Trivia Recap: 6/15

Dear Readers,

Today, I, Skoogmasta flex, am bringing to you a recap of the wonderous and infamous night that was Thursday night Trivia at Fourscore with Educated Friends. It was a day, like many days, but different because it’s kinda close to the summer solstice, so it’s really bright outside for The Night-time. Our mortal enemies, the Streetsharks, were there along with some other commoners, like the Railsplitters. Only five of us could make it that night- Dobie (Alex), The Artist (Hannah), Ping (Brock), and Samarah (Mary), and of course, me, Skoogmasta flex (Victoria). I can’t remember names, and so have created alternative names, much in the same vein as fake news.

Anyhue, the night started out dedicated to an adorable Black Lab mix named Forest who was a service dog at the table next to ours. The first question was luckily about a David Sedaris novel, Calypso, that both Hannah and I knew, as we had met the great David Sedaris in real life at a book signing. The second asked about a novel starring Artemis, Porthos, and Athos, and I whisper-shouted ‘THE THREE MUSKETEERS’ as these were the names of my previous chickens along with D’Artagnon. Dobie commented that she had named her finance’s truck Artemis, but concluded this was a girl’s name. Hannah said her finance must be happy to have a girl truck since he got to ‘ride her everyday’. We all laughed, except Ben, who didn’t show up. Hannah mentioned, “Ben never laughs at anything I say, and I’m hilarious.”

Moving on, the third category was called something in common, and involved the Declaration of Independence, Independence Hall, and Independence Day. Samarah took the win for the round by figuring out the name of a canal in Egypt called the Suez. We were going gangbusters by the time we reached the second round and were high on our own supply. Hannah looked at the next category, ‘Girls who Rock’ (AUDIO), and then let us know that she would not be able to help us. Alas, she knew every band. The next questions involved the brand Little Debbie, and Ping mentioned that he knew a kid in the third grade who had eaten three Swiss Rolls at once. He started laughing so hard that Swiss Roll actually came out his nose.

At this point, Dobie started laughing and spilled her drink. Danielle (the bartender) came to rescue her just in time, and a towel appeared before the rest of us had caught on to what had happened. It was magical, like a unicorn, or double rainbow. After this, we were hit with a hard blow. It was halftime, and we were handed a paper with 20 national flags. We struggled hard, but did our best, as the flags were in alphabetical order. The second part was match the Olympic field event with the distance of its current world record in meters. We decided the Javelin must be the furthest, and tried to work back from there.

We did terribly. Our lowest half time score, 8. Thanks for nothing Darren and Ben. Hannah left the table, and said she was ‘washing her hands of this’ (she really did need to wash her hands). The third round started with another swing and a miss. It was on movies starring painters, and although we came up with all the right painters, we messed up the order of the movies. We nailed the next two questions involving a Toyota name (the Tacoma), and the NATO alphabet + dances (Fox Trot and Tango). Category 4 was WWII history. For God’s Sake Ben.

Then began the debate of who had failed us the most, Ben (canceled last minute) or Darren (had a good excuse and told us in advance). Ping tried to be nice and said, “Maybe something came up” which was obviously wrong. Someone else stated that maybe he was depressed. I chimed in with, “No, he’s just being a Lamey-lame”. The history question involved the name of a God and D-day. We all went back and forth between Poseidon and Neptune (Hannah’s guess). We ultimately landed on Poseidon, the incorrect answer, thanks to Ben’s absence. Did I mention Ben bailed on us at the last minute?

The last question of the round was on Patron Saints, and the answer was St. Judes. The final round had the categories From Page to Small Screen, Kitchen Hodgepodge, Three Clues/One Word, Blues Musicians, and NHL teams. The first question involved a series with Southern Vampires, and both Samarah and I agreed it was True Blood. We were asked next about the French term for a helper of the chef and wrote ‘Sus’ then ‘Sous’. Still not sure how that’s spelled. The third question involved the four letter name of a golf club brand and a computer network utility. We were all stumped, except Brock, who came up with PING at the very last second. I ran it in as fast as I could and forgot to place a point bet.

The announcer yelled at us, “How many points?” and in true Educated Friends fashion, we all gave a slew of different answers. “ALL THE POINTS!” “NINE!” and finally “FIVE!” since this was the highest value we had left to wager. That is how Brock got his new name Ping. I should mention that Brock absolutely hates this name even though it is extremely cute. Hopefully he will get used to it since this will be his nickname forever. We got the Blues Musician, Robert Johnson, who was known for making a deal with the Devil to be a better Blues Singer. Solid choice. We magicked the last answer involving the sixth and seventh NFL teams to get 5 Stanley cups. The answer was the Oilers and the Penguins (we guessed Rangers and Penguins, but you only needed to get one right).

Going into the final question, we were still fourth with 134 points, but StreetSharks were first at 149. The question was on Gosh Darn U.S. History- BEN! Alex mentioned that sometimes Ben’s not here, but if Darren comes, we’re fine. I told Hannah I would write this in the blog since Darren would appreciate it. Then rolled out the final question: Which U.S. present was in office when Congress declared War for the first time? We guessed Woodrow Wilson (WWI), but the answer was James Madison. Only one team got it, the Einsteins, and we were not in the top three winners.

Even though Trivia was a bummer, and I agreed to burn our half time sheet, we all decided to go to the Mines for drinks afterwards. I ended up going home, though, so that I could thoroughly procrastinate on writing this blog. Like a true English teacher, Hannah gave me until midnight tonight to write this. With John Mulaney in the background for company and inspiration, I have finished my journey with you, my dear readers, at 11:19PM. I hope you have enjoyed this adventure with me.