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Have you ever heard a sports player explain why he didn’t win? “I didn’t have the legs today”… “There was too much (or too little) wind out there”… Why not borrow a few of these ready-to-use excuses that you can rely on, when (or should I say if) you get a bad score at a quiz or trivia?
There are two main excuse strategies that you can choose to follow depending on your temper and level of self confidence: The defensive strategy is where you try to explain your bad quiz performance with external factors. Examples of this very elegant strategy are:
• The neighbor next door played heavy metal all night, that’s why I am sooooo tired…
• I know that I know this stuff, but for some reason, it was all hidden in a black box, so I couldn’t recall it in any way …
• I have never in my life ever heard of a quiz with that many stupid questions!
• I had a very bad teacher in that class in school…
• Who wants to memorize stuff like that anyway? …
• There wasn’t enough quiz questions on my favorite topics …
• Well, maybe I failed in this quiz, but I know all about 19th century stamps from Antarctica and Andalusia … And then there is the more offensive strategy, where you throw some mud, and hope that you hit your opponent right in the neck:
• People, who know stuff like that, must have very twisted brains… or they don’t have a life at all, so why don’t they get one…?
• I am almost sure, that he cheated somehow… I just can’t figure out how …
• The quizmaster is maybe even his cousin for all I care…
• They were just lucky to get all the questions on that one particular topic, which they knew all about … You may choose different strategies from one game to another. (Did I just imply that you often lose? Of course not!) You do have one last alternativ: You can train your quiz and trivia skills - have a look at these quizzes and trivia or read the article about how to improve your trivia skills. But no matter what you do, I will not guarantee you, that people won’t make fun of you and your excuses (that was a final disclaimer). If you can think of any further excuses for losing a quiz game, you may leave a comment and share your thoughts below.
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