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Skiing is Believing at Weekend Trivia!

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As we crossed into the final month of 2018, we welcomed 32 teams across three weekend venues:

FIRST HALF:

Opening round topics from last weekend included the zodiac sign Taurus, the film “Space Jam”, and the Danube River.  All of our weekend teams dealt with a wicked first round bonus question.  Only one of our Friday teams could name all three of the films for which Tom Hanks was nominated for an Oscar but did NOT win: “Big”, “Saving Private Ryan”, and “Cast Away”.  Meanwhile, most of our Saturday teams could not remember that Kim Campbell was the only woman to server as Prime Minister of Canada.  Our weekend audio questions dealt with TV sitcoms and music groups named for geographic locations.  We closed Friday’s first half with a look at this celebrity couple:

Mia Hamm Nomar

The only perfect score of the first half was posted by Demented and Sad But Social (Belles’), who posted 36 points in Saturday’s second round.

HALFTIME:

While both of our weekend halftime pages played rather difficultly, Friday’s matching section proved to be particularly diabolical, as it featured songs which contain the word “Doctor” in the title.  Our average score reached 12.7 points on Friday, while our Saturday teams performed slightly better with an average of 14.5 points.  Neither page yielded a perfect score.  These were your highest scoring weekend teams at the halftime break:

SECOND HALF:

The most difficult bonus question of the weekend kicked off Saturday’s second half, as only one of our 18 teams knew that “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was originally conceived as a poem written by Johann von Goethe.  Meanwhile, our Friday teams struggled to pin the year of Marco Polo’s birth.  Even with a 30-year window either way, only one team tacked on those two bonus points by landing within the range of 1254.  Other second half topics included Claude Monet, the Stephen King novel “The Tommyknockers”, and these morning TV co-hosts:

Today Show Hoda Kathie Lee

None of our weekend teams recorded a perfect score in either of the final two rounds.  Here is your pre-final leaderboard from last weekend:

FRIDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (40.0% success rate):

–> What is the world’s longest river that has no bridges across it?

SATURDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (11.1% success rate):

–> Name any two of the four African countries which are home to ski resorts.

While two-in-five teams earned points on Friday’s final question with the correct answer of the Amazon River, only two of our 18 Saturday teams could replicate the feat, giving us any two of these four countries: Algeria, Morocco, Lesotho, and South Africa.  As a result, none of our weekend teams recorded the Perfect 21.  Here is your final weekend leaderboard:

LAST WEEKEND’S WINNERS:

Springfield Manor Winery in Thurmont, MD:  Lucky Shamrocks  (Next week’s first category: Battle of Monocacy)

Vanish Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  NO GAME THIS WEEK  (Next week’s first category: Latin Grammar)

Whole Foods Market in Ashburn, VA:  NO GAME THIS WEEK  (NEXT GAME ON DEC. 14 – First category: Roller Coasters)

Belles’ Sports Bar in Frederick, MD:  Uncle Jack  (Next week’s first category: Attack of Pearl Harbor)

Pretzel & Pizza Creations in Hagerstown, MD:  Cultured Heathens  (Next week’s first category: Queen – AUDIO)

A Thursday Night Trivia Traffic Jam!

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Thanks to a surprise November snowstorm and the Thanksgiving holiday, some of our Thursday teams had not played Pour House Trivia in three weeks!  We were back with a full Thursday schedule last night, as we welcomed 124 teams across 15 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Opening round topics from Thursday night included fast food menu items, U.S. cities with “Fort” in their name, and this musically inclined cartoon character:

Lisa Simpson

Twelve teams opened Thursday night’s game with a perfect first round score.

SECOND ROUND:

Thursday’s audio question featured the film work of Canadian actress Ellen Page, as we listened to clips from “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, “Juno”, and “Inception”.  We then put on our Fez hat to answer questions concerning the song “Stairway to Heaven”, British airports, and the current member of the Washington Redskins nicknamed “Mr. Irrelevant”:

Irrelevant NFL

Seven teams scored 36 points in the second stanza, with three of those teams notching perfect scores in each of the first two rounds.

HALFTIME:

Celebrities named “Lee” and landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases were the featured topics on Thursday’s halftime page, which yielded nine perfect scores and an overall average of 15.8 points.  Here is Thursday’s halftime leaderboard:

THIRD ROUND:

After opening the second half with a look at Zen Buddhism, we stumped most of our teams with a question regarding this classic video game:

Tetris

We moved on to topics such as Mary Lou Retton and the Foo Fighters, with just 11% of our teams tacking on two bonus points by knowing that the band played “Everlong” during the final episode of “The Late Show with David Letterman”.  Four teams ran the table with a perfect third round: Three Fingers Worth (Cushwa Brewing), Don’t Stop Believing (The Grille at Flower Hill), Five Easy Pieces (Right Around the Corner), and PC Principals (Fish Market).

FOURTH ROUND:

Our final round began with a look at the border between Canada and Maine, as well as the recent literary work of this hilarious Hollywood couple:

Offerman Mullally

We concluded the final round with a three-part question regarding performers who had won both Academy Awards and Golden Raspberry Awards.  Three teams earned perfect final round scores: Lowered Expectations (Quincy’s), Rum Ham (Olde Mother), and PC Principals (Fish Market).  These were your highest scoring teams heading into Thursday’s final question:

THURSDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (8.9% success rate):

–> The U.S. Government position entitled Chair of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission was established by President Trump on March 29, 2017 and abolished on November 1, 2017.  Who is the only person in history to have held this post?

Not surprisingly, Jared Kushner was by far the most popular wrong answer, but instead this official title was filled by former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.  With just 11 teams answering correctly on the final question, the only team to earn the Perfect 21 on Thursday was Unathletico Madrid (Guido’s).  Here is your final Thursday leaderboard:

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

Quincy’s Bar and Grille in Gaithersburg, MD:  Lowered Expectations  (Next week’s first category: JFK Assassination)

Champion Billiards in Frederick, MD:  Power Vacuum  (Next week’s first category: Great Lakes)

Bunker Sports Cafe in Leesburg, VA:  Thoroughly Screwed  (Next week’s first category: Poker Terminology)

​Smoketown Brewing Station in Brunswick, MD:  99th Precinct  Next week’s first category: “Scrooged”)

Beef ‘O’ Brady’s in Frederick, MD:  Punslingers  (Next week’s first category: “Mac and Me”)

Olde Mother Brewing in Frederick, MD:  Detroit Smash  (Next week’s first category: Greek Mythology)

Belly Love Brewing in Purcellville, VA:  Where’s Len?  Next week’s first category: Postage Stamps)

Cushwa Brewing in Williamsport, MD:  No Beer For You  (Next week’s first category: “Doctor Who”)

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

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  Double Dare Physical Challenge  (Next week’s first category: The Roman Republic)

Dawg House in Waynesboro, PA:  Wingin’ It  (Next week’s first category: “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”)

Right Around the Corner in St. Petersburg, FL:  Five Easy Pieces  (Next week’s first category: “Aja” – Steely Dan album)

Fish Market Restaurant in Alexandria, VA:  PC Principals  (Next week’s first category: “South Park” – current season)

Art’s Tavern in Falls Church, VA:  Genghis Khan  (Next week’s first category: Non-Ovechkin Washington Capitals)

Guido’s in Frederick, MD:  Unathletico Madrid  (Next week’s first category: Soccer)

Wednesday Trivia Took Us Around the Globe!

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After hosting an abbreviated schedule last week, our full slate of Wednesday games was back to welcome 119 teams across 16 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Wednesday’s game took our teams “up to 11” as we began the first round with a look at this comedy film that defined the mockumentary genre:

Spinal Tap

Other first round topics included the Globe Theatre in London and TV sitcom characters.  Thanks to a trio of rather difficult bonus questions, we saw just three perfect scores in the opening stanza: Honey Badgers (GearHouse), Unfrozen Caveman Lawyers (Clover Theater), and In Last Place (Memories).

SECOND ROUND:

Karaoke music highlighted Wednesday’s audio question, as our teams deciphered instrumental versions of songs from Led Zeppelin (“Hey Hey What Can I Do”), Goo Goo Dolls (“Iris”), and OneRepublic (“Counting Stars”).  We visited the Catacombs of ancient Rome and the island nation of the Philippines, before discussing the two versions of this Olympic sport:

Diving

Ten teams ran the table in the second round with a perfect score of 36 points.

HALFTIME:

Celebrities with four-letter names were paired with NFL mascots on Wednesday’s halftime page, which yielded an average score of 18.3 points, as 27% of the field notched a perfect score.  These were your highest scoring first half teams from Wednesday night:

THIRD ROUND:

After a relatively smooth first half, many of our teams hit a speed bump right out of the second half gate, as they were asked to identify three films based on the description of characters portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis.  As the most difficult wagering question of the night, only 19% of the field turned in at least two correct answers.  Later, we performed a “brand new dance” with the “Loco-Motion”, studied a little oology, and discussed this college basketball team that is the most recent team to defend its national title:

Florida Gators

Five teams notched perfect third round scores: Kitten Mittens (Quinn’s), It’s Mueller Time (Quinn’s), Cake or Death (Black Hoof), Your Mom (GearHouse), and Shoes For Feet (Furnace).

FOURTH ROUND:

Final round topics from Wednesday night included the work of Pablo Picasso, the stage musical “Guys and Dolls”, and this late night talk show which does not live up to its title:

Kimmel

The final round yielded four perfect scores: Half Nelsons (Bennigan’s), Witiots (Nido’s), It’s Mueller Time (Quinn’s), and Franconia Hair Cemetery (Quinn’s).  Here is your Wednesday leaderboard heading into the final question:

WEDNESDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (34.5% success rate):

–> The northern and the southernmost world capital cities are respectively located in which two countries whose names both end in the same set of four letters?

Just over one-third of our teams responded correctly with Iceland (Reykjavik) and New Zealand (Wellington).  Congratulations to the four teams that earned the Perfect 21 on Wednesday by answering all wagering questions correctly: It’s Mueller Time (Quinn’s), Small Foreign Faction (Quinn’s), Southern Comfort (Clover Theater), and Meatballs (Clover Theater).  These were your highest scoring teams at the close of Wednesday’s game:

WEDNESDAY’S WINNERS:

Valley Grill in Middletown, MD:  Shakeweight  (Next week’s first category: Tesla Motors)

The Tavern in Olney, MD:  Fan Club  (Next week’s first category: “Dexter”)

Belles’ Sports Bar in Frederick, MD:  Tokyo Tentacle Storm  (Next week’s first category: “Elf”)

Bennigan’s in Frederick, MD:  Momentary Lapse of Reason  (NO GAME NEXT WEEK – First category on Dec. 12: Steely Dan)

Nido’s Ristorante in Frederick, MD:  Witiots  (Next week’s first category: Three Clues / One Cocktail)

Barefoot Bernie’s in Hagerstown, MD:  Athletic Supporters  (Next week’s first category: 1990s Boy Bands)

Quinn’s on the Corner in Arlington, VA:  It’s Mueller Time  (Next week’s first category: “The Good Place”)

Dragon Hops Brewing in Purcellville, VA:  Dangerous Business  (Next week’s first category: Christmas Films After 1980)

Black Hoof Brewing in Leesburg, VA:  Bet Smart  (Next week’s first category: Words With Two X’s)

GearHouse Brewing in Chambersburg, PA:  Research Designing Women  (Next week’s first category: Pennsylvania Potpourri)

Clover Theater in Cloverdale, CA:  Unfrozen Caveman Lawyers  (Next week’s first category: Men at Work)

Fat Daddy’s in Fort Worth, TX:  Teachers Heavy Petters  (Next week’s first category: Margaret Atwood Novels)

Whole Foods Market in Vienna, VA:  Boozehounds  (NEXT GAME ON JAN. 30 – First category: Super Bowl Statistics)

Memories in Mount, Airy, MD:  Hamster Condiments  (Next week’s first category: Famous Homophobes)

Furnace Bar and Grill in Thurmont, MD:  Shoes For Feet  (Next week’s first category: Films With Actors Portraying Multiple Roles)

Brookside Inn in Jefferson, MD:  Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins  (Next week’s first category: “The Rescuers Down Under”)

Don’t Stop Me Now at Tuesday Trivia!

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Tuesday night’s game of Pour House Trivia featured 147 teams across 21 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

We began Tuesday’s game with a question about a fictitious moon…

Death Star

We continued with a visit to the French Quarter in New Orleans before looking at the Hall of Fame career of basketball star Tim Duncan.  Seven Tuesday teams began their game with a perfect first round.

SECOND ROUND:

Tuesday’s audio question featured three songs whose titles begin with the same word: “No Surrender” by Bruce Springsteen, “No Diggity” by Blackstreet, and “No Brainer” by DJ Khaled.  This was certainly one of the most difficult audio questions of the season, as only 29% of our teams earned wagering points by recognizing any two of these three songs.  Four teams managed to tack on the highly elusive two-point bonus.  While the field was recovering from that question, this cheesy query which followed was nearly as difficult:

–> A shortage of what Kraft product in 2014 caused some corners of the internet to declare a ‘Cheesepocalypse’, despite the fact that this product cannot legally be called ‘cheese’, but instead a ‘Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product’?

This question gave us Cheez Whiz as the most popular wrong answer, while only 37% of our teams responded correctly with this other Kraft product:

Velveeta

The rest of the round was a breeze for our teams, as they cruised through questions concerning “The Crucible”, the chemical composition of alcohol, and the current biographical film “Bohemian Rhapsody”.  But thanks to the audio question, Dave Martinez School of Management (Senor Tequila’s) posted the only perfect score of the second round.

HALFTIME:

Films of the 1980s and fast food menu items highlighted Tuesday’s halftime page, which yielded an average score of 17.4 points, as 22% of the field notched a perfect score.  These were your highest scoring Tuesday teams at the halftime break:

THIRD ROUND:

Tuesday’s second half began with a rather difficult Three Clues question, with this version focusing on a foreign country:

CLUE 1: The majority of the mountain range known as the Balkans is located within this country.

CLUE 2: This country is bounded by the Danube River to the north and the Black Sea to the east.

With very few teams even venturing a guess at this points, only six teams scored the first two bonus points of the half with the correct answer of Bulgaria.  Later, we discussed Marlon Brando’s refusal of the Academy Award, the eradication of smallpox, and this short-lived TV comedy:

Freaks and Geeks

The only perfect score of the third round was posted by Wiseacres (Champion Billiards).

FOURTH ROUND:

We began Tuesday’s final round with a pair of questions about books, spanning both the fiction (Stephen King) and non-fiction (Al Franken) sections.  We followed with a trip to Broadway to discuss this stage musical:

Spamalot

After a look at the tomato and Olympic mascots, we saw seven teams earn a perfect 36 points in the final round.  Here is your Tuesday leaderboard heading into the final question:

TUESDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (29.4% success rate):

–> The largest financial center on continental Europe, which city is home to the F.W.B. stock exchange, the Bundesbank, and the European Central Bank?

While nearly the entire field deciphered these clues to lead them to a German city, only about three-in-ten knew that the financial center of the European Union is not Berlin or Munich, but rather Frankfurt.  Congratulations to the four teams that earned the Perfect 21 on Tuesday with correct answers on all wagering questions: Cuginis Now With Free Beer (Cuginis), Dave Martinez School of Management (Senor Tequila’s), Juneau (Olney Winery), and Avocados to Crabs (Perry’s).  Here is your final Tuesday leaderboard:

TUESDAY’S WINNERS:

Champion Billiards in Frederick, MD:  Wiseacres  (Next week’s first category: Animals Named for People)

Cuginis in Poolesville, MD:  Cuginis Now With Free Beer  (Next week’s first category: World Flags)

Senor Tequila’s in Germantown, MD:  Dave Martinez School of Management  (Next week’s first category: Prince)

Shuckin’ Shack in Frederick, MD:  Duchess  (Next week’s first category: Planets of the Solar System)

Topgolf in Ashburn, VA:  Mindbenders  (Next week’s first category: Airlines)

The Block in Annandale, VA:  Five Dollar Boob Job  (Next week’s first category: “Star Wars Holiday Special”)

Greene Growlers in Gaithersburg, MD:  How Did I Get Here?  (Next week’s first category: Cookies)

Upper Deck in Mount Airy, MD:  Holy Shirts and Pants  (Next week’s first category: “Lord of the Rings” Quotes)

Olney Winery in Olney, MD:  Juneau  (Next week’s first category: Human Anatomy)

Buffalo Wild Wings in Urbana, MD:  Let’s Get Quizzical  (Next week’s first category: Songs Featuring Ludacris – AUDIO)

Cheesetique in Fairfax, VA:  Four Amigos  (Next week’s first category: 1990s TV Shows)

Charlie’s On the Avenue in Alexandria, VA:  Dr. Leo Marvin and Associates  (Next week’s first category: U.S. Constitutional Amendments)

Fat Daddy’s in Mansfield, TX:  Cliff’s Big Brain  (NEXT GAME ON DEC. 18 – First category: Founding Fathers)

Bareburger in Atlanta, GA:  NO GAME THIS WEEK  (Next week’s first category: International Politics)

Harvest Moon Brewery in New Brunswick, NJ:  Let the Wookies Win  (Next week’s first category: U.S. Presidents)

Monkey La La in Frederick, MD:  Insubordinate and Churlish  (Next week’s first category: Triple 50/50 – Latin or Greek Origin?)

Quincy’s South in Rockville, MD:  Screaming Death Monkey  (Next week’s first category: “The Haunting of Hill House” – TV)

Casa Tequila in Lovettsville, VA:  Shadynasty  (Next week’s first category: “Beverly Hills, 90210”)

Brass Tap in Annapolis, MD:  Identical Tentacles  (Next week’s first category: “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)

Outta the Way Cafe in Derwood, MD:  I Heart Kiwis  (Next week’s first category: NCAA Women’s Basketball)

Perry’s in Odenton, MD:  Avocados to Crabs  (Next week’s first category: Jewish Holidays)

Miller’s Ale House in St. Petersburg, FL:  Simple Minds (Next week’s first category: Plants)

What? Me Worry About Monday Trivia?

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We opened the final week of November with 84 teams playing across 11 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Monday’s opening round topics included the “Twilight” book series, the work of classic sitcom actor Fred Gwynne, and the legacy of this Baseball Hall of Famer:

The first round also included a surprisingly difficult question in the category of Name That Year.  We gave our teams a three-year window (wither way) to identify the year in which all three of these events occurred:

EVENT 1: The TV game show “Wheel of Fortune” premieres on NBC.

EVENT 2: The Egg McMuffin is added to McDonald’s national menu.

EVENT 3: Bill Gates and Paul Allen create Microsoft.

Less than half of our teams landed within the three-year window, while nearly every team responded with a year that was later than the correct answer of 1975.  With just seven teams earning bonus points with an exact answer, we saw just one perfect score in the opening stanza: Hibernators (Il Forno).

SECOND ROUND:

Monday’s audio question featured three musical acts from the country of New Zealand, one of which was this comedic duo:

Flight of the Conchords

We followed with the most difficult bonus question of the night, as only six teams knew that Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne penned the foreword to the book “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”, the final work of Stephen Hawking.  Even after closing the first half with relatively easier questions regarding nicknames for U.S. currency and the films of M. Night Shyamalan, the second round did not yield any perfect scores.

HALFTIME:

Fictional geographic locations and the initials ‘D.K.’ were the focus of Monday’s halftime page, which yielded an average score of 16.7 points and 11 perfect scores.  Here is Monday’s halftime leaderboard:

  • Hibernators (Il Forno):  90
  • Oliver’s Army (DRP):  86
  • Spiritual Growth Hormones (Greene Turtle):  86
  • SEVEN TEAMS TIED WITH 85 POINTS

THIRD ROUND:

The second half opened with a Three Clues question concerning the name Hanover, before moving on to topics such as the Tropic of Cancer, the rock band KISS, and this recent video game:

Splatoon

Though none of the three bonus questions were particularly diabolical, all three played to about a 20% success rate, which led to Killer Snails (Hershey’s) posting the only perfect score of the third stanza.

FOURTH ROUND:

After the 6-4-2 question dealt with Sir Anthony Hopkins, we discussed the franchise moves of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, the nucleotide ATP, and the Olmec civilization.  The most difficult bonus question of the round concerned this 1980s film:

Pee Wee

Only eight of our Monday teams knew that former “Saturday Night Live” star Phil Hartman co-wrote this film (as well as co-created the character of Pee-wee Herman) along with Paul Reubens.  As a result, Kitten Mittens (Cheesetique) notched the only perfect score of the final round.  These were your highest scoring Monday teams heading into the final question:

MONDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (18.7% success rate):

–> A Germanic verb meaning ‘strangle’ or ‘throttle’ is the ultimate derivation of what common English verb, referring to either dogs gnawing or tearing at a bone or a sheep, or giving into anxiety?

About one-fifth of our teams responded correctly with ‘worry’.  A rather difficult final question meant that none of our Monday teams scored a Perfect 21 with correct answers on all wagering questions.  Here is your final overall leaderboard to begin the week:

MONDAY’S WINNERS:

DRP in Alexandria, VA:  We Always Come, But Never in First  (Next week’s first category: “The Breakfast Club”)

Greene Turtle in Hagerstown, MD:  Irish Beer Mafia  (Next week’s first category: The Human Body)

Morgan Inn in Woodbine, MD:  Morgan Station  (Next week’s first category: Atlantic Records)

Hershey’s in Gaithersburg, MD:  Chef Goldblum’s Raptor Bites  (Next week’s first category: “The Jerk”)

Uno Pizzeria in Frederick, MD:  Weasels  (Next week’s first category: 1980s Karaoke Music – AUDIO)

Cheesetique in Arlington, VA:  Kitten Mittens  (Next week’s first category: Hanukkah)

Bushwaller’s in Frederick, MD:  Power Vacuum  (Next week’s first category: Stephen Hawking)

Rockwell Brewery in Frederick, MD:  Magnificent Seven  (Next week’s first category: “Dark Shadows”)

Bareburger in Atlanta, GA:  Libra Season  (Next week’s first category: Vintage Toys)

Flanagan’s Harp and Fiddle in Bethesda, MD:  Ralf Fines  (Next week’s first category: “The X-Files”)

Il Forno in Frederick, MD:  Hibernators  (Next week’s first category: Plants Named for People)