Trivia Recap: 11/10

The Players: Ben (social studies teacher), Hannah (English teacher), Mary (English teacher), Brock (complicated marketing/graphic design job), Alex (coffee shop owner), Kristin (English teacher)

Hint of the Day: Piggy Bank

Opening Category: AC/DC songs

Round One:

We nailed it. All of the points were earned, as were the bonuses, and we essentially killed it. AC/DC? Check. Three Clues, One City? Check. (Both Ben and I knew this right away because of the lions named Patience and Fortitude, which made me feel really smart because Ben is really smart.) Life on the Farm? Check. (The answer was "pig," and the hint of the day.) TV Sitcoms? Check. (The answer was Two Broke Girls. I am not a fan of that show -- it is so vulgar and not funny, in my opinion -- but thankfully my team knew enough about the show to not only get the answer, but the bonus too!) Novel Trilogies? Check. (Many of us knew this, and the many of us were named Hannah, Mary, and Kristin.)

Round Two:

My team (namely Kristin and Alex) doubted that the first answer was Beyonce... but the answer was Beyonce and because Mary and Ben and Brock supported me, we got that right (along with They Might Be Giants and Jewell). Pretty much everyone except yours truly knew the answer "Michael Corleone" and Ben was our savior with Political Speeches since he knew the answers of "Eisenhower" and "Dulles." Kristin and I knew that "Beechnut" is baby food (Kristin got it straight away!) because she has kids and I have cats who sometimes need chicken baby food when they're sick. Mary, who has a small child, only knew of Gerber; she wasn't aware of Beechnut. We missed the Professional Basketball question because who cares about sports? It was one point. That's the only question we missed in the first two rounds.

Halftime:

We got 17/20, which wasn't bad. On the top, we had to identify shows that included exclamation points. On the bottom, we had to come up with answers that included the word "Master." Some were tricky, but we didn't do a terrible job by any means.

It was around this time that I confided in Ben that I don't think he finds me funny enough. I told him that I very much appreciate his intelligence-intelligence, because the dude is about the smartest person I know, but I sometimes think he should laugh more when I tell him a funny thing. I mean, I had told him a funny thing earlier in the night and he didn't even crack a smile... so I called him out on it because if you know me, you know that I am blunt (and funny!). And I am especially blunt with the people I enjoy most. So I just pointed out to him that he should smile when I tell him a funny thing because I am, after all, funny.

Ben used the excuse that he was eating (which he was), but then he went on to explain his "Ha Ha Scale." Certain things earn more "Ha's" than others. For instance, the word "boogers," I learned tonight, is worthy of a few ha's. I don't really agree with this, as my humor is apparently a bit more... refined, perhaps? I don't know. Whatever. Kristin flat out asked Ben "What makes you ha-ha?" and that resulted in all of us gauging our ha-ha's for the rest of the night. Ben might deem something "One ha for me" while Kristin would say, "That's a lot of ha-ha's from me." And then Ben might say, "Here's something that made me laugh two or three ha-ha's." It was really good in that we paid a lot of attention to what was truly funny. At one point, Ben was being really hilarious in his delivery of a story about flushing a fake poppy down the toilet, but I hid my ha-ha's in my sweatshirt (I just pulled the neckline over my face) so he wouldn't see me laughing because I was determined to reinforce that I'm funny too and he should have laughed earlier in the night. I can be stubborn sometimes.

Round Three:

Not surprisingly, we aced Alcoholic Brand Names and SciFi Authors. Gems and Minerals cost us a lot of points (seven!), but we redeemed ourselves with World History. I called "Beyonce" as the answer to female pop stars before we even got the question, but then we went with "Madonna and Spears." "Spears" was wrong; "Beyonce" was right. Go figure. I need to trust my Beyonce gut ALL THE TIME, not just 50% like I did tonight.

6-4-2:

We got it for four. For six, we were convinced the answer with Kirk Cameron... but thank goodness we waited because the answer WAS NOT Kirk Cameron. It was Ben Affleck!

Round Four:

Ben got two of the three "A Lot of Fords" (Stepford Wives and Rutherford), but Kristin figured out "Cindy Crawford." She also went into the category with a lot of confidence, which became evident when she shared, "I drove an Escort for years." We missed religious phrases (Devil's advocate), but got everything else right: International Landmarks, Saturday Morning TV (Saved By the Bell... and Miss Bliss was the giveaway), and MLB Sluggers (thank you, Ben!).

Final Round:

Ben saved the day yet again with his answer of "Julia Louise Dreyfus" for the last question. That put us into first place -- SUCH an improvement over last week! -- and even though Ben doesn't know any Herman's Hermits songs, he told me I could choose the opening category for next week and I chose Herman's Hermits Songs. That was one of my favorite bands in high school, even though they existed waaaaaaay before my time, and when Adam told everyone the category, everyone promptly looked confused. Herman's Hermits is so much better than AC/DC, though ,and I will for sure be listening to them this upcoming week!

Also, our friend Sarah from Risky Quizness gave us a nice notepad tonight so we can write our responses on real paper instead of napkins. Isn't that kind of her? Even though Risky Quizness is one of our greatest competitors, we love them. And the notepad is perfect! Thank you, Sarah! Much love from The Educated Friends!