Oh Baby, Let’s talk about Wednesday!

We love the fact that trivia has such a dedicated following, it influences all aspects of life and we get to see our regulars come through all stages of life. We’ve seen people meet at PHT games, date, get married and even have trivia babies now! Raising up the next generation of minions! Just fun to watch people evolve, and we’re honored you welcome us in to your lives.

Valley Grill in Middletown, Md 

Thank you all once again for making it fun out here at Valley Grill in Middletown! Congrats to our 3^rd place team for their first top tier showing. Here are the results:

Fat Kids are Hard to Kidnap in 1^st

Drunk Savants in 2^nd

Areola Grande in 3^rd

Our first category for next week is French Cuisine so Bon Appetit! ~ Ronnie

Revolution in Fairfax, Va

Ian

The Tavern in Olney, Md 

It must be something in the air. Usually we have some sort of epic battle for the win at The Tavern on Wednesdays, but this is the second game I’ve hosted in as many days, where 1st place was sown up before the final question was even asked! Finishing 3rd after the final was Olney the Lonely, moving up to 2nd after the final was Helplessly Hoping and with an INCREDIBLE 27 point lead at the end of round four, John Lithgow’s Fan Club was again our 1st place winner!! They picked “Gone With the Wind” for next weeks winners choice category so study up, and come join the party with us every Wednesday at The Tavern!!   ~  Jon J

1. John Lithgow’s Fan Club
2. Helplessly Hoping
3. Olney the Lonely
4. Moving Forward
5. Missing Persons
6. Men & Pausers
7. In First Place
8. The Hole in Ones

Belles’ in Frederick, Md

Do you know what we learned tonight? We learned that Buchanan is also known professionally as “The one before Lincoln” It says that one his tombstone. If it doesn’t it should.. Always a good night here- we actually had a new team  who handled all the inside jokes and awkward pauses with grace.  Impressive actually, and I hope we see them again! We all are craving ice cream but definitely not C3Po’s. Thy just look nasty.

Speaking of nasty, for the love- let’s shut down Tokyo Sex Whale! They are getting out of hand with these first categories.. Next week we are starting with Sam does stand up comedy. Aparently I’ll do a quick routine and you guess the comedian. This should be fun. As for the rest of our podium, it was Flight Level Awesome in 3rd and Comfortably Dum in 2nd. Nice Game!

Bennigan’s in Clarksburg, Md 

With postseason in just over a month, teams looked ready to buckle down and focus on the prize. A large group tonight, all veterans; the game would surely be an intense one. Roaming Gnomes have won 2 in a row now, looking to reclaim the title of a TRIVIA TERROR here on Wednesday nights. I believe a 3-game win streak would instill that fear.

Round 4 saw the hardest question of the night. A Bible category talking about the Old Testament book that describes a just God reigning $#!@ on a good man. Lots of different guesses but 2 teams coming up with the Book of Job. Job was a simple man who loved God and trusted God would be just to him. It ended up with him getting punished. Not sure how that one ends but it sounds like God was being a real jerk ha…

Going into the final Roaming Gnomes led by 1 point on the Gold Team, who controversially decided to go away from the answer of Jimmy Fallon being the TV host associated with Late Night Snack ice cream because they remembered The Tonight Dough being his ice cream. Turns out, before Fallon got the Tonight Show gig, Ben and Jerry made Late Night Snack in honor of his Late Night job. Threw them off and they went away from Fallon, costing them 2 points, which proved vital.

Gnomes and Gold Team both got the final correct so they’d finish just as they started. Gnomes takes it down tonight by a single point! Gold Team, a well earned 2nd place SO CLOSE to a W! 3rd place tonight goes to Just the Tip! Back in a week, good game tonight!

1st Place:     Roaming Gnomes

2nd Place:    Gold Team

3rd Place:     Just the Tip

Next week:     Prince

Memories in Mt. Airy, Md

It was good to be back, as we had an exciting night of trivia! A few new teams stuck a toe into the churning waters of PHT @ Memories, and hopefully will be back for more!

Applebee’s in Frederick, Md

Tonight we opened up with a question about human anatomy, asking about the three bones in the body that meet to form the shoulder. Most teams were able to pick up points on this one with the scapula, clavicle, and humerus being the answers.  We also had a U.S. Geography question which focused on New England and asked for the only state there without an ocean coastline. This ended up being a 50/50 between Vermont and New Hampshire, but the answer was Vermont.

The audio question asked about songs whose titles contain something on a Monopoly Board, such as ‘Under the Boardwalk’ or ‘Take a Chance On Me’, or even the song ‘Go’ by Pearl Jam, which nobody knew.  The planet question we did asked for the farthest non-dwarf planet from the Sun which also has 1,500mph(!!) winds, as well as the farthest dwarf planet. Most teams knew the farthest planet was Neptune, but the farthest dwarf planet of Eris was tougher, since everybody assumed we were asking for Pluto.

Halftime asked teams to identify movies based on little pictures of their posters, as well as answering questions where the answer was two words with the initials ‘F.M.’  In the second half we had a toy question which asked for the first two electric toys to be inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2006. A lot of teams got Easy Bake Oven, but only a few got Lionel Electric Trains. Tonight’s 6-4-2 taught us that C-3PO had a breakfast cereal named C-3PO’s.

The Presidents question asked about the worst President in history according to the APSA, who failed to deal with secession which led indirectly to the civil war; about half the teams managed to get to James Buchanan on this one. Tonight’s final question was in the category of Billboard Chart Toppers, and asked for the only song recording to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on two separate runs, the first time after being performed on American Bandstand, and the second two years later when it caught on with ‘high society’. Most teams actually did well on this one, getting to ‘The Twist’ by Chubby Checker.

Third place tonight went to the Carolina Reapers, with second going to BTF. The win tonight went to We’ve Embraced Our Mediocrity with another strong showing, nice work! Next week we start with Fast Food Mascots as the opening question, so I’ll see you all then!

Until next time,
-Chad

Hard Times Cafe in Arlington, Va

After a week away from Wednesday night trivia, we had a lovely crowd in at Hard Times Cafe in Clarendon.  Several teams had a chance to take down the top spot, but in the end, it was Kitten Mittens who scored another victory.  They have played at Hard Times for only a few weeks, and have NEVER finished worse than FIRST PLACE!  Simply amazing!  What is their key to victory?  I think it’s the fact that they have players of varied age groups.  The pop culture and entertainment questions (especially music) are much easier with different generations on the same team!

Meanwhile, second place went to Teamy McTeamface, with Brain Train taking third after moving up a few spots on the final question.

DON’T FORGET!!  There is NO TRIVIA next week because of another Washington Capitals playoff game!  We’ll be back in two weeks on May 14th with a first question on Sports Scandals!  ~ Matt