March 30, 2015

Hey Everyone,

Long time no see.  Well it's been a lot of ups and downs and well.....Life happens.  Today's blog may be a bit different due to my state of mind and working while writing.  As many of you who know me will agree, my brain skips from topic to topic without so much as missing a heart beat.  So before I have to delete again, let me get started.

Last nights trivia game was a lot of fun.  I was lucky enough to be joined by my friends Mike, Nick and Amanda D.  We had fun playing at Casa Blanca in Madison with our hosts Chris and Ronnie.

Round 1:   Characters, Words and Sports.

I enjoyed the character question, as you will all know the answer by this song:  Who sings this song?
The sports question Nick knew and didn't need a moment to think about it.
As for the words, well, we missed that one and after hearing the answer, we should have gotten it. The definition was:  A state of confused movement or violent turmoil.  It has to start with M and has 9 letters.  So without using google for the answer, I'll share this link and you should be able to figure it out on your own.  Good Luck

Round 2:   Ballet, Military and Time Zones.

A spinning turn of the body while balanced on one foot is  Pirouette
Lowest rank in the Marines is a Private.
The difference in time between NY & London is 5 hours.

Round 3:    Leisure, Literature and Learning.

Number of balls on the table when playing 8 ball pool?  16  don't forget you need the cue ball to play.
Mike and Nick knew the literature question right off, so that was good for us.
This is what DD actually stands for when listed after someones name,  Doctor of Divinity.

Half Time:

Now at half time, the rule was to list 5 movies that Robert De Niro was the star and was directed by Martin Scorsese.  Other than Raging bull and Taxi.  The interesting fact here is that these 2 people both grew up a few blocks apart in Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, yet never met until 1972.
The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and that really messed us up.  We were certain of those, but alas, not correct.  Heat was directed by: Michael Mann

Rapid Round 4:    TV, Music and Things

Phil Robertson was a Quarterback who loved hunting a lot more than football.  He only played to keep his scholarship to which he did get a Masters Degree in Education.
A Countertenor is a type of classical male singing voice that is equivalent to that of the female mezzo-soprano.  
With a value from 1-5, What does a Saffir-Simpson scale measure in strength?   A little study info for myself, go ahead and click

Rapid Round 5:   Mail, Internet and Elements

MS is Mississippi for those of you who pretend not to know.
When you see .ca in a web address, it stands for Canadian
MN in the periodic table stands for Manganese.  On average our body has about 12 milligrams

Final Question:   Places

Famous French Artist Paul Gauguin lived in Tahiti, where he painted "Ftata Te Miti".

Here are the Winner's in tonights game:

Addie Someone with 95 points
Team Blake with 89 points
Romero's Rejects with 80 points

It was good to see Michael and Suzanne from Crosswinds church drop by and see us for a few minutes out of there very busy lives.

That's it for now my friends.  I'll try and finish some of the other nights and post them later on.

Have a Great week!

Rocket City Rejects....First game of 2015

Rocket City Rejects is our team name when we play Challenge Trivia in Chattanooga.  Our host is Marc Michael.  Bryanna isn't feeling well, so we missed seeing her.  The others couldn't make the trip, so it's just Steve and Myself playing on our team.  This blog is going to be different than most of the ones I write.  

  The categories are a nice change to the usual ones we get in HSV.  The questions, food venue and knowing a couple teams here is a lot of fun.  I'm going to give you all a quick run down on the categories.

Government
Geography
Crime
Science
TV
Celebrities
Sports
Military
Languages
Movies
History
Literature
People
Authors
Country
and even a Star Trek / Quantum leap

As you can all tell, it's different, yet a lot like the same game.

By the end of the game,  we were doing okay.  Not the number one team, however we did manage to come in 3rd and only 19 points behind 1st Place.

Finished the night with these guys having a toast and then the drive back to Alabama.

BTW....Marc and Bryanna received the 2014 Trivia Host Awards for all their hard work.  This couple works hard together. If one of them is sick or double booked, they keep it going! That's dedication to the teams and the venues they book.

While I don't always attend their shows (only because of time & distance), I do love seeing them and reading the posts online about how the teams and venues are doing.  I'm hoping soon they open up several places in HSV so that we can play in a non smoking place.  I say several places because I like to switch up locations and foods.  If you guys haven't checked them out, you should.  

Don't forget that Nationals with this company is in Vegas this year!  I can't wait for that trip!

Chattanooga Area Trivia

Well, that's it for me for a bit.  I wish you all a GREAT night and see you soon.

Final Game of 2014

It's the end of the year at last.....well that was really almost a month ago, but pretend with me for a few minutes that we have a time machine.

It's December 30, 2014 at The Boot Pizzeria on South PKWY.  In the corner is Steve, Anthony and myself.  (the rest of the team is MIA)
Paul was hosting.

Round 1:

Miss Piggy's love crush was Kermit the Frog
"Be all you can Be" is an Army Challenge...HOOAH
and Nick Jonas sings Jealous

Round 2:

There is 12oz in a can of soda
Mike Smith was the sports answer...Bet you all wish you knew what the question was huh?
We missed the Flag question, only because we misunderstood the question, thankfully it was only 2 points :)

Round 3:

We scored a perfect 12

It's half time at last!

Order up some more drinks and let's win this thing!!!

It's Movies 2013  for the category

In order:

1. Frozen
2. Iron Man 3
3. Despicable me 2
4. Hobbit
5. Hunger games "catching fire"  

Rapid Round 4:

Theme Parks, TV and

Rapid Round 5:

Travel -  Our answer was really this:  "Topless Beach is all the guys can remember",  they both talked about it and neither could remember the name we needed....but you can't blame them, it was a topless beach.
Sports -  Anaheim ducks
Soft Drinks - Dr. Pepper

At this point, we are in 2nd place and the Final Category is:  Characters

What "Wind in the Willows" character simply hates society?

With all the childrens movies I've seen, I still had no idea.  Since the guys didn't know either, we decided to take a guess and bid 0

For those of you who have never seen or heard of it, here's you a link...a life line we couldn't use: The Badger

In 1st place was:  Little Stallions

We held on to 2nd Place and 

NYPD Blue took 3rd.

Here is another great team that plays at The boot against us:

they have some really good team spirit and sportsmanship.  So I wanted to include them in this last game post of the year.

It's been a lot of fun this year and the team has changed up off and on all year long.  It's Wonderful to have these guys take time out of their lives and come play!

See you all in 2015

December 2014 Final Games

I'm going to roll these all into one post, so it might be a bit long.  In other words, don't try reading this while driving home!

Dec. 9th.  

     We played at Las Trojas on hwy 53.  Players were:  Owen, Nick, Anthony, myself, Jason & his wife Heather.  This is Jason and Heather's first time playing with us.  Glad to have them joining in.
     We started out great, missing 2 of the first 3 questions, yet getting a perfect score in round 2 & round 3.  I'm certain the sports question was only right because of the guys.

As to why there are no question and answers to this night:

     It was the first time that I was told I should take a break and let the guys handle it.  Well maybe not in those words, they were nice about it.  The words were something like..... You don't have to be in control, let go and relax.  While I did enjoy my drink that night, I have no idea what the questions were.  The only one I remember for sure was this one.
     The half time question was to put these movies in order:  

Inception

Harry Potter & the deathly Hallows

Toy Story 3

Alice in Wonderland

Shrek Forever After

     Now good luck to all of you who think you can put those in the correct order.  Was the question from oldest to newest?  In order of US box office hits?  In world wide grossing?
     The game did end with us taking 3rd place,  Bad Idea coming in 2nd and our friends TEAM BACON taking home the 1st place prize!
     Oh and a lot of fun with friends, which is the main reason I play.

Dec. 16th.

     Our team played at The Boot Pizzeria tonight.  We had a good turnout for the game:  Myself, Amanda, Michael, Joanna, DuWayne, Sharon and Bill.

     The questions were fun and I learned that the average beaver takes down 116 trees per year.

This is the answer to the game question:

Best picture Oscar of 2014 went to 12 Years a Slave and if you haven't seen it yet, you should. 

 

I didn't know this creature was in the story "Alice in Wonderland.
click the link to read up on him.

The Mock Turtle

Half time:  Sports
Name the team these guys played on:

1. Blake Griffin
2. Felix Hernandez
3. Sebastian Janikowski
4. Sidney Crosby
5. Bradley Wright Phillips

By the end of half time, we had a total of 34 points and in 2nd place so far.

We gained an additional 28 points in the 2 rapid rounds, yet it was not enough to win us the game. IF only we had bid 20 on the final question.  We knew the answer, yet were not confident enough to bid. Maybe next week.  It was still a lot of fun!

Dec. 23rd

We are back at Las Trojas and our team is:  Steve, Nick, Anthony and myself.    I'll give you all one guess about what the entire game is about?

Round 1 was about Silk hats, Dr. Seuss and The nightmare before Christmas.  Round 2 we only missed the first one and that was because I didn't trust myself enough.  In 1937 the first collectible Christmas stamp was a Rose.
We knew that Jacob Marley was the ghost of Christmas in "A Christmas Carol".
The Poinsettia originated from Mexico
St. Stephens Day is on December 26th
and to end the night, for the final question, we bid 18 and missed it.

The question was:  Where is Christmas Island?


Well Everyone, that's it for catching up tonight.  I have some work that needs to be done before midnight.  I hope you enjoyed this quick summery of a few weeks.  I'll try and do the Final Game of 2014 in the next post.  Have a good night and everyone stay warm.

Welcome to 2015

Hey Everyone,

I know, it's been months since I've took a moment out to do this.  I keep thinking my life is going to settle down some and yet it doesn't.
 I'll try and do a couple of warp drive write ups soon.

See ya