/lit/ - Literature

It’s definitely selective. Half the questions are stem questions; literature is Shakespeare + English romantics, Austen, Brontës, Dickens + recent female Booker-prize-tier writers; while the depth of the rare philosophy question usually comes down to name-the-philosopher (which they usually suck at). And who can’t recognise a Manet?

Its called Trivia knowledge because it is TRIVIAL, you absolute moron.

>>20117605
It's all bog people trivia
Since I mostly ignore rain island culture this kind of show is useless to me

>>20117605
yeah it's just questions about popular entertainment, it's what pass as culture in atheism

>>20117667
Cram it churchie

Unless you're a total moron it's almost impossible to get a question wrong.

>>20117719

>>20117726
>he couldn't tell that the 5 second music snippet was from Joseph Haydn's Piano Trio No. 28 in D major

>>20117605
Trivia is memory and recall, has little to do with intelligence which is about identifying and solving a problems and using the knowledge you have to create novel solutions. Your not knowing this supports your claim of being dumb.

>>20117660
Unironically this. Three of my friends are fairly successful at quizzes and even went to very prestigious ones (such as the local Who Wants to be a Millionaire) - what they have is information, but not knowledge (except the knowledge how to guess well). Two of them are definitely not smarter than me (I know it sounds pretentious, but at least one of them would agree with that statement himself), and the third one IMO knows so many things (languages - I haven't asked him for details but I know that he has even studied ancient Egyptian for a while -, literature, film, etc.) that it's outright baffling how little he has created on his own. I tried to get him into film criticism (since he visits the local art cinema literally every other day), but he just isn't interested in that. He prefers being an archive of knowledge rather than a creator of new things. I think that's what drives most of these quizzers.

>>20117740
You don’t know how to use commas. Inserting commas incorrectly is a terrible sign and is much worse than forgetting/not being bothered to add them, because it shows a total misunderstanding of the basics of grammar

The answers aren't that difficult, but the questions are worded in such a way to make it more difficult. The better teams are able to recognise the answer to the question earlier than the other team, as opposed to not knowing the answer at all. That said there are definitely a lot of questions that are just impossible. But those are the ones that nobody tends to get. Those are the ones that Paxman gets to peer over his glasses at the card and say "nooooooooooo"

>>20117740
You're not wrong but the two factors are correlated. People who can recall a wide range of knowledge quickly also tend to be smarter in every respect. You can be smart and bad at trivia, but it's less common than being smart and good at trivia.

>>20117754
>these people have accomplished more in intellectual tasks but I’m actually much smarter because I “create” things
This smells like a huge cope you sorry ass loser

i do alright on the lit questions
i absolutely crush the music round every time though but that's because classical music is literally what i studied at university and the rare non-classical rounds are normally pretty entry level stuff

>>20117754
you sound like an enormous faggot

>>20117754
I don't know you anon. But I think I owe it to you to at least let you know that this post makes you sound like a massive pseud. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you ought to at least know that that's the impression you give off.

>>20117660
>>20117754
Yeah, having a good memory is easy.

>>20118283
>>these people have accomplished more in intellectual tasks
Since when are quizzes intellectual tasks? I can confirm that most of them have indeed accomplished more than me in their own professions, but that depended on factors other than knowing when this or that king ruled which area, etc.
To put it simply, here's a guy who has watched literally thousands upon thousands of films - why wouldn't he want to write about film, the things he knows so well, to try to systematise the knowledge and the impressions and guide others with the knowledge? He very well could, I'm sure, but he simply isn't interested.

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>>20118318
I know, which is why I wrote
>I know it sounds pretentious

>>20118416
Lack of interest is the only thing that stops anyone from accomplishing anything. Not any other metric that someone may create, like pattern recognition or recall.

>>20117605

If it makes you feel any better anon, I get an average of 90-100 points per match, but I'm currently a NEET wannabe poet who reads philosophy and remembers a lot of useless garbage, so go figure.