A Sentence of Hard Labor at Monday Night Trivia!

Some wild weather rolled through the DC area on Monday night, but that did not deter 74 teams from enjoying trivia at one of 11 Pour House Trivia venues:

ROUND 1:

Monday’s opening round topics included the Little Dipper, college geography, and the film work of Jim Carrey.  As usual, we saved the most difficult bonus question for the end of the round, as only 15% of the field knew that this vampire film was Carrey’s first lead role in a feature film:

Thanks to this final question, only five teams recorded perfect first round scores on Monday night.

ROUND 2:

Monday’s audio question dealt with songs whose titles contained the word “NAME”: “A Horse with No Name” by America, “Name” by Goo Goo Dolls, and “My Name is” by Eminem.  We then enjoyed (?) some non-alcoholic beer and looked the recent political turnover in Cuba.  Our first half sports question asked our teams to name any two of the three major professional sports franchises named for fish, with most of our diehards having no trouble scoring bonus points with these three answers:

After closing with a question on “Downton Abbey”, we saw seven teams run the table with 36 second round points.

HALFTIME:

Monday’s halftime page featured members of Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s Most Powerful Women.  The overall average score reached 17.4 points, which six teams notching a perfect score.  Here are Monday’s top scores heading into the halftime break:

• Kitten Mittens (Cheesetique):  90
• Who the F is Alice (Bushwaller’s):  89
• MSC (DRP):  89
• Arrondissements of Ouagadougou (Greene Turtle – Hagerstown):  89
• Unsavories (DRP):  89

ROUND 3:

Monday’s third round opened with a question regarding the life of Nelson Mandela, before moving onto what would be the most difficult wagering question of the night:

–> In the field of physics, Ohm’s Law can be used to determine the voltage of a circuit by multiplying the number of amps in the current with which quantity measured in ohms?

Only 36% of the field came away with points with the correct answer of resistance.  Later, we discussed NFL coaches and this southeast Asian country:

With only six teams able to name all three colors of the national flag of Laos, this proved to be the most difficult bonus question of the night.  As a result, only two teams posted perfect third round scores: Kitten Mittens (Cheesetique) and MC (Il Forno).

ROUND 4:

Monday’s final round began with an Over / Under question on the subject of toys and games, followed by a look at this Emmy-winning comedy show from Adult Swim:

The fourth round also included two rather difficult bonus questions, as we asked for the member of Migos who is engaged to rapper Cardi B (Offset) and the actor who portrayed Bobby Fischer in the film “Pawn Sacrifice” (Tobey Maguire).  In each case, only nine teams answered these bonus questions correctly, but none of our teams were able to sweep the final round.  Here are Monday’s top scores after four rounds of play:

• Kitten Mittens (Cheesetique):  164
• Killer Snails (Hershey’s):  158
• MC (Il Forno):  156
• Ask Jeeves (Bushwaller’s):  154
• H.R. Puff ‘N’ Stuff (DRP):  151
• Unsavories (DRP):  151

MONDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (19.3% success rate):

–> Throughout U.S. history, seven women have served as the U.S. Secretary of which department, the most of any department in the President’s Cabinet?

Just under one-fifth of our teams responded correctly with the Department of Labor.  Congratulations to the three teams that scored the Perfect 21 on Monday night by correctly answering all wagering questions: Cher’s Zombie Army (Uno Pizzeria), Kitten Mittens (Cheesetique), and Killer Snails (Hershey’s).  Here are your top overall scores from Monday night:

• Killer Snails (Hershey’s):  170
• Kitten Mittens (Cheesetique):  164
• H.R. Puff ‘N’ Stuff (DRP):  163
• Unsavories (DRP):  163
• Arrondissements of Ouagadougou (Greene Turtle – Hagerstown):  162
• MC (Il Forno):  156
• Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango (Il Forno):  155
• Anti-Hentai Hentai Club (Il Forno):  154
• Who the F is Alice (Bushwaller’s):  153
• Cher’s Zombie Army (Uno Pizzeria):  150

TONIGHT’S WINNERS:

Berkeley Springs Bowl in Berkeley Springs, WV:  Angus  (Next week’s first category: Gallifrayan Trivia)

DRP in Alexandria, VA:  H.R. Puff ‘N’ Stuff  (Next week’s first category: Early 1980s New Wave Music – AUDIO)

Greene Turtle in Hagerstown, MD:  Arrondissements of Ouagadougou  (Next week’s first category: Super Bowl Losing Teams)

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Morgan Inn in Woodbine, MD:  Morgan Station  (Next week’s first category: 1990s Rock)

Hershey’s Restaurant in Gaithersburg, MD:  Killer Snails  (Next week’s first category: Royal Weddings)

Uno Pizzeria in Frederick, MD:  Cher’s Zombie Army  ** FOUR WINS IN A ROW! **  (Next week’s first category: “Friends”)

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

Bushwaller’s in Frederick, MD:  Who the F is Alice  (Next week’s first category: Beastie Boys)

Greene Turtle in Urbana, MD:  Iggles  (Next week’s first category: Francis Ford Coppola)

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Flanagan’s Harp and Fiddle in Bethesda, MD:     (Next week’s first category: College Football Rivalries)

Il Forno in Frederick, MD:  MC  (Next week’s first category: “The Green Mile”)