December 22, 2011

We missed playing on Tuesday night this week due to everyone having Christmas parties to attend.  However we did get to play tonight.  Our team was Steve, Herman, Amanda and myself.  We played at Las Trojas again.
The night started off with Amanda knowing the first answer to who sang "We found love in a hopeless place".  We missed the sports question, I have no idea why we have those questions that aren't related to BAMA football.  OH well, I guess others like different stuff and so we must let them have a chance too.
By the end of half time we had a score of 34 points.

We had also lost one of the teams that was playing by them getting disqualified for cheating with the cell phones....We have good hosts and they did a great job of handling it.  So the "ho ho ho's" we so so so BUSTED and Never Trusted.  Ok, enough of that, back to the game.
TV was the category for Rapid round 4.  We only missed the Mike & Molly show question, it was CBS and not Fox.  Perfect score for rapid round 5 and moved right on to the final question of the night.  Under State Capitals, What location is known as "The Land of Enchantment", lets give a cheer if you said "New Mexico"  Which we did, however we only bid 2 points because we weren't sure enough.  That wasn't enough to win us a place in the final 3 spots.  So tonight's winning teams were:
Truffle Shuffles in 3rd
Band down by the Rio in 2nd
Uh oh Hot Dog in 1st place.
It was sure fun playing tonight and it's almost Christmas, how I miss my girls being little enough to believe in SANTA!  See you all after the Holidays.

December 13, 2011

Tonights team is: Mike, Steve, Owen, Justin, Amoreena, Tru and myself.
The night started off with us getting only the sports question wrong, sure glad it was only 2 points!  Loved that they had a question about current movies that are now showing. Not to mention that we already seen it :)
Round 2 was a painful experience with knowing some of the answers in our head and not being able to remember on paper.  For example was the South Park characters question: Who is The school's counselor, who says "M'Kay" randomly? 

While Steve knew his part and loves the show, We put down Mr. Mckey and it should have been "Mr. Mackey" Then it was time for Country music....ugh.  I do like some of it, however this didn't help us any and we scored our first 0 in a some time now. 

As we moved into round 3, things began to look up for us.  Starting with the first question being on Chinese Checkers.  If you have 2 players, how many marbles does each player have on the board?  Since I love this game and grew up playing it, the board was ingrained in my mind and we took the answer straight up. 

The half time question was on Presidents and we scored a perfect 10 on those.

The rapid rounds went in our favor and we held our own.  Then it came time for that Last and sometimes most important question of the game.  Category: "Things"

In 1840, the world's first adhesive postage stamp went on public sale where?  The correct answer is "post offices through-out Britain".  It was called "Penny Black"  if you want to know why, google it.

Our host of the evening was Jeff and he did a fine job.  See you all next time

November Games 2011

November 1st:  Steve and I played.  We did pretty good for a 2 person team.  We only missed 2 points in the whole first half and even scored half the points in the half time question!  In the rapid rounds we missed only 6 points.  However at the final question, we could have came in 3rd if we hadn't bet it all and missed it :( 
The winner was Clemson Tigers
No matter, we had fun.

November 8th:  I would like to welcome our new hosts, Rob and Allie Easley who did a great job keeping things rolling. 

Our team is bigger tonight, we have Mike, Steve, Owen, Justin, Amoreena, Tru and myself.
We did good in the first half and even knew what it was that Jack traded for the magic beans in the children's story "Jack and the Beanstalk"
We scored perfect in both rapid rounds!  This brought our score to 72 for the final question of the night.  The catagory was Presidents
Now here is your question:  Who was the 1st President born in a Hospital?

 

We did get the answer correct, however we did not bid any points and so we tied for 2nd place with the team "New Balance"
The tie breaker question was:
 What year did Roentgen discovered the X-ray? Our answer was 1890.  The correct answer was 1895.  We beat out the other team and took 2nd place. 
First place tonight went to "The Specialist"

This brings November trivia to a close and it's on to December!

October 25, 2011

Well this is going to be a short one.  There were 17 teams playing against us.  On the RR team tonight is Mike, Steve, Owen and myself. 
We missed the 2 point questions religiously!  Giving us a half time score of 34
During the rapid rounds, we missed only the 3 point questions and felt pretty good with ourselves. 
We did good in the Final question, however not good enough to beat out the top 3 teams.
Those were:
Rebells with 87
Clemson Tigers with 89
The Specialist with a first place win of 90 points, talk about a  close game!

Have fun and I plan to put all of Novembers and Decembers (except for final game) into one post sometime tomorrow.
I hope to be able to blog after each game real soon.

October 18, 2011

Our team is Mike, Steve and myself again this week.  We started out not doing so well in the first 2 rounds with a good come back in round 3.  One of the questions was: What is CBS Sunday morning political talk show called?  Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer

The half time question was: What are the top 5 male names used today?
James
John
Robert
William
Michael

The rapid rounds really sent us down hill on not knowing our Country music and Video games.  Who knew that video games would sink a team..ha.  Oh well.  We did get the Final Question which was:  What is the most common female name? 

Do you think you know the answer?


 Let me give you a hint, 

Well there you have it.  Our winners tonight were:

The Specialist at 89 points

Slashers with 87 points

Eat the worm in 3rd place with 83 points. 

October 11, 2011

Tonight was Las Trojas with Steve, Mike, Owen and myself.  We started off slow and moved forward with each round.  By half time we had 32 points.  The half time question was to match the actors with the shows they played in:

Don Draper - Mad Men
Jack Teller - 24
Glen Quagmire - Family Guy
Horatio Cane - CSI Miami
Christina Yang - Grey's Anatomy

We pulled off a perfect 2 rapid rounds and moved into a tie for 1st place with the team Roy Brown.  Dean's list took 3rd place tonight with 84 points.  Now granted October was many months ago, and my notes do not tell what the tie breaker question was or which team took first place.  So maybe BrainBlastTrivia would have that answer?  Who knows and I'm not going to take the time to try and find out.  So if you do find out, please post a commit below and let us know.  Either way we won that night and enjoyed the time together.