Trivia Recap: 3/2

The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Mary (English teacher), Darren (math professor), Ben (not a chemist)

Hint of the Day: Beaker

Opening Category: ChatGPT

Round One:

These were the categories: ChatGPT; Comedy Stars; 3 Clues, 1 Homophone; NBA History; Muppet Miscellania. Here's a neat thing: Before being given any clues, we already knew the answer to ChatGPT would be "Generative Pre-trained Transformer," the answer to NBA History would be either "Will Chamberlain" or "Hershey," and the answer to Muppet Miscellania would be "Beaker and Bunsen Honeydew." And we were right. In addition to acing all of those things, we also knew some Adam Sandler trivia and a thing or two about homophones. It was a perfect round.

Round Two:

This was also quite good. As per usual, we made the audio round our bonus category. Alliterative Audio was fun. Ben, Darren, and I knew "Maggie May," Darren knew the title of "Barely Breathing" and Ben and I knew the words (which was not helpful), and Mary knew "Tik Tok." It's A Scandal went find, as did Geometry Class (duh! we've got Darren on our team!) and US State Word Games, which was fun. Which four states end with the letter N? I'll put the answer at the bottom so you can figure it out. The best question had to do with Autobiographies, though, and the answer was "Pamela Anderson." There was a bonus, however, if you knew the name of Pamela Anderson's character on Baywatch and Ben figured it out. At first he suggested DJ, but Darren was like, "That's Full House." Once Ben said the initial-thing, though, I was like, "Yes. Was it AJ?" And Mary thought AJ sounded right but Ben was all like, "No. That's not it." And then he went deep into that spongy brain of his (that houses more content than any normal person's brain; it's surprising he and Darren don't have heads that are a good three feet in diameter!) and came up with CJ. And Darren asked me if I could be fine with CJ and I absolutely could because it felt right and it was! And Ben said that of all the things he knew last night, that was the thing of which he was most proud because it's not like he was an avid Baywatch fan or anything. He just had that in his head and was able to come up with it and it was great. Kudos to Ben!

Halftime:

The top half consisted of stills from hyphenated movies and the bottom half was slogans that went along with sporting events. We got 16/20.

Round Three:

As it so often is, this round was a bit random and tricky. With categories like Presidential Potpourri, Asian Nations, Letting It Snow (see what I mean by random?), They Played Me In A Movie, and Alliterative Rock Bands, we did alright but didn't ace it.

6 - 4 - 2:

"Davy Crockett" was the answer and we got it for four points.

Round Four:

This round was kind of tricky too. The NFL Record Book, American Businesses (we missed this one), Actors and Their Current Roles, Creatures of Folklore (we missed this one too), and Listen to this L.P. (we missed the bonus) were the categories.

Final Round:

Plot Twists. Ben figured it out about three words into the clue. The answer was "Jurassic Park." This put us in first place and we went home winners. Next week's opening category is Don McLean's "American Pie."

Four states that end with the letter N: Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Michigan.