How I Accidentally Started a Trivia War on the Valiant Lady

I'm not a competitive person. At least, that's what I tell myself. But somewhere between the second round of Virgin Voyages' weekly trivia night on the Valiant Lady and my team's heated argument about whether a tomato is technically a fruit (it is, Karen, it IS), I realized I'd drastically underestimated how seriously cruisers take their brain games. My wife Sarah and I had boarded the Valiant Lady on a Friday evening, and honestly, I was just excited about the whole experience. Virgin Voyages has this cool vibe that feels way less formal than traditional cruise lines. The ship itself is gorgeous—modern, sleek, with these incredible red and white design elements everywhere. We'd already hit up the Deck Two bar area, grabbed some cocktails, and were genuinely just looking for something to do that didn't involve sitting in our cabin or eating our body weight in seafood. That's when we spotted the sign: "TRIVIA NIGHT - Red Room - 8 PM - TEAMS OF UP TO SIX." We were in. We grabbed our friends Mark and Jessica, who we'd run into earlier at the pool, and decided to round out our team with two random people standing nearby. This turned out to be Dave, a retired accountant from Ohio, and…