Well, we knew it would happen. All signs pointed to yes. We knew we'd have a spot in the kegger, but the question was, would the awesome and worthy competitors of the Bi-Polar Bears keep us out of top spot? Heck no! For the second season in a row, the juggernaut of Travis rolled right over Trivia. Here's some sweet recappin' for you.
Place for the night. First.
Place overall. First. Kegger, pint-token party and so on.
Start time. Prompt. 9:33
End time. About two in the darn morning.
Attendees: Captain Craig, Trivia Cindy, Steve-Know, Andrea, Birthday Boy Travis, Workaholic Janelle, Orange Jews James, and Meghan Trenholm.
Absentees: Kari, Bruce, the Stanimal.
Pitchers of beer purchased: Two?
Pizzas purchased: One.
Pitchers of victory beer: three, I think.
Pitchers of beer given away as charity beer: One, to the bi-Polars, since they didn't win any last night.
Pitchers of birthday beer: One.
Some notes:
Lots of rounds, but they moved faster. The only drag was telling us that we had "five minutes to get drunker." we didn't need that at all.
Trivia James brought Trivia oranges, the perfect bite-sized food. He did so at the expense of his trivia hat. Rules of Travis dictate that if you forget your hat on the last day of the season, you have to make one (precedent was set by Craig's paper chapeau last year). So, that's why I ended up wearing an orange peel Yamulka on my head. Thus, Orange Jews.
The engineers gamely gave us a gimme with the theme music round - TV themes? Oh sure. Not a miss in the bunch.
Also, the "Big shiny tunes" round was kickin'. Total memories all up in this.
Total victory was assured later, but we pulled the usual Secreteriat move by expanding our lead every round. Going from being behind by one at the start to up by eight by the end. It was sweet. The Bi-Polar bears tried to convince us that they only lost because their history guy wasn't there.
Overall scores and such will be posted later. I'm writing this from a Honda dealership right now.
WOO!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Recap - the second-to-last week
Wednesday, Nov. 19 - the second-to-last trivia round for this semester. Sigh.
Attendance: Janelle, Craig, Natalie, Kari, Cindy, Steve, Andrea, Travis.
Victory beer won: One measly pitcher.
Charity beer: not even applicable. Sigh.
Weather: highly shitty.
Vehicle used by Craig: a car. That's how shitty the roads were. I mean, I guess you could have tried to ride a bike on them, but you would have looked like a quarterback warming up on the sidelines on his exer-cycle - not exactly travelling anywhere.
Round turnover speed: decent.
Trash talk: limited.
Tension: ramping up, baby!
This was a night of more lessons for the Travisites. Travisians? Travisoids? Anyway, we did rock the music theme round, which once again is the king of rounds. But themes got us in trouble: we assumed we had detected a theme in one of the trivia rounds, but sadly, there was none. So, influenced by our incorrect assumption that there was a Scotch theme to the answers, we did things like choose Sean Connery over Roger Moore as the most frequent Bond. Darnit. Consequently, we got absolutely murdered on that round - two big points. I think we did better handing in random song guesses and then leaving. In our defence, the winning score was only six, but still.
This does, though, lead me to remind everyone that there has been a theme throughout the trivia season: grade 3 astronomy, airplanes, and James Bond. My advice is to brush up on those topics before next week. Of course, I will be conspicuously absent...
Other lessons learned:
-Never let Cindy play with your phone, or she might accidentally dial your parents.
-Always vet the answers. If not, Kari will write down the wrong song title or artist every time.
-Always trust your instincts. If not, Craig will have a hunch about the correct answer but let us write something asinine instead.
- They don't always trick us with the last song of the last round; sometimes it is exactly what you think it is, and not a parody song. That said, Weird Al owes us some serious royalties if he ever makes a Village People parody titled "SPCA."
-When Craig says he's leaving, don't worry. He's coming back. I think his absence lasted exactly two questions.
My highlight of the night: Alexis' reaction when she beat the bar. There was some gleeful giggling, clapping, and running around with her arms waving overhead. I believe she told the bar to "buy your own drinks, muthafuckas." The joys of being a university bar manager!
So here are the standings, teetering dangerously close to us not winning. Remember, even though we're pretty much in for the keg party, it's all or nothing for the top spot. Frank place is not first place! Good luck out there!
For the night:
6. Lady Godiva - 47.5
5. Bi-Polar Bears - 48.5
4. Bite the pillow, etc. - 49
3. TEAM TRAVIS - 50
2. Plastered Bastards - 51.5
1. Team spousal abuse - 52
Overall:
6. Lady Godiva - 425
5. Broad Street Brawlers - 452
4. Plastered Bastards -462.5
3. Team feminism - 500
2. TEAM TRAVIS - 507
1. Bi-Polar Bears - 508
You know what this means, folks: we're in need of some usurpage. We need to pull out some serious trivia power next week to beat the always-strong Bi-Polars.
Go, team! See you at the kegger.
Attendance: Janelle, Craig, Natalie, Kari, Cindy, Steve, Andrea, Travis.
Victory beer won: One measly pitcher.
Charity beer: not even applicable. Sigh.
Weather: highly shitty.
Vehicle used by Craig: a car. That's how shitty the roads were. I mean, I guess you could have tried to ride a bike on them, but you would have looked like a quarterback warming up on the sidelines on his exer-cycle - not exactly travelling anywhere.
Round turnover speed: decent.
Trash talk: limited.
Tension: ramping up, baby!
This was a night of more lessons for the Travisites. Travisians? Travisoids? Anyway, we did rock the music theme round, which once again is the king of rounds. But themes got us in trouble: we assumed we had detected a theme in one of the trivia rounds, but sadly, there was none. So, influenced by our incorrect assumption that there was a Scotch theme to the answers, we did things like choose Sean Connery over Roger Moore as the most frequent Bond. Darnit. Consequently, we got absolutely murdered on that round - two big points. I think we did better handing in random song guesses and then leaving. In our defence, the winning score was only six, but still.
This does, though, lead me to remind everyone that there has been a theme throughout the trivia season: grade 3 astronomy, airplanes, and James Bond. My advice is to brush up on those topics before next week. Of course, I will be conspicuously absent...
Other lessons learned:
-Never let Cindy play with your phone, or she might accidentally dial your parents.
-Always vet the answers. If not, Kari will write down the wrong song title or artist every time.
-Always trust your instincts. If not, Craig will have a hunch about the correct answer but let us write something asinine instead.
- They don't always trick us with the last song of the last round; sometimes it is exactly what you think it is, and not a parody song. That said, Weird Al owes us some serious royalties if he ever makes a Village People parody titled "SPCA."
-When Craig says he's leaving, don't worry. He's coming back. I think his absence lasted exactly two questions.
My highlight of the night: Alexis' reaction when she beat the bar. There was some gleeful giggling, clapping, and running around with her arms waving overhead. I believe she told the bar to "buy your own drinks, muthafuckas." The joys of being a university bar manager!
So here are the standings, teetering dangerously close to us not winning. Remember, even though we're pretty much in for the keg party, it's all or nothing for the top spot. Frank place is not first place! Good luck out there!
For the night:
6. Lady Godiva - 47.5
5. Bi-Polar Bears - 48.5
4. Bite the pillow, etc. - 49
3. TEAM TRAVIS - 50
2. Plastered Bastards - 51.5
1. Team spousal abuse - 52
Overall:
6. Lady Godiva - 425
5. Broad Street Brawlers - 452
4. Plastered Bastards -462.5
3. Team feminism - 500
2. TEAM TRAVIS - 507
1. Bi-Polar Bears - 508
You know what this means, folks: we're in need of some usurpage. We need to pull out some serious trivia power next week to beat the always-strong Bi-Polars.
Go, team! See you at the kegger.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Third to last week - The one where we play catch up
Remember how I gave up Ketchup for lent? And Kari "gave up" drinking, smoking, sushi, coffee and running? Yeah, well this was the week where we did some catch up. As you know, we were so far ahead last year that there was no chance of catching us. And, as Jud's toilet will tell you, competition makes a horse-race. Having said that, we have us some competition on our hands, ladies and gentlemen. It's a two-way race between us and the Bi-Polar bears (we're guaranteed a spot at the party anyway, but we're not going to pull a team frank and say third is as good as first. It's still Frank place). So, let's get to the recap, folks, and see if we can't nail first place sooner or later.
Start time: Ten something.
End time: Oh, gosh. Late. Kudos to everyone who stayed until the end, but that time was bananas. I was very tired for my Bible Study the next day.
Pitchers of beer purchased: One.
Pitchers of charity beer consumed: One. We're not too proud. Thanks, Bi-Polars.
Pitchers of victory beer won: Two.
Of those, pitchers of charity beer given out: One. Right back atcha.
Everyone had some tough answers that night. Let's do them mathematically, shall we?
Ernest Hemmingway =/= Edgar Allen Poe.
The Telltale Heart =/= For whom the Bell tolls.
Jimmy =/= smart as he thinks he is.
Chilliwack =/= Nazareth.
That question =/= Dirty Harry, Craig.
String Quartet music =/= easy to figure out.
But the biggest goof of the night was from our question masters themselves, who asked the following question verbatim.
Question 10
6) Who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" John McCrae.
So, not only was the answer in the question, but it also was the wrong number. Yeesh.
Answer of the night: Whoever knew who any black miss Americas were. Oh, and how long you have to charge Green Lantern's ring. We didn't even know that one. We just had to figure it out through cartoons and action figure memories.
Other question weirdness of the night: Who knew that Isabel Person was a real Person? Oh, or was it Isabel Peron? Who knows.
Delicious Answer of the night: Craig, for thinking that the band was called Milli Vanilla. Mmmm. Ice Creamy.
Going into the final few rounds, here are the standings:
For the night.
Lady Godiva with 43
Urethra Franklins with 44.5
Plastered Bastards with 44.5
Push her down the stairs with 48.5
Bi-Polar Bears with 52
and
Travis with 52.5
A win is a win. We're creeping back up.
Overall for the season.
Lady Godiva with 377.5
Broad Street Brawlers with 405.5
Plastered Bastards with 411
Push her down the stairs with 448
Travis with 457.5
and
Bi-Polar Bears with 460.
It's ground to make up, but we can make it up. In the words of Pierre Trudeau, "Just watch us."
Start time: Ten something.
End time: Oh, gosh. Late. Kudos to everyone who stayed until the end, but that time was bananas. I was very tired for my Bible Study the next day.
Pitchers of beer purchased: One.
Pitchers of charity beer consumed: One. We're not too proud. Thanks, Bi-Polars.
Pitchers of victory beer won: Two.
Of those, pitchers of charity beer given out: One. Right back atcha.
Everyone had some tough answers that night. Let's do them mathematically, shall we?
Ernest Hemmingway =/= Edgar Allen Poe.
The Telltale Heart =/= For whom the Bell tolls.
Jimmy =/= smart as he thinks he is.
Chilliwack =/= Nazareth.
That question =/= Dirty Harry, Craig.
String Quartet music =/= easy to figure out.
But the biggest goof of the night was from our question masters themselves, who asked the following question verbatim.
Question 10
6) Who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" John McCrae.
So, not only was the answer in the question, but it also was the wrong number. Yeesh.
Answer of the night: Whoever knew who any black miss Americas were. Oh, and how long you have to charge Green Lantern's ring. We didn't even know that one. We just had to figure it out through cartoons and action figure memories.
Other question weirdness of the night: Who knew that Isabel Person was a real Person? Oh, or was it Isabel Peron? Who knows.
Delicious Answer of the night: Craig, for thinking that the band was called Milli Vanilla. Mmmm. Ice Creamy.
Going into the final few rounds, here are the standings:
For the night.
Lady Godiva with 43
Urethra Franklins with 44.5
Plastered Bastards with 44.5
Push her down the stairs with 48.5
Bi-Polar Bears with 52
and
Travis with 52.5
A win is a win. We're creeping back up.
Overall for the season.
Lady Godiva with 377.5
Broad Street Brawlers with 405.5
Plastered Bastards with 411
Push her down the stairs with 448
Travis with 457.5
and
Bi-Polar Bears with 460.
It's ground to make up, but we can make it up. In the words of Pierre Trudeau, "Just watch us."
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Rounds 1-4 - November 5 edition
Boy, it was great to be back at trivia the past couple of weeks, particularly with the whole family last week. Sorry, Alexis. We promise not to bring our illegal baby again.
Here's a quick rundown of this week.
Attendance: Travis, Cindy, Steve, Andrea, Stan, Craig, Kari, and Steve's buddy from way back... oh gosh, I totally forget his name. Sorry, Steve. And many leftover Halloween jell-o shooters.
Rounds won: Round one. Also tiebroke for round two, and even though Travis knew the answer, the girl from what we think was the cheaty table has the reflexes of an NHL goalie and got in just ahead of him. Not sure if we aced any after round 3 as I wimped out early. Mad props to those who toughed it out til the end.
Theme round: TV shows from our childhood/adolescent years (or in the case of Stan, the childhood of his children). Didn't win it, but boy it was fun.
Oops of the night: Should have trusted Craig's instinct that the massive statue at Olympia was of Zeus. Makes sense that the Athena statue would be in Athens. Oops.
Geer error of the night: We love you, engineers, we really do, and you do good work. But you were wrong wrong wrong about Where the Wild Things Are. The boy's name is Max, and he does say "No!," and he also says many other things, like "Let the wild rumpus start!" and "I'll eat you up!" This Pierre they were talking about appears to be a character in a Carole King song or something. Not sure if he was originally a Sendak creation - my cursory Googling didn't dig too deep. But I just have to say that I feel vindicated after they made fun of our answer. Tsk.
It was super great to have folks like Stan and Steve around, as well as our regular hardcores. Sorry I had to run early, but there's a hungry little man here who needs me for a food source. The trivia questions were super fun as usual, and trivia is still the pinnacle of my week. You all look super hot in your orange toques. Also, I'm Cindy's favourite person, but don't tell Cindy I told you.
So, what else went down? Fill me in on rounds 4-6!
Here's a quick rundown of this week.
Attendance: Travis, Cindy, Steve, Andrea, Stan, Craig, Kari, and Steve's buddy from way back... oh gosh, I totally forget his name. Sorry, Steve. And many leftover Halloween jell-o shooters.
Rounds won: Round one. Also tiebroke for round two, and even though Travis knew the answer, the girl from what we think was the cheaty table has the reflexes of an NHL goalie and got in just ahead of him. Not sure if we aced any after round 3 as I wimped out early. Mad props to those who toughed it out til the end.
Theme round: TV shows from our childhood/adolescent years (or in the case of Stan, the childhood of his children). Didn't win it, but boy it was fun.
Oops of the night: Should have trusted Craig's instinct that the massive statue at Olympia was of Zeus. Makes sense that the Athena statue would be in Athens. Oops.
Geer error of the night: We love you, engineers, we really do, and you do good work. But you were wrong wrong wrong about Where the Wild Things Are. The boy's name is Max, and he does say "No!," and he also says many other things, like "Let the wild rumpus start!" and "I'll eat you up!" This Pierre they were talking about appears to be a character in a Carole King song or something. Not sure if he was originally a Sendak creation - my cursory Googling didn't dig too deep. But I just have to say that I feel vindicated after they made fun of our answer. Tsk.
It was super great to have folks like Stan and Steve around, as well as our regular hardcores. Sorry I had to run early, but there's a hungry little man here who needs me for a food source. The trivia questions were super fun as usual, and trivia is still the pinnacle of my week. You all look super hot in your orange toques. Also, I'm Cindy's favourite person, but don't tell Cindy I told you.
So, what else went down? Fill me in on rounds 4-6!
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