Thanks to the aid of giant posters, I have been informed that the politics trivia business is from 3 to 4 pm on Wednesday, thus not interfering with our trivia time in the least. I do intend to go, not only for the fun of the candidates' debate but also in case they re-use some questions at real trivia. So it's basically a trivia warmup at 3:00.
We'll see you orange toquely on Wednesday, unless this kid actually shows up sometime soon.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Recap - Season 2 Week 3
I was tempted to call this week two, after our disastrous performance last week, but be that as it may, we were back on top this week. Oh yeah!
Core attendance - Craig, Cindy, Kari, Travis, Jimmy, Andrea.
Variable Attendance - Janelle.
Rounds won - I think it was two, wasn't it? Two, but with a high place overall on the rest.
Pitchers won - Three. An extra one for overall.
Pitchers given away - Uh, at least one pitcher of foam. I don't know about the rest.
We started off super-strong, with a dynamite opening round. Seriously, we made up a ton of ground with that opener. Between the "Military patrol," the yearbook picture of Bill Murray, and the authors of the communist manifesto, it wasn't even close. That round (plus other knowledge-based rounds) brought us back up to being on top again. We made up the shortfall, and then some. Travis and Andrea really pulled it together for the music rounds, and we made a decent showing in those too. Just got to remember the Kenny Loggins. That guy recorded every movie theme ever in the eighties. He also had a sweet beard.
Also, after an elaborate plan to sort of play "buffalo" but not really, Craig got caught with a whole bunch of beer to drink....nice foolproof plan, Craiggers.
Props to the engineers, though, for giving us a themed music round. This week, it was nintendo themes, which we somehow knew quite a few of. I also like how much trash talking we're getting from the other teams.
I however dislike the lack of bodog fight. Where are my guys hitting each other and girls in bikinis?
For the night, the top teams are as follows:
6th place - Frank.
5th place - Push her down the stairs.
4th place - Plastered Bastards with 43.5 points.
3rd place - 1864 (Connor's team) with 47 pts.
2nd place - Travis with 52.5 pts.
1st place - Broad Street Brawlers with 55.5 pts.
That's for the night. Now, let's do overall, shall we?
6th place - Frank with 121 points.
5th place - Plastered Bastards with 123.5 pts.
4the place - Bi Polar Bears with 131.5 pts.
3rd place - Push her down the stairs with 132 pts.
2nd place - Broad Street Brawlers with 133 pts.
1st place, and still champions of the trivia universe - Travis with 139 pts.
Honestly, I don't know why anyone else bothers to show up. Oh, right. To see Kari balancing a pitcher of beer on her 9 months pregnant tummy.
WOO!
Core attendance - Craig, Cindy, Kari, Travis, Jimmy, Andrea.
Variable Attendance - Janelle.
Rounds won - I think it was two, wasn't it? Two, but with a high place overall on the rest.
Pitchers won - Three. An extra one for overall.
Pitchers given away - Uh, at least one pitcher of foam. I don't know about the rest.
We started off super-strong, with a dynamite opening round. Seriously, we made up a ton of ground with that opener. Between the "Military patrol," the yearbook picture of Bill Murray, and the authors of the communist manifesto, it wasn't even close. That round (plus other knowledge-based rounds) brought us back up to being on top again. We made up the shortfall, and then some. Travis and Andrea really pulled it together for the music rounds, and we made a decent showing in those too. Just got to remember the Kenny Loggins. That guy recorded every movie theme ever in the eighties. He also had a sweet beard.
Also, after an elaborate plan to sort of play "buffalo" but not really, Craig got caught with a whole bunch of beer to drink....nice foolproof plan, Craiggers.
Props to the engineers, though, for giving us a themed music round. This week, it was nintendo themes, which we somehow knew quite a few of. I also like how much trash talking we're getting from the other teams.
I however dislike the lack of bodog fight. Where are my guys hitting each other and girls in bikinis?
For the night, the top teams are as follows:
6th place - Frank.
5th place - Push her down the stairs.
4th place - Plastered Bastards with 43.5 points.
3rd place - 1864 (Connor's team) with 47 pts.
2nd place - Travis with 52.5 pts.
1st place - Broad Street Brawlers with 55.5 pts.
That's for the night. Now, let's do overall, shall we?
6th place - Frank with 121 points.
5th place - Plastered Bastards with 123.5 pts.
4the place - Bi Polar Bears with 131.5 pts.
3rd place - Push her down the stairs with 132 pts.
2nd place - Broad Street Brawlers with 133 pts.
1st place, and still champions of the trivia universe - Travis with 139 pts.
Honestly, I don't know why anyone else bothers to show up. Oh, right. To see Kari balancing a pitcher of beer on her 9 months pregnant tummy.
WOO!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Standings
Here are the standings as of last week:
Week 2 standings:
1. 41.5 - Bi-Polar Bears
2. 39 - Team Violence Against Women
3. 38 - Asian Persuasion, I think they were called?
4. 36.5 - Great Western Beer... Party? Patrol? I forget
5. 36 - Team Travis is Awesome
6. 35.5 - Plastered Bastards
Overall standings:
1. 90 - Bi-Polar Bears
2. 89 - Push Her Down the Stairs
3. 86.5 - Team Travis Rocks Your Socks Off
4. 80 - Plastered Bastards
5. Frank (total not noted)
6. Broad Street Brawlers (total not noted)
Yes, kids, that's a full three and a half points off first place. I think we can make it up, don't you?
Week 2 standings:
1. 41.5 - Bi-Polar Bears
2. 39 - Team Violence Against Women
3. 38 - Asian Persuasion, I think they were called?
4. 36.5 - Great Western Beer... Party? Patrol? I forget
5. 36 - Team Travis is Awesome
6. 35.5 - Plastered Bastards
Overall standings:
1. 90 - Bi-Polar Bears
2. 89 - Push Her Down the Stairs
3. 86.5 - Team Travis Rocks Your Socks Off
4. 80 - Plastered Bastards
5. Frank (total not noted)
6. Broad Street Brawlers (total not noted)
Yes, kids, that's a full three and a half points off first place. I think we can make it up, don't you?
Monday, September 22, 2008
Politics trivia!
Now that I have my finger on the pulse of the world thanks to my association with the hip folks at the Carillon, I have a trivia pre-cap for you. Wednesday, Oct. 1 is going to be Canadian politics night. A candidates' debate for the Wascana riding will take place, followed by trivia. Sadly, the bar is being de-licensed for the night so that 18-year-old voters, who for some bizarre reason can't drink in this province, can attend.
This is exceptionally exciting news for me, except for the fact that the chances are extremely good that I'll be holed up in a hospital bed with Trivia James at my side while this is occurring. If the baby hasn't appeared yet, I will SO be there. Maybe the geers would give us special permission to have phone contact if I happen to be in labour during trivia. Otherwise, though, I'm counting on you, trivia fans, to do us proud. Watch some Rick Mercer or Newsworld this week for me, will ya?
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Recap: Trivia Season 2 Week 2
You know in old war movies where the heroes jump out of the trenches and win the big battle at the end? or in newer war movies where the heroes fly X-Wing fighters down a trench on The Death Star and blow it up to win the big battle at the end. Well. before the big battle at the end somebody had to dig those trenches, and somebody had to build those X-Wings fighters...and that is what Travis was doing this Wednesday.
Week 2 of this season was not pretty or glorious, but a lot of necessary grunt work was accomplished and the six troopers who showed up gutted it out to put up a respectable score which kept Team Travis well within striking distance of our rivals.
With Trivia Cindy out with an early morning, Steve-Know out on his Watrous internship, and Captain Craig down with the flu and not entirely on his game...Andrea, Janelle, Jim, Kari and Travis stepped it up and kept us close.
It was a tough night question-wise, a lot of good questions on the part of the 'neers. We thought ourselves out of a few correct answers and lost a few unnecessary points by failing to double check the sheet before taking it up to the table, but overall we pulled a lot solid answers out of the hat.
I observed a little cheating here and there by new comers, but nothing serious. The bigger problem was the amount of cross-pollination and the tolerance of said cross-pollination by other teams. Geez Louise, it's not a Biology lab, it is not OK to share answers with the person at the next table.
Answer of the night:
Jim: No, Mary was not impregnated through her ear. (What were the Engineers thinking on that one anyway?)
Play of the Night:
Craig and Jim decide not to drink too much. Craig felt pretty good the next morning, Jim is still married, all good things.
Mistake of the night:
Andrea and Craig order the buffalo ranch "wings". Turned out to be chicken strips floating in miracle whip and anarchy.
Team Name of the Night:
The Plastard Bastards: "Travis is so old he was on the design team for dirt".
Anyway, good work by everyone, in three short months Travis will be getting medals hung around our necks by the Princess while everyone kisses and Chewbacca roars with his arms up in the air.
Week 2 of this season was not pretty or glorious, but a lot of necessary grunt work was accomplished and the six troopers who showed up gutted it out to put up a respectable score which kept Team Travis well within striking distance of our rivals.
With Trivia Cindy out with an early morning, Steve-Know out on his Watrous internship, and Captain Craig down with the flu and not entirely on his game...Andrea, Janelle, Jim, Kari and Travis stepped it up and kept us close.
It was a tough night question-wise, a lot of good questions on the part of the 'neers. We thought ourselves out of a few correct answers and lost a few unnecessary points by failing to double check the sheet before taking it up to the table, but overall we pulled a lot solid answers out of the hat.
I observed a little cheating here and there by new comers, but nothing serious. The bigger problem was the amount of cross-pollination and the tolerance of said cross-pollination by other teams. Geez Louise, it's not a Biology lab, it is not OK to share answers with the person at the next table.
Answer of the night:
Jim: No, Mary was not impregnated through her ear. (What were the Engineers thinking on that one anyway?)
Play of the Night:
Craig and Jim decide not to drink too much. Craig felt pretty good the next morning, Jim is still married, all good things.
Mistake of the night:
Andrea and Craig order the buffalo ranch "wings". Turned out to be chicken strips floating in miracle whip and anarchy.
Team Name of the Night:
The Plastard Bastards: "Travis is so old he was on the design team for dirt".
Anyway, good work by everyone, in three short months Travis will be getting medals hung around our necks by the Princess while everyone kisses and Chewbacca roars with his arms up in the air.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Trivia Recap - Season 2 Week 1
Well, folks, trivia aficionados, here it is. Week one, and one win for Team Travis. We went out there on Wednesday and proved that our complete destruction of anyone else trivia related was no fluke. We're back, and we're back on top. With that in mind, let us go through some of the highlights of the week that was.
Pitchers of beer purchased - One. This ended up being one too many.
Pitchers of beer donated by Great Western - One. The GW rep looked wasted, too.
Pitchers of beer won through rounds of trivia dominance - Two.
Pitchers of beer won from overall victory for the evening - One.
Glasses of beer poured for the table by GW rep - Five.
That's a lot of beer, kids. We had to give some of it away, but it's still a bunch. Wow. I know I had too much....way too much. Thorry, Kari.
Number of rounds won by team violence against women - One.
Number of times "Frank" tried to change their name: Once. Then they surrendered, and went right back to Frank place.
Answer of the night - Probably goes to Craig for the "Hercules" answer for Howard Hughes' plane. Good work.
Bonehead move of the night - Putting whatever we put instead of Mortal Kombat. Steve knew it, and we should have listened.
It seems so obvious now.
Math answer of the night - Cindy and Steve knew all about telephone poles and their distances away from one another. I didn't even bother answering that one. You don't need my input.
Team name of the night - Probably "Travis wants to know if you've ever been crotch chopped by a pregnant woman." That got us some laughs, the visual of Kari crotch chopping the bar, and a whole bunch of "who brings a pregnant woman to the bar" team names back at us.
Looking ahead - We're in first place, but let's not get cocky. We're going to be losing some members soon, so let's hang onto our spot with quiet dignity.
Booya.
Jimmy.
Pitchers of beer purchased - One. This ended up being one too many.
Pitchers of beer donated by Great Western - One. The GW rep looked wasted, too.
Pitchers of beer won through rounds of trivia dominance - Two.
Pitchers of beer won from overall victory for the evening - One.
Glasses of beer poured for the table by GW rep - Five.
That's a lot of beer, kids. We had to give some of it away, but it's still a bunch. Wow. I know I had too much....way too much. Thorry, Kari.
Number of rounds won by team violence against women - One.
Number of times "Frank" tried to change their name: Once. Then they surrendered, and went right back to Frank place.
Answer of the night - Probably goes to Craig for the "Hercules" answer for Howard Hughes' plane. Good work.
Bonehead move of the night - Putting whatever we put instead of Mortal Kombat. Steve knew it, and we should have listened.
It seems so obvious now.
Math answer of the night - Cindy and Steve knew all about telephone poles and their distances away from one another. I didn't even bother answering that one. You don't need my input.
Team name of the night - Probably "Travis wants to know if you've ever been crotch chopped by a pregnant woman." That got us some laughs, the visual of Kari crotch chopping the bar, and a whole bunch of "who brings a pregnant woman to the bar" team names back at us.
Looking ahead - We're in first place, but let's not get cocky. We're going to be losing some members soon, so let's hang onto our spot with quiet dignity.
Booya.
Jimmy.
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