QUIZ RECAP

We had an explosive Tuesday of Trivia here at Petoskey's where we ended the night with a grand total of 5 successful Double or Nothings for a collective earnings of 84 points! It should be no surprise that the final Team Scores for the night were equally high; four teams surpassed 40 points, and two managed to hit the 60-point barrier. But who ended up as the big dog, well keep on reading for a recap of the night's contest and the reveal of our winners.

We had six teams competing for glory: "But there's wings, right?", "I'm Confused", "Ha ha, I made you say poop", "Froot Loops", "Somebody stop Melvin!", and "G Pickles". Things got off to a mixed-start in Round 1 as players jockeyed for the initial position of front-runner, but after the dust settled it was Froot Loops with the night's first lead at 4 points. And we even learned some new vocabulary courtesy of both our Facebook question of the day ("When someone is born with adermatoglyphia they lack: Fingerprints") and our board game question ("Groutier and Zonular were the winning words in the 2018 championships of what board game: Scrabble"). Good luck using Zonular in a real sentence though, it refers to the suspensory ligaments of the lens of the eyes. The more you know...

Our "Passion for Fashion" Picture Round had our teams working to identify the names of famous fashion designers, and all our teams did better than your host's piddly score of zero. But ultimately it was There's Wings that managed to rocket their way into 1st place by correctly guessing all eight answers and ending up with 11 points. G Pickles (8 points) and Froot Loops (7 Points) trailed behind, with Haha...poop and Somebody Stop Melvin right behind at 6 points each. I'm Confused brought up the rear with 3 points.

Our Theme Round ("roads") was where the night really started to gear up with two successful Double or Nothings by both There's Wings and Somebody Stop Melvin. Our Beat-Generation novel in Question 5 also managed to trick several of our teams, as we were looking for "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, not "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

We had a bit of a twist in our Guess Who Round this week, as it had been transformed into a Guess Where Round. Once teams heard our 6-point clue about President Teddy Roosevelt pushing the project towards completion, I was overwhelmed with turn-ins from teams correctly identifying the Panama Canal. A special kudos to Haha...poop who managed to guess it right on the 10-point clue but wasn't confident enough in their answer to turn in until later on.

Heading into our Find the Connection ("all answers contained the word art") Round 5 , the relative positions between the teams hadn't changed much; There's wings and Somebody Stop Melvin were still in the number one and two slots. And unfortunately for those trying to catch up to them, this round was feast or famine as three teams successfully pulled off Double or Nothings (There's wings, Somebody stop Melvin, and G Pickles) and earned all-too-sweet 20-point reward. This left us with some bifurcated standings heading into the last two rounds, as these teams had 11 to 24 point leads over the remaining competitors.

Handout Round 6 had folks working to match fictional companies with their corresponding TV shows. And although Massive Dynamic certainly sounds like something sourced from Better off Ted's "Money before people" corporate creed, it actually belonged to the Fringe series. An equally tricky decision that vexed several teams was whether to assign Fangtasia to True Blood or Angel (it was True Blood). But with most of the teams still scoring relatively evenly, it all came down to their performances in the final round.

The question for our Final Round was:

List 10 of the 12 most populous cities in the United States at the turn of the 20th century (1900).

And although we had plenty of teams opting for hometown pride in putting forward Seattle as an answer, I'm sorry to have to report that our fair city was still just a toddler at about 80,000 people. The 12th city on our list, New Orleans, had over three times as many people at 280,000+.

With everyone scoring above 50% accuracy, the final figures ended up separated by the narrowest of margins at both the top and the bottom of our standings; fifth and sixth and first and second were separated by just two points each. In the end though, There's wings managed to hold their lead right down to end with their 1st-place finish at 62 points. Somebody stop Melvin was just inches away in 2nd at 60 points (and they wisely decided not to Double or Nothing because they ended up missing just one city).

Third place was taken by G Pickles at 46 points, and Froot Loops followed in fourth at 40 points. This left our final two teams battling to avoid being the caboose, but it was Haha...poop that squeaked out of being last at 20 points, and I'm Confused was sixth at 18 points.

Congratulations to all our competitors on a high-scoring game filled with Double or Nothings. Come back next week for another chance to earn some of those sweet Petoskey's gift certificates and see if you have what it takes to be the "King of Trivia".