How can I turn a small home office into a guest bedroom temporarily? My guest is older and will need something more comfortable than an air mattress. And the space is too small for a pullout couch.
Edit: thanks for all the recos. This gives me some good ideas!
Are there furniture or mattress companies that sell something like a temporary guest bed? So I can turn a home office into a guest room once in awhile, but store away bed after? Something more comfortable than an air mattress.
Also, it’s a small room, so a foldout couch is not an option.
Just curious as to what the age range is at your trivia events and whether/how you try to appeal to different ages in your questions.
At my trivia night, players tend to be mostly Gen X (as am I), with a few Millennial and Boomer players. Younger teams come occasionally, often enjoy themselves but tend to score low.
I do mostly general trivia, and include one “generation gap” pop culture question per game, where players get two choices of question, and only need one right for the point, eg:
“The theme is Beetles in the movies. Option 1) In
the Transformer film franchise, what is the name of the autobot that transforms into a
yellow Volkswagen Beetle? Option 2) In the Disney film franchise, what is the name of the
sentient white V olkwagen Beetle that is painted with racing stripes and the number 53?”
>!Bumblebee (or B-127); Herbie (the Love Bug)!<
I tend to avoid entire pop culture theme rounds, like 80s movies, even though I know many players would enjoy them, because I think it might be alienating for younger teams.
Interested in your thoughts, on any of these:
Do you just write questions that appeal to you and trust that a like-minded audience will find you? Or do you actively court certain demographics? Did your venue come with a ready made audience of a certain age?
How much effort do you put into making questions that are outside your comfort zone, age-wise?
Is it alienating to *everyone* if you try to be Age-inclusive?
Do you have strategies for making rounds or questions appealing to a wide age range?
Do you thinks it’s best (for you and/or players) to just stick to one age group?
Here is a round I did on a World Cup theme, but which is not really about the world cup (except the last question). Players have to identify the countries by the flags, then are asked trivia questions about them (questions also have clues to help identify the countries). I had 11 teams, and all got 10 or more out of 15. Could easily be adapted with different countries and easier/harder questions.
Here are the questions:
#1-8 - identify the countries by their flag
>!Canada!<
>!South Africa!<
>!the Netherlands!<
>!Sweden!<
>!Ghana!<
>!Colombia!<
>!Australia!<
>!Curacao!<
Answer will be either country 1 or country 2. Both of these countries have diamond mining industries. In 2024, which country’s diamond mines produced fewer diamonds by weight? >!South Africa produced fewer diamonds – only about 5 million carats, compared to Canada’s 13 million carats!<
These are both countries that have a lot of tall people. But which country’s citizens are, on average, the tallest in the world? >!Netherlands!<
Both countries have citizens who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Their names are Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and Kofi Annan. Which country’s Nobel laureate won in 2001 for his work as secretary-general of the United Nations? >!Ghana (Kofi Annan)!<
Which of these countries is NOT the world’s leading producer of opals? That’s opals like the iridescent gem, not the car. >!Curacao!<
These two countries have some linguistic overlap. An official language in one country is mostly made up of vocabulary from the other country’s main language. Also, in both countries, English is widely spoken, but it is only an official language in one of them. Which of these countries does NOT have English as one of their official languages? >!The Netherlands – almost everyone speaks it to some degree, but it’s not official. But it is one of the 12 official languages of S. Africa!<
Which country produces a bitter-orange-flavoured liqueur that is a main ingredient in the cocktails Blue Lagoon, Blue Hawaii and Aqua Velva? >!Curacao (the liqueur is also called Curacao)!<
World Cup question. Which of these countries’ world cup team has only one player that was actually born in that country? >!Curacao, (the rest are from the Netherlands)!<