Trivia Recap: 4/6

The Players: Hannah (English teacher), Mary (English teacher), Darren (math professor), Brock (musical and artistic web design expert), Danielle (bartender), Ben (not a golf analyst), Alex (coffee-shop owner), Buddy (librarian and psychology teacher)

Hint of the Day: Taxi Cab

Opening Category: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Round One:

Leave it to me to somehow mess up the math on the very first question! This is why I teach English, folks. Since none of us are Deep Space Nine experts, I figured we were going with a one-point wager, but Ben came up with “The Changling” and it did seem like the only possible answer, so that’s what we went with and Darren changed our one-point wager to a three-point wager without me noticing. It worked out because we got it right. Other things we got right include Children’s Characters (Casper and Wendy), Let’s Build a “Fort” (we got Fort Knox and Fortnight, but not Fort Lauderdale, so that was a two-point bonus we missed out on), Common Chemicals (Caffeine), and Zodiac Grab Bag (Cancer and Scorpio). At the end of the first round, we had a score of thirty-two. Not too shabby.

Round Two:

As usual, we opted to make our bonus category the audio clue, but this week’s audio clue was hard! Thank goodness Buddy was there to substantiate Alex’s thought that the third song was Lil Wayne! None of us knew for sure that the first artist was Dolly Parton, but it sounded like Dolly Parton, so that’s what we put down and it was correct. And the second artist was KISS, even though we weren’t confident about that at all. Ben was the one who came up with KISS as a suggestion and he was right, though! MLB Players and Positions ended up being a great category for us! Sports… Who knew? But Ben and Darren and Brock all reasoned that “Designated Hitter” must be the answer. It was. Award-Show Hosts was fine (the answer was “Billy Crystal”) but we did not realize that Billy Crystal was in a musical and therefore could not come up with the name of said musical… so we missed that two-point bonus. We got Ancient History (Hannibal) and the US City Name Game. I wasn’t much help with that last category because it took me forever to understand the question! I’m going to try to word it correctly here, but it might be slightly incorrect: There are seven states whose largest cities start with the same consonant. What is that consonant? And for a two-point bonus, which of those seven cities has the smallest population? The letter is B and the largest city with the smallest population is Burlington, Vermont.

Halftime:

On the top, we had to identify the sport that the pictured athlete went with. I proved useful here because I recognized Missy Franklin. I once had to attend a horrible week-long Reading Apprenticeship Training and one of my instructors reminded me of a chicken. She moved around like a chicken, if that makes sense. She bobbed her head in a way similar to how chickens do. For this reason, I referred to her as Chicken Lady. I have no idea what her real name was, but Chicken Lady gave me a huge compliment that summer and that compliment was that I reminded her of Missy Franklin!

On the bottom of the halftime sheet, we had to come up with words that began with BAN and coincided with the given clue. I knew “Bangkok” and “Bankrupt.” We ended up getting 20/20 on that, which brought our score to EIGHT-SIX and put us in first place.

Round Three:

This round was pretty lame. Here’s why: Wrestlemania, Video Games, Female Music Groups, Cheesy Word Games, and US Presidents and Vice Presidents. We obviously missed the wrestling question because why on earth would we know that? Danielle knew the answer to one of the clues, but it wasn’t enough for us to earn our wager. We chose Cheesy Word Games as our bonus category, because who doesn’t love cheese? Unfortunately, the question was more obscure than we thought. We had to come up with an Italian cheese that when split into two words gave the name for Medusa and an author’s name. Luckily, we got the answer which was Gorgonzola. Mary correctly guessed that the answer to the video game question was Assasin’s Creed. The team knew that the musical group was Haim, but we missed the bonus about the name of the movie in which one of the group’s members had a role. And we missed the two-point bonus regarding Presidents, too. Other than that, we muddled through, but the clues weren’t exactly fun, if you know what I mean.

6-4-2:

We should have gotten this for six points because I knew the song… but Adam has a tendency to play music when one is trying to hum a song and so I couldn’t come up with the answer. We got “Charlie Brown” for four points thanks to Ben. Had Darren been there at this point (he had to pick up his son and give him a ride home), he likely would have come up with “Charlie Brown” for six points, but sometimes being a good parent is more important than trivia. We all understand that.

Round Four:

The hint of the day came into play with Game Shows, seeing as the answer was “Cash Cab.” Remember Ben Bailey, the host? We didn’t. Ben knew his name was Ben, and we could all picture him, but none of us remembered his last name. That didn’t matter because we still got the points. We also knew something about Malaysia, thus securing us seven points in World Geography, and since we’re all very fashionable, Fashion Icons proved a reasonable category as well. Movie News was fine (the answer was The Flash) and 3 Clues, 1 Name was also good (the answer was “Benjamin,” which made Ben happy).

Final:

We needed to come up with the company that blows things up the most, or spends the most money on explosions, or something like that… Brock and I were both on the right track with fireworks, but neither of us thought Disney used as many explosives as it does. I’ve never been to Disney and have no desire to go, but thinking about it now, I guess there are a lot of fireworks. Anyway… we got that wrong, which means that we ended up in second place. Not bad at all!

(Mary added the stuff in purple because I just really don't always feel like writing the trivia blog and I need some help/motivation sometimes...)