February 9, 2012

We didn't make our regular Tuesday night trivia this week, so when I finished working tonight Steve met me at Las Trojas and we played.  Things went pretty good for the first 3 rounds with us only missing the 2 point question on each.  Then the half time question set us back.  We had to name the artist or group for the following:

1.  Let's get it started
2.  American Idiot
3.  Heaven
4.  Yeah
5.  Here we go again

How well can you do without looking these up? I'll give you a little help.  #1 is Blackeyed Peas and #5 is Ray Charles. 
Post a commit if you know the others.

I enjoyed Rapid round 4 the most, as it had Comic Book Hero's and Names for Categories.  In Comics, how often does the Green Lantern have to charge his ring?
That answer would be every 24 hours.  The best place I found to do some research on the Green Lantern is this site:  http://glcorps.dcuguide.com/rings.php
Under Names was the Space Shuttle in 1978.  Before I even had time to think about it, Steve told me the answer and history.  So here is a little something for all those Star Trek fans out there who did their part in 1978. 

"Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial). However, viewers of the science fiction television series Star Trek started a write-in campaign urging the White House to rename the vehicle to Enterprise. Designated, OV-101, the vehicle was rolled out of Rockwell's Air Force Plant 42, Site 1 Palmdale California assembly facility on Sept. 17, 1976. On Jan. 31, 1977, it was transported 36 miles overland from Rockwell's assembly facility to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base for the approach and landing test program.  "
Credit for this information goes to:  http://www.astronautix.com/craft/entprise.htm

Then it's on to the Final Question, which sadly we missed and it was in the food category!  Oh well.  We had fun and even though we didn't get to win at the last, it was worth the fun playing.  Our winning team tonight was Holy Frijoles (and yes, I had them write it down)  They took 1st place with these team members:  Michelle, Andrew, Dave, Kerry and David.  I thought there was one more, however I must be mistaken. 

Congrats to them, as they had to beat out the largest group of teams in Las Trojas history to play in one night!  There were a total of 26 teams competing and some of them very large teams. 

Well that brings us all up to date, as we haven't played since this date.  That was due to schedules and Valentine's day being this month.  I do however expect to see us all back together tonight and having a good time.  See you all soon.

January 31, 2012

On our team tonight is:  Steve, Bill, Owen, Mike, Justin, Amoreena and myself. 

We started the game off by not knowing the 4 point question in Heavy Metal.  After all, who ever heard of Slipknot?  At least in the next round they had good questions such as, "who plays the part of Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory?"  That is only like one of the best shows to make you laugh, so of course we know Jim Parsons.  I didn't know that he is only 2 years younger than myself.  His stage make up is really good! 

Next we were on to books, Can you name The Millennium-trilogy? It consist of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played With Fire", and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest".  After having seen the movie released this last year, It wasn't to hard to know this one.  BTW...Please look up and read the IMDB before watching movies like this one.  I'm still wishing I had done so before watching it. 

We only missed 1 of the 5 part half time question.  We were all feeling pretty good about our placement in the rapid rounds.  We hung in there with scoring 15 points on each of those 2 rounds.  Then it was time for that Final Question of the night.  You all know the one I'm talking about.  It's what makes or breaks the teams!  Tonight's question was about when the White House burned down.  Now I know that I should know my history, however I was surprised to even know that it ever had.  So far those of you who don't know anything about it, here is a good place to start:  http://www.answers.com/topic/when-did-the-white-house-burn-down   Needless to say, the other team members knew the answer and we advanced into a 2nd place win!

There was a tie for 3rd place tonight between the Cyber Squad and the Clemson Tigers.  So the tie breaker question went out and wouldn't you know it, both teams were correct.  So it was a double tie break with the Cyber Squad pulling off the lead for 3rd place.  Tonight's 1st place team was the "Wildly Inappropriate's" who had a 5 point lead over us.  So that gives each of tonight's players $2.85 each credit.  When we get together the next game, I'm going to do a pay out and then from here on, I'll bring cash with me to just split up the money we win the same night.  It's to confusing for me to keep track of it this way.  BTW, I remember that this new way of keeping track was my idea, so don't rub it in...LOL.

January 24, 2012

Tonight's team is:  Steve, Mike, Owen, Amanda and myself.  I have to admit we were not on our game as we started off not knowing that Kenny Hamilton is Justin Bieber's body guard.  We did however get the current events and the President questions correct.  Baseball was our half time category and we did "ok" this time.  It's been quite some time since I kept up with baseball.  Even the thousands of cards collected into boxes in my basement shows that I need to revisit the sport and see what (if any) I want to continue collecting.  In the Rapid Rounds things went a bit better.  I was glad to have the guns category and superstitions one too. Those 2 were easy enough for us all. 
I'm sure you all know what this superstition is about and why, right?

This brings tonights game to a close.  I would love to tell you who won, however, I didn't make any notes.  Not even at half time to know who was winning then.  I do know that we didn't win :(  yet we always have fun and enjoy our team of friends. 

January 17, 2012

Tonights team is:  Steve, Amanda, Myself, Mike and Owen.  We enjoyed the very first question because it brought back some really good memories. The question was something like this:   What was the fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons as a running gag featuring outlandish products that fail catastrophically at the worst possible times?

 While my daughter didn't have a clue, the rest of us all knew it.  Sometime I need to sit down and watch a few of these with her. 

Catch your own here http://youtu.be/FDFG993wKcM

We held a perfect score all the way to half time :)  Here we gained some points and moved on into the Rapid rounds.  Keeping our heads in the game we scored the max on both of those rounds as well.  We were geared up and ready to go with the Final Question, which, you guessed it.  We got that one right as well...Wah Hoo.

The Wild Stallions took 1st place with only a couple points more than us.  We were 2nd and I think the Hard Rollers were in 3rd place.  I could be wrong about that.  So tonight we each have a credit of  $4.00 to which we will be able to use next time or when we choose.  Not bad for all the fun we had. 

So for now



January 3, 2012

We started this new year off with just Mike, Steve and myself.  Our core buddy Owen is enjoying some family time and we miss him!
We missed only the 2 point question in each of the first 3 rounds.  Sports was our half time category and we all admit that it's not our subject!  Moving into the rapid rounds, we gained points very well and even knew the final question which put us in 3rd place for the ending of the night.  The Clemson Tigers came in 2nd and 1st place went to the Hard Rollers.  That was after the tie breaker between those 2 teams.  It wasn't bad to come in only 9 points behind the winning team. This also gave us the last of the money we needed for everyone on the team to spend their winnings.  Next we will start a new system of keeping track of the winnings.  More to that story later on.

Time to close this out and move on into the next game.

December 27, 2011

Here we are at the Final game of Trivia for 2011.  What a fun year it's been for Romero's Rejects.  We have met new friends and enjoyed our team.  Tonight's team is one of our largest teams yet.

Left to right back row: Amoreena, Ronald, JoAnn, Trisha, Patrick, Mike, Vanessa, Ron, Nick, Kate and Justin

Middle row: Sandy, ? and ?

Front row:  Steve

We started tonight off with all getting to know each other.  It was very cool to have the last game this year with new friends. 

 Now as for the game, we knew the answer to every question in the first 3 rounds.  It was Half time before  we knew it and everyone was having a great time.  We only missed 1 part of the half time question and moved right into the Rapid rounds.  In Rapid round 4 we missed the government question.  However we knew all the rest.  Now in Rapid round 5 was the famous words from a classic movie. "Dying at much of a living boy...." Let's see if anyone on here knows what movie it's from?

Now the Final Question of the night was in Literature. Our host never even finished the question before Steve grabbed the answer sheet, wrote down the correct answer, bet the max and was on his was to hand in the small slip of paper that would seal our Victory! 

The actual question was something like this:  Who wrote " Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Breakfast of Champions (1973) ?  The answer was:  Kurt Vonnegut

We finished the night in 1st place with 97 points out of a possible 102 per game!  We were all cheering and I can't think of any better way to have ended the 2011 year of Trivia than with this Wonderful group of friends! 

Bad Idea took 2nd place and I can't remember who was in 3rd place, we were all having to much fun talking and celebrating by the time of that announcement.

Now it's time to look for the new year of games and fun.  Who knows what 2012 will bring, so hold on to your hats and the hands of those around you.  Draw from their strengths and forgive their weaknesses.  Hugs to all and a Blessed future of happiness is my prayer.

See you all in the New Year!