top o' the mornin'® 4/9/2014

[earendel]

elwing and I hoped to watch our grandson play his first soccer game last night but the weather didn't cooperate. After driving many miles through the rain and heavy traffic, all the time hoping for a text from our son that the game had been called off, we got to the soccer fields just as they canceled the game.

Oh, well, the evening wasn't a total loss - we had supper at the pizza restaurant where #3 son works. They have trivia every Monday night; the prizes are gift certificates for the restaurant. The format was 9 3-question rounds, for which you had to allocate points, (5, 3, or 1) depending on your confidence level, but you could only use one of the three in each round (if we put 5 points for the first question, we couldn't use 5 again until the next round). At the end of 3 sets of 3 questions there was a "speed round" - you had a certain time limit to complete the question. The first speed round was "Of the 42 territories in the board game RISK, name 10 that are the names of real countries" in 5 minutes.

more than 4 is an act of war

Greenland, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Congo, South Africa, Egypt, Great Britain, Ukraine, Afghanistan, India, China, Mongolia, Japan, Siam and New Guinea.

The second speed round asked for the names of the 5 countries that bordered Kenya (worth 2 points each).

Spoiler

Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan (had to be specific), Tanzania and Somalia

elwing and I were leading by 8 after the first 10 questions and ended up winning by 5. There were 6 other teams, all of which had at least 5 people playing.

[Bob Juch]

Good job! That sounds like a variation of TeamTrivia.