Getting to Know All About Thursday Trivia!

Thursday has suddenly become the busiest night of the week for Pour House Trivia, as we welcomed 121 teams across 16 venues:

FIRST ROUND:

Thursday’s opening round topics included the city of Beijing, salty superstitions, and Three Clues for the word ‘twins’.  We concluded the first round with a question regarding this fictional planet and the real-life African country which served as its filming location:

Most of our teams knew that the scenes depicting Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine were filmed in the country of Tunisia.  But even the die-hard “Star Wars” might not have known that the fictional planet was named for the Tunisian city of Tataouine.  After one round of play, 19 teams were holding a perfect score.

SECOND ROUND:

Thursday’s audio question asked our teams to name three musical acts singing about family.  While most of the field recognized Hall & Oats (“Family Man”) and Green Day (“Nuclear Family”), the stumper proved to be the oldest of the three songs: “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge.  Only 11% of the field picked up these two bonus points.  Next up, we discussed this Boston locale used for the exterior shots on the TV series “Cheers”:

We closed the first half by asking our teams to name the two letters of the alphabet which begin the names of at least five current NFL teams.  Since most people start at the beginning of the alphabet for this type of question, virtually every team came up with both correct answers of B (Bears, Bengals, Bills, Broncos, Browns, Buccaneers) and C (Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs, Colts, Cowboys).  Most of the teams that earned bonus points to open the second round cruised to a perfect score, as nine teams overall posted 36 second round points.

HALFTIME:

Caricatures of world leaders and college colors were the featured topics on Thursday’s halftime page.  Falling a bit on the easier side, this halftime page yielded perfect scores to 22% of our teams, with an overall average score of 17.4 points.  Here is Thursday’s halftime leaderboard:

• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  92
• PC Principals  (Fish Market):  92
• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing):  92
• Castle Greyskull (Quincy’s):  90
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  90

THIRD ROUND:

We began the second half with a three-part question on titles which include the word “LAST”: the 1950s song “Last Kiss” (later covered by Pearl Jam), the controversial Marlon Brando film “Last Tango in Paris”, and the video game “The Last of Us”.  With an array of topics, only ten teams picked up two bonus points to begin the third round.  We continued with questions concerning the brain’s gray matter, Oklahoma cities, and this Broadway musical:

The third round also included the most difficult wagering question of the night:

–> Created by Jim Sanborn, the sculpture Kryptos includes four encrypted messages, so it is appropriately located at the headquarters of which U.S. government agency?

While the FBI was a popular wong answer, only 28% of our teams gave us the correct response of the Central Intelligence Agency.  As a result, the only perfect scores from Thursday’s third round were turned in by Uranus Fly Trap (Smoketown Brewing) and Momentary Lapse of Reason (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s).

FOURTH ROUND:

Thursday’s final round began with the most difficult bonus question of the night.  After most of the field knew that “Weekend Update” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che will be hosting next week’s Primetime Emmy Awards, only seven teams earned bonus points by also knowing that Stephen Colbert hosted last year’s ceremony.  Next up, we discussed this pair of homophones:

Other final round topics included international sports organizations, explorer James Cook, and the classic tune “Camptown Races”.  After the first bonus question took its toll on the field, the Fan Club (Quincy’s) posted the only perfect score of the final round.  These were your highest scoring Thursday teams after four rounds of play:

• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing):  168
• PC Principals  (Fish Market):  163
• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  161
• Momentary Lapse of Reason (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s):  161
• Castle Greyskull (Quincy’s):  160

THURSDAY’S FINAL QUESTION (53.3% success rate):

–> Thanks to a re-dedication ceremony held earlier this year, which Navy destroyer is now named for three different men who share the same first and last name?

Just over half of our teams earned points on Thursday’s final question by remembering these three men:

Congratulations to Castle Greyskull (Quincy’s), Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing), and Momentary Lapse of Reason (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s), who posted the Perfect 21 on Thursday by answering each wagering question correctly.  Here is your final Thursday leaderboard:

• Uranus Fly Trap (​Smoketown Brewing):  180
• Breadsticks (Quincy’s):  173
• Castle Greyskull (Quincy’s):  172
• Fan Club (Quincy’s):  169
• North Country (Quincy’s):  169
• PC Principals  (Fish Market):  168
• Indians (Bunker Sports Cafe):  168
• Brother of Menelaus (Fish Market):  167
• Charlie Work (Olde Mother Brewing):  167
• Low Cal Calzone Zone (Olde Mother Brewing):  167
• 1-2-3 Drink (Cushwa Brewing):  167

THURSDAY’S WINNERS:

The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg, MD:  ICUP Rainbows  (Next week’s first category: Disney Animated Films)

Black Walnut Brewery in Leesburg, VA:  Did You See Abe Lincoln?  (Next week’s first category: World War I)

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