Thursday May 7, 2020 ~ SOOKE
by Mary Brooke ~ West Shore Voice News
The third night of the so-far weekly All Sooke Region Museum Live Online Trivia Contest series was another high-energy online competition among Sooke ‘know-it-alls’, this evening May 7 on Facebook.
In the first week there were 75 participants, last week that dropped to 53, and tonight’s game had 32 players at the finish line.
With more points awarded for answering as quickly as possible, the 31 questions go by in a heart-pounding flash. Each question shows whether your answer is correct as you go along — small victories, or great disappointments! And after almost every question now your rank is shown (it was a bit more fun when you had to wait for a few questions to know your standing).
Questions each week are deeply historical about locations, names and dates of local industry, people and nature. But this week there seemed to be an undue focus on the Otter Point area and schools of the region. Regulars are going to want a little variety next week, if only for the hope of staying in the race.
This week’s commercial promo was about E-Fish-Ent Co Ltd which is a salmon-canning facility that is likely little-known by people anywhere east of 5,200-block of Highway 14.
On the first night (April 17) the winner was Jenn, with Tracy Snow second and Rick third. Last week (April 224) Rick was the winner with the top score, with JM second and Maureen third. Tonight for Trivia Night #3 the top three were Kari, Rick and Maureen.
The top three winners each week are awarded prizes by the museum.
Participants need to register ahead of time. To register for Trivia Night #4 to be held Thursday May 14 at 7:30 pm, visit the Sooke Region Museum Facebook page.
This event is one of many types of new forms of online community-involvement entertainment to help keep people socially connected during this period of self-isolation and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be interesting to see how many weeks this continues.
The Sooke Region Museum — in organizing this — is showing innovative community leadership, by finding a way to join a region-wide community together via cyberspace while people are still being held physically apart as part of ‘flattening the curve’ of the COVID-19 pandemic in BC.
But yeah, it’s time to freshen up the questions for a better mix of pre-modern, last century, and current times, and not so many on one drill-down topic. In this fast-moving age, even five years ago is ‘history’, and the trivia brain needs variety.
Holding this event mid-evening on Thursday nights is not per chance… it’s an echo of the Thursday night summer night market that been running on the Sooke Region Museum grounds from May to September for the last several years.
