interesting, such as “Who is the only president to have also served as chief justice of the Supreme Court?” (the answer is William Howard Taft) or “What was the first animated film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture?” (the answer is Beauty and

the Beast). In a pub-quiz the possible answers over with your friends is half the fun. When people first began carrying cell phones, players sometimes called friends during games, but even then,

you still a friend who knew the answer,

it wasn’t that much of a problem.

But phones with Internet access are a different story:

if cheating on those by the pub’s staff, then every team will know the answer to every question! But stopping this is very hard indeed: someone typing into a tiny phone under the table is tough to spot in a big bar, and if a player sneaks into the

bathroom to cheat with a him or her is impossible!

Some quiz nights have chosen to trust in the honor

system,

Other venues have tried to develop 70 “cheat-proof” questions, like playing very short clips from pop songs or projecting celebrity yearbook

pictures onto a screen and asking players to But trivia purists often balk at such

identifying yearbook pictures or drum fills, they argue, is not true trivia. True trivia concerns bits of information … but every bit of information can be

looked up on a portable device!

The biggest threat is that future generations raised on technology

that can instantly summon up any factoid at the push of a button will have no motivation to memorize them, and hence no interest in trivia!

English practice 62