[Nfbmo] What would you do?

Tue Oct 25 01:39:36 UTC 2011

In light of what Debbie notes below, I want to note that a winning strategy 
 to win at Trivia nights is to form a team composed of people with 
different  strengths.  On a team I used to be a part of, I was solid on science,  
literature, politics, art, movies, philosophy, sci fi and various and sundry  
nerdy topics.  I am woefully ignorant of sports, any popular music since  
the 70s, know nothing about celebrities, most tv shows, and more - which  
eliminates 70 % of most trivia questions.  But we had people on our team  who 
had plenty of expertise to cover those areas so we were a pretty formidable  
group.  
    Likewise, I'm now thinking, just as no one person is  likely to be 
well-versed in all trivia, blindness can then be simply a different  area of 
expertise.

Dan

In a message dated 10/24/2011 8:09:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
debbiewunder at centurytel.net writes:

Hello, it is  often a common practice to have some video  at a trivia 
night.  
Sometimes the videos are visual, and sometimes they are audio. If you are  
a 
team made up of sighted and blind people you should still be able to  give 
impute to the question/answer.

At our NFB Columbia   trivia on Saturday, we did not use one audio/visual. 
All questions were  read aloud, and shown on the wall. We offered any blind 
team a scribe to  fill in their forms if they were unable to.

A great time was had by  al.

If any one would like us to talk with your chapter about how we did  our 
trivia night, we would be more than happy too!

Debbie
-----  Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz"  <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List"  <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject:  Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?

> hi,
>
> the st.  louis chapter is considering a trivia event next year and may 
> attend  one of yours to see what they are like.
>
> Bryan  Schulz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Susan  Ford" <johnsusanford at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:33  PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you  do?
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>
>>
>> I don't know, Fred.  It's too  bad you can't find a bunch of blind 
people 
>> who would go together  to next year's Trivia night.  With enough of you, 
>> they would  be embarrassed and feel compelled to alter things.  I didn't 
>>  know they used video materials at trivia nights anyway.  I thought they 

>> were supposed to be intellectual pursuits.  You might send  an item to 
>> Dave Andrews to put on all the NFB listservs.   Maybe someone else would 
>> come up with a good plan.   Depending on who sponsors it, programs 
getting 
>> federal money  could be compelled to do things differently, but a church 
>> doesn't  receive federal funds.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>  From: "fred olver" <goodfolks at charter.net>
>> To: "NFB of  Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday,  October 24, 2011 8:44 AM
>> Subject: [Nfbmo] What would you  do?
>>
>>
>>>A year ago, I attended a Trivia  Night put on by a food pantry in the 
St. 
>>>Louis area. This  pantry is supported by my church along with several 
>>>others.  After the night's program was over, half of the categories 
being  
>>>visual in nature so that a blind person could not participate  in that 
>>>portion of the program I wrote an item for my churches  news-letter and 
>>>sent it on to the director of the  organization. In this item I pointed 
>>>out that it was not fair  or necessary to include only video-type 
>>>questions and asked  that they do, in the future consider having 
>>>categories which  were non-video in the future. I received assurances 
from 
>>>the  director of the organization that indeed they would do  this.
>>>
>>> Last Friday, I attended their Trivia  Nighht again. True, only two 
>>> categories of questions were  video in nature, however these two 
>>> categories included  roughly 1/3 of the questions. Yesterday at a 
meeting 
>>> of a  church committee I suggested that they with-hold two weeks worth 
of  
>>> donations and that these donations go to another organization  as a 
>>> protest, the rest of the committee said no to this idea,  sighting the 
>>> possibility that a family might have to do  without this food, I 
>>> personally doubt it, and figure they're  just to comfortable in their 
>>> place and don't wish to because  it doesn't affect them, so what would 
>>> you do if you were in  my place? This really upsets me, especially 
since 
>>> I had  spoken to this organization a year ago and they had more or less 

>>> agreed that this was not a good thing to have  happen.
>>>
>>> Fred Olver
>>>  http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com  For some of us it's a way of 
life  
>>> and for some of us it just makes life easier. Fred  Olver
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