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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Recommendations for trivia games wanted
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Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 11:52:15 EST
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David Levine asks for alternative trivia games.

I have a 3M Bookshelf Game called "Facts in Five: A Game
of Knowledge."  It carries a 1967 copyright on the cover pix
and a 1971 copyright on the instructions.  The card deck
doesn't give specific questions.  Rather, it gives Subject
Classes and subordinate categories.  The object is to name
5 members of the Class/Category.  The game can be played
without equipment--the players can make up their own categories.

I recall a version of this played by my high school cohorts.  They
would sit in a circle and clap hands to establish a rhythm.  One
person would name a category and everyone in turn named an instance,
ending with the person who chose the category.  Then the next player
announced a new category.  It was mostly done for fun and to sharpen
the mind.  I don't recall any scoring system.

				-- Barry Kort
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