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We are now trivia champs three weeks running with another blowout. Second place finished more than 20 pts behind us

Team name: Cory Booker Is Still Talking

We swept the first round, category ‘vowelless’ — all answers contained no vowels. Best q of that round:

What is the Welsh word for valley?

(We also swept ‘name the TV next door neighbor’ but embarrassingly missed, “After Elon Musk, who has the second most twitter followers?”

Kim Scheinberg

@xconde
That's a great answer but not the one they wanted

Both 'cwm' and 'dyffryn' translate to 'valley' in English. However, the word 'cwm' has a more distinct meaning. 'Cwm' is often attributed to rounded, glaciated valleys such as a corrie or cirque, while 'dyffryn' refers to more extensive valleys such as Dyffryn Ogwen (Ogwen valley).

They wanted 'cwm' and because I am a Scrabble player, I happened to know that one. [Had we written 'dyffryn' I might have challenged and probably won]

@kims if I was at that quiz I’d be so disappointed they didn’t take my answer! 😆

But they wanted cwm and your gave it to them. Good!

(Sorry, I have never been able to take this word seriously - it’s been 20 years since my first visit to wales and I still giggle)