Tavern trivia, week 2

Wednesday night I went to the Riveria Lounge for another night of World Tavern trivia.  Ed, Randy, Mark and Rod were there for the Funkymonks team I played with last week.  Darrel and Marvin were also there, and this week I played on their team (team name: SOL) to even things out.

Things got off to a bad start for our team when Darrel hadn't gotten the answer completely correct to this week's bonus question.  All the other four teams had gotten the bonus answer correct so we started out 20 points behind them.

But that didn't matter as each round we gained on the other teams until the fourth round when we passed the other teams for the lead.  We also had chosen this round to be our "double down" round which was a good thing as this was our best round with eight answers correct of the rounds four through six when the double down option was valid.

We were still in the lead going into the sixth round.    Most of the teams had used their double down option by now so things were looking good for our team. Then it all fell apart.  The question this round was to name 10 of the 19 names of the kids in the reality TV show:  19 kids and counting.

Neither Darrel, Marvin or I had seen the show.  They left it to me to come up with 10 names. We guessed five boy names and five girl names not knowing how many kids there were of each sex.  Since there were so many kids in the family I figured they were religious and would name their children with religious names.  What I didn't know was that all but two of the kids names begin with J.   "Jinger" with a J?  Come on!

Meet the Arkansas family that has all of America talking: parents Michelle and Jim Bob.  Kids: Joshua, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jeremiah, Jedidiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn-Grace, Josie, Anna and Mackynzie.

Therefore the only names our team got right were James and Joesph.

We later learned from the host that another team had watched the TV show and they got six names correct.  I think this team must have doubled down on this round as they won with 490 points to our 440 points.  Dang!  We were so close.

We also had done poorly in round 3 when we had to match the concerts with the years they were held. We did worse than we should have done. We only got four correct.  We knew the dates for the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), Concert for Bangladesh (1971), the Freddie Mercury Tribute benefit concert (1992) and the Tribute for Heroes (2001).  We got the other six wrong though I should have known when the No Nukes concert (1979, Live Aid concert (1985), and SARS Benefit concert (2003) [Has it been that long since the SARS outbreak?!] were held.  Others I vaguely heard of (Live 8 in 2005 and Live Earth in 2007) and one not at all: The Billion Hands Concert in 2008.  I guess as I have aged I get disconnected from the concert scene more and more.