We won a pub quiz!
Jul. 26th, 2023 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackThat almost never happens.
Most of the credit to Rachel's sister and her friends, and to Rachel.
There were only two questions I was really able to contribute to. One was the heaviest weight class in professional boxing, which was as most people thought "Heavyweight". But I shouldn't have been SO sure, because the categories do keep changing as people get more skilled and bigger, and amateur boxing split the heaviest weight class into "heavyweight" and "superheavyweight". But professional boxing did keep "heavyweight" as the unlimited category.
The other was a bonus question, the closest guess for the year of the first hot air balloon flight. I knew that was a bit before the early 1800s, because there's a famous quote by an Admiral to parliament about Napoleon crossing the channel "I do not say he cannot come, I only say he cannot come by sea" which was sarcastically referring to the idea that inventing air travel was more plausible than the French navy gaining superiority in the channel for a day.
But I didn't know the decade at all, and my brain slipped a gear, and everyone else was talking about the1880s or 1890s, and when Jules Verne died, and the victorian era, and they usually know way more history than me, and I hadn't noticed that that was actually 100 years later than what I was thinking.
Most of the credit to Rachel's sister and her friends, and to Rachel.
There were only two questions I was really able to contribute to. One was the heaviest weight class in professional boxing, which was as most people thought "Heavyweight". But I shouldn't have been SO sure, because the categories do keep changing as people get more skilled and bigger, and amateur boxing split the heaviest weight class into "heavyweight" and "superheavyweight". But professional boxing did keep "heavyweight" as the unlimited category.
The other was a bonus question, the closest guess for the year of the first hot air balloon flight. I knew that was a bit before the early 1800s, because there's a famous quote by an Admiral to parliament about Napoleon crossing the channel "I do not say he cannot come, I only say he cannot come by sea" which was sarcastically referring to the idea that inventing air travel was more plausible than the French navy gaining superiority in the channel for a day.
But I didn't know the decade at all, and my brain slipped a gear, and everyone else was talking about the1880s or 1890s, and when Jules Verne died, and the victorian era, and they usually know way more history than me, and I hadn't noticed that that was actually 100 years later than what I was thinking.