Trivia Recap: 5/4

Trivia Recap: May The Fourth. Get it? It’s a Star Wars Joke.

The Players: Mary (English teacher), Victoria (veterinarian), Alex (coffee shop owner), Darren (Math professor), Kyle (Drunk. See below.)

Hello again, Hannah’s readers! It’s me, Darren! Hannah and Phil are off at some concert tonight (Hannah here. I added a video to the end of this post; it wouldn't upload last night... but now you can see the fancy feet!) and Ben is [redacted] and Brock is in a galaxy far far away, so we were short-handed but never fear: The Educated Friends played on. Earlier today, Hannah texted me and said “You can write the blog if you want” and I figured that was really a request or even a demand more than it was an offhand comment. I don’t want to anger her since she will be a famous writer some day, so here goes. The opening category was Quilting and Alex has recently started quilting and she described herself as getting obsessive when she takes on new hobbies, so when she asked if we would trust her enough to make that our bonus category we agreed. And she did in fact know that it is considered unlucky to stitch a heart into a quilt that you are giving as a wedding gift! (Although she did NOT know that if you sew a quilt on a Sunday you will have to undo all of those stitches with your nose after you die and go to heaven, as I learned from Quilting Daily.) In the rest of the first round, we all knew about The Office and green rooms and George Washington Carver, but we could not come up with the name of the thing you hit the balls through in Croquet even though we were told it shares the name of a Star Wars character. No, it’s not an Ackbar. The audio category was clips of Star Wars actors in non-Star Wars roles, and we recognized Mark Hamill’s Joker and Liam Neeson’s particular set of skills, but none of us watched Battlestar Galactica so we did not recognize Katie Sackhoff. In movie quotes, I knew that Renee Zellweger “had me at hello”, a line which women seem to find more creepy than romantic when I say it to them while standing in the rain. Chemical Element Word Games asked us for the element which would have the lowest score in Scrabble, an answer which Victoria pulled out at literally the last possible second (TIN). There was also some stuff about Tom Selleck’s various tv roles. The halftime round involved naming all the rooms on a Clue board, which Mary and Alex got very quickly, and recognizing movies with Star Wars actors. We got all of them except Ewan Macgregor in Angels and Demons, which made us miss Hannah because we know how much she loves Dan Brown. It turns out that I was the only one in the whole bar who recognized Carrie Fisher in Blues Brothers, which one of our rival Street Sharks said is because I am “of a different generation”. Hmph.

The third round opened with Triple 50/50: Alive or Extinct, and we chose it as our bonus category even though Victoria said she doesn’t actually learn about extinct animals in veterinary school. She still was willing to bet her life that the California Condor was still alive and then we decided to put ‘extinct’ for both of the others knowing that you only needed two and at least one would be extinct. As it turns out, they both were extinct so we got lots of points on that question.

Mary knew about Supernanny and I knew the Everly Brothers (maybe I am of a different generation, after all) and we all knew that the largest replica X-Wing Fighter ever was made out of Legos and not something dumb like butter. We got the 6-4-2 question for 4 points on the hunch that Homer Simpson was a character in The Day of The Locusts and we were in second place by one point going into the final round. The final round may have been the ugliest round of Pour House Trivia that I have seen. Tell me, can you name a Denzel Washington sports movie that was released 30 years ago? Of course you can, it’s REMEMBER THE TITANS, right? Wrong. That movie was released 23 years ago and they were actually looking for HE GOT GAME. Can you name the three countries that border Lake Victoria? Of course not — and we even had someone named Victoria on our team! Can you name the organization that rates nonprofit groups as part of the Wise Giving Alliance? If you were like us you thought it was the United Way and not, in fact, the Better Business Bureau. Do you know the interstate that connects Louisville to Cleveland? Well, it turns out that Victoria does but for some reason she didn’t say it out loud so we put 75 (which connects Lexington to Toledo) instead of 71.

Luckily, we did know Macbeth is the Shakespeare play with the three witches and that was our bonus category, but that was the only question we got right in the whole round. However, it seems like most teams bombed the round -- I am curious to see the full breakdown on the Pour House Trivia blog -- and we were still in second place going into the final question. Before I tell you about that final question, I should mention that it was during the third round that a man named Kyle (who we are pretty sure is NOT Mary’s cousin) came and sat down next to us very excited to play trivia with us. Oh, and reeking of alcohol. We let him sit down with us, but as it turns out it seems like he did not in fact want to play trivia, but instead was there to hit on one of us. (No, not me, but one of the younger, attractive, female members of the team.) He did not know any more about sports movies than we did, despite his assurances that he would, and after he realized we were actually interested in discussing African geography rather than hearing about where he went to high school, he walked away without saying anything. He was last seen playing ball with a bunch of kids across the street from the bar. Back to the game, the category for the final category was “Another Star Wars Question” and the question started with “At Samuel L Jackson’s request…” and Mary and I looked at each other and immediately whispered “PURPLE!” without answering the rest of the question. That was in fact the right answer and it was enough for us to come from behind and win! Even without Hannah. We let Alex choose coffee as the opening round for next week, when hopefully Hannah will be back to take over the reins. Then we all left and went home because the bar was closing. For people of my generation it sure is fun to close down a bar and still be able to get home before sunset.