Thursday Game Recaps

The story of the night was certainly the surprise November snowstorm that rolled through Maryland on Thursday, wreaking havoc with our nightly schedule.  In spite of the miserable weather, we found 32 teams who braved the storm (as well as six other teams at our Florida venue) for Thursday’s game:

FIRST ROUND:

Appropriately (but completely coincidentally), we included a question in Thursday’s first round about this weather-related action film:

We also looked at Cap’n Crunch and the bones of the human forearm before closing the round with the most difficult bonus question of the first half.  For wagering points, we asked our teams to identify the name that can refer to an Australian state, the capital city of British Columbia, or the largest lake in Africa, with nearly every team responding correctly with ‘Victoria’.  Only two teams tacked on two bonus points by also knowing that Victoria is the name of the capital city on the islands of the Seychelles.  As a result, the first round did not yield any perfect scores.

SECOND ROUND:

Thursday’s second round opened with music from the films “Mamma Mia”, “Grease”, and “Hairspray”.  We continued with a discussion of the recent spelling correction implemented upon this New York City landmark:

After a look at the hits of Imagine Dragons, we once again closed with a rather difficult bonus question.  While most teams knew that Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss spent the first seven years of NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings, only four teams also knew that he came out of retirement in 2012 to play his final season in the league with the San Francisco 49ers.  Once again, we did not see any perfect scores in the second round.

HALFTIME:

Films of the 1990s were the featured topic on Thursday’s halftime page, which yielded four perfect scores and an overall average of 15.6 points.  Here is your halftime leaderboard on this snowy Thursday night:

• Fan Club (Grille at Flower Hill):  85
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  84
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  83
• Hell’s Angels (Right Around the Corner):  83
• FOUR TEAMS TIED WITH 81 POINTS

THIRD ROUND:

The first question of the third round featured nearly two-thirds of our teams wagering nine points, but only about HALF of those teams actually turned in the correct answer.  That diabolical question:

–> This U.S. city opened the country’s first Jewish hospital in 1850 and the first professional fire department in 1853.  In addition, this city’s Red Stockings became the world’s first professional baseball team in 1869.

Numerous teams coughed up nine points here by answering ‘Boston’, which is certainly a plausible guess, but the correct response was actually Cincinnati (whose baseball team shortened its name to ‘Reds’ in 1890).  However, we stumped every team on the two-point bonus question, asking for Cincinnati’s 19th century nickname which was derived from its position as the country’s lead hog-packing center.  None of our teams responded correctly with “Porkopolis”.  Our teams bounced back nicely on questions concerning the Copacabana nightclub and these movie dogs:

Thanks to the first bonus question of the round, none of our teams ran the table in the third stanza.

FOURTH ROUND:

We began Thursday’s final round with this piece of inadvertent comedy gold:

While virtually every team remembered this catchphrase (located at 28 seconds in the clip), none of our Thursday teams earned bonus points by also remembering that the elderly woman who spoke the line was given the name ‘Mrs. Fletcher’.  We continued the final round with a look at Mount Everest, Rosa Parks, and Reebok sneakers.  While several teams topped out at 34 points in the fourth round, the first bonus question kept the perfect scores off the board.  Here is Thursday’s overall leaderboard heading into the final question:

• Fan Club (Grille at Flower Hill):  157
• We’re Waiting On One More Team (Fish Market):  152
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  151
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  151
• Fatty’s (Art’s Tavern):  149

THURSDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (62.5% success rate):

–> Although the title subject’s identity has long been a matter of speculation, the writer of which song revealed more than 40 years after its release that the subject of the second verse, and only the second verse, was actor Warren Beatty?

The correct response to Thursday’s final question was “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon.  Thursday’s game certainly offered up a slew of wicked bonus questions, but even with the smaller field, five teams managed to record a Perfect 21 by answering all wagering questions correctly.  These were your highest scoring teams at the close of Thursday’s game:

• We’re Waiting On One More Team (Fish Market):  164
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  163
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  163
• Fatty’s (Art’s Tavern):  161
• Fan Club (Grille at Flower Hill):  157
• Periodic Table Dancers (Grille at Flower Hill):  157
• We Just Blue Ourselves (Fish Market):  152
• Titanic Deck Chairs (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s):  151
• FOUR TEAMS TIED WITH 148 POINTS

ALL THURSDAY VENUES ARE OFF FOR THANKSGIVING AND WILL RETURN NOV. 29

 

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg, MD:  Periodic Table Dancers  (Next week’s first category: U.S. National Parks)

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  NO GAME  (Next week’s first category: “The Princess Bride”)

Dawg House in Waynesboro, PA:  NO GAME  (Next week’s first category: World War I Homefront)

Thursday night’s game of Pour House Trivia welcomed 117 teams across 15 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Opening round topics from Thursday night included the upcoming “Mary Poppins” film, former student-athletes from the University of North Carolina, and this scavenger:

Thirteen teams ran the table in the first round with 36 points.

SECOND ROUND:

Musical acts with ‘edible’ names highlighted Thursday’s audio question as we listened to songs from Korn, Bread, and Meat Loaf.  We opened up the biology textbook on a question concerning lichen before opening up a pair of Jules Verne novels.  Next, we snacked on this sweet treat promoted by tennis champ Roger Federer:

After closing the first half with a question regarding Greek mythology, we saw nine teams earn a perfect second round score.

HALFTIME:

“Invisible” film scenes and Nobel Prize winners were the featured topics on Thursday’s halftime round.  Slightly more difficult than normal, this halftime page yielded seven perfect scores and an overall average of 14.8 points.  These were your ighest scoring teams at Thursday’s halftime break:

• Low Cal Calzone (Olde Mother):  92
• Hundo P (Olde Mother):  90
• Four Horsemen (Art’s Tavern):  90
• SEVEN TEAMS TIED WITH 88 POINTS

THIRD ROUND:

We opened Thursday’s third round with the topics of World War I and Kawasaki motorcylces, before stumping most of the field with this question in the category of shared titles:

–> The debut album from the music group One Direction shares its three-word title with which short-lived NBC sitcom starring Will Arnett and Christina Applegate?

I’m not sure why the text on this album cover is so small…

If you can’t read it (which I am sure is true for most of you), the title is “Up All Night”.  Only 13% of our teams earned points on this question.  After a look at the historical works of Shakespeare, we closed the third round with a Triple 50/50 question, asking our teams to name the older sibling in each of these pairs: Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, Kylie and Kendall Jenner, Chris and Luke Hemsworth.  Our teams fared well here (with the correct answers of Maggie, Kendall, and Liam), but the One Direction question kept the perfect scores completely off the board in the third round.

FOURTH ROUND:

After a “Run for the Roses:” in the 6-4-2 question, we discussed final round topics such as keratin, the opera “Nixon in China”, and the U.S. Bankruptcy code:

–> While Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code allows businesses to reorganize while maintaining operations, which other Chapter is actually more common, as it details the process for the liquidation of a company?

Only 31% of the field responded correctly with Chapter 7.  Later, we offered up the most difficult bonus question of the night on a question regarding this film character:

Only seven teams earned the final two bonus points of the evening, as they knew that Daisy was the name of John Wick’s dog.  As a result, Syn Storm (Champion Billiards) posted the only perfect score of the final round.  These were your highest scoring Thursday teams heading into the final question:

• J. T. Snow School of Babysitting (Fish Market):  158
• Four Horsemen (Art’s Tavern):  158
• Lowered Expectations (Quincy’s):  156
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  156
• North Country (Quincy’s):  155

THURSDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (21.3% success rate):

–> Among the six official languages of the United Nations, which one has the fewest native speakers worldwide?

The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.  For some of the teams that knew the languages on this list, coming up with the correct answer boiled down to a coin flip between France and Russia.  In the end, just over one-in-five teams overall picked up points on the last question with the correct answer of French.  Unfortunately, none of our teams earned Perfect 21 honors on Thursday, as every team missed at least one wagering question.  Here is your final Thursday leaderboard:

• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  168
• Four Horsemen (Art’s Tavern):  163
• Detroit Smash (Olde Mother):  158
• Don’t Stop Believing (The Grille at Flower Hill):  152
• Hundo P (Olde Mother):  151
• 50 Shades of Grey Matter (Dawg House): 151
• J. T. Snow School of Babysitting (Fish Market):  150
• Your Mom (Bunker Sports Cafe):  148
• Washington Foreskins (Bunker Sports Cafe):  147
• Final Frontier (Black Walnut):  146

An honorable mention goes out to They’re Real and They’re Spectacular (Belly Love), who posted 153 points on the night while playing ‘over the limit’.

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg, MD:  Don’t Stop Believing  (Next week’s first category: Serial Killers)

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  Final Frontier  (Next week’s first category: “The Princess Bride”)

Dawg House in Waynesboro, PA:  50 Shades of Grey Matter  (Next week’s first category: World War I Homefront)

We opened the month of November with 117 teams playing Pour House Trivia across 15 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Thursday’s opening round topics included Scrooge McDuck, the dwarf planet Pluto, and this current comic book film:

Only 13% of our teams tacked on the final bonus points of the first round by knowing that Michelle Williams portrays the role of Anne in the film “Venom”.  That was the only sticking point for most of the field, as nine teams ran the table with 36 points in the opening stanza.

SECOND ROUND:

Thursday’s audio question featured clips from three “Long” songs: “Long Train Runnin’” by the Doobie Brothers, “A Long December” by Counting Crows, and “How Long” by Charlie Puth.  Falling on the more difficult side, only seven teams picked up bonus points by knowing the titles of all three songs.  Later, we asked about the mathematical constant ‘e’ (~2.718) and the recent achievements of this future Hall of Fame quarterback:

Only two teams swept the second round: Washington Foreskins (Bunker Sports Cafe) and We Are Groot (Dawg House).

HALFTIME:

Halftime went to the dogs on Thursday night, as our teams were asked to recognize ten dog breeds with two-word names.  This page yielded nine perfect scores and an overall average of 17.1 points.  Here is Thursday’s halftime leaderboard:

• We Are Groot (Dawg House):  92
• Fan Club (Quincy’s):  89
• 99th Precinct (​Smoketown Brewing):  89
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  89
• Not Your Team (Dawg House):  89

THIRD ROUND:

We threw it back to the 1980s to begin Thursday’s second half, as we asked our teams to “Rock This Town” and strut like the Stray Cats.  The third round also included the most difficult wagering question of the night, albeit in the seemingly innocuous category of advertising mascots.  Only 21% of our teams could name any two of the three brands represented by these characters:

That’s Sonny the Cuckoo (for Cocoa Puffs), Birdie the Early Bird (for McDonald’s), and Tux the Penguin (for Linux).  Only five teams across the board earned bonus points with three correct answers.  We closed the third round with two more difficult questions on the respective topics of nursery rhyme characters and NHL franchise relocations.  As a result, the only team to notch a perfect third round score was We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern).

FOURTH ROUND:

After a malicious third round, the game eased up a bit on our teams as we began the final round with a three-part question on film titles which contain nationalities: “The English Patient”, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, and “The Mexican”.  We continued with a question regarding this mythological creature:

After strolling down the Champs-Elysees to Place Charles de Gaulle, we saw six teams earn a perfect final round score.  Here are your highest scoring Thursday teams heading into the final question:

• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  159
• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  158
• 99th Precinct (​Smoketown Brewing):  158
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  156
• Blood Legion (Grille at Flower Hill):  156

FINAL QUESTION  (19.2% success rate):

–> On November 19, 1950, the Chicago Historical Society celebrated a notable anniversary by displaying all five of the original copies of what document?

Just under one-fifth of our teams earned points on the final question with the correct response of the Gettysburg Address.  The date of November 19, 1950, marked exactly four score and seven years since the speech was delivered.  None of our teams earned the Perfect 21 tonight.  Here is your final Thursday leaderboard:

• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  171
• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  170
• Fan Club (Quincy’s):  166
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  163
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  155
• 50 Shades of Grey Matter (Dawg House):  155
• Final Frontier (Right Around the Corner):  154
• Cranius Maximus (Bunker Sports Cafe):  153
• Just Good Enough (Champion Billiards):  153
• Blood Legion (Grille at Flower Hill):  153

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg, MD:  Blood Legion  (Next week’s first category: U.S. Presidents)

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  Final Frontier  (Next week’s first category: “Dawson’s Creek”)

Dawg House in Waynesboro, PA:  50 Shades of Grey Matter  (Next week’s first category: Historic Facial Hair)

Thursday night’s game of Pour House Trivia welcomed 109 teams across 15 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Thursday’s opening round featured a visit to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store.  We also touched on the topics of “Moby-Dick” and the post-Olympic endeavors of this athlete:

After one round of play, 15 teams busted out of the starting blocks with 36 points.

SECOND ROUND:

Movie music highlighted Thursday’s audio question as we asked our teams to identify the voices of three musical acts covering some iconic Disney tunes.  In what was by far the most difficult question of the first half, only 39% of our teams earned wagering points with any two of the three correct responses of The Jackson Five, Ariana Grande, and Pentatonix.  Furthermore, only five teams across the board earned bonus points with three correct answers.  Later, we looked at the parts of the human lung, the most populous cities in Ohio, and this 1980s film:

We closed the half with another difficult bonus question, asking our teams to identify either the 2001 musical which won a record 12 Tony Awards or the 2016 musical which earned a record 16 Tony nominations.  Virtually every team picked up wagering points with the latter answer of “Hamilton”, but once again only five teams tacked on two bonus points with the second correct answer of “The Producers”.  As a result of these two bonus questions, we did not see any of our teams notch a perfect score in the second stanza.

HALFTIME:

Thursday’s halftime page featured Sports Illustrated covers and international authors.  Overall, this page yielded 12 perfect scores and an average of 15.9 points.  Here is Thursday’s leaderboard at the halftime break:

• Our Cup Size is Stanley (Guido’s):  90
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  88
• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  87
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  87
• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing):  87

THIRD ROUND:

Third round topics from Thursday’s game included the naval rank Commodore, India’s Mughal Empire, and this film which derives its title from a poetic quotation:

After quizzing our teams on the origins of the Auguste Rodin sculpture “The Thinker”, the final question of the round gave us its most difficult bonus question:

–> Selling more than just outerwear, which clothing retailer uses a heart in place of the letter ‘B’ in its logo?

2-POINT BONUS: This company took its name from the city of its founding in which U.S. state?

Though this retailer dropped the words “Coat Factory” form its official name, it still uses this logo:

You might be familiar with Burlington, Vermont or Burlington, North Carolina, but the Burlington in this name is a reference to the city (and county) located in central new Jersey.  With just six teams coming away with bonus points, the third round did not yield any perfect scores.

6-4-2 QUESTION:

Thursday’s 6-4-2 question led to a rather interesting turn of events after the first clue:

–> In 1957, which American completed the first supersonic transcontinental flight, flying from California to New York in three hours and 23 minutes?

More than half of our teams showed some impatience after this six-point clue was read, jumping the gun with the incorrect answer of Chuck Yeager.  While Yeager did indeed first break the sound barrier (ten years prior), the answer to this question was John Glenn.  Only four teams picked up the full six points here.

FOURTH ROUND:

Thursday’s final round included questions concerning the Philadelphia 76ers, celebrity mother-daughter duos, the hurricane cocktail, and this creepy character from the “Goosebumps” media franchise:

Seven teams earned the final two bonus points of the night by remembering this character’s name: Slappy.  Once again, the final round did not yield any perfect scores.  These were your highest scoring Thursday teams heading into the final question:

• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing):  159
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  156
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  156
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  154
• Low Cal Calzone (Olde Mother Brewing):  153

THURSDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (76.9% success rate):

–> This eight-letter word was coined as a brand name by gym owners Greg Glassman and Lauren Jenai in 2000.  Today, it is also used as a genericized trademark and the name a competitive event.

Falling on the easier side, more than three-quarters of the field answered correctly with CrossFit.  Congratulations to the three teams that earned the Perfect 21 on Thursday by failing to miss a wagering question: Lowered Expectations (Quincy’s), Low Cal Calzone (Olde Mother Brewing), and Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing).  Here is your final overall leaderboard:

• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing):  171
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  168
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  168
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  166
• We Like Beer (​Smoketown Brewing):  164
• Cranius Maximus (Bunker Sports Cafe):  164
• Your Mom (Bunker Sports Cafe):  163
• Punslingers (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s):  163
• Titanic Deck Chairs (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s):  162
• Washington Foreskins (Bunker Sports Cafe):  161
• Not Your Team (Dawg House):  161

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg, MD:  Blood Legion  (Next week’s first category: New Orleans Landmarks)

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  Final Frontier  (Next week’s first category: Small Arms of World War I)

Dawg House in Waynesboro, PA:  Not Your Team  (Next week’s first category: Vikings)

Thursday night’s game of Pour House Trivia welcomed 116 teams across 16 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Thursday’s opening round topics included the (former and present) capital of Brazil, Lean Cuisine meals, and this controversial comedy show:

The most difficult wagering and bonus question of the first round was asked in the category of Name That Year.  We gave our teams a six-year range to give us the year in which all three of these events occurred:

EVENT 1: Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal.

EVENT 2: Ernest Hemingway publishes his novel “A Farewell to Arms”.

EVENT 3: The first Academy Awards are held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Just over half our teams landed within the given range of the year 1929, while only 10% of the field added bonus points with the exact correct answer.  As a result, only five teams earned a perfect first round score to begin Thursday’s game.

SECOND ROUND:

We listened to some “BIG” music groups in Thursday’s audio question: Big Country (“In a Big Country”), Big Audio Dynamite (“Rush”), and the country duo Big & Rich (“Comin’ to Your City”).  Most teams earned their eager with at least two correct answers, while 23% of the field tacked on two bonus points by recognizing all three groups.  Later, we discussed this monumental film flop:

After closing with questions regarding primates and the Montreal Expos, we saw just two teams run the table in the second stanza: Ace of Spades (Quincy’s) and Not Your Team (Dawg House).

HALFTIME:

Colorful music groups and foreign landmarks were the focus of Thursday’s halftime page.  Falling a bit on the easier side, we saw exactly one-quarter of our teams notch perfect scores, while the overall average score came in at 18.1 points.  Here is Thursday’s halftime leaderboard:

• Fan Club (Quincy’s):  90
• PC Principals (Fish Market):  90
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  88
• Unathletico Madrid (Guido’s):  88
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  87
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  87

THIRD PLACE:

We began Thursday’s second half with a Three Clues question regarding the apple, before moving into topics such as the French and Indian War and the novel “Catch-22”.  We closed the third round with a question regarding this classic TV comedy:

Only two teams swept the third round with a perfect score: 50 Shades of Grey Matter (Dawg House) and Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market).

FOURTH ROUND:

We played a little Battleship to begin the final round, before asking about some of the classic rock songs which were featured in this film:

Questions concerning the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and international borders concluded the fourth round, which yielded seven perfect scores.  Here are your highest scoring Thursday teams after four rounds of play:

• PC Principals (Fish Market):  164
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  164
• Fan Club (Quincy’s):  161
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  161
• We Are Not Going to Be Suck This Year (Art’s Tavern):  159

THURSDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (68.1% success rate):

–> Born in 1829 in what is now New Mexico, which historic figure is thought to have received his common name from Mexican victims of his attacks who were supposedly screaming out to Saint Jerome for help?

Just over two-thirds of our teams responded correctly with the Native American chief Geronimo.  Six teams earned the Perfect 21 tonight with correct answers on all wagering questions.  Here is your final Thursday leaderboard:

• PC Principals (Fish Market):  176
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  176
• Tantric Yogurt (Quincy’s):  173
• Fan Club (Quincy’s):  173
• Lowered Expectations (Quincy’s):  167
• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing Station):  166
• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  165
• Unathletico Madrid (Guido’s):  165
• Not Your Team (Dawg House):  165
• 99th Precinct (​Smoketown Brewing Station):  165

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg, MD:  Blood Legion  (Next week’s first category: Horse Racing Triple Crown Winners)

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  Final Frontier  (Next week’s first category: Human Anatomy)

Dawg House in Waynesboro, PA:  Not Your Team  (Next week’s first category: “Waking Ned Devine”)