Melville, Moby and much more on Wednesday with Pour House Pub Trivia!

Pour House pub trivia‘s Wednesday sailed the high seas (and music charts!) with Moby and played a little tennis with Bille Jean King!

Read on to see how all our games went down.

Applebees – Frederick, MD

Tonight’s game was a good one, with tons of first time visitors from other locales, trying out trivia with me at Applebee’s for the first time. I always like meeting new teams, and it definitely adds a bit of extra excitement to the game, in my opinion. Overall there was definitely some silliness going on with some hilarious wrong answers that I’ll get to later. We started the game with a question about a recent Assassin’s Creed game, asking what country it takes place in, which is China. We also started out with a question about the new movie Straight Outta Compton, which is a movie I really want to see, I hear plenty of great things about it. We finished round one with a question about the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, which I thought was a clever question.

Round two started with an audio clip of songs by artists with double-speak names, such as Duran Duran. After that we had a question about the NFL rulebook, with the subject being pass interference, which is a harsher penalty in the NFL than it is in college. For halftime there were caricatures of famous people throughout history that needed to be identified. The other part of halftime had teams matching Grammy winning albums to the artist that recorded them, which was tough for some teams. In the second half, we started right out of the gate with a question about a famous DJ’s stage name, and only a few teams were able to figure out that we were looking for Moby. There were plenty of guesses of famous DJ’s like Skrillex and DeadMau5 though. Round three held the question about US Presidents, asking about a president from the 1880’s. As an answer, one team jokingly put Harrison Ford, and then when I called them out about it, they claimed that the film Air Force One was actually a biopic (get off my plane!).

In the final round things got a bit more interesting, with a question about the two types of ribs in the body, true and false, and the Canadian geography question providing some challenges for most of the teams. Nunavut was something almost nobody had even heard of, and I didn’t expect anybody to get the capital of it, and nobody did, unsurprisingly. I liked today’s Last Word/First Word question about Billie Jean King and King of the Hill, because it’s always fun to do a Hank Hill impression.

The final question provided plenty of movement in the standings, with a few teams jumping around to take second and third, although first was already pretty much locked in. Third place tonight went to the Carolina Reapers, who always seem to be poised to make big jumps on the final, nice job. Second place went to the Bumblebees, a pretty new team who brought some reinforcements this time and nailed the final, congrats! Winning tonight, however, was one of the new faces to Applebee’s, the Neverending Motorboats! Congrats on the win! Next week we start with a question about Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas, so go get some studying done! I’ll see you all next week!

Until next time,
-Chad

Bar Louie – Rockville, MD

Any trivia night that riffs off into a “Porn Name Contest,” is a good night in my book! And I owe a beer to “Bobo Half Pint” ! Ya Rock Star You!

Fun times in Hagerstown Wednesday! And in the middle of our porn name contest, a trivia game broke out! Bada boom! And a wild one we had for sure! At Bernies, it is definitely not over until it’s over. We taversed our way through some tough stuff – Grover Cleveland, Off-Broadway, and Nunavut come to mind! But that don’t slow my Wednesday friends down!

We are moving ino the clubhouse turn here for the Summer Fling and it’s gonna be a fun finale for sure! Tonight’s winners at Bernies pick up a little extra point splash for their Top 3 climb! Good job y’all…

Thanks for playing tonight everyone. As always it is my pleasure to come out to Washington Co, and have some fun with you. In fact, I say we do it again next Wednesday night! 🙂

Let’s start that game with a question about “True Detective” – the TV Show.

See you then 🙂

Memories Charcoal House – Mount Airy, MD

 

Tonight’s game of Pour House Trivia at the Revolution Bar was wild and crazy.

The game can actually be summed up pretty perfectly. After 4 rounds of some roller coaster live trivia questions, the final left us with a tiebreaker. But both teams managed to guess the same year for Julie
Andrew’s birth. We had a Unicorn on our hands: a DOUBLE Tiebreaker! I scrambled to put something together and threw it at the teams. This time, we got different answers and we finally had a podium after
several tense minutes.

In third place tonight, Mess and Jegg!

In second place tonight, GT80 Sauce!

In first place tonight, E=MC Hammer!
Next week we’re gonna start with some Reality TV. I don’t normally tell people to Keep up with the Kardashians, but it might help. See you next week!

Until then,
Ian