For the bona fide devotees, a quiz is not a simple game of question and answers. Meet the tribe that travels from city to city chasing incongruous clues andminingmiscellaneous information. Bonus: Five quizzes, including one that is Google-proof
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Eavesdropping and fierce whispering in Calcutta
Over three decades of college quizzes, the quizzards’ digestions, both of funda and dhop-chop, have remained phenomenal
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The philosophy of trivia-hunting
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The (hopefully) Google-proof quiz
With the advent of Tineye and similar software, no quiz can claim to be completely Google-proof. This is not a particularly tough one, but it should be fun to work through, and just cutting and pasting in Google will probably not help. Good luck!
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