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Victory for Team Condor Sharp!
First prize was a very nice double-walled vacuum water bottle (with the Techhive logo) and a $50 gift card to Best Buy. Gosh, if I'd known the prizes were so good, I might have actually stormed to the front of the room and argued the "first digital camera" answer...
Okay, folks, you know the drill. Today's prize is ... um ... I dunno. We'll figure that out later, since I never did get those granola bars to Burl that one time.
Only hint is that it's within two miles of the square.
GO.
Most of the time, there was quick consensus on answers. Or at least consensus on the wrong answers. It was all tech trivia, naturally.
Kerri was able to make two greater contributions than I. First, she has a quicker mind. Second, she was willing to actually walk back and forth to the front of the room to get our answers checked.
As the angle of most of these photos indicate, I wasn't even really willing to get out of my chair to take pictures.
Incidentally: the event reminded me I'd chosen very, very well when I bought this Panasonic GX1. Trivia was held in a dark bar, which normally would defy all attempts at casual photography. An SLR and a bag of gear can provide a solution to any problem. But what about a camera that you stuck in your pocket on your way out of the house, almost as an afterthought? You normally just take what you can get (or give up entirely).
The GX1 came right through. Lens wide open at f1.7 to get some light in from the background, ISO set to 3200, built-in flash locked into upright position to bounce straight down off of the ceiling. I freaking love this camera. I'm getting much better pictures with it now that it's my daily shooter and I'm starting to know its features intuitively.
Photo by Allegra Boverman. Concord: At the New Hampshire Public Radio's Third Annual Trivia Smackdown at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Friday, April 3, 2015.
Trivia night! We hadn't been doing big group trivia nights in a while because Andrea left the country, but now she's back, so we went to trivia. Unfortunately, the new trivia we're going to has a team size limit which we were afraid of hitting, so we cleaved the party in twain. The subteam I was on ended up getting second place, and I helped with two answers. Hurray!