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We had our pub trivia evening last night and it was a great event enjoyed by all. We indulged in the tasty delights of the Rag & Famish kitchen (and a few refreshing bevies) before getting stuck into the real fun of the night – trivia.

We felt compelled to obey the instructions on our limited edition beer coasters and put away our iPhones & blackberries for the evening, focusing only on our intellect for the Answers.

We got off to a good start – we knew the name of Martin Crane’s dog in Frasier and we worked out that a picture of a woman with a lion tattoo on the back of her neck was Mena Suvari from American Beauty. We totally rocked the questions about 90s fads, such as what was the Japanese toy that looked like an egg? and what was the furry toy that you train to do things such as speak English?

However there were a few topics that we were particularly lacking in expertise. Did you know that Russell Crowe’s character in Gladiators was called Maximus Decimus Meridius? We didn’t! We also didn’t know that the Volga River is the longest in Europe (who said the Danube??!) and we didn’t know that the city in the famous expression ‘See this city and then die’ was referring to Naples.

Despite these mistakes, we came a respectable fourth. We had a great time distributing our coasters and meeting the community members. Everyone who attended received some of our limited edition coasters and a lovely Yahoo! hat.

We got some great feedback but for those of you who couldn’t make it, what would you have liked to ask us or tell us to help make your Answers experience better? We’ll send some Yahoo!7 Answers coasters to the best 3 suggestions!

Caitlin
Community Manager

As you’re a Yahoo!7 Answers regular, you’re probably one of those people who love learning new things and testing your random knowledge. So if you’re anything like us, you love a good old pub trivia night. What could be better? Jugs of beers, companionship and some curly questions like who was the first man on Mount Everest’s peak? and who came up with the arrangement of numbers and symbols on a computer keyboard?

So if you’re in Sydney, we’re inviting you to come and play pub trivia with us, the Yahoo!7 Answers team. We will be at the Rag & Famish hotel in North Sydney next Tuesday night 24th March to see if we’ve learnt anything from years of working at Answers.

As an additional bonus, we’ll be giving away our limited edition Yahoo!7 Answers beer coasters as well.

So come and join our team or bring some mates and compete against us. Imagine the kudos of beating the Answers team!  We’ll be in purple Yahoo! caps, not unlike these ones our avatars are wearing!

Details: 7:30pm Tuesday 24th March 2009
Rag & Famish Hotel
199 Miller Street
North Sydney NSW 2060

Hope to see you there!

Caitlin & Alana

There was a fantastic response to Yahoo!7 Answers’ Trivial Pursuit promotion when trivia master Bruce Elder asked the Answers community to come up with a question to be included in the next edition of Australian Trivial Pursuit.

Having come up with more than 70,000 questions for Trivial Pursuit, Bruce certainly had the right qualifications to choose from the excellent questions received. He was highly impressed with the many suggestions offered on Yahoo!7 Answers but eventually chose the question submitted by LadyRebecca, “What did Australia say no to on November 6^th, 1999?”

The question was chosen because it was an event that all Australians of voting age participated in. So, it is very likely that Trivial Pursuit players will be able to remember that the answer is becoming a Republic!

Congratulations to LadyRebecca, whose question will certainly be part of the next edition of Trivial Pursuit, and many thanks to all those who participated!

Yahoo!7 Answers Team

The Yahoo!7 Answers Team and Bruce Elder are looking for a sensational question to include in the next edition of Australian Trivial Pursuit!

Having been involved in every edition since the game’s arrival in the country in 1984, Bruce is the ultimate trivia master who holds the answer to each of the 70,000 questions developed for the Australian versions of Trivial Pursuit.

Along with the chance to have your very own question included in the next edition of Trivial Pursuit, we also have 10 games to give away to the 10 best trivia questions to celebrate the release of the new Pursuit Genus VI Edition. So put your thinking caps on and think of the trickiest, most entertaining, Australian-oriented questions you can and answer Bruce’s question.

For inspiration you may like to look through the content on Answers or use Yahoo!7 Search.

If you can’t see the video below, try clicking here.

Alana