We will, we will Blog you!
From Rick Spence‘s Sweep! Sweep! to Rannies photomontage of the seating chart last night’s adventure in National Television has been pretty effectively blogged. Add in Ryan & Adam‘s backstage video and you’ll have the whole experience… sans the kickin’ brunch with Eden & Kate, but that was just for us.
In case you didn’t know.
We won!!!! 
The bloggers swept the whole thing:
Team Captain – Samantha Bee – Won.- Team Bloggers – Won.
- Best Individual Score – Rick Spence (and co-back row rowdy) – Won.
Personally, after doing pathetically on the pre-game online Mental Gymnastic’s (I scored somewhere between 20%-50% on all 5 tests), I was pretty surprised to pull off a 52/60 on the live show (unofficial score counted on my fingers). Perhaps some of Rick‘s mad trivia skillz rubbed off on me as we were cracking bad jokes and starting chants from the back corner.
Met and randomly photographed some very cool folks – bloggers and non-bloggers alike. Keep an eye on my flickr stream. (tag “blogthenation”)
Here’s what we bloggers have been saying so far about our experiences.
Canadian Entrepreneur: Sweep! Sweep! (Best of the lot, and yet still relegated to the back row… hummm)
Nunc Scio: The Sweet Smell of Blogger Victory (check out the 4 lessons of the night – brilliant and so true)
CanadaWry: Owning the Homely (the only blogger willing to dress up – kudos to Jules!)
Pow! Right Between The Eyes: Don’t Wanna Brag But… (who saved $500 because we won!)
are you gonna eat that? ‘I’ll take trivia for $200 please, Alex’ (BTW, best blog name ever)
One Degree: Bloggers Take Home the Test the Nation Trophy
The Blog According to Buzz: Bee! Bee! Bee!
Miss 604: Test the Nation Trip: Nerds on Top
Lip Gloss and Laptops: KA on CBC’s Test The Nation
PR Works: Bloggers’ brains on display on CBC Test the Nation
Calgary Grit: The Answer is “Bee”
Mighty God King Dot Com: The Story Of Trivia
The Tea Makers: Test the Nation: the holding pen
hughmcguire.net: Test the Nation
Slap upside the Head: I’ve Vanished, Apparently
Gay Persons of Color: Reminder – CBC – Test The Nation: Trivia
my name is kate: Mr. Lacroix, I’m ready for my closeup …
For other participants (bloggers and non-bloggers alike):
- If you blogged the event and I didn’t find your post, please feel free to ping this post or add your url to the comments
- If you were there and want copies of the poor photos I took, just ask. They’re no where near as good as Rannie’s, but they are blurry and badly composed… so they have that extra edgy look.
- has anyone come up with a good tag? I’m using “blogthenation” for my photos on flickr.
That’s so great – congrats!
So were you actually in studio? We recorded the test and started to watch it, but got frustrated because they didn’t reveal answers. I certainly wasn’t about to start using a pen and paper. They should have asked 10 questions then revealed 10 answers – or something like that. I’d rather watch jeopardy.
In any case, in the 30 minutes we watched we couldn’t see you in the blogger crowd. Did you get on the telly? Is it worth scanning the recording to try to find you?
I won’t watch it otherwise. The hosts are so annoying, it’s unbearable.
@ robyn – thanks!
@ Junkii – yup, I was in the studio, though as an alternate they tucked me in the far back corner of the bloggers. Don’t bother searching for me. I’ve been told you can hear me more than you can see me ;->
re: testing – they do share the answers at the end for all the questions. It’s the closest to fair thing they can do since some people are taking it real time online, some on paper and some in studio across multiple timezones.
Thanks for trying.
I want you on our Tuesday night trivia team.
I want you on our Tuesday night trivia team.
Now you have a new comment problem Lex. (aside from me just being here)
A few photos and videos are up on my blog now. I’ll probably add some to facebook to over the coming days, but I’m also busy with the Canadian Blog Awards so it may be a while yet.
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/01/24/wasnt-that-a-party-test-the-nation-in-toronto/