Trivia in Halifax

It's been far too long since I last posted. I haven't done much, but that's more than nothing. A couple Wednesdays ago DAGS held a trivia night at the Grad House, which they own. DAGS was looking to grad students out socializing with each other, so it organized trivia by academic affliation. As I'm always up for a competition, and because it is my deputy as DAGS rep to tell the mathies, I put together a team. In the end it wasn't too hard to put together a team even on only 2 days notice (even though I'd known for 2 weeks). Rebecca was only able to come to the second half, because she had to work in the Math Learning Centre until 10.

Trivia started late, but not too late considering it was there first time. There were 12 teams there, which is more than was expected. As a result, they ran out of chairs. Just before we started they circulated a registration sheet ?! They wanted us to write down our names and student IDs to make sure we were all grad students. I thought this was a little ridiculous. They also wanted us to use our department names as our team names, and specifically not to make up new ones. We went ahead and made up our own anyway, the Dalhousie Derivatives, and most of the other teams did too. At my prompting, the marking was done as per the Bitters way.

We bombed the first round, but we did better over the next 9 rounds than any other team. In the end, we came 3rd. The evening was enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the next one.

The rest of the mathies enjoyed it too. We're planning on hosting our own trivia night at the Grad House and inviting the profs to come out. It should work out well because booking the Grad House is free. We only have about $350 to spend for the rest of the semester. Rebecca will probably be the host.