The teams tackled an eclectic series of trivia questions from six categories: Entertainment, Art & Literature, Science & Nature, Geography, History, and Sports & Leisure. In order to win, they needed to maneuver their game pieces toward the center of the board, answering questions along the way, and obtain one 鈥減ie piece鈥 from every category. Answer a question wrong, and it became the other team鈥檚 turn. Both sides took turns consulting among themselves, pooling their knowledge, and searching through distant memory to come up with obscure facts and the occasional blind guesses.
Amid plenty of good-natured teasing between the tutors and the students, the teams hazarded answers to questions about celebrities, TV shows, historical events, brands of candy, and much more. They named the first full-length film ever made with spoken dialogue, the largest landlocked country, and the four ghosts from Pac-Man, among other trivial matters. The game was close, but in the end the students hit home on a tricky final question, and the room exploded into cheers from the triumphant students.
For many of the students, the best part of the night (besides the sweet taste of victory, of course) was having fun with their tutors outside the classroom. 鈥淚 love seeing the students and tutors interact,鈥 said junior Gianna Langley (鈥27). 鈥淚t鈥檚 a lot of fun!鈥