Mike Burger wrote: "That's why trash is known as "Popular Culture". Hard core sci-fi is not "Popular Culture". Dungeons and Dragons is not "Popular Culture". Mainstream sports are "Popular Culture". " And Phil Groce wrote: Interested in whether Mike would call obscure music trash, since some of it has considerably less of a following than SF or D&D. That would make much of the All-Music Guide's Rock, Rap and Country categories not "popular culture". :) It becomes obvious that there's a lot of "popular subculture" around. Someone who enjoys gaming, or figure skating, or 1950s rock and roll, or even quiz bowl, may know lots of trashy stuff that's not necessarily accessible to Justin and Caitlin Six-Pack, but may very well know LOTS of people who have exactly the same interests and knowledge. To paraphrase an old yard sign: You figure out which. :-) Most trash tournament distributions I've seen at least strongly suggest that the major categories of sports, TV, movies, etc., be sub-distributed in such a way that they're not all aimed at the same audience. Using the distribution, as well as the "miscellaneous" allotment, to sneak in some of one's favorite sub-sub-categories seems perfectly fair to me. Common sense dictates that one doesn't use this as an excuse to stack a general-trash packet with multiple questions about, say, 1960s baseball. There's a big difference between "difficult" and "unbalanced". Julie
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