Mer and I like trivia, and we like food. So, the natural thing to do was to collect Ombudsman and our Latin teacher, Ami, and head to Damon’s for food and interactive, nationwide trivia. We had Mer for literature and foreign languages, Ombudsman for history and civics, Ami for about everything (she is quite good), and me for shouting out the wrong answer (I did get several impressive ones right when we were not officially playing yet).

As an added bonus, it was Monday, so the specials were cheap burgers and wings. This appealed to Ombudsman’s thriftiness. The burgers were all-toppings-free, so Oms was able to try pulled-pork on his burger. He claims the results were quite satisfying. I got a burger, Ami got a burger, so Mer got onion soup. To each his own….

We formed the uber-trivia group Quorum, and we played two complete games after we were done eating the meal (and while I munched happily on chocolate malt cake). We wanted to take on the fearsome “Bood,” who handily won the two games we saw while we were eating, and had the high score at the local restaurant, but he/she/they quit just as we joined. We figured we intimidated Bood.

We did quite well. Out of a possible 15,000 points, we scored over 12,000 in each game and won both times. We got the sixth highest score at the restaurant (in the last few days), and we scored in the top 500 nationwide (it looked like it scored about 10,000 each game). We had a blast – much laughter. We all agreed the trivia game could be addictive (we were convinced we could break 14,000). I hope we get to do it again soon.