I was just wondering if anyone else had ever attempted to memorise every trivial pursuit question? I know Dominic O’Brien did years ago (he talks about it in his book) but I’m not aware of anyone else who actually has. A lot of people on the internet talk about it as a possibility, but its seems like there is minimal follow through.
I’m asking because I am trying to do it at the moment and I was wondering if anyone had any experiences to share. I have to say its easier than I thought it would be, my associations are sticking and I have almost perfect recall even after several days. At the rate I’m going I should be done in less than a month.
At the moment all I’m doing is associating every answer I don’t know with the question then trying to answer each question after I have done roughly 100 associations. The ones I get go into my pile to be reviewed tomorrow while the ones I get wrong go back into my learning pile and get tested again with the next batch of questions.
My review periods double so I test each set after 24 hours, 48 hours, 4 days, 8 days and so on and so fourth.
if anyone’s interested, I’ll post about my progress and let you know how it works out long term.
I’m using the original Master game - Genius edition which has 6000 questions. Also I think its the Australian version so some of the questions are specific to Australia. The easiest way to get the questions is to buy the game. If you go to your local thrift shop, they will probably have a copy as people ditch their old board games all the time. If all else fails you can always just buy it second hand online.
I’ve been thinking about this recently myself. Given the nature of this game, it seems to me that the categories lend themselves to a set of Memory Palaces of a certain character to embrace the Q&A pairings.
This spatial requirement could be sorted out with a simple equation and then you could get busy with the short term and long term encoding shortly thereafter, or even while you create your necessary set of Memory Palaces.
Since there would be a significant amount of overlap between answers, you could probably double up a great deal, if not triple or quadruple the value of your stations, seriously reducing the amount of MPs and stations you’d need. But this would be different for each person, so I don’t think a universal equation will be forthcoming on that requirement.
Very cool to think about and since I’m now in Aussie myself, it would be a nice way to learn more about the country.
