$600 jackpot? I could win that...maybe...

So Tuesday here in Lennox Head is Steak Night…and just recently, it's become Trivia night as well, a night of epic mishaps, and misunderstandings, but fun nevertheless. This past trivia night, we actually got together a real team instead of just sitting in the pub and playing on our own without the chance to win the jackpot (it's $600)

So here we are, a group of 12 backpackers from the US, Canada, and Britain attempting to answer ridiculous questions. Now the week before, the questions were easy, straightforward things you knew from high school, but was that what we got this week? No, it was not. This week it was Australian trivia and we were extremely bad at it. So bad, in fact, that the guy leading the quiz night, gave us a couple points each round and subtly tried to give us clues as to the answers, which would have been great, if we'd even been paying attention.

As it was, half the table was chatting away about something or other, a group were drawing pictures on the beer coasters, some were doing sudokus, and the two people at the end of the table were making peanut butter and banana sandwiches for an after dinner snack. We didn't so much discuss our answers as yell them at each other, not really caring what got written down in the end, but enjoying the argument. What made this picture even better was the fact that the rest of the teams in the pub are the real serious sort, who come every week, and keep track of their score, and even contest the announcer when he gives them an extra point (who does that?!). I do believe we offended their sensibilities. Amazingly enough, we didn't come in last…we got 4th, out of 7 team. I think we'll go again next week…the regulars are gonna kill us.