A Milestone Trivia Day and my Compromise Approach

I start every day with a cup of coffee and Spark. It's been over 7 years now.
I like trivia. It's kind of a cliff notes version of reading the articles plus a way to test if I've retained the information I once knew.

However, I was disappointed that my daily score would hover in the 60-70% range. Often I would miss the same question more than once. When I looked at the "Leaderboard," I always found myself somewhere in the bottom half of participants.

I blogged the question - "How do Sparkers always get 100% in Trivia?"

Obliging sparkers gave me some options.
I could search for the answer before responding to the question. Good idea, but it took time and I often forgot the answer when it came up again. Repeat the search?

I could skip the question - kind of like the option on the "Millionaire" TV show. The problem was that I actually wanted to know the answer.

So I went on entering my best guesses.
Note: I'm really good at the exercise questions, fair on the health questions and horrible on the food questions. Kind of like my journey to a healthy lifestyle. Food and portions are my problem. I really needed to increase my knowledge of such things.

Unfortunately, I still would get the same question wrong repeatedly. This annoyed me.

My compromise solution.
Now when I get a question wrong, I copy and paste the answer into a Trivia word document.
Each morning I open it and scan the text, just like I used to review my math formulas or history dates before an exam.
Over time those difficult questions became part of my general knowledge.

It only takes a few minutes and gives me something to do while my slow Internet connection wakes up.

It has taken a long time to overcome my horrendous start, but today a new milestone.

My all time score has increased by ONE percentage point.

Today 100% correct.
This month 98% correct.
All time 86% correct. From 'D' level all the way to a B+ Yea!
Not perfection, but good enough. Again, kind of like my journey on Spark.

Note: I understand the complaints that some questions are ambiguous, extremely trivial or specific to the USA, but for me at least the pros outweigh the cons,


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