Admittedly a Bragging Post

And here they are again as I flip through Twitter on Monday afternoon.  The lamenting about how hard this episode of my favorite quiz show had been.  Admittedly, it’s the only quiz show that I watch, so the competition for that title is nonexistent.  Whatever.  I’d seen one tweet in which the tweeter mentioned that he and his parents spend the whole episode waiting for the missing vowels round.  Maybe if I could watch it live I’d have agreed with him.  The missing vowels are the easy ones.  The “connections” are only really to the category, so solving them seems like less work.

The news that a new episode would have difficult questions isn’t really a surprise but to what extent is the episode difficult and to what extent are people being over-dramatic.  Twitter doesn’t really communicate those kind of nuances does it? 

Personally, I’d say that they were being a little dramatic.  My sisters and I are continually watching this show and never really doing that well, but between the three of us (or really just two of us because we’ve got one who just gets a little bored and drifts off) we managed to do a decent job on the Scientists vs. Builders episode. 

Round one we managed to get three questions (only one of which we needed all of the pieces for, might I add) which is not bad at all.  I can’t really feel alright about bragging here though because the three that we got all were pretty pop culture with the clues having to do with Benedict Cumberbatch, the Hunger Games, and Finding Nemo.  We still got the points though. 

Round two was terrible, as always.  If we manage to get the connection, we cannot eek out the final clue.  It just won’t happen.  The water wall was not that great for us either.  We, again, managed our pop culture knowledge for the “eponymous TV detective shows” group, but that was it.  But then it was our moment.  On the lion wall we got seven points.  Three groups we knew and got pretty quickly before we were then left to yell at the team who just could not make it happen. 

And while I agreed with the tweet I’d seen the day before about the missing vowels round, it wasn’t as much of a relief because we’d done well on the rest of the quiz.  Though we did get three of them right.  Thanks for asking.  And to think that there are probably people who do well like that every week.