Sports fans, with a few killjoy exceptions, love quizzes.
They are a chance to put into use all that knowledge, useful and otherwise, you have gathered over the years while watching and reading about sport.
Quizzes, be they organised or off the cuff over a beer or five, give people the opportunity to put one over their mates or the know-it-alls on the other team.
The trick question, and everyone has one, is the ace up the sleeve to be used when the answers dry up and you are beginning to look a bit silly. The one that will restore your reputation as the font of football knowledge or the guru of golf posers.
Here's an old standby that has stumped the less nimble of mind: What's the highest score you can have after only one visit to the snooker table? 147 . . . where have you been all these years? The answer is 154 as your opponent could foul on the black on his first shot.
But there is hope for all those who answered wrongly. Tony Kennedy, a bit of a quiz show whiz, won more than US$200,000 on the British television programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire last week for coming up with the wrong answer to a question.