Good Answers addendum

[paulobrian]

I had a very fun and slightly uncanny trivia experience last week, which reminded me of one more principle I forgot to include in the trivia players advice post:

ALWAYS GUESS
Now, naturally this advice does not apply to trivia games whose format penalizes wrong answers. In Jeopardy!, for instance, I would never advise someone to guess every time,

Comments

[lpsmith]

Clearly you should have followed your other advice and only answered 'Rodriguez'. Except that you probably would have chosen to guess 'Pokey' which would have still been wrong (but would have been less likely to be wrong than 'Pokey Rodriguez')

-Lucian

[paulobrian]

HA! I really wonder what would have happened if I had guessed "Rodriguez." The question didn't specify first name, so I probably would have gotten it right. Damn!

[markm]

"Charo" is my new default answer now.