Trivia Recap: 3/23
The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Mary (English teacher), Darren (math professor), Brock (musical and artistic web design expert), Phil (guru of all things Adobe), Danielle (bartender), Ben (not a cartographer)
Hint of the Day: Elevator
Opening Category: Bluegrass Music
Round One:
Adam, our regular DJ, was absent last night and we had a guy named Kris-with-a-K. (I toyed with calling him "Chris-with-a-K" in this blog because I thought it would be funny, but then I decided to just spell his name correctly because he will likely be mentioned several times. Kris had PIGTAILS.) Okay. Onward and forward. One nice thing about Kris was that he printed the categories on our sheets so we knew what to expect from the get-go. Round One looked like this:
Bluegrass Music (We knew the answer was Alison Kraus.)
The Academy Awards (The answer was Titanic, not The Titanic, and we got it for 7 points... but we missed the bonus. 🙁 Our guess was A Streetcar Named Desire, but that was wrong and I can't remember either the question or the correct answer right now...)
Three Clues / One Sandwich (This was funny because the answer was "Cuban" and Brock was eating a Cuban! In fact, Brock predicted the answer would be Cuban before the question was even asked! What a genius. 🤓)
US State Stuff (The answer was New York and we got it.)
Let's Talk About the Sun ("Helium and Hydrogen." That was our answer and we got it right, which earned us a two-point bonus!)
Round Two:
The first category of Round Two is always an audio clue and I didn't really like this week's. We got it right. That's not the reason I didn't like it. I just... prefer when the audio clue is musical and this audio clue was people talking. We had to identify the voices of three actors who made guest appearances on Friends and eventually went on to win an Academy Award. The answers were "Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, and Brad Pitt." Then we had Holidays ("Christopher Columbus" was the answer), MLB World Champions ("Giants and Red Sox"), and then Last Word / First Word. This was fun and Darren got it right away. The question asked about a book by Jack London and a song by The Troggs, and though I don't remember the exact wording, the answer was "Call of the Wild Thing." Characters from Musicals started off easy with the answer being "Queen," but knowing the name of the musical was a little trickier. Danielle knew it, though, and told us to write "We Will Rock You." We were the only team in the restaurant who got it right! Woohoo!
Halftime:
That Phillip is a sneaky dude and took his time letting us even see the sheet. He wanted to fill in the ones he knew on the top (something to do with sports... I knew very little) before he shared it with the rest of the team. Ben suggested we never invite him back, but we probably will. The bottom half of the paper (in my opinion) was infinitely more fun. We had to match Disney heroines to their princes. Mary was very good at this. And gentlemen, Mary is still looking for her prince, so if you feel that you'd make an acceptable applicant, feel free to send your credentials to The Educated Friends, c/o Fourscore Brewing Company, and the team will consider your eligibility.
Side note: I think Kris might be a teacher during the day because he was very stern and he came around during halftime -- like, he circulated through the bar! -- to check on how everyone was doing and to make sure no one was cheating!
Round Three:
Speaking of Mary... Here's one reason you may want to date her: She knows things. When we got to the category of Poetic Deaths, she right away knew the answer was "Albatross" and then she knew the poet's name was "Coleridge," which earned us a two-point bonus! She was 1000% percent certain about the bird, but not the poet; Darren was 100% uncertain about her math, though. It always makes him nervous when someone is more than 100% positive about an answer because, you know, it's impossible to be more than 100% of anything. The other categories were as follows: Add a Letter (we did, and we got it right), Over / Under (we got all three right, earning us a two-point bonus), What am I a Type of? (the answer was "elevator," which was the hint of the day), and One for the Cowboys (we knew about bull rides and Eight Seconds and even Luke Perry... which earned us another bonus!)
Side note: As a child, I absolutely loved Luke Perry... largely because he played Dylan McKay. Remember when he broke his ribs in a surfing accident? I do. It has impacted me in such a big way and I think it's probably the reason why Sebastian Porter, my favorite character of all time, is often getting injured.
6 - 4 - 2:
This was the best part of the entire night. Ready? I KNEW THE ANSWER FOR SIX POINTS!!!!!!! I never know the answer and I knew the answer for SIX WHOLE POINTS!!!!!! Not two... not four... but SIX! The only clue I needed was that this character used to listen to a fictional band called The Beets and so of course I got excited and exclaimed, "I know this!" I did not should out that the answer was "Doug," though; I merely wrote it down. We were the ONLY TEAM who knew it for six points!!!!
Here's a Billy-Ocean-Moment Bonus: Earlier this week, I was sorting through some shirts that once belonged to my brother. I have a student who's not officially in my homeroom, but who is an honorary member, and he is always wearing fun shirts. He and Pip are/were the same size, so I thought my student might put a couple of Pip's shirts to good use. I gave him two. In searching for these shirts, I stumbled upon a Beets Killer Tofu Tour '96 shirt I once gave to The Pip for his birthday. Obviously, I kept this one. Today, I'm wearing it! (I've also been singing "Killer Tofu" and "Need More Allowance" all morning. Good ol' Doug Funny!)
Round Four:
We knew Mariah Carey was in some movie called Glitter, even though none of us had ever seen it, and Danielle knew the actor who starred with her was Terrence Howard. Mary and I had chosen Body Parts as our bonus category for this round and my rationale was, "We all have bodies." Darren didn't realize we'd chosen Body Parts as our bonus category and he was somewhat appalled. Many times he said, "I would not have chosen Body Parts as our bonus category." As it turns out, we did know the answer... but Phil talked us out of writing "tendon" on the answer slip and had us put "joint" instead. "Tendon" was the correct response. On the plus side, we knew the answers to The Land Down Under, Hip Hop Songs (Phil redeemed himself by knowing and loving "Because I Got High"), and Weathery Names. Actually, for this last category Zizi proved to be a real asset. The girl's got some Lemony Snicket smarts, that's for sure!
Final:
Fun with Flags was the category and the answer was "Indonesia," but we put "Japan." Oh well. It didn't matter because we were sooooooo ahead of everyone else (fourteen points!) that we only wagered one point and came in first!
Next week's opening category is Famous Adams because the goal when choosing a category is almost always to make Adam laugh and since Adam wasn't there last night, we had to try a new approach.
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