Ocean Trivia Double Dare

This past summer's theme was water, and every year we like to do a trivia game with our tweens. This year was no exception, but to up the ante we decided to bring back an old school game show - Double Dare. Though we didn't have an OCD Marc Summers to host, we weren't deterred and came up with a diabolical game to delight and thrill ourselves (who cares if the kids had fun).

The tweens were split up into two teams. We randomly chose which team went first and began our game. Team A got the first chance to answer the question. If they answered it right, they got full points, if they answered it wrong, they got nothing and Team B had a chance to steal. However, if Team A wasn't sure, they could always dare Team B to answer the question. Team B would then have the chance to answer (for less points) or double dare Team A. Team A could then try to answer (for even less points now) or take the physical challenge.

There were two physical challenges they could choose from - an activity or eating a gross food. If they chose gross food, they got more points. Gross foods included nori (sushi seaweed), wakame (seaweed salad), canned clams, clam juice, a goldfish (the cracker - though we didn't tell them that unless they picked it), shots of cold clam chowder, anchovies - I think you get the idea. They had to eat the whole thing (and not puke) to get full points. Activity challenges included searching blindfolded through a bowl of Jello for the shark fruit snacks, playing a round of Charades, hopping around the room on one leg singing the Spongebob Squarepants theme song, etc.

Teams A & B would take turns having first crack at questions until the game was over.  The tweens had a great time - and really?  I don't think anyone was *too* grossed out by the food.  In fact - some of them were asking for more when we were done.  Guess I'll have to get my Schadenfreude somewhere else.