Lots of people were there for the trivia contest. Or at least enough people to make the small bar seem full. All the tables were taken so we sat at one of the small high round tables along the north wall.
Of course, with more people that meant more cigarette smoke. By the time we left after the contests were over the air was thick with smoke.
We chose the team name, "What, me worry?" That was because Rod had decided to put Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman's picture on the label for his Raspberry Wine, and with only the few of us we weren't confident of winning.
The first trivia contest started out badly for us. We didn't know Ozzie and Harriet's two sons' names (Ricky and ...?), nor Kojak's first name (we guessed Thaddeus and the answer was Theo). We did know Herman Munster's first name. What was your zodiac sign if your were born January 1? I know some Zodiac signs, but unless I know someone with that sign, I don't know the sign.
Fortunately Rod's wife, Barb, arrived partway through the first contest and she knew a number of answers including that Capricorn is the Zodiac sign for January 1. Before we handing in our answers we went over with Barb the questions asked before she arrived.
Some answers we guessed at. In hindsight "yellow" probably wasn't the right answer for the color of scallop's eyes. Yellow?! What were we thinking? Why not guess "blue"? At least Rod and Austin had the excuse of having a beer or two by this point. As I don't drink beer I have no excuse as to why I went along with their suggestion of yellow as an answer.
Still we did not win. We got 12 out of the 20 questions, good enough for third place. The judge and lawyers won yet again with 16 correct answers. Don't you just hate lawyers?
The second contest went better as we knew - or thought we knew - most of the answers. We did better with 14 right, but not as good as we thought we had done before learning the answers.
14 correct answers was good enough for third place. The judge and lawyers again had the most answers right (18) but could not win again the same night.No winning for us this night. As Bonnie was the holder of our winnings from last week, and she was not here, we will have to wait till next week to cash in our winnings.
Rod and Austin spent some quarters on the half dozen quarter trivia questions, but didn't have the right answers. I didn't have any idea as to the right answers so I didn't guess. Do you know when M&Ms were invented and sold? That quickly became as guessing game of years. Occasionally there hints of "higher" or "lower" or "getting warmer". You could tell the people who had a few too many to drink as they would repeat an earlier incorrect answer, or not give a year anywhere near an earlier guess that was "warmer".
Barb left after the contests were over. Austin, Rod and I hung around a while and talked about bicycles and North Dakota bicycle tours. Austin had bought a recumbent bicycle this summer to add to his collection of bicycles. We also talked about cross-country skiing as I asked Austin if he had an extra pairs of skis and boots I could borrow. The forecast was for snow Monday night and Tuesday and I had hopes of enough snow to ski on. Nope. Not enough. We only got an inch or two.
About the time we were winding down our conversation and getting ready to leave I noticed a young attractive woman as a nearby table. She hadn't been there earlier - that I noticed. My earlier look around the bar had found most women looking old from too much cigarette smoke and beer. This 'newer' woman had not been aged that way yet. And she hadn't those extra pounds from the beer calories. But, she looked to be a little over half my age. Too young for me. Besides, a bar is not a place to meet women.
So it was off to home and to hopes of winning the trivia contest next week.
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