Trivia are Big at Lunch Meeting
Posted by David Owen
on Oct 03, 2012
At the Lunch Meeting on 2 October 2012 we had a change from the usual guest speaker. Member Richard Groom had organized a series of highly entertaining trivia questions as the basis of a fun contest between tables of 6-7 people and lead the meeting through them with fascinating, occasionally poigant but mostly great fun set of slides.
Who will forget the story behind the naming of the bikini, or the road detour sign in Afghanistan, or the amazing resemblance of Australia's only World Rotary head to the current Russian leader ?
As always in history there was a section on dates and alas the editor's table was composed of lesser historians, when was color TV first in Australia, or when did the Sydney -Melbourne train service begin, or when did Watergate erupt, were all too hard.
The meeting thanked Richard for the great effort and happily noted the desire for a like encore. As often happens the judge's team won and one can see the joy and intrinsic wisdom (albeit trivial) in the faces of the winning team.
Who will forget the story behind the naming of the bikini, or the road detour sign in Afghanistan, or the amazing resemblance of Australia's only World Rotary head to the current Russian leader ?
As always in history there was a section on dates and alas the editor's table was composed of lesser historians, when was color TV first in Australia, or when did the Sydney -Melbourne train service begin, or when did Watergate erupt, were all too hard.
The meeting thanked Richard for the great effort and happily noted the desire for a like encore. As often happens the judge's team won and one can see the joy and intrinsic wisdom (albeit trivial) in the faces of the winning team.