💬 We did a mobile phone quiz at home and my uncle beat me

Last Sunday my cousins were over and someone said, let's do a quiz about mobile phones. I'm the phone person in the family, so everyone expected me to win easily. I wrote 20 questions on a notepad, about old phones, ringtones, networks and who made what. My younger cousin kept the score on the back of a pizza box. I lost badly. My uncle got the question about the first ever smartphone right in 2 seconds. He said he'd read it in a magazine at a barber shop about 20 years ago. Then I got stuck on a question I'd written myself. I forgot my own answer. Everyone laughed for about 5 minutes and my cousin took a photo of my face. The funny part was the old phone round. A 12 year old had never held a phone with buttons. She asked how you were supposed to type a message. My uncle took out his old one to show her. She tried to swipe the screen and nothing happened. Then she handed it back like it was broken. Everyone went quiet for a second, then my uncle said, welcome to 2005. We played until 11 at night and nobody checked their phone once, which might be a record. Someone asked to do it again next month with harder questions and a small prize. I've got ideas for the next one now, like guess the ringtone and guess the phone from a photo. Has anyone done a quiz like this with friends? Which questions worked and which ones fell flat?

A quiz night where you lose to your own uncle sounds like a good evening to me. I'd add a round where people guess the phone from a blurry photo of its back. Our family tried it with old ringtones and my mother recognised every single one in 1 second. Do the 12 year old a favour and also show her a cassette next time.

I ran something like this at my college hostel and the old phone round was the best part. Nobody under 20 could work out how to unlock a phone with buttons. We gave a chocolate to whoever answered the ringtone question first, and it got surprisingly competitive. Your uncle's barber shop magazine story is exactly how general knowledge works, I think.

We just did a quiz night in my apartment with friends and I lost to a guy who barely uses his phone. Your cousin with the pizza box scoreboard is my favourite part of this story. I'd love to try the guess the ringtone round, because I'm sure I'd embarrass myself. Post your questions when you're done and I'll try them on my group next weekend.