Two years ago this week....

Kari and I joined Team Travis. That's right. Halloweek was a good week for us, since we came dressed as these guys, and Craig was dressed as this guy. I know, hey? Hard to believe. But, in that time, we've been doing well. We've won several crowns, and only lost once since we've gotten together. Oh, I could spend all night looking into the past. Let's look at the present.

Round One:

Things I never knew? Roofies come in a pouch, and when you pour them into someone's drink, you stir it with your finger. Classy, Buchan.

We had a lot of questions that we sort of got right, and as you know, close doesn't count. Who knew that Rome was built on the Tiber? Or that Schick made the first electric razor? Not us! But we did know that Scooby Doo was based on a Sinatra Scat, and that Lester B Pearson was the first Canadian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Unfortunately, this was back in the day when you actually had to do something to win. We got five, the winners got nine. And this was the first appearance of the HiNi vaccinators, stopping the spread since '09.

Round Two, in which we learned that "My God can do anything but fail".

Music round featuring van Halen, Rob Zombie, U2, the Cult and not the cure, Alice in Chains and "still Dre" by doctor Dre. This is also where Craig stated his aversion to itunes: "It's like a virus, talking to my computer in ways I don't want it to." We also discussed briefly pot smoke in a concert - Travis: "Have you ever seen a security guard jump into a throng of people to grab a smoker." Buchan: "There was a guy kicked out of the centre for the arts for smoking pot. The opening act hadn't even started. The house lights were still up!"

Theme Round.


Yes, ladies, this was a tough theme. People who are on the album artwork for Sgt. Pepper. I totally understand how hard it was, and many people felt the same way I did, because it was cheat-city out there.
They asked about Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Fred astaire, Dylan Thomas, HG Wells, Laurel and Hardy, and so on. Cheaters were turned in, zeroes were awarded, and Buchan had the line of the night, to a cheating girl who made eye contact with him: "Was the internet slow on your phone?"

We got six, PHDTS got 8. Craig: "tough sled, tough sled."

Round 4 - Morgan Freeman quotes.

Oh boy. Where to start? There were 10 Morgan freeman quotes. There were probably as many lines in people's tag lines about Michelle's knitting.. More of people giving us a hard time for being old. But you know what age helps with? Remembering the dialogue from driving Miss Daisy!
If that doesn't seem quite right, well, nor were our answers....or were they? While Drew was busy asking Michelle if she would knit one massive toque to cover the heads of the whole team, we were busy winnin'. Quotes from Chain reaction, march of the penguins, war of the worlds, ten million dollar baby (which is what I hope to get for BP) and family guy. Also, from Unforgiven, which Craig failed to recognize.

We got an 8, and that was the winning score. As craig said, it's an ugly win, but a win. You don't know about world poverty night because you WEREN'T THERE!

Round Five:

Who had the best selling debut album of all time? Debbie Gibson or Tiffany?

Neither, pervs. It was Whitney Houston. We also found out that geocities disappeared today, and that the only way that "busty brazilian babes" should show up on your Youtube playlist after you've watched "who's on first" is if the sketch was performed by busty brazilian babes. Buchan: "Who's on first? I don't know, your boobs?"

Travis got a half mark for knowing about audio layer three, and the girl in a prom dress got a lot of remarks in tag lines. Our tag line was "best tag line ever."
Craig: "It's a tag line and the truth all rolled into one!" We got six, the winners got 8.5

Last round: The stop round. We did well. Vanilla ice is not queen.
We got nine, the BPBs got ten. Good show.

Scores for the night:

6 - 33.5 Sheldon.
5 - 37 2 Tall Broads and Wes 'n' the sexies.
4 - 40 Bi Polar Bears.
3 - 40.5 Broad St. Brawlers.
2 - 42.5 Travis.
1 - 44 Push her down the stairs.

Overall:

6 - 255.5 Rock 'n' Rollas
5 - 263 Wes 'n' the sexies.
4 - 268.5 The Bi Polar Bears.
3 - 271.5 The Broad St. Brawlers.
2 - 283.5 Push Her Down the Stairs.
1 - 310 Travis.

Good Night.

Hooray for early starts and fun theme rounds

After another delightful trivia breakfast feat. Cindy and Jud, and the two awesome guys who shingled our shed, plus a football game feat. Janelle, Team Travis is well bolstered to face another hot week of trivia.

this is going to be a brief recap because I have to go slave for the gubberment tomorrow morning.

Attendance: Leslie, Buchan, Travis, Craig, and me.

Start time: before Craig or I got there. Don't get me wrong - the early start time is awesome. Thank you, Travis and Steves for getting there on time.

Brief round recapz:

1- 7 points. Hamilton is the capital of Bermuda. Buchan would like us all to brush up on our knowledge of our fellow commonwealth countries. Tsk.

2- 8 points. Good effort from all (esp. Travis)

3- 11.5. Shhhh. Don't ask where the extra .5 came from. This was the movie plots in a few sentences round, which was great fun. Well done, Geers. Kudos to Buchan for getting the tiebreaker.

4- the backwards song round. Again, great fun. Songs sound surprisingly similar backwards and forwards, and as our tagline said, Hotel California is equally shitty backwards. Didn't get the tiebreaker but there's no shame in that. Some serious division in our team over the greatness or not greatness of Queen.

5- 7 points. We LOVE Clone High references and got quite excited for whoever was awesome enough to put "G Spot rocks the G spot" as their tagline. Team members who have not seen it: your homework is to watch it. There's only one season. You can do it.

6- Once again foiled by the ol' Phil Collins/Genesis confusion. Props on this round to Craig for Jesus Built My Hotrod and to me for sticking with my Power of Love guns. Props also to BPBs for kicking our butt this round.

Notable feature of the night: profusion of cheaters. Go Drew for calling them on it. Seriously, why do people think this makes them clever? I will never understand.

Bonus trivia: Krist Novoselic is in fact an elected representative: a State Committeeman (which sounds a lot like Town Selectman to me, but whatevr) and an advocate for electoral reform.

Memory lane cruise of the night: Craig and I both owned copies of the Elvis Musical Pop-Up which is rockin' awesome except that it misled us to think that GI Blues was his first movie. Oh well. At least we got to reminisce about 3-D renderings of the King in movable cardboard.

Quotes of the night:

1) "Angelina Jolie's got twins on the way."

"From Africa?"

2) "Did you hear about the AIDS vaccine?"

"What - condoms?"

3) "I don't think 'roids would help with trivia."

"No, but they'd sure help you with baseball."

And the standings:

For the night:

1. Wes and the Sexies

2. Travis

3. 2TB

4. PHDTS

5. Bite the Pillow

And overall:

1. Travis - 267.5

2. PHDTS - 238.5

3. BSB - 231

4. BPB - 228.5

5. Wes - 226

That was your thrilling recap. Libya has an all-green flag. Good night.

Oooooh, faced. Scratch moded.

Sorry, sorry, sorry for the delay. My only excuse is my harrowing tale of survival in the wilds of the Qu'Appelle Valley from which I emerged with only my baby in my arms. But that's another story.

More importantly, trivia last week was awesome. Mostly because not only were both James and I there at the same time (hoorah for Michelle!) but the Craiggers was there in full trivia uniform. Almost at full strength (miss you, Cindy), Team Travis was unstoppable.

Mad props to our sister team, the BPBs, for a) their play-by-play live blogging (yes, that's a BPB PBP), and b) for defending our honour in said blog.

Here is a poor excuse for a recap.

Round 1 -- Starts with a bang with something involving pi. Thank God for Steve-know.

Round 2 -- Billboard hits on Sept. 23 through the ages. Now there's an obscure category for ya. We enjoyed default beer -- the second-sweetest beer -- because the Great Western team actually won that round. Oh, and now we know it's them we can thank for the team name with the most disturbing visual.

I wrote down "Grill's Craig impression brought the house down," but I can't for the life of me remember what he did. Well done, anyway.

Round 3 -- Our favouritest round ever, the theme trivia round. We celebrated a little hard when we figured out the Michael Jackson song link, which led to the brilliant mind of Craig figuring out Billie Jean King, and James pulling the Black and White Minstrel Show out of nowhere. (How's that blackface for a disturbing visual?)

We got everything but "lambeg," which led us to think we would have 9.5 points, but I think we were awarded 10. Take that, everyone else! Ooooh, faced. Scratch moded.

Round 4 -- Wha? I was distracted by pizza. And the Kikoman wishbone. Oh, lounge songs. Thank God for Travis.

At this point in the evening, we began what would prove to be an extensive discussion on the benefits, mechanics, and drawbacks of beating off into a stolen latex glove on your way home from your factory job. This discussion would somehow manage to make it all the way through to the end of the night, eliciting a couple of good'ers:

"Wouldn't it be a better scam if he just did it on the clock?" -- Travis

"I would never get home. I'd be pulling over ever five minutes." -- Buchan

Round 5 -- James pulling out the X-treme geek knowledge with the names of the actors who played C3PO and R2D2. That's my man, ladies. Hands off.

Round 6 -- the pressure is on because we have the almighty "Stop!" privileges. We did our best not to give the bar more than 2 seconds of a song, and pissed everyone off in the process. Sometimes it feels so good to be a jerk. Thankfully we were surpassed by 2TB on this round, so we can rest easy next week.

I wrote down "Famous movie scenes! Star Wars toys! GI Joe aircraft carrier!" Do with that what you will.

So that was a four-pitcher night, three of which we drank. Good on us.

This round of trivia resulted in a bit of homework for the team. Sorry to post your assignment so late. You'd better get on the following:

1. Looking up John Ratzenberger in Star Wars. Cliff Clayvin. In actual Star Wars. And he's not schilling (sp?) for Boston Pizza.

2. Finding the flashing extra in Teen Wolf. Real wang, on screen!

Lessons learned this week/Quotable quotes:

1. Both Stephen Hawking and Craig are unable to estimate the mass of the universe, but at least Craig can raise his hand to stop the song.

2. Be warned that if Buchan is about to orgasm, you should stand well back. Just in case that ever comes up (haw) in your everyday life.

3. "And what's-her-name on the front of the boat? It's not even cool. It doesn't feel like you're flying. It feels like you're standing on a boat." -Craig

4. Don't bother putting tag lines on the round 6 sheets because by that point in the evening, Drew can't read anymore.

5. "The other night I woke up thinking I was having a heart attack and it ended in a 30-second-long burp." -Name witheld to protect the innocent eater of a mondo burrito

6. No need to worry about us cheating because we have "an imaginary god that tells us we can't."

So the standings for the night:

1. Travis - 51

2. PHDTS - 44.5

3. Cream? - 43.5

4. BPB - 41.5

5. 2TB - 41

And the running tally:

1. Travis 138.5

2. PHDTS 122

3. BPB 116.5

4. BSB 113.5

5. RNR 111

Go team.