Trivia Recap: 12/8

The Players: Mary (English teacher), Brock (marketing/graphic design/computer/etc. guru), Darren (math professor), Hannah (English teacher), Ben (social studies teacher), Alex (coffee shop owner), and Dave randomly showed up as well... (I have absolutely no idea what he does, but every now and again he'll travel someplace like China)

Hint of the Day: Raisins

Opening Category: Bill Murray Films

Round One:

We got off to a strong start, acing Bill Murray Films, Kids' Books (thanks, Mom! I know my Eric Carle because of you!), Holiday Films ("Eight Crazy Nights"... I don't even know what that is, but my team did), and Today In History (Darren always looks this up before trivia and today it paid off: John Lennon, John Glenn, and the man who played Big Bird all died on December 8th -- along with Darren's grandfather, who actually died the same exact day as John Lennon). We missed the stupid One for Luxury Car Fans. In my opinion, it was a lame category with an even lamer answer. Whatever. Nobody asked me.

Round Two:

We got TV Show Narration, which was kind of fun because it was an audio with people talking about the shows. Different than usual... and we still got all the points. Chemical Compounds was fine, but we missed the bonus points for the following category: NFL Quarterbacks. I hate the sports questions. There are always so many and they are always so uninteresting. Sweet Treats was good; the answer was "Rum Raisin," which tied in the hint of the day. And then Ben knew Asian Geography (the answer was "Yemen") and Darren got the bonus ("Friends").

Halftime Sheet:

We aced this. The top half was matching bands to their album covers. The bottom was much harder, but Ben knows many, many things and so we scored a 20/20.

Round Three:

I thought Don a Mask sounded like a very fun category and I wanted to choose it as our bonus, but no one agreed. So we didn't choose it as our bonus category and we got all of the answers right. Like, ALL OF THEM. Even this crazy-difficult one about some show that starred a wrestler or something. I'd never even heard of it, but we got the answer right because of -- wait for it -- Ben. "I feel like such a dork right now," he said after the fact. But I'll tell you what: he is the smartest, funniest dork I know! I commended his humor tonight and he didn't know what to do with that. I mean, if you read Monday's blog you know how he feels about heartworms. He's just not your typical human. He's wonderful, and remarkably smart, and brilliant enough to someday make it to Jeopardy... but he doesn't always know what to do with a compliment. It's part of his appeal. The World History question is better suited for a lengthy description in person... I'm not writing all that for the blog. We got MLB Hodge Podge (thank you, Darren), but missed Last Word/First Word, which was our bonus category. We'd been in first, but this changed things. And then Late-Night Hosts was a shoe-in because Darren knew everything there was to know about late-night talk show hosts.

Round Four:

US Cities in History was hard, but we got one of the answers. Newsworthy Science was easy; even I knew that! I also knew Three Words/One Word because I used to work at a veterinarian's office, and Ben and Darren confirmed my answer because they knew a movie that was titled (I believe) "Quick." I don't watch many movies, so of course I'd never heard of this. But I know if you cut a nail too short, you're cutting the quick, and that makes for a bloody mess. We missed Authors and Their Works. We all knew the answer, but we didn't go with "Agatha Christie" because someone who shall not be named thought Agatha Christie lived earlier than she did. Bummer. And then we got Shoe Brands, but not the bonus.

Final Category:

Going into this round, we were tied for second. I can't tell you the question because I'm tired and it was a little confusing, but it had something to do with Oscar-winning movies and musicals by the same name and there were also dates involved. The answer was not what we wrote down... which caused us to lose. Oh well. The plus side is I handed out five business cards tonight and hopefully gained some new readers. That's what truly matters.