Trivia Recap: 3/16

Mary wrote this week's blog for me because I am still recovering from a stomach bug. 🤢 She's a good friend!

From Mary:

I must have done a great job writing the blog last week because Hannah has me, Mary, back to write another trivia blog.

The Players: Mary (English teacher), Brock (complicated graphic-design-and-marketing job), Ben (not a gymnast), and Danielle (bartender)

Hint of the Day: Yankee Baseball Player

Opening Category: American Pies (This was the true opening category that we chose last week but it was presented as Pies of America).

Round One:

The first question of our chosen opening category asked about a Pennsylvania Dutch pie which Ben and Brock knew was shoofly. I don’t eat a lot of sweets or pie so I wasn’t much help with this one. The next clue was 3 Clues 1 Word and asked about a WNBA team from Indiana and an SNL skit. We did not know the WNBA team but Brock and Ben were able to get the answer after the SNL clue which was fever. Our third category for the round was Household Inventions and Ben knew that the 1938 invention was Teflon. The next question asked about U.S. Presidents and of course, Ben being our team’s presidential expert, knew that the answer was James Madison. To end the round, the category was Incidents of the 20th Century. Ben knew it was Attica prison that had a four-day riot in 1971, but we did not know the film based on it. We had a pretty strong opening round, only missing a few bonuses.

Round Two:

The first question of the round was our audio question, which was to name the actors that played this famous villain. Ben and Brock immediately thought that the villain was going to be The Joker and started naming actors. They were correct in their assumption and we got all three actors with ease. The second category was NBA Teams, again Ben and Brock knew that the answer was the Bulls. The TV Spin-offs category had us stumped. I remembered seeing advertisements for Yellowstone and its spin-offs but I could not remember the exact years. We got 1883 and 1923 thanks to Danielle. Apparently, the three of us need to watch Yellowstone and its spin-offs. The next category was American Companies and the hint of the day was used here with the answer being Yankee Candle. The last question asked about Meghan Trainor and her viral music which I knew and that got us the points.

Halftime:

The top half of this week’s halftime sheet was a lot of fun for me because I love board games. We were to name the board games pictured on coffee cups. The bottom half was challenging. It asked to name ten U.N. member states whose common English names are four letters. Through this process, I realized that I can name a lot of five-letter countries; four is much more challenging. Luckily, we were able to correctly name seven and we got 16/20. At this point, our scores were read and I was really proud of the three of us for doing so well in the first half of the game. I was also proud of myself for taking on the role of the scorekeeper. Even though I wasn’t using the score sheet totals column correctly, (thanks for pointing that out, Brock), my math was correct and we were in third place.

Round Three:

This round was rough for us and this is where we began to talk each other out of correct answers. The first category was North American Geography. The question asked which two states border Saskatchewan and I mistakenly told Ben to choose Minnesota instead of Montana. We did get North Dakota though. The next category was World Religions. We got that question right with the answer being Hinduism. The next two questions were our downfall. We missed all three clues for the Silent Letters category and we went with Kelvin instead of Fahrenheit for the next question. Luckily, we redeemed ourselves with the last question of the round by knowing that James Spader played in Boston Legal.

6 - 4 - 2:

When the six-point clue was read, I had an inkling that the answer was Wonder Woman. We decided to wait and went with the answer on the four-point clue, giving us our points. After our scores were read, we fell to second-to-last-place. I decided to optimistically point out that we could only go up from here, but Brock realistically told me that we could still go down. However, my optimism paid off.

Round Four:

The first category was Gymnastics and it sparked a lot of debate within the team. We knew that both men's and women’s gymnastics had the vault but we missed the floor routine event even though it was discussed. We knew the fashionable accessory for the next category was a bolo tie and on a guess, we knew that the author of an 1842 short story was Edgar Allan Poe. We knew that Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo and an Ozzy Osborne song shared the title, “No More Tears.” The final question’s category was Animated Film Characters. I knew the last two films were Bambi and Beauty and the Beast but was unsure about the first film being Coco. We went with Ferdinand instead and missed the bonus points.

Final Round:

Falling behind the leading team by thirteen points, our correct answer of Charlie Chaplin moved us from fourth place and into a second-place win.

Next week’s opening category is Bluegrass Music and it is an audio clue.