Back to trivia at the Landing

I'm back in Minot and again attending trivia games.  Last Monday night Tammy and I attended Ed's trivia contest at The Landing Bar, whose location is shown by the red marker in the image to the right.

Darrell and Marv were there.  Jason, a recent Minnesota transplant and new member of the team, was also there.  Darrell, Marv and Jason were on fire and answering most of the questions until Tammy commented on how well they were doing.  Then our streak came to an end.  The last half dozen questions we had to think through or guess an answer for.

Still, we did well as we handily won the game. We had 17 correct answers out of 20 questions.  The next highest team score was 14 correct.  Our team won a $20 certificate for drinks.

For the second game we did well, but came in second place with 15 correct.  The winning team had 18 answers correct.

The prizes for the quarter bonus questions have changed.  Instead of picking one's prize for winning, one picks a slip of paper and gets the prize written on it.  No more are the good prizes taken first with the weaker prizes ignored.  One guy wanted to win a box of girl scout cookies but kept winning other things: a shirt, a bottle of vodka.  Finally on the last question he won a box of cookies and was happy.

Most of our team stayed after trivia to chat.  Karaoke started and was loud.  There are a number of different good singers now.  One couple at a table next to us were a mismatched couple.  She was young.  He looked older.  She was slim and stylish.  He was heavyset and dressed dorky.  And... what heavy, thinning hair, middle aged man wears the calf-length pants these days - especially when it is still cold outside?  They danced - she could.  He couldn't.  They sang one song together.  She was an ok singer.  He was hard on the ears.

Tammy sang well to some of the songs.  She wouldn't go up on stage to sing as she said she needed much more to drink to do so.  Two bottles of Mike's Hard Lemonade were not enough.

The Landing Bar has changed since last year when I was here.  There are more people in the bar now.  It is no longer a sleepy bar on Monday trivia nights.  Fights have broken out recently and now there is a bouncer who sits by the door.

North Dakota still allows smoking in bars so Tammy and I came home reeking of smoke.  I hung our clothes outside on the clothesline in the cold to air them out.  Still, it was nice to be back at trivia with friends.