Nothing Trivial about this game of Pursuit

Way back when, during the years my daughter would come home from New York for the Christmas holidays, our house would typically be the site of a Trivial Pursuit tournament. Most time it would be parents against college-age students, and often the students — flush with all the new information their professors were attempting to cram into their heads — would lose.

The quickness of youth can't always handle the facility of experience.

Anyway, trivia has always been a good game to play, especially for those of us who know a little about a lot but a lot about very little (with the exception, in my case maybe, of movies). And so I'm particularly interested in the Spokane Trivia Championship, which will be held at 7 on Thursday at the Bing Crosby Theater.

Sponsored by the Spokane Public Library Foundation, the event costs $12 (with ages 12 and under admitted free), and will be emceed by Mark Robbins. For further information, click here.

BTW, my own Trivial Pursuit days are long over. When you can't pull up the name of Akira … mmm, Akira … mmm, that famous Japanese filmmaker, Akira … Kurosawa, yeah, yeah, Kurosawa .. on your first try, the game is clearly up.