Trivia Recap: 10/12

The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Siri (English teacher), Kristin (English teacher), Marc (Social Studies teacher), Victoria (veterinarian), Kate (marine-life lawyer who represents dolphins and whales in court)

Opening Category: Martin Luther

Hint of the Day: Light

Round One:

Thank goodness for Marc. Even though Mary promised that she'd send a fact about Martin Luther every single day between last Thursday and today, she didn't send even ONE and so we entered the evening completely unprepared. But Marc knew the answer was Wittenburg. He also knew that a sandy river borders West Virginia and Kentucky. We recognized "Blue Moon" as a song by the Marcels only after we got an extra clue, but we got the points. We also knew that Instagram is owned by Facebook but we did not know the two networks that aired Scrubs. We got one of them but not the other. Overall, the first round was fine.

Round Two:

The audio round was our bonus, as it always is, and we got the points but missed the two-point bonus because none of us really enjoys U2 and therefore didn't recognize the song that has a form of the word MAD in the title. Some dude named Jim yelled out the answer to Units of Measurement as soon as Adam finished delivering the clue so the whole entire restaurant got that one right. Thanks, Jim! We remembered the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin (R.I.P.) and Siri knew that his daughter was on Dancing With the Stars. Even though NHL stuff isn't really our jam, Kate and Ben put their brains together, with a little help from Kristin too, and went with the answer of Hartford, which was right. And then pretty much everybody but me knew the leads (Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson) from some romantic comedy I've never seen. It might've been Bridesmaids, but I've never seen that film, and people have told me for years that I need to watch that film -- and Marc told me to watch it tonight -- but I just have zero interest in watching that movie because I don't think it looks all that funny. I'm not a big comedy watcher to begin with, and the previews for that film just seemed overly stupid, and so I have never watched it. But I have watched three movies in the past month and that's approximately three movies more than I watched last year, total. The movies I've watched are Knives Out, Black Hawk Down, and Stand By Me.

Halftime:

The top of this was kind of fun. We had to identify things that begin with K. I knew kiwi (the bird) and kumquat and some other things. Marc and Siri knew someone named Kane who might be a wrestler...? The bottom was a little harder and we had to identify franchises based on founders and dates. Overall, we got 17/20. Not terrible, but not our best.

At this point, Marc had to leave because he had to attend open gym. But just as he was preparing to leave, Benjamin Charles appeared and said, "Hey." So he took Marc's seat and I asked Spencer from Risky Quizness to take a second team picture for us and then we got right back into the game...

The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Siri (English teacher), Kristin (English teacher), Ben (wannabe Phillies teammate), Victoria (veterinarian), Kate (marine-life lawyer who represents dolphins and whales in court)

Round Three:

Both Marc and Ben were around to hear the clues for Triple 50/50 (World Capitals) and they agreed on the answers so we went with Yes, No, No and that was correct, thus earning us a two-point bonus. Last Word/First Word Music Edition was hard because who the hell are The Brothers Osborne? Tasty Brand Names was fine because Peter Pan is a children's book character and it's also peanut butter and that's the answer we needed. (My mom's favorite peanut butter, coincidentally, is Peter Pan -- always creamy, never chunky.) Unfortunately, we didn't know that Post produced Peter Pan Peanut Butter. Victoria got the answer to Scientific Experiments. Fitting, right? She's a scientist. The answer was the speed of light and that was the hint of the day as well. I forget the clue but it had something to do with mountains and possibly California. Football Hall of Famers is never a category of interest to me, but Ben said we should write down Unitas and he even spelled it upside-down. What I mean by this is that he literally got up, did a handstand in the middle of the restaurant, and proceeded to whisper up to me "U-N-I-T-A-S." Nah... just kidding. He took a piece of paper and the pen I had been using and wrote U-N-I-T-A-S upside-down on the paper so it was rightside-up for me. Make sense? Yeah.

6-4-2:

Did you know that the comicstrip character inside Bazooka gum wrappers wears an eye patch? We did, but not until the second clue, so we got this for four points.

Round Four:

Even though we were all expecting Kate to know the answer to Biblical Figures, Siri beat her to it and knew the answer was Methuselah. We almost got a two-point bonus for spelling it right, but instead of an E we went with an A and that isn't the right spelling. Oh well. A Show Within A Show was something Siri was really looking forward to and she knew it. Ben and maybe Kate also knew it. Itchy and Scratchy was the show and the show it was in was The Simpsons. Ben the history buff knew the Monroe Doctrine was the answer to the U.S. History question even before Adam finished reading it and then he got us the two-point bonus as well. He's good at dates. The answer to Biographical Films was Andy Kaufman and even I knew that answer but Siri knew it faster and already had it written down by the time I came up with it. And Going Out On TOP was fine because the words had to include TOP in them somewhere and the answers were OcTOPus, auTOPsy, and uTOPia.

Final Round:

The category was Authors and we were tied for third place going into this round (Darren, you'll be proud to know that I went up and voiced an error in points because Adam had us down three points and my math was mostly correct tonight) and so we wagered all twelve points and got it right. The question was something about a title character named James and the author who wrote the book and also wrote some James Bond stuff and the answer was Roald Dahl.

Shortly after the final round, a man sitting at a neighboring table complimented my sweatshirt and said he told his brother (maybe brother-in-law?) about Trampled By Turtles after last week's opening category. His brother(-in-law?) apparently loves bluegrass but had never heard of Trampled By Turtles. The man said I could have great talks with his brother(-in-law?) about music, and I would be happy to do that, but I don't know who the brother(-in-law?) is.

Interesting, that was the second compliment I got on my sweatshirt because as soon as I got to Fourscore, Diane complimented my hoodie as well! It's become my favorite hoodie, with my Dispatch hoodie only slightly behind.

Next week's opening category is The Jetsons and I'm hoping someone else is going to want to write a blog about it because I just get so tired of writing this trivia blog... Victoria, if you're able to attend next week, you're up. This is your notice!