Strange and/or amusing Civ-related occurrances

[Lockesdonkey]

I will explain the why behind this thread after I explain what inspired me to created it...so hear me out...

I was searching through threads looking for salient information, (to what it doesn't matter) when I found this:

You may or may not find this amusing...

Please know that I am a 16-year-old sophomore. I'm in high school in the United States. And I am sufficiently knowledgeable to be on my school's Quiz Bowl Team.

(btw, in quiz bowl two teams of four students go head to head and answer questions, rather like "Jeopardy!" with two teams, except that all questions are worth ten points, and if you answer correctly you get three extra ten-point questions--called a bonus-- which only your team can answer)

So I'm at a tournament at Michigan State University on Saturday and one of the questions is about the Yucatan. I don't get it fast enough and the other team gets the bonus.

The bonus was more or less as follows:

"In the popular game Sid Meier's Civilization III, certain units are available only to one civilization. For ten points each, name the civilization from its 'warlike' unique unit." (correct answers are in parentheses--shame on you if you don't know them!) [the answer given by the other team is in brackets]

War Chariot (Egyptians) [Greeks]
War Elephant (Indians) [Carthaginians]
Man-of-War (English) [British: which was noted as being an unacceptable answer!]

I laughed so hard.

This put me in mind of a similar occurance, while we were practicing for the national tournament in Chicago. ( [tangent] We did quite well, considering that we fully expected to be eliminated. [/tangent])


The name’s the same. Teresa, played by Senta Berger, in 1963’s Major Dundee, Rosa in 1990’s Ghost, and Rico in 1996’s Fled. Willy was the murdered private in A Few Good Men. Corazon was the leader of the Spartans in Sid Meirer’s Alpha Centauri. Also the name of the main character in Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, FTP, give the shared name, which also names the capital city of Chile.

Guess where I buzzed in.

In any case, I'm wondering if any of you have found yourselves in a situation where the fact that you play Civ has been useful or funny or anything else in a situation where you would not normally expect it.

For our purposes, "Civ" should include Civ I, II, and III, as well as Civ 2.5 AKA Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (and expansions).

 

[vmxa]

Interestig, but I thought 2.5 was Test Of Time?

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Interestig, but I thought 2.5 was Test Of Time?

OK, you've got me there. Make it 2.75. How's that?

 

[Ansar]

How come when I hear of Civ 2, I dont hear of ToT.

 

[Bluemofia]

Umm, does calling people uncivilized when they don't play civ count?

 

[Ansar]

Umm, does calling people uncivilized when they don't play civ count?

THat should go to the jokes thread more reasons you'be playing civ too much"

 

[Bluemofia]

It's already in my sig.

 

[Pentium]

I was in school having Maths. Our teacher gave us some papers containing our homework. I quickly scanned the tasks and noticed there were some written by ancient and medieval philosophers.

One of them was .... Sun Tzu! I started laughing and telling around that when I solve this task I will be a veteran.

 

[Invisible Rhino]

There was an article about someone being attacked by a rogue elephant in India a few months back, my roomate made a joke about the Indian golden age starting soon. I found it hilarious. The rest of our friends told us to shut up.

 

[Pentium]

You have a Civ-playing roomate? RNG has given you a great starting position!