Gypsy wrote:
So Rivals Waikiki is 0.6 miles from the Marriott Waikiki Beach Resort Fourteen Other Descriptors. I, of course, walked the wrong way, so it took me a mile and a half to get there.
I walk in and it's a very typical sports bar which is atypical of Honolulu.
I sit at the bar and there's one other player five seats down, playing on a tablet and a device. His handle is ALUMNM. Twelve seconds later I'm sitting next to him.
After a brief introduction which established my trivia geek bona fides, he asks, "Do you know anyone from California?"
"Yes."
"Do you know LILJOL?"
"Yes! I mean, I've never met him face-to-face, but we're Facebook friends."
ALUMNM/BDFARMS looked Irish and was from Vermont. He was a farmer currently living on Kauai. He'd spent three years in New Zealand, training to be a farmer and gave me the incredibly useful trivia that Honolulu was closer to New Zealand than Chicago, which means I can plan a trip to New Zealand on vacation in conjunction with my next business trip to Honolulu. ALUMNM was in Honolulu on business. For farming.
So at 1:30 PM, we're playing LunchTime trivia.
"Who were Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup?"
Thanks to a trivia teammate from Walsh's, I got 1000.
Now we're on SciFiles.
ALUMNM says he sucks at SciFiles, but for a question about Diana Muldaur, the Vermonter/New Zealander/Hawaiian said, "She was on an episode of 'Star Trek:' 'That Which Survives.'"
"Did you just name the 'Star Trek' episode?"
"Yes."
"I am so impressed."
SIX got us on Julia freaking Child, but I precalled a question in Matching about extinct animals. "Quagga! The zebra thing. They tried to replicate its DNA."
"What country was it from?"
"Uh ... "
We did OK, scoring in the Top 100. There were only two of us playing four boards. We won in Hawaii. He had to leave after SIX to catch his plane back to Kauai.
AMUMNM has no phone. He gave me his email address in case I ever get a chance to go to New Zealand.
He went to the bathroom and a gorgeous black woman sitting four seats down from me assumes that ALUMNM and I are together.
"No," says the bartender. "They're strangers."
"You don't know him?" she asks me, incredulously.
"Just met him an hour ago."
I love meeting people through trivia.
Thanks for sharing that.