‘I’ll take trivia for $200 please, Alex’

When I was 8, I wanted to be Annie — until I realized that I did not have curly red hair and that Annie was not Chinese. So I switched to dreams of being a contestant on Jeopardy. Yeah, I was a weird kid.

So it was pretty cool when a producer called to ask if I’d be interested in competing on a team of bloggers on Test the Nation: Trivia on CBC TV on Sunday at 8 p.m.

The show will test how much 21st-century trivia has stuck in my noggin. Just like the Trivial Pursuit that I’m not allowed to play at home — because apparently I’m too competitive and yell at people (shrug) — except live on national TV.

You can play along at home as you watch the six teams duke it out in the Toronto studio. The bloggers are up against:

• cab drivers
• celebrity look-alikes
• backpackers
• flight crews
• chefs

Hopefully all those hours absorbing As It Happens and Perez Hilton are going to come in handy finally.

I don’t know if fraternizing is allowed but I’d love to meet Bob Blumer, the Surreal Gourmet, who ran the 42-kilometre Medoc Marathon through the vineyards of France’s Bordeaux region, pausing at the rest stops to sample the finest wines area châteaus have to offer.

Of course, I hope we win. The online poll has us neck in neck with the flight crew team right now. None of them better be from Air Canada is alls I’ve got to say.

Here are the fine bloggers I get to compete with but I don’t know what we’re going to do without our laptops — and Google:

• Dan Arnold (blog)

• Jon Arnold (blog)
• Christopher Bird (blog)
• Buzz Bishop (blog)
• Rebecca Bollwitt (blog)
• Ryan Couldrey (blog)
• Ryan Cousineau (blog)
• Katharine Hay (blog)
• Jesse Hirsch (blog)
• David Jones (blog)
• Allyson Kenning (blog)
• John Klein (blog)
• Andree Lau (blog)
• Lainey Liu (blog)
• Amber Macarthur (blog)
• John Martz(blog)
• Hugh McGuire (blog)
• Mark McIntyre (blog)
• Patrick Metzger (blog)
• Andy Nulman (blog)
• Ryan Porter (blog)
• Adam Schwabe(blog)
• Craig Silverman (blog)
• Julien Smith (blog)
• Allan Sorenson (blog)
• Rick Spence (blog)
• Graeme Stewart (blog)
• David Topping (blog)
• Kate Trgovac (blog)
• Rannie Turingan (blog)
• James Viloria (blog)
• Karen Whaley (blog)
• Frank Yang (blog)

Tune in on Sunday night!