• moakley@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The first place team also had an old woman named Barb who had been on Jeopardy.

    The other top team was one man.

    But we kept coming back. We kept the same five core members but tried a bunch of people for our sixth. Eventually we got a woman who was legitimately a genius. She got a law degree as a teenager, but she also knew more about 90s gangsta rap than the rest of us. She once complimented me by calling me a polymath, which I immediately undermined by asking what a polymath was.

    We also studied. I was always good at music, but my wife practiced and got good. My sister didn’t start with a specialty, so she took a little time every week to keep up on current events and pop culture. I studied Shakespeare. We didn’t always get first, but we were always contenders.

    We became friends with the quiz master. My wife and I hired him to host trivia at our first baby shower.

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    13 hours ago

    Coming for the first time, naming your team “Quiztina Aguilera”, getting the last place, getting shitfaced in the process.

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      13 hours ago

      Either that or… You’re a Quizzard, Harry Quizlamic Extremists/Fundamentalists Quiz in my pants

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      10 hours ago

      The last one I went to, we tied for first then tied the tie breaker then they made us pick a number and we lost.

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    I think if you look at the fact that 7 of the 12 people this has ever happened to are millennials, or were considered millennials at some point in the 5,000 times the generational definition has been changed, then I suppose yes it could vaguely be construed as a tiny slice of a particular sect of millennial culture.

    Having said that, there are millennials who are grandparents, and I would bet my last buck that there are some who are great-grandparents (or soon to be) at this point. There are millennials still working on their secondary education, living with roommies, and never even been on a date, basically living a lifestyle and culture not much different than people considered Gen Z. The overwhelming majority of us have never experienced anything like the scenario in that post, so from that perspective, I’d say, no it’s not something specifically tied to “millennial culture”.

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      6 hours ago

      Great grand parents who are at maximum 45 years old? So they had kids at 15 and then their kids had kids at 15 who are having kids right now? I mean yeah that could happen. Seems like an extreme outlier but I wouldn’t bet against it.

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        What kind of math is that? They’d be grandparents at 30 if they and their kids had kids at 15…

        It’s possible for both to have had kids at 19 and the grandparent still would be a millenial.

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          You said great grand parents. So parents at 15. Grandparents at 30. Great grand parents at 45. Which is possible but seems like an outlier and not representative of average millennial when discussing millennial experiences or tropes.

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    10 hours ago

    the last pub quiz I went to was a Star Trek/Star Wars hybrid quiz. Our team name was “The Lando Cardassians”

    we won a photo of a storm trooper.

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    15 hours ago

    My millenniall/zoomer team does good on history and sports, poorly on music and movies and we are at first name terms with all the quizmasters, one even occasionally joins our team in other quizzes. Are we the boomers?

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    13 hours ago

    Accurate. I had a late-millennial team. We dominated “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll” trivia. Now the restaurant we played at has been gentrified and is gone and the guy who held the team together passed away. Getting old sucks.

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    Don’t see any indication that Millenials are less into sports than other generations and be honest no generation in America is good at history.

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        I think if that were true, they’d be less succeptible to Nazi propaganda and wouldn’t have voted for the MAGA ticket in droves. They also would’ve taught their kids not to support what their grandparents literally fought and died against in the war…

        Unless you mean civil war history with a particular slant. Certain boomers definitely “studied” that history.