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From: "Beryl OGorman" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Re: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] Genealogical Trivia
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:09:31 +1000
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Hi Ada

I guess the sort of questions I had in mind were things like:
In what year did Civil Registration become compulsory in Britain? In
Ireland?
What do the letters IGI, LDS, BVRI, etc mean?
Where do you go in Victoria to obtain information on assisted shipping? etc
etc etc
And of course in a group where people know each other well, it could be Give
a name that Joe Bloggs is researching, or Where in the world is Joe Bloggs
looking for Templetons, For what surname did Susie Delavida recently
organise a reunion, etc.
Have left enough of this exchange below for those on the WDL to get the gist
of Ada's question.

Beryl O'Gorman
Greensborough Victoria Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ada Ackerly" <>
To: "Beryl OGorman" <>

> Hello Beryl,
>
> Offer me an example of what might be considered "trivia" and I'll put my
> thinking cap on : is it supposed to be sort of nonsense with silly
> answers, questions using puns & inuendo or what? (You can see I have
> never been to a trivia night, can't you? Another part of my life education
> missing!
>
> Regards Ada
>
> At 20:36 04-06-02 +1000, you wrote:
> >Hi Folks
> >
> >I guess this is borderline off-topic/on-topic, but here goes. Has anyone
> >attended a Genealogy Trivia session or more importantly can anyone
suggest
> >where I could access the questions for such a session? Before I start
> >Or better still - If you can suggest any good questions for such a quiz -
> >Fire them at me!


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