QUIZ RECAP

Well tonight was a very rambunctious time -- but for a different reason than last time!

We had eight teams going strong this week -- but I was also joined by four special little helpers, consisting of three fourth-graders and one little one who looked like a preschooler!

They were my special helpers for the night before the official start of back-to-school season and their moms were playing trivia as Go Ducks! (And I'm sure the lovely mommas were v. thankful to have your Quizmaster double as babysitter and teacher for the night so they could have a break to drink a lil and relax a lil while their little ones received entertainment courtesy of King Trivia. I do usually feel like a teacher grading all the scoresheets but definitely felt even more like a teacher than ever before tonight on the job!)

A BIG thank you to Billy, Rashford aka Leo, Luca, and little Brendan. They helped me announce "Jimi Hendrix!" at the end of Guess Who? -- because they just wanted some time on that mic, too. What can I say -- we got some lil Quizmasters in the making! A decade or so from now, they will make great KT Quizmasters.

And they also were happy to help hand out the handouts whenever a team forgot theirs and they were more than enthusiastic to do the countdown for the drinking round, when we did our special Tom Hanks movie naming Drinking Round.

And this time, no there was no singing after our EPIC Britney karaoke showdown last week -- but hey, we maybe could have gotten everyone to sing "You've Got a Friend in Me" because I feel like we all made new friends tonight.

And just a reminder that everyone at GOAL does always have a friend in Quizmaster Sanyee!

Our rowdy home team held down the fort with Alyssa's Kardashian knowledge -- that Double or Nothing was what had them not only take the lead from Test Mic Test after Round 6, but successfully run away with the game and win First Place with 73 points.

Test Mic Test battled hard with their knowledge of Latin phrases and late night hosts and came in Second with 66 points. Congrats to Monte for repping Test Mic Test, too, winning the Drinking Round with his Tom Hanks savvy -- and Queen Katrina passing the Drinking Round titleholder crown to another member of her team for once.

Spicy Meat-a-Ball came in Third with 54 points but left early -- because they didn't realize that everyone else might have made the same common incorrect guess of thinking Chelsea Handler was the one female host of the Top Ten Late Night hosts.

No one guessed Mo'nique for mo'points~!!

And rounding out my top five were I Lost My Virginity At...who, despite noting how the Kardashian connection killed them, clinched Fourth with 49 points and repeat trivia-savvy Toby Rollers with 48 points.

One of the best (incorrect) answers of the night came at Find the Connection -- when one team noted that the connection was "All good things." YES Psalms and Saints and a dream are all good things. I think we almost prefer that to the actual answer with the Kardashian connection. JK we just love all good things all the time at GOAL because a good time is always had by ALL here.

See you ALL next week!

PS Also here are like three pix of Frank from GOAL Regulators bc he had a long day at work before coming to trivia and had so much fun at trivia that the smile was back on his face faster than we could say, "King Trivia!"

PPS Fun addendum -- while we were doing the Drinking Round, naming Tom Hanks movies: someone said "Saving Private Ryan." Then, another said "Saving Mr. Banks" and I thought that he was repeating Saving Private Ryan again. He responded, "No, Mr. Banks. It's Tom Hanks -- he saved a lot of people, apparently." Never realized that recurring theme in his work till now -- and he's going to play Fred Rogers in "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" this fall -- and is sure to save more of our nostalgic hearts.