Marathon Pursuit
It was a pleasant evening at Como when seven of us gathered for one of Rob’s favourites – Trivial Pursuit. The missing person was Steve who is still occupied with looking after his mum who is seriously ill. We elected to play the backup game Ride ’em Cowboy first due to the late arrival of Genelle who had just got in from Melbourne, we thought it would be better for her to miss out on the backup rather than the main game. As it turned out she arrived in time enough not to miss any turns in Cowboy. Thanks Christine for picking her up from the station – that’s dedication, GG came straight from the airport to the meeting by train.
Louise won Cowboy by 45 points from Wayne who scored the highest individual ride but not enough to beat Louise’s consistently high scores. Rob scored the 2nd highest individual ride, but had too many hits on “reverse” to catch up, so was the 3rd placed Cowboy. Rookie Matt had never seen Cowboy before, but soon got into it, even being the timekeeper and main scrutineer during other’s ride attempts. At the end of the backup, Nicole left early to get home due to do work she needed to finish before a trip away. That left six of us to play Trivial Pursuit.
We elected to play as individuals (no teams) but with the supposedly shorter version of the game in which every correct answer scores a “cheese”. It didn’t work out that way – we were still playing near 11pm. Tara began receiving panic texts from her daughter wondering why she was so late! Rob had all but given up on winning his fave game when he was on 1 or 2 cheeses with two other players ahead of him on 4 cheeses each, but then a couple of easy questions allowed him to catch up, and in short order he had 6 cheeses for the win without anyone going above 4 cheeses. Wayne and Tara withdrew, Louise got her 5th cheese and 2nd placing, leaving Genelle and Matt in a Quiz-Off for 3rd place. That tie breaker was hard fought, but GG got over the line. All in all it was generally felt that the questions were quite hard compared to previous sessions.