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.