Trivia night

Monday night in Minot and that means... trivia at the Landing Bar.

Ed has retired from hosting trivia games and is back being a player.  Matt has taken over hosting.  He put on good contests with a good balance between hard and easy with a variety of topics.  The contests didn't seem too hard yet the scores were not really high.

Some questions from memory...

1. True or false - all rattlesnakes are venomous?
2. True or False - Norman Rockwell created Rosie the riveter?
3. Which is further west... Milwaukee, Wisconsin of New Orleans?
4. Which fast food franchise has the most locations in the world?
5. What is the newest African country created July 9, 2011?
6. What is the first name of the angel from the movie,  "It's a Wonderful Life"?
7. Which two American presidents were adopted?
8. How many teams play in the World Cup?
9. What car company had the two slogans: "Go further" and "Built for the road ahead?"?
10. What common ailment are marshmallows used for?
11. In 2001 from which country was  Slobodan Milošević extradited to the Hague to be tried for war crimes?
12. In response to an articles implying he was a homosexual, what performer sent a telegram that read: "What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank."

Answers:

1. True
2. True
3. New Orleans
4. Subway.  My team didn't believe me and went with McDonalds.  McD is number 3.  Here are the rankings: http://www.franchisedirect.com/top100globalfranchises/rankings/
5. South Sudan
6. Clarence Odbody
7. Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton
8. 32
9. Ford
10. Sore throat
11. Serbia (Yugoslavia was accepted as an answer).
12. Liberace

In the first contest we finished in the middle of the pack with 13 correct answers (two teams had 17 correct).  We won the second contest with 15 correct answers and could have had maybe 19 correct answers if we hadn't second guessed ourselves.

Our team name was "French Fried Tators" after the quote from the Sling Blade movie since Matt does a good impression of the Sling Blade character. 

The team was: me, Darrell, Ed, and two young guys who work at the Minot Daily News paper (you know me, I forget names at the drop of a hat).  Marv came late and decided to join a team of people he knew with less players.  Rod didn't show up.  it was good seeing everyone.

For the "quarters" questions, Darrell won a "Field of Dreams" DVD and a bottle Dr McGillicuddy's liquor.  One of the young guys won a large bag of tootsie rolls and a box of beef jerky.

The bar provided free sloppy joes and potato chips to eat.

After the trivia contest the bar had a karaoke singing.  The singers were pretty good but loud.  North Dakota has banned smoking in bars so it was nice to not have to sit in smoke and come home smelling of it.  Some people took smoke breaks outside.   Since this is North Dakota the bar built a four sided "bus stop" type of structure to protect the smokers from the elements and at one point someone came out and told people to move at least twenty feet away from the door.