How will the tie breaker end?

Hello again Everyone,

I thought it best to get a head start on this blog, as I have a busy next few days planned.  We played at Las Trojas.  Next week we are thinking about playing at Miller's Tavern in downtown Huntsville.  I'll keep you posted if we play at a new location.

We only had the 4 of us playing.  Steve, Myself, Mike and Owen.  Mark was a bit under the weather with his arm hurting.  We have a new host this week.  It was good to see Steve and Summer get a chance to play for a change on Tuesdays.  They certainly were on the Winning team!

Round One:  TV, Words & Sports.

What network would you find Fairly Odd Parents?  Now it's been several years since I've watched any of these.  So I couldn't remember if it was Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon.  So you have a 50/50 chance of getting this, but enjoy the youtube clip.

What does a Chinese Junk do?  Drill? Float?  There were a couple more choices read.  I didn't write them down since we all know that this is a Chinese Junk.  (Pictured below)

What English sport does a wicket-keeper play?  The correct answer would be,  Cricket

Round Two:  Energy, Culture & Movies

What kind of energy powers most kinds of satellites?  Solar

What Asian country is a Dhoti worn in?   It's NOT Japan, however, it is India and some men wear them very well.

While others Not so much.

Then this is only 1 woman's view of what looks sexy.  It's a lot like thinking that a well dressed man looks much better than a thug in sweatpants with his a** hanging out!

Who played James Bond in "Never say Never Again"?    The one and only.....Sean Connery.


Round Three:  TV, Trades & Sports

Who is the host of CBS The Amazing Race?  Read more about Phil here.

What does a Milliner make for a living?  Now the answer was Hats.  Yet I find that in history it was much more than hats. You can read up on all the items that were made and who mostly owned a Milliner Shop.

What is the name of the stadium for the Baltimore Oriole's?
Camden Yard....

We have now reached the Half Time Question.  Stay tuned and I will return to finish this right after I recharge my energy.

Ok, I've made it back and time to wrap this thing up.  Half Time is Islands.

Name 5 of the 6 Islands that are larger than 250,000 Sq. miles?

Now before I give you the top ones.  Let me say that the question is in reality worded incorrectly and should have been read as km2 and not sq. miles. As 2 of the answers he gave would be under 200,000 sq. miles.

Here are the answers he was looking for:  (we had 3 of them correct)

1. Greenland
2. New Guinea
3. Borneo
4. Madagascar
5. Baffin Island
6. Sumatra

This takes us into Rapid Round 4:  Animals, Card games & Oh Canada

The tiny animal valued for it's pale grey fur, living high in the Andes is a Chinchilla

How many penalty points is a king of hearts in the game of Hearts?  Now I thought this was "1" and Mike thought it was "13" and we went with Owen's answer of "3".  When the answer was read, it was said to be "4".  The guy at the table to my right yelled BS and everyone cracked up.  Now we moved on to the next question, and the host looked up the answer.  I can't blame him for yelling it, as he had felt certain of their answer and no where in my memory could I remember any game that the king would be worth 4 points.  So the host looked it up and it was certainly 1 point for the king of hearts.  I want to share this Youtube video with each of you that might want to learn how to play. Here is how you play HEARTS.  It will also explain how it is that Mike was thinking it might be 13.  

The Oh Canada question I didn't even write down, because Owen knew it before he could even finish.  As he knows most of them about Canada.  The answer is July 10th.  Now I do recall the question, just not the wording.  However, you can figure this one out on your own with using that date.  Good Luck :)

Rapid Round 5 is all about Andy Warhol. People, places and things

Now he gave a choice to have or not to have multiple choice.  All the teams in the room were clapping for the choices.  With only one lone team of 4 behind us that cheered not to have it.  

I have to wonder if they were happy after they heard how difficult the questions were? 

 I was glad to have them read off and I looked up Andy Warhol after seeing the clue earlier.  Even that didn't stay in my head all day.  Oh well, I will have to work on the memory later, right now I need to stay focused on this blog!  

People:  March 19, 1984, Time magazine featured which work of art? 

Places: In what country was Andrew Warhola born?

Things:  What magazine was founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol?

Now that I've left some of you wondering long enough, let me include 2 links that I found very interesting on Mr. Warhol. This one tells about his death and how he was brought back in 1968  while this one  tells more about his Legacy.  I hope you enjoy each of those links.  

Now for the final question:  Category is Movies:

What 2004 movie starring Don Chedale, Sandra Bullock and Thandie Newton won best picture?  

Steve knew this one without a doubt was "Crash"  a movie he suggested I see.  So I will find time today maybe to look it up on Netflix.  

Well that was all for the game, or so we thought.  Turns out there was a tie between us and "We don't Know".  That is there team name and not my bad memory this time :)

Tie breaker question is:  When KS entered the union, what # did it become?  

We were a bit low on this guess, while the other team was right on the number. 

After we turned in the answer, a gentleman standing near the table told me that our answer was incorrect and that state matching our number was Nebraska.  

When he told me the state, I believed him.  After researching this link here,  I know that I should never believe a man not on my team!  Maybe he was just confused or didn't know any more than us.  Either way, our number chosen was #27 and that didn't match up when I was looking it all up.  So have fun and never believe other teams, even after the answers are in.  

So here is your 3rd place team: 

"We don't Know"

Team Bacon moved up to take 2nd place.

While Bad Idea held the lead in 1st place.

Congrats to all the teams and I wish you luck next week.

Remember, we will probably be playing over at Miller's Tavern next Tuesday night.  Drink specials start at 5:00pm and Trivia at 7:00pm.

There can be ONLY ONE

Feb. 4th, We are playing at Las Trojas again.  Looks like it's going to be just the 4 of us.  Steve, Mike, Mark and Myself.   I had forgotten how little room you have at a table for only 4 people.  It's ok for eating or playing, but not both.  So I finished up my food quickly and made room for the paper and score sheets.

Our hosts, Steve and Summer announced that tonight would be their last night as hosts.  They are going to be missed by everyone here!  We all know that life is constant change and rolling with those changes are always part of the game.  We wish the both of you lots of fun and excitement in all aspects of your lives.

 We saw the clues earlier for tonight.  However, I don't recall them being very helpful in the past.  We find them a bit generic to be much help.  At best it gives us an opening discussion before the game.

Round one was Kid stuff, TV and Movies.

SpongeBob was the easy one and we opted for a bid of only 2 points and turned in the answer.  Feeling sure of TV and movies.

Before the answer was read, Steve (our host) ask a member from each Romero's Rejects to approach the bench.  Now I thought he was kidding, as we have played here for a couple years now.  I went up and met with them.  It seems that another team had decided to use our name. After a short talk, The judge (host) made his ruling.  The result was......

The other team chose to be Knuckleheads Rejects.  As they were planning to play there and found out it was closed.  Now it's back to the game.

  Next was Brooklyn Nine-Nine,  that link is for those of you who missed the last episode on Fox.

Last was the movie

It will hit the big screen on the 21st of this month.  So make your plans to get out and see it.

In Round 2 we had...Sports, Music and Movies.

The 2015 Super Bowl is going to be held in Glendale.  ADOT is already working on this project...Super Bowl 2015

Katie Perry's Top new song is Dark Horse.  One I have heard a million times since we missed it tonight!

The 1980 comedy starring Dolly Parton was non other than

Click here to watch 9 to 5

The Cosby show won the Outstanding Comedy series Emmy in 1984-1985  You can find the results Located Here for all the Emmy Awards that year.

In 2003, What country was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro?  This was interesting reading for me. However the guys did know this and bid the full 6 points on it.  Yugoslavia

In Sports we knew that the Country who raised the funds to send it's Bob sleding team to the Olympics was....Jamaica.

Now I'm sure a lot of you knew about it and many of you probably watched the movie Cool Runnings back in 1993.  Now something I had no idea of was Dogecoins,  so if you would like to know more about the current stuff going on with this team.  Check out this website:  Jamaican-bobsled-team-raises-dogecoin-winter-olympics

The half time question was about the 2010 Olympic Medals.  We needed to name the top 5 countries.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
3	United States (USA)	9	15	13	37
2	Germany (GER)	10	13	7	30
1	Canada (CAN)	14	7	5	26
4	Norway (NOR)	9	8	6	23
9	Austria (AUT)	4	6	6	16
5	South Korea (KOR)	6	6	2	14
7	China (CHN)	5	2	4	11
7	Sweden (SWE)	5	2	4	11
6	Switzerland (SUI)	6	0	3	9
10	Netherlands (NED)	4	1	3	8

By the end of half time, we are not in the top 3 places and know that we must get focused and score some points in the next 2 rounds.

Rapid Round 4

Steve knew right off that the first answer was Alice Cooper.  Born as Vincent Damon Furnier.  He is a singer, song writer and actor.  I enjoyed reading a quote by Alice when ask about his political views.  His philosophy was simple.  Politics should not be mixed with Rock Music.  That part made me laugh, as I don't care to discuss people's political views or their religious views.  Everyone has their own thoughts on the matter and I'm happy to let you believe anything you want in those 2 fields. There was a lot of reading on Alice Cooper and you might do well to Google him sometime.

The Port side of a ship is always the left side when facing the bow. If you are not facing the bow, turn around!  Or you can watch Captain Phillips sometime and enjoy the move while hearing them yell out the turns.  Awesome movie if I do say so myself!

Now on to Rapid Round 5.  This one is slogans.  I did enjoy this part of the game the most of any part tonight.  It's funny how you hear slogans all the time and connect a product with them or a company name.

How do you spell Relief?

Sadly I can't find the "Who made the Salad?" to add you a link.  It was Seven Seas

"Where do you want to go today was the slogan for Microsoft from 1994 to 2002.  The 2006 Microsoft slogan was "Your Potential.  Our passion".  It remains that even now. The first one was WAY better!

This last one I tossed in for the fun of it.

Added bonus from 1973


At the end of the night, we are down to the final question.  The category is Words

What is a Nebuchadnezzar?

The key to this question was What is "a" and not "who" is.





So we lost out to The Green Team with 62 points.  (Not pictured)

Team Bacon with 58 points (Jeremy the Team Captain)

 and close behind them, by a bid of 0 in the final round,   it was Knucklehead Rejects with a score of 55.  They played hard tonight.  They lost our team name effort, however they were able to hold their own in the game and know when to fold em.  Here is the team who wanted to be Romero's Rejects and couldn't, but still walked away with a winning hand.

Congratulations to all the teams who played and those who won.

Count the Letters (1/28/14)

We have 13 teams tonight at

I had some errands to run in town so Herman rode down with me, then we picked up Steve and dropped by to pick up Mark.  Once we arrived at our usual table, we were joined by Mike, Angie and Owen.  We placed our drink and food orders and were ready to get underway.

We started off with a Disney Parks question about the future, to which this would help you answer it:

The Classic film question was "If I only had a brain"  Found Here
Our Sports question was about the Denver Bronco's and the answer was Sports Authority Field @ Mile High.

Round 2 was all about TV, Music and Maladies.  I think this is the first time we have had a round with Maladies as a category.

Netflix has a new series called

Now this is a show I have not yet watched much of.  However with the talk growing about it, I may have to make some time during all this cold weather and do a marathon watch to catch up with everyone else.

Well while researching this next one, I'm getting some conflicting results.  So that means it's very possible I have the question noted wrong.  My notes say the 1994 Best New Artist GRAMMY winner who sang "Another Sad Love Song".
 Now here is my debate.  That song was done by Toni Braxton.  Yet the following link will show that the Grammy went to Cheryl Crow in 1994.
Taking the entire question into account.  Toni would be the correct answer, because that is her song, yet the year would have to be 1993.  So either way, you have the right information here for the song and Grammy.  So I've learned a little by writing this blog.  
The last one in this round was Rubella, also known as the German Measles or 3 day measles.  You can find some good reading on this website:  Elimination of Rubella

Round 3 starts us off with a 6 letter word for a North American Cowboy.  Now the question was in more detail, but most people should know that for 6 letters, it would be Goucho.
In Sports, we had the answer right away.  The guys all knew the 1980 Olympics answer was:

Miracle on Ice

Owen knew the last one.  As soon as they started to read the question, he gave us a smile and  said..."oh, I know that one"!  It was the cast of Modern Family on ABC.
Another show I have not watched.  I need to make time to at least see a few episodes of it. Something tells me that is how they get you hooked......just watch it...... you will like it....you can stop watching it any time you want...........Is it a gateway trick like Breaking Bad?  Once you start watching it, you just have to see it!

Tonight our half time question was a bit different and took me by surprise.  It's always a 5 part question and requires getting points for each answer you get correct.  Each one is worth 2 points and the round can net you a 10 point lead sometimes.  This time there are 9 correct answers and you get 1 point for each one you have correct.  A bonus point if you name all 9, so a total of 10 is still possible.

                                   The Category was:

Name the 9 movies for Best Picture.  Time starts now......


We were able to get over half of these correct.  Yet some of them I had never heard of.   Here is your correct 9,  in no particular order

1. American Hustle
2. Captain Phillips
3. 12 Years a Slave  
4. Dallas Buyers Club
5. Nebraska
6. Philomena
7. Gravity
8. Her
9. The Wolf of Wall Street

** I will add a few comments after the end of this blog if you want to read them about 2 of these movies.

We moved into Rapid Round 4 with People, Places and Things. 

Brooke Shields was the 11 month old baby on the Ivory Snow boxes. It was also what launched her career.

London's busiest station is Waterloo and the 1st sign in the Zodiac is Aries

Rapid Round 5 gives us:  Products, Medications and 4 Letter words, (to which Steve gives his famous Oh F*** Yeah).  I can't help but laugh when he does that.  After all, I think it's the 2nd round of frozen drinks by this point and we are having a good time.  

Products is a 7 letter noun and verb that describes a paste used to fill holes.  Now I think there would be 2 acceptable answer to this one:  Spackle or Stopple, however that might not be the case.

Next, Diazepam is better known as Valium

And the correct 4 letter word we needed and did get correct was GUNK

  We have done well on the rapid rounds and it's time to move into the Final Question and Category of the night.  As the Title Geography is read off for the Category.  You hear a thrilled,  YES!  come from across the room.  It's Eric Jackson from Team Bacon, he is smiling from ear to ear.  This tells us that it's his strong category or that he is messing with everyone's head.  I wonder which one it is?  

What I do know,  He is an Alabama Fan...Roll Tide!  So everyone say Hi to Eric on the next set of trivia games.

Now back to the game.           

It's been a fun night and the Final question is What country has the most coast line?  Since we missed this one, I'm going to let you go check it out for yourselves.  I will post you the link so you don't have to do anything except CLICK HERE

Well it's game over!  In 3rd place with 79 points is "Bazinga".

2nd place with 86 points, "Blood, Sweat and Beers"


Your 1st place winners tonight with 87 points is the "Barreto Supreme's"!  Congratulations guys, you certainly earned it tonight.

**  As mentioned above.  12 years a slave is one of the best films.  It gives you such a strong realization of how things were in our past and how quick they changed for many families.  It's a movie I think everyone should see with a box of tissue.

Captain Phillips is just as good the 2nd and 3rd times watching it.  The ending scene is one of the best performances I've seen from any actor!


With all the snow outside (2/11/14)  I will leave you all wishing you had a pair of these:

     

A Trio of Trouble for the other teams

Things have been busy all day long and most of the team can't make it out for trivia tonight (1/21/14).  I was the last of us to arrive due to working late.  So here is our team: Bill, Myself and Steve.

Once upon a time, there were 9 teams trying to take 1st place at Las Trojas.  Each of them wanted the grand prize and the title to Victory.  Yet only one team will survive as the other teams fall in defeat.

Now that covered your fairy tale question.  And math was simple with a 6/10 or 3/5 answer. Sports as always gave us a hard time.  This one was on Richard Sherman for the whole Crabtree remarks.  

Round 2 was great with a perfect score in Food, TV and Internet....oh yeah!  

The top rated game show in 1974 and 1975 was We couldn't have gotten this one without Steve! or the fact that .ca means Canada on the internet.

Next we moved into Round 3 for Movies, Science and Automobiles.  We knew that the new movie with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart was "Ride Along" to which I have still not had the time to go see yet, so don't spoil it for me. 

Bill knew that the letters MN is the chemical symbol for Manganese.  

Now our half time round was 1974 Music.  Seeing as I was not even in school during this time, I wasn't much help in the songs.  I only knew 2 of them and was confident about one of those.  Thankfully Bill and Steve knew 4 of them and we were doing good.  Take a listen to some of these if you like.

You're Sixteen by Ringo Starr

Benny & the Jets by Elton John

Hooked on a feeling by Blue Swede

Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot

Cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin  

Now at the end of this round, we are thrilled to be alone at the top.  However we don't have enough of a gap to be goofing off.  So we remain semi focused, as the guys have had several drinks by now and are talking it up.  It's been a good night with them here and I certainly am happy they both showed up!

Rapid round 4 was movie, sports and Tv.  

The 1974 film staring  Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden was The Towering Inferno     

We of course missed the sports question and knew the Showtime answer was Homeland

We have made it to the last Rapid round of the night and it's People, Places and Things. I did not know that a DD title at the end of someones name meant they were a Dr. of Divinity.  

Yet every person in the entire restaurant had to know that MS is Mississippi.  Even the infant a few tables over already had this one figured out. 

 The last answer was "what does the letter C stand for in "ASCAP"?  Now keep in mind, this being very late in the game and the frozen drinks being well made here.  We don't hear the question as it really is and hear our own version of those letters.  Being animal people, we didn't give it a second thought, wrote down the answers and turned them in.  Only to hear the question as it was read off for the answer the correct way. We knew instantly that we should have focused a bit more.  It was to late and we now waited for the final question of the night and how we place before going into sudden death.  

So far we are still in the lead with 67 points and Clemson Tigers and Team Bacon are right on our heels.

  The Final Question is in Literature.....Who wrote        

      

As the song ended and the scores were about to be read out.  We learned that first there would be a tie breaker.  Now since this included us, we were very concerned that we might not be in the lead.  We didn't bid any points on the final question.  So now to answer the tie breaker question.  I can't recall the wording, so this is close enough.  What year was the Concorde introduced to fly regular routes from London?  Now after a bit of discussion, we went with 1977 and I think the other team went with 1974.  Given that we have had quite a few answers dealing with 1974, it was a good guess on their part.
However the correct answer was 1976.  Placing our team in 1st place for the win tonight.  With Bad Idea in 2nd and Clemson Tigers in 3rd place.  That's it for the winning of tonight.

I wanted to leave you this time by introducing a new team that really held in there tonight and had a lot of fun.  This is Team "Shell Vid Gone".  So when you see them playing, make sure to ask them about the name.

Thanks for taking the time to come out and join us here on the blog.  I hope that you have clicked on some of the links and enjoyed sharing this victory win with us.  See you all again soon my friends.

          

A 1.5 bid, what?

Tonight we are all playing at Las Trojas on hwy 53.  By now you should all know where this great place to eat and play is located.  Our team is:  Myself, Steve, Mark, Mike and Angie.  It's Owens Birthday and I think he was a bit fearful of the whipped cream ending that was sure to follow as the night went on.  Yet alas, he didn't make it tonight and we shall have to wait until a better time to all sing and dance.
We missed Summer being here and were graced by the fine new young man who will be helping.  Please welcome:  Chris

 Our first question of the night was "who is the only smurf with a Red Hat"?

Now for some reason this question was difficult for me.  Steve said it was Papa Smurf.  Yet it just wasn't sinking in and we went with a different answer, only to be told it was indeed Papa Smurf and all his blueness that wore that red hat!  Now this wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for this very picture above.  To which I took in 2012 during Hallowcon.  To quote my very dear friend Steve and say...Thanks OBAMA!

We moved on to the longest name of the primary colors.  Here is a hint:

I think everyone knew the answer for the 80's group with lead singer Boy George was Click Here

During the 3rd round, we knew who James Spader played on the Blacklist, yet as well as I could see and replay episodes, I couldn't for the life of me get his name down on paper.  How hard could it be to remember Raymond Reddington!

It's a Government Question tonight, so let's name the last 5 Secretaries of State who were before John Kerry

1. Hilary Clinton 
2. Condoleezza Rice
3. Colin Powell
4. Madeline Albright
5. Warren Christopher

Now we only missed one of these and almost all the teams waited a full 3:32 seconds before running the answers up all at once.  Guess this one was a bit tougher than you think.  So for our half time standings, Bad Idea is in the lead with 42 points.  Making them the team to beat out.  

We entered Rapid Round 4 with several teams ahead of us and knowing we must pick up the pace if we are to catch up and win this game.  

We knew that only 2 states boarder SC and that Chewbacca Rules as the co pilot of the Millennium Falcon. It wasn't until we turned in the answer to the 3rd question that we remembered that Claire Huxtable was a  Lawyer.  However we gained some points on the round and hoped that the 50/50 round would give us more of a lead.  

The potters wheel was invented during the Bronze age.  Yet we did not have the first working Laser until Theodore Maiman invented it in 1960.  A stifle on a dog is the knee joint and not a chock chain.  

The final question is Presidents.  At this point in every game, the teams know where they stand.  They also know how much is riding on this answer.  Some teams go all in, while others don't bid at all.  Leaving little room to err without costing you the winning prize.  

Here is the answer to your Final Question of the night:  Who was the 1st US President to visit Japan while in office?

Well there you have it!  The teams have shuffled about and some of that is good and some of it ...NOT so much.  However for the first time ever, we had a team bid 1.5 points and that was enough to put them in 3rd place ahead of Team Bacon.  It's a team of only 2 people, yet very smart people indeed.  Give it up for team DAL with 73.5 points.  Coming in 2nd  was Bad Idea at 75 points and with only a 1 point lead, it's The Happy Normals taking the 1st place win of the night!  

Another good game and a lot of fun with friends.  As always, thanks for taking the time to read the blog and feel free to pass it on for other trivia players to see.