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At College Bar & Grill on October 2nd 3 teams fought for their claim to trivia fame. Our teams for the evening were Tasteful Tanlines, Darkness, and Character Builders and Neal.
Round 1 tested everyone's general knowledge skills. Tasteful Tanlines started off in first place with 5 points, Character Builders and Neal in second with 4 points, and Darkness in third with 3 points. Certainly a very close game to open up with!
Round 2 asked them to identify films based on the minimalist movie posters created for them. Character Builders and Neal and Tasteful Tanlines were each able to get all the films correct! Darkness was able to correctly identify 6 of the films.
In Round 3 the theme was the word "short" which would appear in either the question or the answers for the round. Certainly the most interesting question for the round asked "what fictitious character's archrival is the Purple Pieman?", the correct answer was Strawberry Shortcake. After this round Tasteful Tanlines was still in first, now with 17 points total. Character Builders and Neal in second with 16 points and Darkness in third with 12 points.
This week's Round 4 asked the teams to identify a mystery thing. Darkness was the only team who was able to correctly identify the object, and just after only a single clue had been given! The object this week was a yo-yo.
Round 5 asked our teams to find the common theme in the answers for this round. Surprisingly each team got 7 answers correct in this round, but no one was able to properly name the commonality. Two teams guessed that it was America that tied everything together, but it was actually that they all contained types of clubs. Darkness had stolen first place by this point with a total of 29 points, Tasteful Tanlines had moved to second with 23 points, and Character Builders and Neal had third with 22 points.
Round 6 told each team to match up the French-named cities to their translations. Character Builders and Neal and Tasteful Tanlines each chose to play their Double or Nothings in this round. Unfortunately they each missed at least one point and therefore did not earn any points for the round. This was a benefit for Darkness who was able to earn 8 additional points in this round.
Our final round asked the teams to name 10 of the most popular breakfast cereals based on sales figures from 2018.
In the end Darkness had secured first place with 45 points, but in a surprise twist of events Character Builders and Neal and Tasteful Tanlines each had 30 points! This meant that we had to bust out the tie breaking question to see who would win second place! The tie breaker asked, "how many minutes did Tiago Splitter play for the San Antonio Spurs during the 2011-2012 NBA season?" Tasteful Tanlines team representative had guessed 260 minutes and Character Builders and Neal had guessed 2,000 minutes. With a difference of just 18 minutes, Tasteful Tanlines had the closest number to the correct 1,121 minutes!
Join us again next Wednesday to see what's what at College Bar & Grill!
| Game Rank | Team # | Team Name | Score | Teams Beaten | Team Beat Average |
| 1 | Darkness | 45 | 2 | 1.000 | |
| 2* | Tasteful Tanlines | 31 | 1 | 0.500 | |
| 3 | Character Builders and Neal | 30 | 0 | 0.000 |
