Trivia Recap: 11/3 (The Best Night EVER!)

We sucked.

We are changing our name to The Uneducated Friends, in fact.

Players: Alex (coffee shop owner), Mary (English teacher), Brock (complicated marketing/graphic design/other things expert), Phil (Adobe guru and phenomenal waiter and bartender), Hannah (English teacher)

Hint of the Day: Cell phone hooked up to a charger

Round One:

We got almost all of the questions correct. The Hobbit is not our strong suit, but that's because none of us really care about that particular series. Sorry if you do. Pretty much every answer had to do with a number and what made it fun is that I was convinced that Colin Kaepernick was going to be an answer because today was (is, as I'm writing this) his birthday. He's thirty-five! So, since everything leading up to the category of Name That NFL Team had been in relation to numbers, I figured the answer would be 49ers and the bonus would be Colin Kaepernick. But... it's wasn't. Nevertheless, when I expressed my believe that my C.K. would be the answer (I obviously didn't know he played for the 49ers; I don't follow football), Phil leaned over and put his mouth right up against my ear to sort of whisper-shout "Forty-niners!" right into my ear canal. He is, after all, my only ear-on-mouth friend.

Side note: Another funny thing that happened tonight was in regards to the concert Phil and I are going to tomorrow. Brock will be there as well, as will Erin and Jenn-from-high-school. Erin recently sent out a text to the group inquiring about what we intended to wear. While sitting beside Phil at Fourscore, I replied that I planned to wear my favorite jeans, a tank top, and a flannel.

"Oh, a tank top and a flannel?" Phil confirmed. "I like that. I might do the same!"

I leaned over and nudged his shoulder with mine. "Concert husband, concert wife, concert twinsies!" I said, and then promptly added, "Incest."

Mary noted, "That took an unexpected turn rather quickly!" And she did her belly laugh.

More about Round One: Phil was super excited about Brand Names By The Numbers and we got all three parts of the three-part question correct. TV Spinoffs was fun, too. Mary knew Grownish was a spinoff of Blackish, but when she told us she thought Mixedish was the other possible answer (there were two bonus questions) several team members were skeptical. It seemed a little too racy... but it ended up being right and we got it wrong because we went with "Amish."

Round Two:

The Bizarre Cover Songs category really was bizarre. Classic artists, performed by musicians in completely different genres. We got all the other stuff though, and I think I put my mouth on Phil's ear at one point because I seriously kept thinking about his reference to "mouth-on-ear" friends and it made me giggle every time.

Halftime:

We only got 15/20. The top half was identifying band logos (this was confusing because they could be altered, but they might not be) and the streets different TV families live on. We missed two on the top and three on the bottom. By this point, we were thinking we still stood a chance at placing. I mean, we were in third place and we were only down by nine points. Just wait...

Round Three:

This is where we started to suck. Ben had "some things to do," so he couldn't join us tonight. That meant we were weak when it came to Presidents and all things relating to the globe. We missed Presidential Elections as a result. Phil knows his marsupials so we got Opossom right away, but Italian Food and Sports Venues proved to be overly tricky. (And I will add that there were multiple sports venue questions tonight... which I hate).

Round Four:

We continued doing terribly here. Game Shows? Nope. A+B=C: 90s Music? Nope. (Brock actually knew this, but Mary thought she knew it too. Unfortunately, the team trusted Mary's gut and this time around, it was Brock's gut that was correct.) Three Clues, One Classic Tune? Nope. Military Matters? YES! Phil knew this. It's the only question we got right this entire round because, not surprisingly, African Geography wasn't going to be a strong category for us.

Around this time, Phil commented on the fact that our "mouth-on-ear" friendship might transition to a "head-on-shoulder" friendship. We were getting tired... and a little frustrated as well. Phil pointed out that at Halftime, we were down by nine points, and by the end of Round Four, we were down by FORTY-NINE points. It took some doing, but we did it, and I won't necessarily say that we're proud.

Final Round:

The category was vocabulary and the answer was "Platonic" and we knew it. So we got twelve points... which mattered not at all. Next week's category is AC/DC songs, and even though Phil loves that band, he won't be there because he has a prior commitment. Oh well... Darren should be back by then (he was in Texas this week) and he obviously carries the team.