Trivia? (NCL Gem 3/12)

[DerekNJ]

Greetings, everyone (first post!) My girlfriend and I will be going on our first cruise on the Gem (Florida/Bahamas.. 3/12). I noticed a typical activity they have is trivia.. and I was wondering if anyone has any specifics? (Are there prizes? Are the questions "NCL" trivia, or general knowledge, etc?) I like to consider myself full of inane and useless facts, so if we can end up winning something for that, it'd be pretty sweet. :D

 

Thanks,

 

DerekNJ

[faymuiheng]

We've been to 2 difference ships on NCL and the trivia is much the same. You get into groups of four, as the prizes are max 4. They range from key chains, cups, tshirts, ... stuff you can really get at the boutiques. (other stuff was like decks of cards)

 

usually 20 questions, and they covered everything. Tv shows, war, history, details of the ship. etc.

 

nice way to pass 30mins, on a sea day. We enjoy it when we travel.

[HokiePoq]

Greetings, everyone (first post!) My girlfriend and I will be going on our first cruise on the Gem (Florida/Bahamas.. 3/12). I noticed a typical activity they have is trivia.. and I was wondering if anyone has any specifics? (Are there prizes? Are the questions "NCL" trivia, or general knowledge, etc?) I like to consider myself full of inane and useless facts, so if we can end up winning something for that, it'd be pretty sweet. :D

 

Thanks,

 

DerekNJ

 

It was typical general knowledge trivia when we were on the Gem last year. Lots of fun! At that time the Gem had cards that you got signed for participation and winning at various activities. At the end of the cruise you redeemed these for the usual small prizes given at trivia or Tshirts if you had enough. On the Sun they gave prizes as they went...the usual key chain type stuff. Less trouble than the card system.

[DMH15]

On the Jewel it was teams of 4. On the Sun it was teams of 6. It was fun. I am like you, I know a lot of trivial things!!!

 

One thing that was frustrating is that some people cruise often and know the answers... they don't change them often enough.

 

Also, on our Sun cruise, the guy running the trivia was Ferdie. Well, one lady came up to him and attacked him verbally that her answer was right and his was wrong. Even after trivia, if she's see him at bingo, line dancing, etc. she would give him a hard time. Poor guy! He told me about it and I researched it at the Internet cafe and even printed out proof that his answer was correct. He showed it to crazy lady and she just wouldn't have any part of it, further insisting that she was right. That was pretty bizarre.

 

Now, on the Jewel, they gave a trophy. Each day's winners would take possession of it until the next day. We took it with us everywhere... to the casino, to dinner, the show. It didn't say anything on it. One man walked up to my mom and asked her if she had someone's ashes in it? She's a pretty quick thinker so so said "yes, my husband's, we thought he would enjoy this cruise!" Well, the guys eyes got big and hse told him she was kidding. So she made a little logo for it out of a NCL postcard or something. She wrote "Trivia Champs" on it. The next winners put Mardi Gras beads on it. Another group put other charms on it. By the end of the cruise it was covered with embellishments. (We had it a few times.) That cruise was a blast!

[newmexicoNita]

Greetings, everyone (first post!) My girlfriend and I will be going on our first cruise on the Gem (Florida/Bahamas.. 3/12). I noticed a typical activity they have is trivia.. and I was wondering if anyone has any specifics? (Are there prizes? Are the questions "NCL" trivia, or general knowledge, etc?) I like to consider myself full of inane and useless facts, so if we can end up winning something for that, it'd be pretty sweet. :D

 

Thanks,

 

DerekNJ

 

it depends, they have 2 or 3 trivias a day, some are sports related, some general knowledge trivia and some might be ship related. It is all fun. As for prizes, well, if you can call them prizes, yes. The will give away key chains, cozzies, that type of stuff. The most fun trivia is the one that will go on all week with the winners declared the last day.

 

Nita

[DerekNJ]

Thanks for the responses. I was somehow hoping they would have an onboard credit $ as a prize, though freebie NCL merch works also (which will make it so I don't have to lay out $ for "souvenirs" for people at home..)

[newmexicoNita]

Thanks for the responses. I was somehow hoping they would have an onboard credit $ as a prize, though freebie NCL merch works also (which will make it so I don't have to lay out $ for "souvenirs" for people at home..)

 

Not to be the barer of bad tidings, but you might be surprised at the type of questions: the best way to win or come close is have the max number allowed on the team (either 4 or 6) have them in different age groups, like over 60, middle aged and 20 somethings and with a broad range of interests and knowledge. We had this on our last cruise, 6 of us, 3 were very much into trivia, different ages to some degree and we still ended up at the end of the week coming in second. We got beat by 1/2 point I will add.

 

Nita

[CTCruisers]

They will usually have at least one trivia per day, sometimes twice a day.

 

Lately, they have been treating it as an "Organized Cruise Staff Activity" where you could get points that you could accumulate during the cruise at the trivia and other activities and redeem for small NCL items like water bottles, key chains, and beach balls at the end of the cruise.

 

We have been on some cruises in the past where the CD staff will have an organized progressive trivia. That was where the same teams would compete and accumulate points at each of the trivia events (if they wanted to attend). At the end, the team with the most points would win bags of NCL goodies.

 

The most attended trivia games were when we were on the Jade sailing out of England. The Brits love their "quiz". They would fill up the Spinnaker lounge everyday for the daily Quiz activity.

[liverpoollad]

Regarding frustration on trivia quiz & the ship not changing them too often.

 

I read a threat on CC where people were keeping all the questions & answers for a future cruise & also passing them on to other cruisers. Sad isn't it!!

 

Cheers

[newmexicoNita]

Regarding frustration on trivia quiz & the ship not changing them too often.

 

I read a threat on CC where people were keeping all the questions & answers for a future cruise & also passing them on to other cruisers. Sad isn't it!!

 

Cheers

 

I have heard similar things, but I hope it isn't true and I have rarely seen the same question repeated.

 

Nita

[faymuiheng]

Unfortunately it's true. same questions. Too bad we didn't pay attention on the following cruise, cause we lost again. ha ha

 

Hopefully they've caught on now...

[CTCruisers]

Unfortunately it's true. same questions. Too bad we didn't pay attention on the following cruise, cause we lost again. ha ha

 

Hopefully they've caught on now...

 

We were on a few cruises where the same question was asked twice on the same cruise. The trivias were led by different members of the CD staff so they did not know what questions were already used.

 

We remember one time when we were visiting the library and came across pages and pages of the questions used by the on board CD staff. (We did not peek) When we told the CD staff about it, they said "oops".