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.
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.
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