November 5, 2013

We played at Las Trojas.  It was Mike, Angie, Mark, Steve, Owen, myself and Nasir joined us for the first time.  It was a pleasure to meet and play trivia with him.
Round 1 went very well with the categories being: Toys, State Capitals and Beverages.
Moving on to Round 2, we are still holding a perfect score.
Round 3 proved to be no challenge at all for a cheering team going into half time.
Half Time was a Sports theme, it's not something we do a lot of, unless it's Alabama Football or in Mike's case, Notre Dame. So we were able to get 2 out of 5 on the half time.
In Rapid Round 4 we had Bodies of water, World Capitals and Rivers.  We maxed out the points for this round and were feeling very proud going into Rapid Round 5.  After all how hard can the categories Disney Theme Park, Food Show and Colors really be?  Now let me think on that one, we missed the Disney Theme Park question and the Food show was tough.  I had seen the clue earlier in the day and looked up all about the man "Guy Fieri".  I had done my homework and could run all the things over in my head.  Yet when the question came up, I knew if was to the far right side of what I had seen earlier and at the end, I could not recall it.  Talk about upset with myself!  So we moved on to the color Taupe.  We knew it was a beige looking color, but what do you mix to get it?  I'm going to let you look that one up yourselves, as we missed it!  We were very close, but since we weren't playing horseshoes, it didn't matter.  That took some of the cheering out of the group, however, not to worry, a shot or two of Patron put the cheers right back :)
We went into the Final round with 58 points and the category was Automobiles.
Now here is the question of the night for everyone:  What was the top car sold in the U.S. in 2012?
We decided that since we could not be certain that it was the Toyota Corolla, that we should hold our bid to 0, yes, that is correct, we thought it best not to bid.  When Steve read the answer out, we were pleased with our choice not to bid anything and we took the 3rd place winning seat.  Hey, it's better than not winning at all :)
Here for Beer took 2nd place with only 3 points more than us. And way out in front was the Barreto Supreme's with 89 points and the 1st place Title for this week!

See you all Next week for more Fun Trivia!

November 19, 2013

Looks like things are getting hotter for the Romero's Rejects.  We played again tonight at Las Trojas on Hwy 53.  I picked up Steve and we arrived early so we could get a good table.  Not that there are any bad tables in the whole place, but we enjoy not having so far to walk after a long day.  Then Mark arrived and shortly after that Mike came in and Angie too.  We placed our food and drink orders and readied the table with pens and napkins for writing down the questions.  We kicked off Round 1 with how many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh, counting Rudolph.  Now I bet every one of you are running through the names right now.
 “Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen!  There you have it for a total of 9 as the correct answer.  
We enjoyed messing with Owen who had arrived late and telling him that we totally blew the 6 point question and put down 7 instead :)  
Our team loves to joke around with each other and after playing together for a couple years now, we do very well on team spirit.  
I think it was the first time we had a Movie category that we all had no idea what the answer was.  Who knew that there was a movie coming out called "Frozen"?  Not any of us, we are all waiting ever so patiently for 

'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' 

http://movies.yahoo.com/video/hobbit-trailer-2a-150141871.html

However, given that the question was for Frozen, here is you a link to this cool looking movie as well:  http://movies.disney.com/frozen

It did make us laugh that after we missed the question, we see the advertisement for it on the corner tv, but a little to late to help us out.  

Round 2 we were sure to know

 Ron Rivera, the head coach of the Carolina Panthers.  He also appeared on screen shortly after the question was over.  At least this one we knew!

In Round 3 we knew all 3 of these. 

I think there was some confusion as to who

Leif Ericson was and who Erik the Red was.  Below is my understanding that it is Father and Son.  Which is not the same person as some teams thought.

Leif Ericson

Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America, nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Born: 970 AD, Iceland

Died: 1020, Greenland, Denmark

Full name: Leif Ericson

Parents: Erik the Red, Thjodhild

Children: Thorkell Leifsson, Thorgils

Nationality: Icelandic, Norwegian

 It took a bit of math for us to get the UNO question correct, yet we pulled it off.  Having at least 3 or 4 sets of UNO cards here and something that I play with our family often, it was just a matter of adding.  A deck of Uno cards consist of 19 blue cards, 19 green cards, 19 red cards, 19 yellow cards, 8 draw cards, 8 reverse cards, 8 skip cards, 4 wild cards, 4 wild draw cards. All together that is 108 cards

In classic Films, the question was who played the Tinman in The Wizard of Oz?

  This was none other than 

John Joseph "Jack" Haley (August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979) was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in the now-classic film The Wizard of Oz. In the same film, he also played Hickory, one of the three farmhands that Dorothy, in her "dream", imagines as the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.

Moving on to Rapid Round 4, we picked up another 10 points for knowing who Moose is. 








In Rapid Round 5,  we gained yet another 15 points with the correct PEOPLE answer and THINGS.  Now as for the things category,  That was the iRobot Roomba.

 Everyone will love this little machine.  I bought one years back and turned it on just before going to bed.  This was both good and bad.  Having fallen asleep before it made it's way into the hallway near the bedrooms, the bumping of the door almost scared me to death.  Once I had figured out it was just the robot cleaning up the floors, I was okay.  I must admit, it is one of the best inventions for clean floors!  Here is a link for anyone looking to find one of these little genies http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_4?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=irobot%20roomba&sprefix=irob%2Caps%2C209


We went into the final round in 3rd place.  The category was : Oh Canada so we were all in with 20 points.  Owen knew the answer by the time the question was being read.  I just smiled because I was sure that we were going to place tonight.  

Here was the correct answer to the Final Round winning us 1st place for a 2nd week in a row!!!

Manitoba

Canadian Province

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province. The province, with an area of 649,950 square kilometers, has a largely continental climate, with thousands of lakes and many rivers.

So there you have it.  Romero's Rejects taking the lead with 81 points.  

And in 2nd place with 74 points is the team "Suck It Trebek".  I've noticed the name now for a few weeks.   Learning fast they are, be careful we must (said in my best Yoda voice)

I'm going to leave you all with this last comic strip.  Until next time my Friends

November 12, 2013

Playing tonight was:  Steve, Mark, Mike, Angie, Owen and myself.  We played at Las Trojas.

The starting off question was:  What is Plankton's first name in the show "Spongebob"?  Now given that most of those all have him being yelled at as Plankton, I had no idea his first name, until I heard the answer called out.  Sheldon J. Plankton would be correct.  Here is one of the best ones about Plankton: http://youtu.be/cxWRKwGc3WQ  

We aced rounds 2 with no problems.  Carl from the Walking Dead was one of the answers.  The thing most people don't know about him is that his body double for the show is a young lady.  So look closely when he is wearing that hat next time :)

In Round 3, we had a perfect score with Mark knowing that the first name of Det. Hutch was "Ken"

The half time question was about shortest to longest flights from Nashville TN.  We flipped the 2 in the middle and made us miss those, yet got all the others in the proper order.  The correct order was:  New York, Miami, Denver, San Diego and Seattle. 

This put us in the running with 36 total points on the board.  Bad Idea was only 4 points ahead for the lead.  

In Rapid round 4, Arts:  We missed this one.  Here was the correct answer for what is located at 1071 5th Ave, NY NY.  http://www.guggenheim.org/

In the category of Science Fiction: Steve knew that the correct answer was Isaac Asimov.  For any of you wanting to read RunAround, Here you go:  http://www.gobookee.org/out.php?q=isaac+asimov+runaround&t=2&c=0

We held on in Rapid Round 5 to score a perfect 18 points and move into the Final round in 2nd place.

"Things" was the Final category.  After the question was read, we decided to go with a 0 bid.  We thought we might know it, yet were not sure.  Having 69 point and knowing that team "bad idea" was ahead at 76 points.  This could be a possible win.  Since we play against them often, it's good to know how they bid in the past.  We held our own and let them go all in.  Thus giving us the final lead in first place.  It sure felt GREAT to take 1st!

That's all for tonight my friends, hope to see each of you again soon.  

 

November 14, 2013

On a last minute decision, I decided to head over to Las Trojas and play some trivia with Paul as the host.  He always does a good job and certainly has the voice for a microphone.  I called up Steve and he is on call at work, yet took enough time to come out and play too.  It was 19 teams in the all racing for 1st place.  So rather large teams and a few 2 person teams as well.  It is a whole different group than the ones we play against on Tuesday nights there.  We started out with a perfect score in round 1 and again in round 2.  However Round 3 proved to break our pride a bit.  I really need to learn some sports besides Bama Football...LOL.  It also would have helped to know what 1973 movie starred Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand.  http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/263781/Way-We-Were-The-Movie-Clip-It-s-Always-Bad-News.html

We did alright on the half time question and had 8 teams ahead of us and had passed the other 12 teams.  So we moved into the Rapid rounds with a fighting chance.  Scoring all 3 of those answers correctly.  Having heard the crowd get quite on the Winnie the Pooh question, we knew that we made a little more progress toward winning.  The question was, What birds home was blown away in Winnie the Pooh?  It might help to have it on video as I do.  It's the one called The Blustery Day.  I'm sure you all know the answer now :)

We blew Rapid round 5 and thus tanked our hope at a winning score tonight.  I did not know where the Negev Desert was located, however this would have helped as a clue:

I learned there is a fish that climbs trees & rocks.  This would be a Mud skippers, seen here: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/fish-kids/mudskipper-kids/

A fact we should have known was in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the Mansion telegraph room of the White House.

Our final question of the night was What land animal has the largest heart?  

This would be the one and only animal that needs it to pump all the way up the neck.

Our score tonight was not enough to beat the tough team "Loki's Brother"  who had an amazing time holding the lead though out the entire game.  It was fun and I needed the stress break after my day today.   

Last and certainly not least, it was good to see Super Man playing tonight, even with the team "Kryptonite" playing against him.  

I had a really good night of fun and that is what I play trivia for.  So win or lose, I'm happy to have had the chance for some time to relax and play.  I'm closing this one out and I hope to catch up the story from this past Tuesday, which was a real Blast of fun with the whole team! 

Thanks to Paul our host and to Las Trojas for giving prizes.  I should also Thank BrainBlastTrivia for a good mix of questions.  This was the controversial question of the night:  

Prince Harry of Wales

Military officer

Prince Henry of Wales, commonly known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. His paternal grandparents are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Good Night All, See you tomorrow 

Our Team is Awesome

Hello Everyone,

It's been a while since I have sat down to work on the blog.  Between work and learning some new skills, I've had very little time to sit in a quite room and write.  I thought tonight would be a good time for this.  I'm going to go back over the last few games of trivia real fast for everyone.  I have enjoyed playing every single game we have ever played.  The group of friends who show up and play have become more and more like family to me.  Since I don't spend much time with my own family, it's nice to have some really good friends.  I'm going to get on with the trivia now and off the "mushy chic stuff",  So here goes the recap for everyone.

Oct. 23rd at Bishop's Bar.  We Did good with the Characters & Classic TV, however we missed the current event and NASCAR.  In round 2 we aced it with a perfect score.  During the half time, we flipped 2 of the answers.  I really don't like having to get things in the correct order when it comes to sports.  I guess I need more time in my day to watch sporting events.  Oh well, the guys did good on getting the list together.  In round 3 we only missed the Science question.  For those of you who didn't know the Billboards top 100's 6th place, here is the link:  What does the Fox say
When we hit round 4 and the most important round, it was all but over for the rejects.  One of the questions was a 4 sided polygon, after much debating at the table, we handed in an answer.  We should have written:

Quadrilaterals

The US State Capital with the highest altitude was San Fe New Mexico and while we knew that we should know this from having missed it once before, we went with Denver.  We now know that Denver is the 3rd highest.  So does anyone know what the 2nd one is?

Tonight I looked up Andrew Carnegie and found an interesting story about his life.  Here it is for those of you who are interested. http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756

The Final answer of the night we did get correct with it being IDES.  which brought us back up 30 points, yet not quite enough for the winning ticket.  1st place went to "All for One" and 2nd place to "The Roll Tide Rollers".

With the funnest thing I heard that night being the words..."I rebuke thee",  I thought I would roll laughing.  That was during a private conversation with only our table.  The most fun with an answer tonight was "George W. Bush, The smart one"

Thanks to Amber our waitress, who shared a little information about the table we sat at tonight.  She said that not 1 single team that had sat there ever won a game and that all the teams had tried that spot.  Guess next time we are going to switch tables and take over the one where the winners always sit.  

Well that's it for tonight my friends.  No way I can stay up to fill you in on all the fun from different nights. I also didn't take the time to read back over this, so you get the rough draft on this one guys.   It's off to sleepy land for me.  If I hurry, I can get in some sleep before 5am wake up call.  Sleep well

July 2012 Trivia

July 3, 2012

Tonight's team: Steve, Owen, Mike and myself.  

We were all geared up for the celebration tomorrow that we started enjoying the drinks a bit to early.  We started off missing the Fireworks question.  Continued on the downward spiral of missing some of the easy questions.  However the laughter was in full swing at the table and we were having a good time.  By the Final question, we were only at 39 points (we like to have at least 34 by half time)  So needless to say we bet it all on the Final question and as luck would have it, We lost that too...LOL  Our all time lowest score since we started the team!  After trivia we all went over to see Robbie at the WEG (as we call it) and had a few more drinks there.  BTW...Bad Idea took 1st place tonight.  

July 10, 2012

Players are: Andrea, Amanda, Steve, Owen, Justin, Amoreena, Tru and Myself.

Tonight we are playing against 16 teams!  Talk about some tough competition people, everyone came here to win tonight!  We only missed 1 question in the first 3 rounds of play and only lost 2 points during the half time round.  That was really good considering it was today's music hits.

We only missed 1 question in the next 2 rapid rounds, so we were looking good for the Final Question, feeling that we had the correct answer for sure, we bid the max.  The question was:  What was the best seller before 1936?  Anyone care to take a guess without google helping you out?  I'll get back to this in a few, just in case you are still thinking on it.  This is Andrea's first time playing with us, she is the young lady on the right.  She came out to visit me before her wedding (in 2 weeks), glad she could join us.  

*Look for the answer to the question at the bottom of this post

July 24, 2012

I'm not sure who was on our team tonight, for some reason, I skipped that part of the writing in my notes.  I'm guessing it was our core team.  I'm sure I thought I would blog before 6 months passed and I couldn't remember any more!

The questions were a bit tough, as we took 2nd place with a grand total of only 52 points. 3rd place winner was at 32 points and the 1st place team only had 59 points.

Well that complete's the month of July 2012 and brings me to the oversight of the June 12th game.

June 12, 2012

We joined Owen and played on the "Gump's Geeks" team at the 3rd Base Grill over on South Parkway.

This game was a little different, yet I had a great time playing.  On our team was: Owen, Jim, Steve and Myself.  There are only 4 rounds here with 5 questions per round.  They give a prize at the end of each round and being the new team, Owen had to "show em what we got"  He did a good dance and the game is very relaxed here.  I wish I could remember the winning teams, however I know we won a couple prizes, the guys loved the beer win!  I wouldn't mind playing here sometime again. The only draw back is it's a smoking bar and I'm not a smoker.  I don't think anyone on our team tonight was either.  No matter, it was fun and we were out of there before the chain smoking started.  If you are reading this and think that I'm down on you for smoking, I'm NOT, I just don't want to be subjected to it in close quarters is all.  To each their own.

Now for that little matter of the *question that needs an answer.  How many of you looked it up?  Did anyone really bother to think about it?  Maybe you already know the answer?  If so, leave me a commit and I'll write the correct answer in the commit section over the weekend and YES, honest I will or Steve will do it for me..right Steve?

Ok, I've enjoyed writing and have to go now.  It's girls night out for D2 and I get to host.  Have fun everyone and get out of that little circle you are in and meet some new people, try some new foods and live your lives to the fullest.

Has it really been that long??

Hello Everyone,

I had no idea I had left this blog for so long.  I knew I was working to much and trying to get so many things done.  Gosh, how to even start on catching you up to date.

I was having some health issues and did have surgery back in June 2012.  Of course I can't say that it made me not write, because I attended DeepSouthCon for the whole weekend.  I will admit I was not my normal energetic self at all, yet I had so much fun.

So here we go, going to give you the run down as best I can pull it together.

May 10th, 2012
Steve, Bill, Herman and myself all played trivia.  There were 7 teams and we ended up in 4th place with the team DoubleDoors taking 1st place.

May 15th, 2012
Again there were 7 teams.  Playing tonight was:  Mike, Owen, Steve, Nicole and myself.  We started off doing so good and held our own all the way until the Final Question of the night.  We came in 2nd place and if we had bid 0, we would have held on to 1st place.  You have to love the hindsight of it all.  Taking the first place win tonight was: Bad Idea with only 3 points more than us.

May 17th, 2012  Tonight Steve and I went over to Tommy's Pizza to support Mallory as she hosted the trivia in a new location.

  Owen and Mike weren't up for the challenge tonight.  We didn't place tonight, yet we did have a lot of fun with some of the answers.  May I present your 1st place team:








May 22nd, 2012
We played at Las Trojas tonight.  Steve, Owen, Mike, and myself.  Venton Blandin also joined us for the game.  We played good and there was a packed out house tonight.  We bid the max on the Final round and didn't place at all.  We did have fun and that was what really matters to me.






May 29th, 2012
Tonight we had Steve, Mike and myself playing.  Mark has now joined the team, so everyone meet Mark
Glad to have you join us.






June 19th, 2012

Tonight I met Summer

 & Steve, the new hosts at Las Trojas on hwy 53. They did a great job at hosting.

 Owen, Steve (our Steve, not the host) and myself played against 9 other teams.  We took 1st place with a total of 93 points!  Felt GREAT to win.  I had us some shirts made, we will all be wearing them soon!



 June 26th, 2012
Our team tonight was Steve, Owen and Myself.
I didn't keep the best notes tonight as I can see.  I do know that Clemson Tigers took 1st place with 93 points and in 3rd place was Baker's Dozen.  From our scored, I can tell you we were behind going into the Final round and we bid the max and missed it.  So the only treasure we took home tonight was this napkin where we debated the Final Answer!

This brings us all the way up to July 2012 and I will start there either tomorrow or over the weekend and try to bring us all the way into this New Year!

So now I'm going to leave you with this look at our team shirts.  Thanks for reading and I will try not to let work take over my life.  Until next time...............