Last Monday (the 24th) I again when to trivia night at The Landing Bar. Al and Rod were not there so that hurt our team of: Darrel, Mona, Marvin and I. Matt wasn't playing on Mark's team either and that hurt them badly.
My team did well but not quite there. In game one we were well off the leading position as the two man team got 18 of 20 correct and we only got 13 correct. In game two we were one point from "winning'. Again the two person team got 18 correct, but as they won game one they couldn't win the prize of free drinks in game two. My team had 14 correct but the winning team had 15 correct.
No trivia contest at the Landing Bar January 31 as it is Ladies Night with male
Since it has not snowed the past week people got to clearing the snow off their sidewalks. Therefore I didn't have to walk on the streets. However Darrel and Mona drove by as I was walking and offered me a ride to the bar.
Wednesday night I went to the Rivera Bar for the Tavern trivia contest. Darrel, Marvin and I were again the SOL team. Rod, Ed, Mark and Randy were again the FunkyMonks team. There were four additional teams there.
We again got the bonus question correct:
From 1956 to 1964, this forerunner of "reality television", with host Jack Bailey, offered to make woman a "what for the day"?We knew it was "Queen". In fact, Marvin's mother was on the show when she was in Minneapolis/St. Paul one time. Darrel, being the youngin' of the group didn't know the answer off the top of his head.
Our team started off with a bang. While the first round was a difficult round we reasoned out the multiple choice answers and ended with eight of ten correct. We would have had nine correct but Darrel wrote down the wrong letter for the choice to the question: What Persian ruler was the son of Darius? I - having watched the movie 300 - knew the answer was Xerxes. Which was answer A. Unfortunately Darrel misread how Marvin had written down the question answers and thought Xerxes was B.
Ok. No matter. We were in the lead with 110 points.
In round 2 we got seven answers correct. We were now in a first place tie with the Rivitts team.
Then came round three. Oy, yoi, yoi! We really needed my girlfriend Tammy. The question was:
Match ten months to ten different birthstones.Darrel and I each knew our birthstones. Marvin did not. We had eight left to guess and we had no clue. We randomly guessed thinking we'd get a few more answers right by chance. We got all the rest wrong. Tammy would have know most if not all of the answers. She has a ring with the three birthstones of her daughters. Later I quizzed Tammy. I only had to name the months and she knew all the answers. She didn't even need to know what birthstones were listed as the choices to choose from.
Augh!
At the end of round three we were now in third place and tied with another team. The first place team has 240 points and we only had 180 points.
Round four we felt good but only got seven of the ten correct. What we got wrong:
- We guessed Cheyenne, Wyoming as the Rodeo Capital of the World. Apparent it is Cody.
- True or false? An episode of Seinfeld had Kramer and Newman playing a game of Monopoly on a subway when a Ukrainian passenger knocked their board over. The answer is false. The game was Risk. Darrel has seen the TV show episode and immediately remembered it. However I believe he focused on the subway, who was playing and the Ukrainian. He overlooked that the game was Risk not Monopoly. That's the danger we all have fallen into when realizing we know the answer to the question.
- And Darrel and Marvin couldn't quite remember what STP stood for. We guessed Superior Treated Petroleum. The correct answer was: Scientifically Treated Petroleum
We were now in forth place. Several teams had used their "double down" option and that moved them up. At the end of round four the leading team was 360 points, then next was 300 points, then 260 and us at 250 points. The top two teams had used their double down option.
Bad news. Mark from the Funkymonks team mentioned he was going to get Matt. Matt plays on their team except during the winter as he has bowling on Wednesday night. Tonight his team bowling ended early and he was available. We asked Mark to take his time in getting Matt. Matt is very good at trivia. Darrel even texted Mark when was getting Matt that Darrel wanted Mark to get him a hamburger from the A&W restaurant south of town. Marvin wanted a snickers bar. I decided I wanted a Papa Murphy's pizza and by the way, can you cook it before you bring it back?
Mark texted back to Darrel: Dear Darrel, FU! Love, Mark.
An example how our teamed worked well together was on this question:
What famous economist was famous for the theories of the Invisible Hand and also Supply and Demand?I knew the answer but could not remember the man's name. My weakness: remembering names. After describing all what I knew about the man, when and where he lived, Marvin after a few minutes asked if he also wrote "The Wealth of Nations". Yes! But who? We waited and I thought and thought and all of a sudden his name popped into my head: Adam Smith.
Round five was good for us. We got eight questions correct and also double downed this round. This left us in second place with 410 points. The leading team had 430 points and our Funkymonk competition was behind us at 400 points. They also got eight correct even with Matt now on their team and they also had double downed.
The contest would depend on the last round. The question: Name the actor who played the title character in each of the ten movies listed.
We felt good. We knew the answers to eight of the movies. I could picture the actor to the other two movies but could not remember their names. Darrel could picture the actor to one of those two movies but could not name him either. It was so frustrating!! I even knew that the one actor had three names and the other actor had an older more famous brother. In the end we got eight correct and Funkymonks got all correct as Matt knew the answers to several movies that no one else on their team knew.
In the end the Funkymonks team won with a score of 500 to our 490. If we had written down the correct answer letter to Xerxes we would have tied for first place.
Augh!!!
For the 'which actors played the title role' question:
- Little Nicky
- Saving Private Ryan
- The Talented Mr Ripley
- The Island of Dr Moreau
- The Truman Show
- Ali
- Shakespeare in Love
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Capote
- Shindler's List
The answers:
- Adam Shandler
- Matt Damon
- Matt Damon
- Marlon Brando
- Jim Carrey
- Will Smith
- Joseph Fiennes
- Jon Heder
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman
- Liam Neeson
We also didn't fall in the trap of naming Tom Hanks for the Saving Private Ryan movie. I wanted to go with Hanks as he was the biggest star in the movie but Darrel heard the question as: who played the titled character in each movie? That would be Matt Damon. That is also why Gwyenth Paltrow was not the correct answer for Shakespeare in Love.
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