We are sitting round the table on Christmas Day. My brother's XBox is broke so we have to find other ways to entertain my little cousins, or rather one cousin specifically. My Dad pulls out an old box of a game entitled Outburst. It is like Family Fortunes but I'm sure, legally different.
We are a bit into the game and my brother pulls out a card and reads it out, "Things you find in Rome". I look at my cousin - one of them is on my team, one is on my brother's team. "We might as well play. I really don't know any answers but I don't want to waste a pass". My cousin nods.
My brother turns the sand timer over and repeats, "Things you find in Rome..."
"Catholics" comes the response from my cousin.
It wasn't one of the ten answers.

The time eventually runs out and I take the pack of cards. I pull out a random one and read the topic, "Things a Carpenter uses". I turn over the sand timer and read out the topic title again.
My little cousin on my brother's team decides to have a guess. "Swords".

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