Trivia at Fat Toad has become a new favorite thing of mine (and not just because my team won for the first time a couple of weeks ago). The questions are challenging enough to be in a trivia game, but not so challenging that the fun gets sucked out of playing. Teams are composed of up to six players who collaborate to answer ten questions in several rounds. The team with the most points at the end of the final, wagering, round wins.
The hardest part of trivia night for me is fighting my instinct to look things up. When I don’t know the answer to a question someone asks, it is literally my job to find out. Of course, in a trivia game, that would be cheating. Luckily, we get the answers pretty quickly after each round, so I don’t have to sit in suspense for long.
It may seem silly to want to call the library to answer trivia questions, but those tend to be really fun for the staff to help with. At my previous library, the Reference (Research) Department staff would race to answer the phones every Monday morning hoping “Bob” was calling for help with the Sunday crossword. He’d always greet us with an endearing “I’ve got another puzzler for you.”
Here in Pryor, your library staff answers about 2,000 questions each month. As is the case in all libraries, we help people with everything from school or genealogical work to help finding sports schedules, good recipes, information about works of art (both in the building and around the world), and more. We even get contacted by professionals from time-to-time to help authors with research for a book in progress or journalists for historical local information that pertains to a story they’re researching.
Unless you’re in a trivia game, give us a call whenever you’ve got a puzzler. We’re pretty good at finding things out. 918-825-0777