Who Wants To Be...Knowledgeable?

[hermoine]

So I suppose, many of you have often played games like Trivial Pursuit, or watched those brain-racking shows like Who Wants to be a Millionaire, or The Weakest Link.

We won't be winning any money here , but the fun of learning can have its profits. So this game works thus:

The first person writes a question. S/he may choose to make the game easier for those playing by giving a number of answers to choose from, or s/he might play tricky and choose not to give any at all.

When the right anwer is guessed, the person who got it right has to come up with a new question, and the game goes on. The questions can range from simple grammar questions, to more complicated, science, mythology or anything you can come up with ones.

Sounds simple enough? I'll start the ball rolling with a very simple one:

Who was the first president of the U.S.?


((Please tell me if this isn't in the right section or something, because I know something like this wouldn't fit in the Riddle Room. ))

[KoNeko]

Oooh! I know!! It was George Washington!!

(Do I have to wait for a response from you to acknowledge that it was correct or not?)

[hermoine]

(Yes it's better to wait for the person who wrote the question to answer, because if in some cases the question is difficult, the answer may not always be corect.)

Yes that's it! Your turn Ko!

[KoNeko]

Okay... yeah see most Aussies know that one, but not this one...

Without looking it up, who was the first prime minister of Australia?

[Lianne]

Barton?

[KoNeko]

(Did you have to look that up Li? 6/7 Aussies don't know that )

Yes, that's right. your go!

[hermoine]

Eep! I'm not an Aussie, and I didn't know that either. But I now I do haha! Edward Barton! Got to remember that.

[KoNeko]

(It's Edmund Barton, not Edward, but hey you're 99% there. )

[hermoine]

Darn! After looking it up some days ago, I still got it wrong. Hopefully it will remain fixed in my mind from now on.

So now it's Li's turn!

[Lianne]

i didnt look it up, i learned it in history once but i did check to make sure before i posted

OOC: i am in training at work so it took me like 10 mins to type this quietly


how about the first prime minister of canada

[[ Wiz ]]

Hmmmm, was it someone called JA. Macdonald? ( Think the first name's John or something....not sure though)

BTW: are you canadian Li?

[Lianne]

Yeah thats it.

And yes i am ;D

It syour turn

[hermoine]

Grr....why oh why do they never teach us this stuff in school? If you asked the students in my final year who was the first president of the US, probably the majority of them wouldn't know. And that's pretty basic...

[[ Wiz ]]

Right hmmm, question.........ah yes:

Who is the richest person in the world and how much money does he/she have?

[hermoine]

I know I know! It's Bill Gates and according to Forbes's most richest list from last year he has about $46.6 billion. If I'm correct, the man who first started the Gilette company is right after him in the list.