Tuesday is for Trivia!

Gotta love the variety of people we get at our Tuesday night games. You just never know what will come from them next, the answers may not always be right but they sure are colorful!

Whole Foods in Ashburn, Va 

Another exciting evening at Whole Foods as we packed the house full of our regulars and a few newbies. It was a close game overall (and a loud one at that…) but it all came down to the final question where Donald Trump Speech Writers came out on top with the only right final question!

Cugini’s in Poolesville, Md

I think the fabulous April weather thinned our numbers just a bit tonight here at Cugini’s so we had ourselves a quaint yet close game of PHT! It took some strategic wagering to set the final stage, so here are your results:

MoMo in 1^st

Lightfoot in 2^nd

Nevermind in 3^rd

Our first category is not a shoe brand but a PBS show entitled “Doc Martin” ~ Ronnie

Quincy’s in Rockville, Md

Quincy’s tonight was a RAGER! Packed house, even the bar was playing; it was awesome! Last week we had Rock the Cash Bar take it down (I believe their first win ever?)… Good for them! Even more special tonight than just the Winner’s Choice question was that Connor and Y.O. (sp?) from Rock the Cash Bar both celebrated birthdays tonight! Hope they had a good night. Another win would make their birthdays even sweeter.

If We Lose the Terrorists Win were not about to let that happen easily. Always a dominant force at the trivia game, these guys came out firing. Uncle Jack brought it hard as well. Both of these teams were up over 90 points at halftime, fairly decent scores, definitely enough to set them apart from the rest.

The 3rd round played a bit tough so it was time for the cream of the crop to rise to the top and that is just what If We Lose did. They carried that momentum into the final question and led by a few points with Uncle Jack close behind and Heroes in a Half Shell keeping up as well.

Final question tonight had 3 correct responses, 2 from our top teams and one from a new team called Die Spieler. They were unfortunately too far behind to finish in the top 3 BUT it did propel them into 4th place and since Heroes in a Half Shell was over the team limit tonight, Die Spieler took the prize moolah home! Great job! 2nd place to Uncle Jack and winning tonight If We Lose the Terrorists Win!

Great game! I was able to finish just in time to hear Caroline Burns perform LIVE on The Voice tonight. Caroline Burns is the cousin of some of the members of our own Team Brio who are VERY EXCITED to see their kin perform on the national stage. Just as I’d finished up with the trivia game it was her time to perform. Quincy’s went ahead and jacked up the TV volume for us so we could all hear her sing and man was she good… She really killed it. Vote for Caroline! She’s a sweetheart. Back in a week for trivia, and hopefully Caroline will be back too hehe… Until then 😉

1st Place:     If We Lose the Terrorists Win

2nd Place:     Uncle Jack

3rd Place:     Die Spieler

Next week:     College Team Nicknames

Tonight we opened with a question about He Masters, asking for the three lefties to win it. I was impressed that I had several teams get all three names of Mickelson, Bubba Watson, and Tom Weir.  In the opening round we also had a geography question where we asked what state Mt. Hood is in, which ended up looking like a 50/50 between Oregon and Washington, with the correct answer being Oregon.

The audio question for tonight asked teams to identify three songs based on the acoustic cover version, which I thought was pretty cool. I liked the Sports Team Name question, which asked for the team with the longest name in the MLB, the Diamondbacks. Halftime asked teams to identify film remakes based on the image, as well as matching candy bars to their ingredients (teams did really well on this part).

In the second half we asked about the movie Trading Places, which starred SNL alums Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. I was glad so many teams knew it was based on the Mark Twain work ‘The Prince and the Pauper’. The college sports question asked us to name sports based on the teams that won the most championships in that sport. The hardest question of the night was definitely the Modern Rock question, which asked about the band Cold War Kids, with only one team managing to pull that one. I was also really hoping that on the ad slogans question teams would pull Cavity Creeps, but nobody did.

The final round had a tough question about publications, at least for me. People who are a little older than me mostly got this, but we asked about the tabloid that talked about paranormal/supernatural stuff, which is called World Weekly News. We also asked about Polyphemus from The Odyssey, which just about everybody knew was a Cyclops. Tonight’s final question proved to be an extremely difficult question, as it was left somewhat ambiguous.

The question asked about a discovery by a German scientist which was named to show that he didn’t really know what he discovered. Unfortunately nobody was able to get to X-Rays, which were discovered by Wilhelm Rontgen. Third place tonight went to Suck It Trebek, and second went to I’m With Sarah. The win tonight went to Fractured But Whole, who didn’t even need to wager on the final, congrats! Next week we open with African Capitals (one of my faves!). I’ll see you all then, so study up!

Until next time,
-Chad

We had a close game this week, with veteran teams coming down to the wire in a photo finish. With the season just over the halfway mark, teams really need to buckle down if they want to make a run at the top spot in a given venue.