Car trivial pursuit
by Charlie Peverett in Your car on 12.08.08
Thanks to Michelle, who submitted a worthy idea to add to out modestly-titled selection of Greatest Car Games in the World - Car Trivial Pursuit.
Her suggestion went:
Object of the game is to get all the cheeses by answering questions correctly set by the opposing team based on the colour car that passes.
White - History
Blue - Geography
Red - Sport and Leisure
Silver - Art and Literature
Green - Science and Nature
Pink/Purple or any other unusual colour - EntertainmentObviously, on motorways there is more traffic so you say that a dice roll is every 6th car. Whatever colour the car is, then the question is chosen/set from that category. If you get it right, you get a cheese!
Cars-as-dice is a neat solution for in-car gaming. You don’t want to be scrabbling around in the footwell (certainly not in my car).
When it comes to asking and answering the questions themselves, Michelle goes on to recommend some underhand playing tactics that we couldn’t possibly condone. Especially given that in the age of Google and the mobile phone, you wouldn’t get away with them for long anyway.
But how about taking your Trivial Pursuit cards with you? They’re hardly cumbersome. I reckon I could fit several thousand questions in my glove compartment. Enough for the most ardous of journeys.
Not sure about the cheeses though. I don’t think you’d want to be fiddling about with them while travelling at speed down the M1. Any ideas?
Ah, but something else that could keep you busy for an entire car journey - an entire holiday even - is the age-old ‘cheeses or pie’ debate.
Personally I fall firmly on the cheeses side, but I’ve played Trivial Pursuit against those who’ve almost resorted to force trying to get me to accept that they’re pies.
They’re wrong, of course.
13.08.2008 at 2:45 pmCheese cheese cheese.
18.08.2008 at 1:29 pm