Rob Hines automates Trivia: A tech triumph Our IT guru Rob somehow converted our hallowed fortnightly trivia nights to a feast of technology last Thursday Nov 5. This is all a breakthrough akin to the investion of the steam engine and the laser beam. We downloaded the Kahoots app to our phones and ran Zoom and Kahoots simultaneously through 50 questions. The fun element was that speed of response counted as well as accuracy, and the leader board updated in real time, with added info like who’d won three questions in a row and how each player was faring. We were also delighted that RCM members en masse finally got their act together and joined the fun. The roll-up was RCM 18, Bearbrass 3, Sunrise 0 and WAGs 3. Through the half hour we followed the battle for the top spot which made the US election seem pretty tame. Winner in the end was Bearbrass Probus’s member Mike Sparkes, better known as “Lost Lamb” because the club lost track of him for three months, leaving him in limbo. We guess that Rotarians are so busy doing good in the world that they have no energy left over to memorise the capital of Ecuador and what baby lobsters are called. The only casualty of the night was Coral-lee and Russ Keep from Sunrise Probus, whose iPhone played up and kept them out of the game. Next quiz on Nov 19 will be run by Mike Lost Lamb himself.
