Monday everyone on our team showed up and with so many people our team split in two. Darrel, Marv and Dave made up one team and Mona, Jeff, Donna, Al, Rod and I made up another team.
Our team did well but did not win. In the first contest the winning team had 14 answers correct and we had 13 correct to take second place. If only we had chosen the other answer for the question as to which country first crashed a satellite on the moon. I guessed U.S. and the answer was Russia. In the second contest we had 14 answers correct which gave us third place. The winning team had 17 answers correct. The lawyer/judges team was here this night and they did not win either contest.
We later found that if we had not split into two teams we would have won as Darrel, Marv and Dave had a number of answers correct for questions we got wrong, and vice versa.
Rod and Donna from our team won three of the quarters questions, though one question about when Coca-cola was first sold was right up Rod's alley as he used to work for Coca-cola. For one prize Carla took the Indian candy corn. For Rod's two wins he took the 'typical' candy corn and then an orange hunting hat as only hats were left. Because he has more hats than he needed/wanted he gave the hat to someone at the bar that Ed - the host - said was interested in having. That guy later bought Rod a drink.
Our team loudly and humorously expressed outrage at the "Indian" candy corn in support of Darrel and Mona as they are Native American. The "Indian" candy looked to have chocolate in addition to the typical three sugar colors, but we found the brown color to be "Brown No. 80" sugar, not chocolate. Fortunately Donna and Jeff had brought a bag of peanuts in shells so we didn't get hopped up on sugar by only eating candy corn.
After the trivia contests were over members of our group slowly drifted off until only Darrel, Mona and I remained. The guy from Hawaii, Curt, who was a member of another team joined us in conversation.
Karaoke was played after trivia was over. And played loud. Curt sang a number of songs in a number of styles from Hank Williams to the Monkees to George Strait. He said that prior to moving to North Dakota he didn't know any country songs. He does sing a good George Strait.
Our group got talking about country singers and for some reason Conway Twitty came to my mind. The next I knew Curt got up to sing karaoke to a Conway Twitty song.
One fellow sang Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina". He sounded just like Tone Loc and did an excellent job. Afterwards we talked with the singer and discovered his normal voice sounded just as raspy as his singing voice. There was no way he could not sign a Tone Loc song.
Another table had several drunk women and a drunk guy. They danced to some of the songs. They were the only people dancing - if you could call it dancing. Very drunk women are not attractive. Later another woman came over to borrow Curt's copy of the karaoke song list. She also had too much to drink. Was she giving me the eye as she was talking to Curt? As she tried to sing Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" [insert Freudian analysis here
] Darrel, Mona and I called it a night and left. It was getting closer to midnight and she wasn't all that good of a singer.
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