Frequently Asked Questions
Where do you get
your questions?
Chuck Pierpont writes each weekly
game. He gets his ideas for questions
from a number of sources, including Wikipedia random, The History Channel
website, crossword puzzle clues and answers, atlases, and just about anywhere
he can find information. He also gets a weekly submission of questions from
former host and friend, Judy Malone. Since many people think they would like to
write questions, if you want, send your questions to Chuck at
chuck@flagshiptrivia.com. If he decides to use them, they will be advance
questions. Not all questions will be used and some questions may be held for
future games.
What does the
winning team get?
Most of our venues give the winning
team a gift card or gift certificate. In
addition, we keep the weekly scores and those points add up and teams with the
highest averages will be invited to a special Tournament of Champions with
thrills, chills and cash prizes!
Do you limit team
size? If not, why not?
No, we don't limit team size. Whether
to limit team size is up to each venue.
Frankly, our venues want to welcome as many players as possible, so they
don't want us to limit team sizes.
But don't larger teams have an advantage?
One
might think so, but our experience has found that the more players a team has,
the more chance there is for disagreement on the answers. We have heard many times from players on
larger teams that "if only they'd have listened to ME on that question,
we'd have one more point and we'd tie for the win." One exception to this
rule is the Tournament of Champions. We limit the team size for this contest to a
maximum of 8 players per team.
What do you do if
the teams tie?
In the event of a tie, the tied team
with the highest score in round 7 will win. If the tied teams tied in round 7,
we'll go back to round 6, etc. until a winner is declared. If necessary, tie-breaking questions will be found and asked.
But seriously,
what are the rules for the game?
We read the rules before each game. But, most importantly, we must insist that, during the open
round, players stay off of their telephones, tablets, etc. Of course, players are welcome to use those
devices after their team has submitted its answer sheet. In the event we see someone using a device
during gameplay, we will ask them nicely to refrain from doing so. If we see it happening again, the team will
be disqualified for the evening. The
team can still play, but it cannot win the nightly prize, and its score for
that week will be a zero. And nobody
likes a zero!
How can our team
be best prepared to play Flagship Trivia?
The best way is to load your team with
people who have a wide variety of knowledge. We ask plenty of history, science,
current events, geography, theater/movie/Broadway, and general knowledge
questions. Also, you can do advance
research on two questions each week. At
the end of each game, we provide an advance research question and an answer for
next week's game. And the following
weekend, we provide another advance research question and answer on our website
and Facebook page.
Who is your
favorite trivia team?
Yours.
How many
questions have you asked since you started writing for Flagship Trivia? Do you ever repeat questions?
As of late June 2022, we've written
over 22,000 questions, including championship games. We try not to repeat questions, although it
has happened.
This is all so
fascinating. I'm sure I'll have more
questions in the future.
Great!
Send your questions to chuck@flagshiptrivia.com and we'll send back an
answer. If it's a really good question,
we'll add it to these Frequently Asked Questions.
See you at Flagship Trivia!