Pub Trivia
A mathematician complains that pub trivia won't accept 'the answer is trivial.'
Content note: Set at a pub (mild).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-11-05-pub-trivia/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "How was Pub Trivia?" B: "Awful. People say we mathematicians are nitpicky, but these jerks — they'll nail you on any detail, no matter how trivial."
A: "Well... it is called 'trivia'..." B: "And yet they deny you any points for writing, 'The answer is trivial'!"