Trivial Pursuit
For Miranda and me, Tuesdays have become Trivia night at Picasso’s! Every superhero story needs an origin story, just ask the Marvel Comics Movie Universe! Zing! Here we go: I have a long and storied history with trivia. I participated in quiz bowl or academic bowl, from 6 th grade until when I graduated high school. Usually, these competitions involve four kids on each side of a room, all holding buzzers and trying their best to answer questions being read by a proctor. I’ve always been a brainy kid who kept all sorts of random information; a lot of it just simply doesn’t fall out of my head. Academic bowl suited me. Up until the 8 th grade I was a part of a magnet school where I was matched with “talented and gifted” kids of the Birmingham (Alabama) public school system. I put “talented and gifted” in quotes not to make fun of Birmingham (though that would be a funny joke) but to just mention all children have talents and gifts; I guess the kids in that class were seen a