This post is called trivia night mostly because I
desperately miss my San Diego trivia nights with my coworkers. Glasses of fine wine, delicious food,
friends, and fun. What more could
a girl want. Granted I never
really helped the team very much but a good time all the same. Team Beer Me forever.
Hopes and dreams aside, the reason it’s third world trivia night is because I feel like every day is trivia night here without the wine, or good food, friends, and even sometimes the fun portion. Because I don’t have much to talk about with my community the same general conversations usually happen and when the awkward silence happens I ask them to ask me questions about life in the US. I do this because I originally thought this would be easy. A confidence builder if you will. And then I started getting questions that I didn’t know the answer to. A lot of questions that I had no freaking clue. So I am here to ask all you know it all’s. Feel free to comment with answers and winners will receive a free drink when you visit me. See what I did there? And Sierra, you’ll get a cake.
1)
How many people live in the US?
2)
What percentage of Americans are millionaires?
3)
Are there a lot of trees in the US like here?
4)
How much does the average person make in
Guaranies?
5)
How many trains are in the US?
6)
What type of material is the train floor made
of?
7)
Which state has the most Paraguayans?
8)
What types of fruits do you eat with milk?
9)
What food does every family eat at least once a
week?
10) How
much does it cost to buy a club in New York City?
11) Which
countries do you import your food from?
12) What
is the average summer and winter temperature in Celsius?
13) Where
does Miley Cyrus live? Justin Bieber?
That’s all I can think of for now but I will continually update this post as more get asked. More for me to remember than anything. Hope you did well!!!
1. 313.9 million (and counting. Probably a hundred babies were born while I typed this)
ReplyDelete2. Apparently 15 percent of american households fall into the millionaire category. The question I'm interested in is where are these households and can I move in?
3. There aren't enough trees in the US. But make sure to tell them how you saved a bunch of trees in college by never taking notes.
4. Let's say $40,000 a year (it's more for men but less for women). so 177 million...grannies?
5. There is at least one that I can hear go through the Old Town transit station every night.
6. Its floor is probably made of metal
7. Paraguay
8. Coconuts are the only fruits that have milk.
9. I'm not sure, but I'm willing to guess it's PopTarts
10. Like, a golf club? I don't know... ten, twenty bucks? It's probably cheaper online
11. Dried mangoes from the Philippines
12. There is no such place called Celsius, and thus it does not have an average temperature for any season. I think this is a trick question that is meant to throw you off.
13. With their horrible parents
Why does Sierra get a cake, I want a cake!
I also have had crazy questions asked of me, and I pretty much feel like I need to brush up on my American history/ current events.
ReplyDelete-how does facebook make money?
-how much does the average ticket to a sporting event cost? (um, sorry there are many varying factors)
-how does Obamacare work?
-tell me everything about the civil war...
-how do people get to work? when I answered "usually cars", they proceeded to ask "well how much does a bus cost?", I replied with "i'm not really sure because I had a free bus pass through my university", I was then asked "well then what about trains" and I then replied with "i have no clue because I just told you that I drove a car to work"...exhausting conversation.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Suerte!