June 27, 2011

Well here it is over a month later and the blog has been neglected.  What happened to my friends posting like I ask?  Really guys, it's not that hard to do.  Ok, I'm going to catch everyone up on the recent events and the fun we have all been having.  Now lets all go back in time to the night of

May 17th:   Nicole played her very last ever High School Band Concert.  She did GREAT and I'm glad I didn't miss out on all the fun our team was having winning 1st Place for us!  Way to go guys!

May 24th:  The guys played at Las Trojas, I don't think we won on this night. 

May 27th:  I know this isn't a normal thing to have in this blog, however, it's important to me...Nicole Graduated and now my job is complete...at least most of it.  I know some of you don't believe like me and it's okay, I love you guys anyways :)

May 30th:  Steve drove up to Arab to see the Henry Cho concert with all of us out here.  Talk about fun, I did miss the Trivia playing.  The concert was for a good cause, it went to benefit the Tornado Relief in this area.  Take a look into one of his shows: http://youtu.be/U7_3xxQXgFs

June 6th:  Made it back to Trivia at Las Trojas.  It's me, Steve, Mike & Owen.  We got all the half time question right and named the 5 Zoo's, however it wasn't enough to bring in the Win.  So tonight's winners were:  3rd place: "In 1st Place" with 70 something points and yes, that's their team name! 
2nd Place: Orange Poke-a-dots with 88 points.  And 1st place went to a new team tonight:  Baby Monkey's with 90 points. 

June 14th:  It's our famous 4 playing again.  We started out with a perfect score and by half time we were in the running.  In all my notes, the only thing that really stands out is the "flash point" which was really "Fire Point" I think.  No matter, we missed it.  So it was a little set back.  We hung in there and kept going to pull off a 1st Place win!!!  Followed closely by "Baby Monkey" and "Insert Name Here".  So there you have it, another win for the team!

June 20th:  We all decided to head over to the Smoke House at Bridge Street to give it a try over there.  Tonight was again our 4 main team members.  Lisa and Barbra were our Hosts and a fine team they are!  We started off strong and held the momentum with one question after another!  10 teams are playing for only 3 prizes and it's going well.  We made it all the way to the final Question on Islands and we bet the top 20 points, giving us the Grand Total of 97 points for what we thought would surely be the win....It's a Tie!  So now we gear up our brains while Mike & Owen run numbers and we all toss them back and forth to come up with our answer for this question:  How many glasses of Milk does 1 cow produce in a life time?

BTW, the other team we were competing with is "Paradox", pictured here. 

I'm going to have to come back to that story soon.  It's time to move on to the next week now :) 

Only kidding, here is the fact answer:  The average dairy cow produces 22.5 quarts (60lbs) or 90 glasses of milk a day, 1,500 gallons or 16,000 glasses of milk a year, and 18,750 gallons or 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.  Our guess was a bit off, but we were the closest team to it, so we Won!
With all the stress related to having to really work to win, I missed who took 3rd place!  I know that we won 1st Place and that made my night almost as bright as the sun that was blinding me at the beginning of the game!

Now where was I?  I started reliving the moment and got all hyped up.  Oh yes, I was up to the very next night.  Plan A was that I would be working, that didn't pan out right, so we ended up going to Las Trojas for Trivia...How dare we!

June 21st:  Our team tonight is, Steve, myself, Amanda, Ethan & Jessica (pictured above).  This is the first time that Ethan or his mom have joined us.  We started off doing pretty good, mostly we spent a lot of time talking with each other and getting to know the 2 new peeps on the team.  After that, we tanked the Rapid round 5 and feel out of the winnings.  It was ok, after all, we have to share so the other teams keep coming back to play :)

The winning teams were:  3rd: "Doesn't matter to me"  2nd: Bad Idea and 1st Place went to: "Baby Monkey".  We are starting to see a lot of this new team.  Might be time to introduce ourselves and get to know them.

June 27th:  I'm almost embarrassed to even right that I killed the team by being so sure of the first answer and risking the max!  I was WRONG and lesson learned!  It was great to have Kate back with us tonight.

We played on trying to recover from the hole I put in the boat, however, it was just not happening for us tonight.  I was so far off my game tonight that I don't even know who won 1st place!  I know the "Pacers" were in the running and "Slow Motion".  I want to say that "Amber Sand" was the top winners, but don't hold me to it!  We ended the game with this question on Anatomy, "what is the Glabella"  Go ahead, look it up, trivia is over any ways! 
Great to see Stephine back with us again tonight.  Looking good girl :) Take that trip, those kids will be fine!

Until next time....

May 10, 2011

Last week we didn't have any trivia at Las Trojas.  Due to all the damage from the many tornado's and the power outage all week.  I have thought about posting some of the pictures, however it just doesn't seem like something I want to add on here.  Most of us have viewed the damage enough.  If you ever want to see it, just go on YouTube and search "Alabama tornado 2011"  There are tons of them on there.  Warning:  some of them are stressful, so don't say I didn't warn you!

Now on to this weeks trivia.  Tonight it was only the famous 4 of us playing and taking on the other teams.  There was Owen, Mike, Steve and myself.  We were all there and seated by roughly 6:45pm.  We saw the speakers all set up and then noticed that our friends who host the game were not around.  So we waited a while and decided about 7:15 that trivia must be off for the night.  Owen had a back up game of Trivia cards in his car which he went out and brought in for us to play.  By the time we had our drinks and placed our food order, we were ready to play.  Steve suggested that we hijack the mic and play our own version of Live trivia.  In looking back I can see how much fun that would have been talking about that night forever.  Don't worry, we didn't try it, mostly because the rest of us didn't have as good a drink as Steve had :-)   I'm thinking now that we should have done it anyways.  Maybe next time I will be brave enough to back up the idea.  So Steve, don't give up on the rest of us for being a little chicken to jump in on the idea. 
Well about 7:30ish, the trivia music began to play and we all were surprised that we were going to have a host after all and it was GAME ON!  So we put aside our trivia card game and were ready to rock and roll. 

We started out missing every one of the 2 point questions in the first 3 rounds, but if you have to miss one, that's it!  At the half time we were in the lead with 36 points.  Rapid round 4 didn't go as well as we hoped it would with us only gaining 10 points of the 18 possible.  So we had to try harder in the last round.  We did good and it was time for the Final question of the night.  OH wait, it was good until we hear that we somehow dropped to 5th place and the score doesn't match what we have...this will never do.  We all quickly go over the sheet again and then again....Nope, it's got to be a mistake, so as I had in the answer to the final question, I ask the hosts to help me sort it all out.  Much to our happy smiles, we are back in the lead with 61 points.  Now we wait to see if we get to hold the title of 1st place again this week....The final Question of the night was one that the guys knew without a doubt and we bet the max.  Bringing our score to a grand total of 81 points and the winning championship victory again this week!

I'm sorry to say that with all the celebrating, I missed the final score for 2nd place and the teams name, so if anyone remembers, post it for us in the comments please. 
3rd place went to a team from Boeing...The Water Buffalo's
Our new Host Mike brought us the winnings and I gladly accepted for a chance with a picture for our blog.  Yeah, I know, I'm a nut, but what did you really expect?

For our friends who are working tonight.... WE miss you guys!!!!!!!!!!  Now next week, I have a band concert to attend for my oldest, so some of you have to take notes and do the blog for us all.....don't let me down guys. 

PS...Don't forget to vote before tomorrow on the blogs trivia question.  Now I'm off here to shower and head down to the AL Spy Shop and hang out with Brett & Tim...stop by and see me....PLEASE

Answer to the last poll that was posted:

At long last, the correct answer to the trivia poll that has been on the blog since I think March.

The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in which year?

The answer is:  The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886. 

Information courtsy of:  http://www.50states.com/

I will try and update this a little better in the future.  I think some of the team members are going to  have to learn to blog some! 

Ending April Trivia, see you in May

April 19th: 

We started off doing alright tonight, even if I didn't know that the lowest prime number is 2....I thought 1 went into everything!  Oh well.  On tonights team is:  Drew, Mackenzie, Owen, Mike, Steve and myself.

The team "Regular Girls" was holding a perfect score all the way up to the Rapid Rounds, some where in there, they lost out. 

For some reason, I don't know how many teams were playing  tonight. However I do know we were all enjoying the compitition of some friendly teams. Our team was holding on all the way to Rapid round number 5 when the following happened:

Since the rules are "Wheither I'm wrong or right, I'm always right" for the Host of trivia, we lost one of the questions on Deserts that could have put us in a tie for 3rd place.  However in the defence of the Host, he was going by a printout.  Speaking of Hosts, As I understand it, our host tonight was the Owner of http://www.brainblasttrivia.com/.  So  there you have it folks...He does work. (He is the only guy in the picture) sorry, didn't get one of just him.

 We will be back again next week to win some more Las Trojas certificates.

Oh, the winning teams tonight were: 

3rd Place:    Mombo #5

2nd Place:    Bad Idea

1st Place:  Unknowns 

It was real close on tonights game, with the 1st place team only 2 points in the lead.  Congrats to all the teams.  See you next week!

April 26th:



We have the same team members as last week tonight...so we are all geared up and ready to win!

Tonight for the first time EVER we scored a perfect 10 on the half time question!!!!  We could name all 6 of the places in the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ChADh1zt5I ....Great song by the way.  (yes, you have to click the link to know the song and who it's by :)

We have 13 teams playing tonight and our Hosts are the wonderful Lisa and Barbra who have been doing this for a while now. 

Tug of war is one of the oldest games of team strength still played at school field days.  I've always been a BIG fan of this game.  Mostly because it requires everyone on the team to put all their efforts in to win.

To my surprise the guys all knew this one: 

The Simpsons has been dropped from morning TV in Venezuela after being deemed unsuitable for children - and has been replaced by Baywatch.  LIKE I want my children watching baywatch...NOT.

Sorry, personal view expressed on that one ;)  as if this whole blog doesn't have personal view all over it...LOL.

Now, back to the real reason you are reading this....TRIVIA

the Final Question in tonights game was to name the 5 Beaches on the D-Day Invasion from West to East:

The correct answer is: Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Gold Beach, Sword Beach, and Juno Beach

And you know we took 1st Place tonight....oh yeah!

Tonights winning teams were:

3rd place:  Baby Monkey with 90 points

2nd place:  Hot & Spicy with 92 points

1st place: yours truely....ROMERO'S REJECTS!!!! with 93 points

Yeah, I know it was only by 1 point, but thats all it takes, right?  See you all next time...MUAH

7 weeks of Recaps, Oh no I didn't wait this long to do this....oooopppsss

Well I best get started so that I can get on my to do list for today also. 

First let me start by saying that I have NO excuse for not blogging.  I got my PI license in March and opened DragonFly Investigations.  Enrolled in Dective Training school.  Started volunteering at the Al Spy Shop in Madison to learn equipment and PI work from Bret and Tim.  Still doing my Arbonne route and working for The Poolman.  So forgive me if I don't always get my blogs done :)

March 1st:  Tonight we all got to meet Nick's mom Reny.  I sure hope I spelled her name correct.  She was really nice and I wish I had gotten a picture!  I can't believe that I didn't, yet somehow I'm sure it's going to be okay.  Patrick saved our team by getting us the first time ever 10 points on the Half Time Sport question!!!  There were 18 teams playing, not sure how many by the end of the game.  I know a couple teams left before it was over.  Not that I mind, it gave us all a better chance.  The trivia question for tonight is:  What is the Last Shot of the Day called?  OK, everyone can put your comments in for the answer. 


March 8th:  Tonights compitation was 14 teams playing with many of those being teams of 6 or more.  I think I did see a table or 2 with about 3 or 4 players.  It's hard to keep track sometimes of all the teams.  Tonights winners were 3 teams that I don't recall ever seeing play here.  It could be that they play on a different night, sometime we switch up too.  The one thing I can recall very well is wishing I knew the answer to What is a vexillologist?   Well for those of you who don't know, It's the study and collection of information about FLAGS.  With that, I'm moving on to next weeks trivia.

March 15th:  Tonight the only ones that showed up for Trivia was myself and Steve...what happened to our crew...oh yeah, Mike was enjoying some much needed time with his Mom.  Kate got herself a new job...congrats, can't remember why Owen was withholding his knowledge and I wasn't sure I could make it until the last minute.  Infact,  I remember Lisa (the trivia lady) saying how she thought we were going to be a no show.  I can tell you from my notes that we scored a 0 in rapid round 4 and turned around and kicked butt in round 5.  All that looks like a good thing, but when you look at us betting it all on the Final question and getting it wrong, we didn't do so hot...but we sure had fun playing.  The winning teams tonight were:
ATO in 1st place
Adonas DNA in a close 2nd
Tez pulled a 3rd place win over the Assassins
So take note of this one...the next time someone ask you a question about Chewing gum, crayons & Beer....listen to the men/man in the group!

OH and one more cool thing, the team across from us got called down for cheating with cell phones.  We didn't bother to "tattle",  all it took was a 2nd Margaretta and Steve spoke up.  I think what I enjoyed most was the drunk guy at there table that couldn't shut up about how they won 1st place once and were all using their phones!  So after our little busting, they finished their food and left the building.  Leaving room for some honest trivia players.  THANKS STEVE!

March 22nd:  Shannon became our newest Reject tonight. 

It's about time Owen decided to bring us some help. We started off strong without missing a question thru the first 3 rounds.  Then they hit us with the Half Time question of March Madness....we are NOT sports people...at least not basketball anyways.  Oh well, we hung in there with the Rapid Rounds and beat 13 other teams out of the running.  Now with all that said, we didn't win tongiht, as there were 18 teams playing, you get to do your own math on this one.  Have fun while I finish writing...LOL



March 29th:  Tonights team was:  Myself, Steve, Mike, Kate, Nick, Owen, Shannon. 

We took 2nd place in a heated battle for 1st.  We were only 2 points behind "Debra's Team".  It was that darn question of Names that kept us from the top.  We sure had fun and they kept the sports questions down a little tonight. I think if it's sports, it should be BAMA football....yeah, I said it!

April 5th:  Tonight was an event for Amanda and her new school for the fall.  She was so excited going to pick up all the information and then came home and went right to bed in tears.  When I went in to talk with her, it turns out she thought she had to plan the next 4 years of her life all in a weeks time.  After our talk, she was calm enough to get some rest. 

April 12th:  Tonight was a bit of excitement as the Team Dynamic Duo was caught cheating and BUSTED...Nicely I might add.  It's one thing to play, but another entirely to cheat to win.  There are several teams that play weekly like us (Bad Idea, The Unknowns, The A team)  I'm sure there are some more teams that I can't remember at the moment.  However, we all like a good and fair game of trivia.  I hope this was a lesson to any other teams out there cheating.  Now on to the fun stuff of the night.

We all got to meet our newest member of the Romero's Rejects team....Drew.  He did good helping out and we look forward to having him back again tonight.

Our team members present tonight were: Myself, Steve, Mike, Owen, Shannon, Kenzie, Drew.

To all our surprise, the winner in tonights game was "Bomb Shells"  They weren't even in the top 6 teams and out of the night sky they took over with the final trivia answer. 

We did get to meet a new team tonight, they took 3rd place with 67 points as "ChipCrane".  We expect to see them back again also.

Update on the Scale Back Alabama Romero's Rejects team....Donnie did GREAT by losing 15 pounds!  Our team didn't win the challenge, however, the weight lost was good.  I'm still planning to lose some more over the next month or so.  After all, I can't wear a string bikini with this current womans body.... wonder where I can get a younger modle to try out for the summer months ;-) 

Well that is farewell until I see you all tonight....BTW,  tonight we must all decide a good PARTY date to spend our winnings.  And that means winning 1st place tonight!  See you in a few hours, I'm on my way to the cool Al Spy Shop  in Madison.  Drop by and say HI