In Pursuit of Trivial Knowledge

My husband and I are “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” junkies. We play the game on Facebook until we run out of free games and have been looking for alternate websites, on which, we can play the game for free. Games are for entertainment and with today’s economy, there’s nothing entertaining about purchasing coins to play a game. We found three; 1—had the life-expectancy of a flea, as it only has two separate sets of questions (as best we can tell), 2—the second is a “little” too-easy, and 3—is making us feel like imbeciles…neither of us has managed to get passed the $64-thousand mark.

Between VHS and DVDs in our house, we probably own close to a thousand movies and we’re missing movie questions that are, presumably common knowledge, but are not things that we know about them. As Tommy, in Goodfellas, the actor kills a bar tender by the name of Spider. Spider, really…who in their right mind would buy an alcohol-laced drink from a man named Spider? Did you know that in Star Trek, the victim—the person designated to die—wears a red shirt? We didn’t have a clue; then again, we’re not Star Trek “trekkies.”

Over the years, we have collected a pot-load of useless knowledge, and even that, we’re missing questions that fall in that category. Is there some little man that sits around, perhaps perusing Wikipedia—we all know how accurate they are—and coming up with questions for the millionaire game? Did someone confront Bill Gate’s team of brilliant programmers and say, “Here, this is your chance to really mess with the minds of all those morons out there that love to torture themselves, late at night or on the weekends, in the pursuit of useless trivial knowledge.” Well, did they?

Losing gracefully is not in the human emotional range, it’s just aggravating to see something that is so simple a 3-year-old could accidentally click on the right button, and you cannot remember or don’t know the answer too. Ah, give me the price is right, because it doesn’t make me feel stupid, it makes me feel good that wherever those prices exist—in the minds of would-be entrepreneurs—they’re not anything like the prices of those products in Texas. Who pays $3600 for a 32-inch television? Now, I know how people make a fortune selling products to consumers, most of whom are from California…

The pursuit of trivial knowledge is a crap-shoot for the bored and lame of brain; count me in!