QUIZ RECAP

A BIG WELCOME BACK to Andrew Purdy and Swade from I Lost My Virginity At...! 🙂

And their night back brought another set of double V's for the big W -- and back-to-back W's from last week!

Let's see if the team can continue their winning streak next week after St. Paddy's Day!

That is, if we don't make like the NBA and cancel all the rest of our season. Hopefully it won't come to that. But I love everyone so much I'd probably host live-stream trivia cuz I always love seeing all your faces every week! Y'all would just need to BYOB is the only thing and stock up on the dranks while we do live-stream trivia. But again, hopefully we needn't resort to such apocalyptic measures as to live in a full-fledged dystopian age of trivia hosts running games on a live-stream basis.

ANYWAYS we had a very, very exciting game all-around --

Los Tacos with the lovely penmanship was on a great track till the double down on Round 3 that did not work out in their favor. Coronas for $1 AKA our house team also had two unsuccessful double downs till a successful one in Round 3.

Mark Dellham Sux and Spicey-Meat-a-Ball duked it out for third place while I Lost My Virginity At... went head to head to try to swipe the lead from ModeloVirus who had an early lead from a successful back-to-back double-down in Celeb Tattoos Round 2 and McDonald's Round 3.

I Lost My Virginity At... also doubled down successfully for Round 3 and then their newest trivia member Max could not wipe the grin from his face as he got THE WHITE STRIPES at the 10-point clue instantaneously and walked that long Walk of Victory back to their table, where he proceeded to yell, "no touching! no touching!" when everyone wanted to throw on hugs and high fives. Cuz, ya know, Coronavirus precautions.

BUT there was plenty to cheer for as we went and played a Monopoly-themed Drinking Round --

and because I always subject everyone to talking about themselves -- did I mention I really like you guys and I'm cooped up all day working from home even on a non-Coronavirus basis because I'm a writer/studio + prodco script analyst/story consultant and all I do is read and write even though I'm deeply extroverted and thus trivia is also my reason to step out of my house and be around human civilization since my main friends are my squirrels --

Our Coronas for $1 rep: "I watched basketball this weekend"

Me: "good -- cuz you won't be doing any of that anymore anytime soon!"

Someone else (still mourning the loss of the NBA season): "ahhhh -- too soon!"

Purdy went to Mammoth.

Jackie went wedding dress shopping with her sis.

Our Los Tacos rep, Park, went drinking.

ModeloVirus as a group cooked 40 dishes last weekend and when asked what their team rep cooked, she said "skewers!"

Me: "you cooked 40 dishes and the most memorable one were the skewers?" JK -- I would remember a good skewer too.

And then I talked about how I just got back from the heels of my high school friend's wedding and recycled my dress to wear on the sunny Wednesday afternoon we just had. Such a fan of multi-purpose clothing especially since I'm a giant hoarder.

And I tried to casual it up as Keyvon noted with my cute leather jacket but then I had to take it off because I was uber-warm and started getting hot flashes cuz for all intents and purposes, I could be a 50-year-old Asian who dun raisin, right? Ya never know.

Our Coronas for $1 rep started us off with Baltic Avenue, there was some controversy (as is expected anytime anyone plays anything Monopoly-themed) as Jackie said Boardwalk Empire but she got her free pass, then the railroads got read off, Purdy said Oriental Ave which I remarked was the PC one ofc, and then our Coronas for $1 rep didn't realize ya had to listen to the rules and NOT repeat what someone else has said and got eliminated.

Then, it was down to Purdy and our ModeloVirus rep (sorry I'm gonna re-ask your name next time I see you!!) and then a utility company that had already been named was named again and Purdy stood victorious! He also had one more up his sleeve with North Carolina Avenue so there you go.

Well-won, well-earned, WELCOME back, my sole reader of these recaps 🙂

The ones that weren't said -- Atlantic Ave, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Pacific, Short Line, States, Tennessee, and Ventor!

Y'all actually did surprisingly well. I had a tiebreaker lined up -- asking how much total money is in a Monopoly game if you count up all the bills. But we didn't have to get to that!

I Lost My Virginity At... continued their momentum -- after Round 5, they were 56 to ModeloVirus's 61 with both teams successfully doubling down.

Then, they doubled down successfully on the handout again -- and though ModeloVirus got 'em all correct, they didn't double and so we saw I Lost My Virginity At... taking the lead at 76 and ModeloVirus moving to 71. Everything came down to the final round -- and all pens were returned --

...and Purell'd heavily.

And then...ModeloVirus doubled down but missed one and I Lost My Virginity At... got 8 and didn't double so we had our winners of the night.

To which ModeloVirus asked them, "What are you guys -- talent agents or something?"

They are a good-lookin' bunch, aren't they?

And I Lost My Virginity At... had the best answer of the night, "Nope -- we're all tech nerds."

And there we have it.

At one point I think I told Max he was the group's lucky charm too cuz usually pop culture isn't the team's greatest strength to which he gently rebuffed, "Ohhhh luck doesn't win trivia."

And then later that night, I found out Purdy saw a video of me on Ellen playing movie poster trivia and winning a trip to Ireland but wasn't sure if it was me and watched it like five days ago. LOL how different do I look on-screen versus in person??? But also the competitive streak came out when he told me I spent too long on Catch Me If You Can but heaped praise on the slew of movies I did get 🙂

And then we were all so competitive we all compared Uber ratings -- and Nathan had the highest one cuz he's 4.94. Must be because everyone gets charmed by the Aussies!

YAY safe trips to Purdy and Swade back off to Knoxville and Mexico -- and ofc your upcoming New Orleans trip for which I witnessed the booking adventure! I MISS YOU ALREADY don't ever forget me xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

OMG and I finally whipped out my new phone to take beautiful pix of everyone's faces and Jackie helped me learn how to use my phone cuz again, yours truly = grandma status.