Trivia win

My team won one of the trivia contests tonight!

Rod was not at trivia night tonight. Apparently one of his aunts died. Alan was there (clean shaven) and was sitting with Darrel and Mona's team so I joined them. With Alan and I, our team numbered 8 people. I arrived during the 3rd question of the first contest.

The team changed their name from "SOL" to "3 Dog Night". The reason for this is last week Darrel got confused and verbally answered "3 Dog Night" to the question, "Who had a hit with the song 'Joy to the World'?" The question was a written question and not a 'quarters' question to be answered verbally. Ooopps. So the team decided to change the team name until we win a contest as it has been a long time since they last won. It worked as we won tonight.

In the first contest our team didn't do well as we only got 13 correct to be just above the middle of the pack of about 10 or so teams. The winning team (the lawyers/judge) won with 16 answers correct. They got applause for winning tonight, as so did we when we won.

For the second contest we tied with the lawyer/judge team with 19 correct. Because they won the first contest, we then won the second contest without having to go through a tie-breaker question with them. This was good as Darrel's team always loses the tie-breaker question.

Sample questions from the first contest:

1. What were Maude and Walter's last name on the TV show, Maude?
2. What was burnt at the beginning of the TV show, Bonanza?
3. What TV show featured the June Taylor Dancers?
4. Who was the "It" girl?
5. What animal is on the symbol for medicine?
6. What are the two items used for Frosty the Snowman's eyes and nose?
7. What continent has the world's second largest desert?
8. Which pirate has a parrot named Captain Flint?
9. What is the name of the swamp in the comic strip, Pogo?
10. Lieutenant generals have how many stars?
    

Answers:

1. Findlay
2. A map
3. Jackie Gleason show
4. Clara Bow
5. Snake
6. Coal and button
7. Antarctica
8. Long John Silver
9. Okefenokee Swamp
10. Three
    

Ed had the wrong answer for the world's second largest desert. He said it was in Australia. Our team guessed Antarctica and I had lobbied for Asia the home of the Gobi Desert. We all thought the Sahara Desert is the world's largest desert. Checking on the internet I find Antarctica is the world's largest desert and the Sahara is the second largest. The Gobi is the fourth largest. (Link to list of largest deserts)

In the second contest the questions were:

1. Porn star Marilyn Chambers appeared on what household product?
2. What was James Dean's last movie?
3. In Orson Welles' version of 'War of the Worlds', in what U.S. state did it occur?
4. Captain Howdy is the imaginary playmate and demon in what scary movie?
5. Who did Christ raise from the dead?
   
6. ___ and the Dreamers had what dance named after them?
7. Name the artist who had a hit with the song, "Eat It"
8. Mason Williams had what huge instrumental hit song?
9. What do oviparous animals do?
10. Pennies are 97.6% of what metal?
11. What is comedian Charley Weaver's real last name?
12. Who was Bison Bill's friend?
13. In the Beverly Hillbillies TV show, what was the name of the bank where they put their money?
14. What camera did Paul Simon mention in his hit song, Kodachrome?
15. Whose first hit song was, "It's Not Unusual"?
16. In the nursery rhyme, who did the chimp marry in June?
17. Joey Stivic was whose grandson?
18. Who played Daniel Boone on TV?
19. Barnabas Collins was on what TV show?
20. What was the Beverly Hillbillies hometown?
    

Answers:

1. Ivory soap
2. Giant
3. New Jersey
4. The Exorcist
5. Lazurus
   
6. Freddie and the Dreamers ("The Freddie")
7. Weird Al Yankovic
8. Classical Gas
9. Lay eggs
10. Zinc
11. Arquette
12. Buffalo Bob
13. Commerce Bank
14. Nikon
15. Tom Jones
16. The Baboon
17. Archie and Edith Bunker
18. Fess Parker
19. Dark Shadows
20. Bugtussle

The only question we got wrong was number 11. Then once I heard the correct answer I remembered he was the grandfather of actors Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette. I knew a number of correct answers, but for questions number 4 and 10 I convinced the team to use my answers even though they had doubts.

The prize for winning is a $20 drink certificate which we will use later.

A member of our team won one of the 'quarters' questions and got as a prize a nice metal shot glass with a head and antlers on one end - or we think it is a shot glass. At the end of the last contest I couldn't remember the question and answer for which he won the shot glass, and neither could he.

Mona won the final 'quarters' question and won $24 in the bucket. The question was, "what rank in size is the country of Indonesia?" Answer: 15th. Wikipedia says 16th. An earlier question as to how many islands make up Indonesia comes up with "five large islands and 13,677 smaller islands" to "17,508". Ed said 17,000 approximately.

One of our team members brought home made sausage and crackers to go with it. Yum!