I thought it might be fun to start a forum where a member can pose a trivia question regarding aircraft, and the first member who gets the right answer gets to post the next question. The question can include historical and/or performance data, pictures (as in "What is it"?), or any combination thereof. The trivia can involve past/present military, civilian, historical, heavier-then-air, lighter-then-air, fixed or rotary wing aircraft questions, but let's avoid the almost totally obscure please. Although quoting your source material, as I prefer to,  is generally considered to be a normal modeler's courtesy it is not strictly required to be part of the correct answer.

You see this worked quite well on another site (they called it "Jeopardy" there) until a couple of members "hijacked" the forum by posting extremely unusual and obscure (such as about some little-known of Eastern European air show stunt plane) questions and photos that it seemed only those two could successfully answer. It was obvious to me that they were colluding, and when I actually answered one right, one of the two members tried to indicate I didn't get it right according to "his answer".  When I objected by pointing out that when we in America watch the TV game show "Jeopardy", if a contestant actually does give a correct answer, even though it was not the one they were looking for, the judges would give that contestant credit, they turned around and ignored my post and "awarded" the next turn to one of their buddies who hurried up and posted the answer they were looking for right after mine.  As a result I quit submitting material to them and started to work with the battleship builders and eventually left their website 

If this sounds like a good idea either I or anyone else is welcome to posit the first question and we can give it a try.

So what do you guys think?

   Tom T

Post Edit:

 Just to further clarify, if the last person to answer the question correctly does not post another question , or if no one can answer a difficult question within a five-day week, the forum is open to anyone who wishes to posit the next question.

This time limit stands even if the questioner chooses to change the question, since a person hypothetically could keep switching to "impossible" questions, thusly tying up the forum indefinately.

The reason for this is that "Stuff Happens" and can happen to any of us where for any of a number of reasons we can be "out of pocket".

Some reasons can be:

1. Someone in the persons' family of the person himself gets very sick or injured or dies.
2. The person suddenly has to take a trip for emergency/personal/family/job reasons.
3. The individual has his or her power cut off due to a storm or other natural disastor.
4. The player's PC dies.
5. The player's Internet Server dies.
6. The player gets a "duuuuuuuuh" attack where his/her brain "locks up" and cannot decide whether a response is correct or simply cannot think of the next question, but is too embarresed to admit it.
7. A hostile troll from another website trying to mess up a good thing we have going here.

My theory is that most of the "blanks spells" are due to reason number six.

OK?

Tom T