Thursday April 23, 2020 ~ SOOKE
by Mary Brooke (a former Sookie) ~ West Shore Voice News
The first night of the All Sooke Region Museum Live Online Trivia Contest series was a high-energy online competition among Sooke ‘know-it-alls’, this evening April 23 on Facebook.
With more points awarded for answering as quickly as possible, the 31 questions went by in a heart-pounding flash. Each question shows whether your answer is correct as you go along — small victories, or great disappointments! And every once in a while your rank is shown, to egg you on.
Questions ranged from deeply historical — like knowing the names and timelines of old farms in the region or the location of the first-ever signalized streetlight in Sooke, to the overtly promotional (such as which coffee shop roasts its own beans, or how many breweries are in the area).
The question about the origin of the name of Sooke… well, hopefully everyone got that one right!
There was only one glitch… the very last question asked what the nightly summer market on Thursday nights (pre-COVID) is called, and everyone answered “Sooke Summer Night Market” correctly. But the system scored everyone wrong! The museum quickly posted afterward that all 75 participants would be given full marks for that one, to make up for the coding error.
Official winning results and prizes will be announced by the Sooke Region Museum tomorrow, but based on what the system showed tonight online, the top winner is ‘Jenn’, with ‘Tracy Snow’ coming in second, and ‘Rick’ third.
Participants need to register ahead of time. To register for Trivia Night #2 to be held Thursday April 30 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.
The Sooke Region Museum — in organizing this — is an instant winner for 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.