Midnight tonight, back with Thumbs Up Theatre Toronto for a quiz. We socialised over Zoom, but for the quiz itself, we used Kahoot, for which we were advised to have a separate device - I used my phone. And by the time we were supposed to log in for the chat, I'd already opened the game site. Organised, for once!
Well, people were late joining - indeed, fewer than half of those who'd signed up actually showed up. But as anyone familiar with free events will tell you, that's par for the course. We finally started, slightly late. Now, I'd never used Kahoot before, but she was telling the truth when she said it was easy! She'd set up the quiz there beforehand, and shared her screen with us, where we could see the game PIN that we had to enter. We then had to pick a username, and woo!
Excellent software for a quiz - our usernames appeared on the main screen as we signed in, and for each question (which we got 20 seconds to answer), we had a choice of four answers. When the time was up, we got to see how many had chosen each answer, and which was right - and then a scoreboard of the top five contestants, complete with scores. The faster you answered, the higher the score was - if you were right. The software also tracks how many you've got right in a row, and puts a little flame beside your name if you're on a roll. :-)
I was worried about how I'd do, particularly as this was coming from a Canadian perspective. But I needn't have worried too much - the questions were mainly about musicals, which the organiser has a particular interest in, and I knew a fair few! (Multiple choice always helps, too.) I had one run of four questions - for which the game gave me a nod - and a couple of runs of three.. and the game started to be more fun when, after a slow start, I climbed to fifth place, and made my way on the scoreboard! I actually made it to third at one point, but fifth was where I settled. She'd prepared 50 questions for us, which nicely lasted about an hour, with some chatting in between. All in all, very enjoyable!
She'd set aside time to chat after, but people weren't much in the mood to, and it fizzled out after about 15 minutes. Hey-ho, I wasn't sure about joining - it's been another of those days, and I was tired - but I'm delighted I did. It's ages since I had a midweek Meetup, and it did me a power of good!
For Saturday - nothing in particular, so I'll just spend the evening watching the Eurovision. Ah, we'd only miss it if it wasn't there - like last year!
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