Minot trivia night

Monday night I went to The Landing Bar for their weekly trivia contest. Darrel, Mona, Jeff, Donna, Al and Marvin were all there.  I lucked out as they apparently all haven't been attending regularly this past month.

Plenty to catch up on as they all have been busy since I was here this Spring.  For example Darrel's car racing fun was ended this summer when during the second race of the year he was involved in a wreck which totaled his car.  He then got into golfing.  Golfing?!  That seems to be a long ways from car racing.

I told the group about Tammy and they all want to meet her.  I also told about hiking with her and others this past summer.  I told them about hiking up a mountain in a thunderstorm with Tammy, Joyce and Sue Ann and I got teased for having a "hiking harem".

The bar had some ribs and chicken wings left over from an earlier benefit for a couple who were involved in a motorcycle accident where they broke an arm and ribs.  Hence: ribs and chicken wings.  The wings were good.  The others felt the ribs were too salty.

We did well in the two trivia contests but always finished a couple points below the winners.  15 and 14 correct in the two contests.

One team who sat at the bar whooped it up pumping their arms when it was announced that team "Shortbus" was in last place having not even gotten more than 9 questions correct.  If you can't be proud of winning, then be proud of losing.

Darrel and I had a little disagreement with Mona, Jeff and Donna about the spelling for the answer to one question.

"What 1975 Broadway musical was a retelling of "The Wizard of Oz"?

The answer is "The Wiz".  Jeff and Mona spelled it: "The Whiz" while I felt - and Darrel agreed with me - that the spelling was "The Wiz".  While it does have other meanings, Darrel and I felt "whiz" was the spelling for a guy taking a leak. (Why when alcohol is involved does this meaning come to mind?)  Jeff and Mona dug in their heels regarding their spelling.  Fortunately one doesn't have to spell the answer correctly.


For the question:

"What musical group did Ed Ames leave to pursue a solo career?"

We went around and around trying to guess late 50s and early 60s musical groups.  Kingston Trio?  No.  We tossed out a few other guesses before Donna mentioned "Peter, Paul and Mary".  As you can see we don't always take it super seriously, especially with alcohol involved.  Of course the more sober of us discounted this guess.  But having run out of ideas we went with Donna's later guess: The Ames Brothers.    Surprise...correct!

One of the quarters questions was:

"What family friendly association sponsored "Disneyland" when it started in the 1950s?"

Lots of quarters were tossed in the bucket before The Diary Association was guessed.  I think the winner was helped when prior to his guess, Donna said loudly to other members on our team: Dairy.

ABC quickly found multiple sponsors for the new show, to be called “Disneyland”: It secured family-friendly advertisers such as Swift Foods, Peter Pan Peanut Butter, the American Dairy Association–and the newly formed American Motors, which built Nash, Hudson and Rambler cars and Kelvinator appliances.

Marvin won the final quarters question which was for all the money in the bucket.  The question:

"On his hit, Fingertips (Pt, 2), in addition to playing the harmonica, Stevie Wonder played what musical instrument?"

Lots of quarters were added to the  bucket before Marvin, as a lark, guessed bongo drums.  Bingo!  (Or is that... Bongo?!)

By age 13, Stevie Wonder had a major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)", a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motor Town Revue performance. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and harmonica was a #1 hit on the U.S. pop and R and B charts and launched him into the public consciousness.