Time for a Rant

This blog is going to make me look very sad, and very pathetic and very silly, but I very much don't care.

USM does TNT every Tuesday. That's Tuesday Night Trivia. I like quizzes and have wanted to go, but I have a class Tuesday nights haven't been able to get to any yet. Until today, when I skipped classes to a) get a swine flu vaccination and b) go to the Harry Potter themed TNT.

So I'm sat there in a team with Meagan and Kaitlin and their friend who's name escapes me but who agreed with me several times so I like him very much. The quiz was quite cool. The format was impressive, and the questions were good, with a nice gradient from ridiculously easy to quite difficult. Our team came second, we won some plain old papermate biros. However, I don't think I'll be going to another one, even if my class suddenly gets moved to a different time. I have a couple of issues. Angry angry issues.

Ok, so there's this question...

"What is Tonks' most known feature/ability?"

My team writes down on our board "metamorphmagus". Caroline reveals the answer: "changing hair color". She doesn't give us a point, despite much argument. I accept, the answer to her question was "changing hair colour", however the ABILITY that Tonks had that allows her to change her hair color was that she was a freakin METAMORPHMAGUS!!! That's her ability! The question asked for Tonks' ability, and we gave it! We didn't get a point. I'm still fuming.

(I just wanna point out here that during our team discussion Kaitlin said that Nymphadora's skill was metamorphmagus, and Meagan said "no no she's asking about Tonks." We all laughed at her and threatened to throw her out of the obsessive Harry Potter fanclub.)

Anyway, I was just coming to terms with this frustration, when it happened again. Bonus question: "What does the K stand for in J. K. Rowling?"

Kathleen, Kathleen, Kathleen. I know that one! It's my sister's middle name. Kathleen, Kathleen, Kathleen!!! No. Wrong. Apparently JK has no middle name. The answer according to Caroline's quiz is "nothing."

Cue a lot more ranting from Cleo. Ok, maybe it's true that she doesn't have a middle name. I haven't checked, I don't care. The question didn't ask what her bloody middle name was. It asked what the K stood for. And in JK Rowling's nom de plume, the K stands for freaking Kathleen. If the question had asked for what the hell her middle name was and we'd have said Kathleen then we'd have been wrong, but it didn't. It asked what the freaking K stood for and the freaking K stood for freaking Kathleen!!!

I have some serious issues, I know this. It was just a game, I know this too. And both of these rants are basically a matter of how the questions were worded, but we were RIGHT damnit!!

Please tell me you agree!