GFN Trivia Night

The English radio channel, GFN (Gwangju Foreigner Network), sponsored a Christmas trivia night on Saturday night. After going to acupunture, Alli, Emily, and I decided to see what it was like.

There were about 110 people (foreigners) there, most of which I didn't recgonize. The person I was assigned to sit to was from Mokpo, about an hour away, and came just for the trivia!

Each person had a specific number assigned to them, I was 65. We had to go to our seats, and the announced explanined (on live radio!) how it would work. We were called up in groups of 10 to answer two questions. If you got the first one wrong, you had to sit down, and the people who got the second question right again would move on to the semi-finals. Since it was alphabeticial, Alli and Emily went before me (Alli is second from the left).



My first question was (all taken from Trivial Pursuit!) "What is 5 to the third power?" I got nervous, since we only had 10 seconds to write down our answer in a notebook and hold it up. Luckily, I got it right! About half of our group got it right. The second question was "How many are in a bakers dozen?" I got that right too, along with maybe 4 others. I moved to the side of the stage rather than taking my seat with other semifinalists.

The semifinalists were broken into 2 groups (there were only about 14 of us, and I was the only girl!!). My first question was something like "If you are changing the lock on a locker, how many times does the number 9 appear between 1-100?" I had no idea! I started to write it down- 9, 19,29, 39, etc 90, 91, 92. But I didn't have enough time, so I randomly guessed 19 times. I wasn't too off base because lots of people put that too! However, everyone got it wrong. It appears 20 times! Because none of us got it right, we were given a second chance! That question was "What year was the first Christmas card sent?" I was waaayyyy off, about 100 years to be exact! The correct answer was something like 1843.

Well, there were 5 finalists in the buzzer round. We stayed to watch the rest, it was quite entertaining. The categories were like movies, KPOP, Christmas, and general trivia. The prizes were great- top prize was a Netbook worth 800,000 won! There were digital cameras, MP3 players, luggage, and gift certificates. Emily happened to win a steak dinner for 2. But I didn't walk away empty handed- everyone got a GFN t-shirt. It was a lot of fun, and I really want to buy a radio now to listen to GFN!