Trivia Recap: 1/12

The Players: Brock (marketing/graphic design/computer/etc. guru), Hannah (English teacher), Ben (not a ferret trainer), Alex (coffee shop owner), Phil (Adobe guru), Darren (math professor), Mary (English teacher)

Hint of the Day: Horse

Opening Category: Baltimore Oriole Shortstops

Round One:

We missed the opening category, but got everything else: Movie Taglines (this was hard!), US History, Name That Museum, and NFL Teams. The Movie Taglines one got us some points, which is good since it was our bonus, but we missed the film accompanying the tagline that went something like "She was kidnapped and he died, but it all worked out in the end." The answer is The Princess Bride. Tricky, right?

Round Two:

Mary was SUPER stoked because the audio clue for the night was Taylor Swift. She knew all of the answers too, though a couple other team members also knew a few. I wasn't one of those team members, FYI; I am not a Tay-Tay aficionado and I will never claim to be, though I do like her song "Shake It Off." We got all the other questions right, too: May I Have This Dance?, Aerodynamics, TV Actors and Their Roles, and Literary Characters. In fact, the only thing we missed was the bonus on Literary Characters, which required us to know who wrote the story about Walter Mitty. My coworker Kathy would have known because I'm pretty sure she teaches that, but Mary and I don't teach it and we therefore did not get James Thurber.

Halftime:

The top involved identifying images from cult classics and the bottom had us filling in names that appear in song titles. We got 20/20.

Round Three:

A good round. We got almost every question right AND every bonus question: World Geography, Fruity Question (Darren and I figured out "grapefruit" because we trusted our guts), Adam Sandler (I can't stand his voice and therefore don't watch his movies so my team totally got this... even though I did say Coneheads and it ended up being right), Mythological Symbols (this is the question we missed; Darren kept thinking I wrote "Mathematical Symbols" and getting excited), and Musical Families.

6 - 4 - 2:

European country known for fountains and baths... and I think something called "Alpha" is maybe the oldest area in its capital city? I'm not sure... I'm just reading over the notes I jotted down and that's what I have. We didn't get it for 6, but we did get it for 4, and the answer was Portugal.

Round Four:

NHL Teams (blech!), Job Titles, 3 Clues/1 Celebrity, Forensic Science, and Classic TV made up this category... and I think we got every question right. Do you know what a farrier is? The hint of the day, that's what. Don't worry: we got it.

Final Question:

We were in the lead going into the last question, and had been in the lead the whole way through, but then we missed the answer to Presidential Potpourri (we said "having a child" and the answer was "getting married") and so we came in NOT in the top three. Whatever. It is what it is.

There's always next week, right?