Trivia Recap: 1/19

The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Mary (English teacher), Darren (math professor), Ben (not an NHL player), Brock (complicated graphic-design-and-marketing job), Phil (Adobe guru), Alex (coffee-shop owner), Zizi (kid)

Hint of the Day: Rocket

Opening Category: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Round One:

When it comes to Marvel movies, Brock and Darren know things, and fortunately for The Educated Friends, they knew "Adam Warlock." The category Company Ad Slogans was sort of fun. We were given three slogans and had to come up with the companies they accompanied: "Timex, CK, and Allstate." We aced that. Ben got "Eisenhower" for Historical Firsts, but it was funny because it was one of those "Exactly X number of years ago today..." questions and the math was proving difficult for us. Ben said, "Darren, give me a year" (because Darren is a math professor), which Darren did with Phil's help (who knew subtraction could be so difficult when under pressure!), and then Ben instantly said, "Ike" because Ben is a presidential genius. Now... brace yourselves for this story. I very much dislike it when the category is NFL Players. Unfortunately, NFL Players is a category nearly every week. I never know the answer. Last night, my team knew the answer was "Brett Favre," but there was a two-point bonus that no one was sure of. I forget the question, but I suggested the answer "Joe Montana." I said it a couple times. People shot me down and we went with another response. Guess who was right. THIS GIRL. We did not get the bonus points. We also missed the bonus points for European Geography, but Ben knew "Bulgaria" was the answer so we got the main part of the question right.

Round Two:

Dolly Parton turned 77 yesterday and so the audio clue included remakes of her songs. Did you know Lil Nas X sang "Jolene"? We didn't. We also didn't know the host of the show Lingo, but we did alright overall this round: Colleges and Universities was fine, TV Game Shows got us some points, Authors and Their Pen Names was known by Mary right away, and we managed to figure out Science Crossword too.

Halftime Sheet:

We got 18/20. The top contained pictures from movies that included country names in their titles. The bottom required us to know the ten smallest US States. South Carolina is not one of them; West Virginia is.

Round Three:

Marvel Movies was the opening category and the entire room groaned because we already had that category at the start of the entire game. But again, my movie-watching team members figured out that "Thor" was the answer. Darren knew the answer to Diseases and Disorders, we worked together to determine which paintings in 50/50: Paintings had people in them, Techy Abbreviations (not Kentucky Abbreviations) was fine, and I actually knew the answer to Rock Bands, bonus and everything! (Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious.)

6 - 4 - 2:

The answer was "Venus" and we got it for four points. Not too shabby.

Round Four:

We did fine with this round. Classic TV was good, American Beaches went okay thanks to Ben, 3 Clues, 1 Novel was figured out by Mary (though we did miss the bonus), Current Events was okay, and we even managed to get both parts of the NBA Teams question right.

Going into the Final Round, we were in second. The past couple weeks, we've been in first place the whole way through and then lost in the end, not placing at all. This week, I said to my group, "This place may work out for us." And Phil said, "If we win, let's make Waffle House the opening category for next week."

Final Round:

The category was African Geography and the answer was Sudan and we won. So next week's opening category is "Waffle House." Weird, right?