Number One With a Bullet, Baby!

We came. We saw. We kicked asssssk me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
Hey everybody. SpaceTrucker here. I got drafted into writing this blog edition because our team captain, Sandy had to go off and do her Magnum P.I. thing and was unavailable for trivia.
We only had three to show up. Myself, Owen, and Big Mike.
Right off the bat, we lost the first question which was "What color is Grover on Sesame Street? We had no fraking idea, so we went with brown because either Owen or Mike thought that Grover lived in a garbage can and would be brown from all the filth. WRONG!
But from there on up we kicked butt and didn't bother taking names.
At half time the 5 questions were movie quotes which the host read out and we had to name the movie it came from.
We got all of them.
Do you know which movie this is from?
...three four, better lock your door... five six, grab your crucifix...
We sailed on up in the number one position all the way to the final 20 point question.
By then my brain was pickled from the big ass margarita I was nursing the whole time, but the question was something like this: "If you wanted to visit the ruins of Troy, what modern day country would you have to go to?"
Owen and I both said it was Greece, but Mike insisted it was Turkey. We debated it, as usual, up until the last micro second before we had to hand it in.
We went for broke and bid all 20 points, and Mike was right. Good thing he was there.
We sailed away with another numero uno win for the Rejects!
Here is a bonus question for you:
Look on a world map. Do you think that if Iraq were to invade Turkey from the rear, would Greece help?
Hope you have a good day and and if you ever decide you want to get a shiny red butt in trivia, go up against Romero's Rejects. Yeah. I said it! ;-)

March 6, 2012

Tonights team is:  Steve, Owen, Justin, Amoreena, Tru and myself.  Mike is out enjoying some family time.  We started Round 1 with "What is dramamine used for"?  I always love the easy question first.  We moved thru the first 3 rounds with only missing a 2 point question.  The half time question was top 5 hits.  As we all know the number one for weeks has been:  Set Fire to the Rain by Adele.  For those of you who haven't heard it, I will offer you a chance here:  http://youtu.be/xBcMKwbMEcQ
Follow that with Stronger, We are Young, Part of me, and I can't remember the last one. 
By half time we were tied for 2nd place with the Tigers in the lead by 2 points.  See how important  those 2 little points are? 
Rapid round 4 was a perfect score. Loved the question of "what is the roman numeral for 400"?
Rapid round 5 we remain strong with knowing "What a conchologists is"  I so love the sea shells in Flordia!
For our final question of the night and our hope to gain some ground, It was in US Geography to which we bid the 20 point max and correctly answered the question with Alaska. 
This earned us the win for 1st place and a Victory celebration.  Oh yeah and the money for 1st place as well.  So it was a Wonderful night!

Final scores were:  Romero's Rejects (94)
                               A Team (93)
                               Clemson Tigers (89)

February 28, 2012

Tonight we had most of our players.  Steve, Mike, Owen, Justin, Amoreena, Tru and Myself.  We started the game off doing good in the first 2 rounds.  I did enjoy getting the channel correct that shows this Series

Round 3 we didn't do as well on.  The chemistry question was worded wrong to get the answer they came up with.  However, as the rules state: "If I right or if I'm wrong, I'm always right" that meaning the host.  So we missed that question.  We felt the correct answer was this: The Atomic Number found here.  http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/periodic_table/atomic_number.html  Now I just now looked this up in order to share it with you.  We have all our phone put away during the entire game as not to have anyone ever think we cheat.  Don't even get me started on teams that cheat over something this simple!

Half time was all about Heat.  In which the guys worked through the answers on the famous napkin process and we got 3 out of 5 correct.

Rapid rounds 4 & 5 we scored a perfect 18 points on each of those.  That left us with the Science Category for the Final Question of the night.  The answer was in fact: DNA which we all knew.  Tonight we didn't place in the winning circle.  I think it was due to a mistake in the math, yet it didn't seem enough for us to call them on it.  I think there was another team tied with us too.  The A Team took first place with a 98 point win, The Pacers in 2nd with having lost the tie breaker to the A team.  3rd place went to Air force 5 with 94 points. 

After the game tonight, I paid out our past winnings so that I don't have to keep track of who is due what money.  I don't even balance my own check book, so thought this was easier.  So far each trivia night, if we win, I plan to just spilt it all up right then and pay cash and I'll keep the certificate and use it the next time.  It's not like I won't get to use it the next week.  Hope this new system is understood.

I would like to Thank Justin for offering to let me keep the change for the time I take with the blog.  It made me smile to know that someone actually reads it :) 

So for everyone on our team and anyone wishing to join us