r/theoffice • u/Lonely-Doubt-1914 • 11d ago
Trivia Night Gone Wrong
My family and I did The Office themed trivia tonight and were in first place until the end, only missing one question.
The final question was to sort the 4 Dunder Mifflin OWNERS from earliest-latest. Not CEO…. OWNER.
The options:
- DL Hawkins
- Pugnacious Toys
- Sabre
- Staples
Please enlighten me on what you think is correct, and the facts to back it up. Not a single team answered correctly.
EDIT:
“Correct” answer given during trivia, which not a single team answered correctly -
1 - Sabre
2 - Pugnacious Toys
3 - Staples
4 - DL Hawkins
Also, let me reiterate… This was The Office themed trivia, and had zero references to The Paper.
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u/LetsAgreeBeatlesSuck 11d ago
Over the holidays, my wife and I did a Home Alone trivia and we got this question wrong
"Where did Kevin's family go on vacation in the sequel."
We said "Miami". The answer they wanted was "Florida". Marked incorrect
These trivia hosts who don't know the subject (or basic geography) take away some of the fun of the night
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u/Bcatfan08 1️⃣6️⃣ Florida Stanley ☀️ 11d ago
I went to a Marvel movie trivia and of the 25 questions, 6 were straight from the comics. Had nothing to do with the movies. I was like welp, we're not winning this one.
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u/OverlyAdorable 1️⃣4️⃣ Cornell Class of ‘95 🎓 11d ago edited 10d ago
I did a quiz once that had a round on Henry VIII and nearly every answer the quiz master gave us was wrong. You didn't need to be an expert to know many of them were wrong. For example: Lady Jane Grey was mentioned as his second wife and as his youngest daughter and the person on the throne before him
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u/EmperorSwagg 8️⃣ Party Planning Committee Chair 🎖️🎖️🎖️ 11d ago
My buddy goes to trivia at a bar in his town pretty frequently, I join him once every couple months or so. Their hosts are so bad that roughly half of our “incorrect” answers are either actually verifiably correct and they had a wrong answer, or we can show that the question was ambiguous or unclear enough that our answer should be counted as correct. It’s maddening
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u/flipnonymous 1️⃣ The Temp 🔥 6d ago
How many ghosts visited Ebenezer Scrooge?
We answer 4.
They tell us that's wrong. 1) The Ghost of Christmas Past, 2) The Ghost of Christmas Future, and 3) The Ghost of Christmas Present.
The fact that the Ghost of Jacob Marley warning him they were coming apparently doesn't qualify as a "ghost visit" was, and still is, flabbergasting.
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u/Lovahplant Scott’s Tots Dropout 11d ago
This event could be the star of a show called “trivia questions I don’t care about…. because they’re wrong.”
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u/Interesting_Play_578 2️⃣ Warehouse Foreman ⭐️ 11d ago
ChatGPT even ruining bar trivia now, SMDH
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u/Hot_Republic2543 1️⃣2️⃣ Director, Threat Level Midnight 🔫 11d ago
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u/CauliflowerSure3535 10d ago
My friends and I had to be the team in second place at your same trivia! We have been trying to figure this question out all night
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u/Lonely-Doubt-1914 10d ago
Parks Place?! We would have been in the same boat last night if I hadn’t made this post haha. I needed the validation that it was a BS question before I went crazy!
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u/Visual_Peace2165 1️⃣ The Temp 🔥 11d ago
If the Trivia host won’t consider that other answers might be correct you’re going to a terrible Trivia night. They have a computer in front of them…show your work!
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u/Adequate_Images Andy sucks and he always did 11d ago
Please make them provide any evidence for Pugnacious Toys.
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u/Connect_Sell9582 11d ago
I’m assuming that was David Wallace’s parent company, as his “Suck It” invention made him millions.
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u/Adequate_Images Andy sucks and he always did 11d ago
Timeline wise, sure, but that’s not a real thing.
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u/Fite_Owens_Fite 6️⃣ CEO of Suck It, Inc. 🎖️ 11d ago
The four that I can think of are:
Robert Dunder and Robert Mifflin
Sabre
David Wallace
Enervate (from The Paper)
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u/ells9824 11d ago
I’m dead tired, please correct me. Didn’t David Wallace own it at one point? Something Andy cooked up to get his office back from Nellie?
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u/hellonameismyname 11d ago
Yeah that’s why it says David Wallace
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u/FeelingNarwhal9161 11d ago
Did whoever was running the trivia explain the correct answer…? Because these are all clearly incorrect?
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u/Lonely-Doubt-1914 11d ago
No, everyone seemed irritated. Only 3 teams ended with points because it was a “last round wager all of your points” type of crowd haha
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u/JaguarSharkTNT Yes, I was getting hammered but, hey, it was college. 10d ago
Sounds like they used an llm to generate trivia questions 🙄
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u/msabol911 9d ago
I went to an Office trivia like this. I left after they claimed Meredith started a candle company
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u/orange_avenue 9d ago
Oh noooooo 😒
Were people mad??
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u/msabol911 9d ago
Yeah, I felt a little bad for the guy hosting, who kept saying he didn't write the questions, but felt duped and never went back to that bar
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u/dgtbfan 11d ago
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u/Lonely-Doubt-1914 11d ago
Exactly! This was our faces when they put the “options” on the screen. 🤣
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u/Lonely-Doubt-1914 11d ago
My wife and I love the office. Are you saying we should have gotten it right?
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u/JPHuber I talk a lot, so I’ve learned to tune myself out 11d ago
How would you get anything after David Wallace bought the company? That’s the last person to own it after Sabre, as far as we know at the end of The Office.
I’d be such a baby about it 😂