Trivia Recap: 7/28, Heat Wave Edition

Players: Mary (English Teacher), Darren (Math Professor/ Dean), Brock (A/V Stuff), Alex (Coffee shop owner) & Ben (not a climate scientist)

Clue: Red Bow Tie with a green background

The team is once again handicapped. Hannah is seeing CAAMP and her periodic table t-shirt would have come in handy.

The last-week winner’s choice category was The Andy Griffith Show. The first question asked about a character who was in the military, in which said character led to a spin off show. Darren suggested Gomer Pyle and everyone seemed very comfortable with this and we got it right.

Q2 (2 letter answers; 3 questions): Name the show where George Clooney played a doctor. ✅ Something about the Ego and Superego = Id ✅. The last part tripped us up and led to the first controversy. Name the martial arts weapon blah, blah, blah (don’t remember the wording). Brock and I immediately landed on the “si” which is (after Googling it just now) spelled Sai. The answer was Bo (the hint) and Darren suggested this and didn’t advocate for himself enough (kidding). Q3 (snack terminology): What dessert treat produced by Nabisco and some other company, featuring Ginger, is commonly referred to this term? It was “Snap” and we scored the necessary points. Q4 (Who Wrote this?): Who wrote A Brief History of Time AND what was the subtitle of the title? Darren knew the answer was Stephen Hawking. Like all teams we took a guess at the subtitle and came up short. Q5 (U.S. Geography): What two states does Lake Tahoe border? I knew this to be CA and NV and we got the points.

Round 2- Q6 (This One is Coming in Hot ‘audio question’): Name songs featuring themes in their title about hot stuff. Part one was The Doors’ “Light my Fire.” ✅ Part two was Smash Mouth “Walking on the Sun.” ✅ Part three was “Hot in Here” by Nelly. ✅ Team effort on this one which was important because it was our bonus category. Q7 (MLB Sluggers): This Oakland Athletic was briefly joined by his brother Ozzy in 1990 something. ✅ Jose Canseco. Darren led it off and it was confirmed by Brock and myself as a good answer. Q8 (Artsy Quotes): This artist popularized the quote “everyone will be famous for 15 mins” and for the bonus, what city his museum is located in. I was all over this. Andy Warhol and Pittsburgh. ✅ Q9 (Disney Hodge Podge): Of the Disney Princesses in the “Disney Princess Encyclopedia” (or something like that), what is listed first alphabetically? We said Anna from Frozen and apparently she’s a queen and not a princess. The answer was Ariel. Stupid. Q10 (One for the Soap Opera Fans): This category was derided by all team members because, for sure, it's a dumb category and no one had any faith in our competence. The question was something about the show that featured a big marriage and the bonus asked to name the bride and groom. Some members favored a guess of General Hospital because it's a good guess, but I’ve never seen a member of our team write an answer so quickly ever before which confirmed the show (and he instantly knew the bride and groom). They say Gen-X were latchkey kids and I believe it after he cooked up that answer.

Half time sheet Part A. Name the first and last names of celebrities who share the same initials. This was pretty easy and included picture of celebs like Carlos Santana, Carl Sagan, and Curt Shilling. Part B: Match the mountains to the appropriate U.S. states. We nailed all 20 Points! After half, Educated Friends were sitting in third place.

Round 3- Q11 (mythology): Basically name the characters who killed the Hydra, Medusa, and the Minotaur. We got the first two thanks to Mary (Hercules and Perseus). No memory of the third answer. Q12 (Infamous TV History): Name the book title, authored by James Frey, which was revealed to be heavily fabricated on an episode of Oprah? Darren knew the answer was A Million Little Pieces. No one on my team seemed to see the Southpark episode with Towlie making fun of this moment, just me. Q13 (Fun with Flags): This was an incredibly complex question which asked for the three saints heralded on the UK Union Jack flag. We literally threw out the guess of St. Andrews, St. George, and St. Patrick (Scotland, England, Ireland) and it was correct. Q14 (Name that video Game): What video game introduced in 1993 popularized the phrase “He’s heating up!”? Brock and I knew this to be the wonderful NBA Jam. Q15 (Films of the 2000s): What scientist was featured as a character in the film The Prestige and what actor played him? Darren and I knew this to be Nikolai Tesla and David Bowie (this was also the bonus q). After round 3 the team still sat in third place.

6-4-2: This was a tough miss in that we only got the answer on the third clue. Clues revealed the answer to be the Guinness Book of World Records.

Round 4- Q16 (Chemistry): Something about two other elements combining with Sulfur to make some kind of acid. We got the hydrogen part but missed the chlorine part. Q17 (Former SNL Cast members): This was easy, especially because I mentioned her as a little known cast member before the game started. Of the 4 stars of Seinfeld, which star was a former cast member of SNL? Answer: Julia Louis Dreyfus. Q18 (Classic Rock Albums): This was a crossword puzzle type question. The first clue mentioned that it was a 1977 album that was the highest grossing album ever until it was surpassed by Thriller. The second clue was the crossword clue: _ u _ _ u _ _. It was Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and we did not get it. Q19 (Hockey Hall of Famers): This question asked about Hall of Famer Dad and Son named Bobby and Brett. I knew the shared surname to be Hull. Q20 (three clues / one country): We got this, but not on the bonus. The clues included context about Rastafarians and famous cuisine. The answer was Ethiopia. After round 4 the team sat in, you guessed it, third place. Although, we were only down by 4 points going into the final category dealing with “STAGE NAMES.” Brock and I suggested we wager zero points, but others wanted to wager it all. This came back to haunt the team. The question asked about some Canadian who had to change his name from Kin Kane due to it already being a band name. The answer was The Weekend and no teams got it right. The game was not over though because we were tied for third place. The tiebreaker question asked us to approximate the number of career assists for Brett Hull. Darren, Brock, and I did some sports math stuff and came up with 700. The answer was 650 and we won the tiebreaker to allow us the bronze medal for the night. We’re in the drinking money! Next week’s opening category = Princess Anna from Frozen. Ugh!