Trivia Recap: 4/20

This was a weed-themed trivia night, for sure!

The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Mary (English teacher), Victoria (veterinarian), Ben (not a professional baseball player), and Danielle (bartender)

Hint of the Day: Fountain Pen

Opening Category: Daisy Jones and the Six (It was supposed to be about the book, but it was about the show. Lame.)

Round One:

Once we got over the disappointment of Pour House not respecting our wishes to focus on the novel and not the TV series, we aced the first question and moved onto the next... which was A "POT" of Trivia. 🙄 We got this, but we missed the bonus because it did not occur to us that Chipotle's stock code was POT. All Things Chinese was easy, but I learned that Feng Shui means "wind water." I didn't know that. From Page to Screen was fine -- the answer was Diary of a Wimpy Kid -- but I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of the author. (It's Jeff Kinney, fyi.) Automakers was fine. We got the answer of "Hyundai" but we missed the bonus question. We missed THREE bonus questions in that category, but we didn't miss any actual questions.

Round Two:

Happy 4/20! was the opening category. 🙄 We always choose the audio clue as our bonus and it worked out. Bob Dylan sang about getting high, Cypress Hill sang about getting high, and Amy Winehouse sang about getting high. In Toys and Games, Ben figured our that W is the last letter alphabetically that appears on the Scattergories die. Good job, Ben! We missed another two bonus points on American Politicians, but we knew half of the answer (Gore) so we got the points. Sport Milestones was about a female racecar driver, and since we all know that Danica Patrick is a female racecar driver, that's what we went with... and it was right. I wore my periodic table shirt, which was semi helpful for the category entitled The Periodic Table. There are five elements (I think) that are five letters long that end with the same two letters. We needed to name the two letters and I believe it was Ben who said it was -ON. He was right. We also had to name the element with the highest number and we didn't get that right so we didn't get the bonus. We missed a lot of bonus points last night.

Halftime:

We got 18/20. The top half of the sheet was fine. We had to identify tv shows depicted in pixelated images. The bottom half was a bit harder: Identify ANY EIGHT independent nations ranking among the 25 largest countries in BOTH population and area. We got 6 of those.

Round Three:

The "S.A." Portion was tough and we missed it. Ben knew one of the three answers, but the other two were mysteries. One was about that old show Rizolli and Isles, which I have watched, but I don't know that name of the actress who's not Angie Harman. I still don't. Sasha something-with-an-A? Whatever. The Animal Kingdom was fine -- we had a veterinarian on our team! -- and of course the question about US State Laws had to do with the first two states that legalized marijuana. 🙄 (The answer is Colorado and Washington.) Victoria knew the answer to Nonfiction Books because she read half of a book about Henrietta Lacks and was super into the science that was being presented, but then lost interest when the focus shifted to drama. Still, she had enough knowledge to get us the points! And Mary apparently listens to Pentatonix and knew that answer before the whole question was out of Adam's mouth. Again, though, we missed the bonus question.

6-4-2:

Ben was very confident that the second most-populated city on the west coast was San Jose and he was wrong, so we missed those six points.

Round Four:

As seems to be the theme of the evening, Ben got us the points for Peace Treaties, but we didn't know the bonus. Chemical Compounds was simple. Guess what the answer was -- I bet you can! That's right: THC. 🙄 Thanks to a bartending miracle, we got NHL Teams, and Brand Logos was all about Quaker Oats. It ended up being the Hint of the Day too: William Penn. Three Clues / One Tree was one of those questions where we'd get bonus points for answering early, and Mary was pretty sure she knew the answer was Willow, but none of the rest of us knew that you could chew the bark of a Willow to alleviate pain, but Ben did tell her to trust her gut, but she didn't. So we didn't get the bonus points for that one.

Final:

American Companies was the category and because Danielle is a genius and realized that $57 million was a hint inside the hint, we knew the answer was Heinz. That put us in the lead and we won and since Harper Lee's birthday is next Friday, we chose To Kill A Mockingbird THE BOOK NOT THE MOVIE. Hopefully our wishes are respected this time around, otherwise, it'll be a real slap in the face to Ms. Lee.