Trivia at the Blue Rider

The Blue Rider Bar is a small place in an old section of downtown Minot.  They hold a trivia contest every other Wednesday.

Both Darrell and Rod warned us to get to the bar early in order to get a seat.  The trivia contests start at 7 pm and we were advised to get there around 6:30 pm.  Darrell said he planned on attending but instead of Darrel, Tammy and I were surprised to see Austin.  Darrell never showed up as his dart team was tied for first place and they had to play that night a sudden best-out-of-seven match to determine the season's winner.  Rod showed up before the contest started and halfway through the first contest both Ed and Jason showed up.

We needed Ed and Jason's help as the trivia was obscure and hard.  Our team finished in the middle of the pack with 11 answers correct out of 30.  The winning team got 20 correct.

The second trivia contest was run by another team, who appeared to be a mix of college professors and students.  In this contest we got 5 answers correct out of 20 questions.  Again we were in the middle of the pack.  The winning team - the same one as in the first contest - got 11 answers correct.  Unknown to everyone was a hidden theme in the second game.  The 20 answers were alphabetic - minus A and the vowels.  That is, question 1's answer began with B, question 2 with a C, and so on.

Questions:

1. What is the second highest mountain in North America?
2. What is the name of Annie's bodyguard?
3. Which country has the most lightning strikes?
4. What is the last movie Cary Grant and  Katherine Hepburn appeared in together?
5. What item did Anthony Quinn bring to the movie set for They Died with Their Boots On before the filming of Custer's Last Stand?
6. What movie that starred Anthony Quinn won an Academy award for the "best cinematography, Black-and-White"?
7. What is the genitive singular ending? 
8. Who signed off their show by saying "And so it goes."?
9. What one word telegram did Bob Hope send Harry Truman when he was re-elected in 1948?

Answers:

1. Mt Logan
2. Punjab
3. Democratic Republic of the Congo
4. Philadelphia Story
5. A hearse
6. Zorba the Greek
7. s 
8. Linda Ellerbee
9. Unpack

A side note: Instead of the Zorba the Greek answer Rod pushed for Requiem for a Heavyweight as the answer.  I argued against it based on what I learned later were the wrong reasons.  If I knew more about Requiem for a Heavyweight, Rod would have been able to convince me his choice was correct, even though in the end it was the wrong answer.

About four names were listed as titles of a TV show. Jason knew the list of episode names were from the X-files TV show.

The bar also had quarters questions.  A number of people wanted to make funny guesses and waste their quarters.  Sometimes they were funny, sometimes they were not.  Tammy got annoyed when they gave dumb answers.

The Blue Rider Bar is smoke free so that was very nice.  I believe a college art professor is an owner of the bar.  There was lots of artwork on the walls.