QUIZ RECAP

We had a full house tonight, with 35 players making 6 teams...and a tie for first meant pulling out the tiebreaker question to determine a winner. #momjeans and Trebek's Rejects each came out blazing, successfully converting double-or-nothing bids to take the early lead; returners F Words For $500 and first-timers Humpback Whales each scored 16 in Round 2 with successful doubles (while Trebek's Rejects and Gold Vs. Gold set the evening's theme with failed double tries; there were 6 failed double bids tonight). Round 4 saw Humpback Whales bite off more than they could chew, taking a -1 by trying the 10-point clue in the Guess Where round, seemingly dropping them out of the running (while 4 teams scored 8 points in that round), but they jumped right back into the lead with a successful double-or-nothing in the Find The Connection round while the other teams all scored 8 or 9. #momjeans, accustomed to finishing in the money, tried to chase their losses with double in each of the final 2 rounds and missed on both, finishing 4th; ladies, my picture of you did not turn out, I assure you it was nothing personal!

Gold vs. Gold jumped from last to 3rd with a successful double in Round 6, which saw F Words For $500 move into a tie with Humpback Whales entering the final round. #momjeans, Trebek's Rejects and Mary, Queen of Scots each took a zero on failed double tries in Round 7; Gold vs. Gold scored 9 but could not close the gap on the leaders. Amazingly, both Whales and F Words scored 8 in Round 7, finishing in a tie and necessitating a tiebreaker round (for only the second time in all the games I've hosted). The question: when was the last confirmed sighting of a live dodo bird? (1662)

F Words for $500 guessed 1862, exactly 200 years off. Humpback Whales' guess was 186 years off (1848) but was "closest to the pin" and, incredibly, enough for the first-time players to take home the prize ($30 Collision gift card plus a 6-pack of their choosing). There were some issues with the questions (i.e. the new National Park in Indiana was not "their first") but overall the questions were good, and a good time was had by ALL tonight. Let's do it again next week!