Trivia Team’s Pop Culture Expert Tired of Being Patronized by Science Dudes

Following a third consecutive trivia victory, senior telecommunications major Ross Hodges berated his friends for discounting the contribution of his pop culture answers to their team’s recent success. According to eyewitness accounts, Hodges’s rant was prompted by his teammate saying, “Good thing Derek and I took modern physics last semester!” just after results were announced.

After hearing his friends’ dismissal of his abilities, Hodges ranted for several minutes about how his memorization of Ke$ha’s entire discography and knowledge of which characters die in each Quentin Tarantino movie is much more difficult than remembering the names of three physicists. He concluded his rant by taking out his phone calculator to show that he had scored the most points and to prove that he “can also do differential equations.”

“I don’t understand why he thinks he deserves so much credit,” said Drew Patterson, an electrical engineering major and Hodges’s teammate. “Sure, he answered some questions that we didn’t know, but they were just the questions that anyone with free time would know.”

After discussing their falling-out, the rest of Hodges’s team resolved not to apologize or give any further appreciation to their teammate for his role in the victory, concluding that Hodges does not deserve praise “just because he picked a major where he can watch movies and listen to music all day while the rest of us have to study.”

 

— MSC ALITTLE