QUIZ RECAP

Shame on you! You heard me right, shame on you! You still have the audacity to think you can show your face around here? You've got some nerve to spit directly into the face of National Tourism Day by going to the same bar for the same same trivia competition with the same host. I mean seriously, does nobody read our E-Newsletter anymore, I thought I told everybody to instruct their regulars to swap bars tonight. Wait, hold the phone, what do you mean we stopped sending those out... so what if they were clogging up people's spams filters? Well, then why the hell have I been designing five pages of click-bait articles every week....ugh, what a waste of an Adobe Illustrator subscription.

We had 2 teams of Dr. Strange loyalists eschewing physical tourism in favor of exploring the mental landscape of factoids. Oh wait a minute, that's all that came? I guess all the regulars did get the memo and visited someone else. Hmm, how to reverse this situation so I'm not to blame...aha! Shame on you for listening to me and making me feel lonely, you know I'm a tsundere! Long story short, we had Not My Night King and Second Deck.

Round 1 is our warmup General Knowledge Round. If you can't get any questions correct in this round, well, I'd recommend you order another round of drinks cause it's going to get rough. Luckily our teams didn't have that problem as they easily came up with answers like the bottom of the food pyramid (grains) or the home country of the Maori people (New Zealand).

Round 2 is the Handout Round and we challenged our teams to visually identify some things that I can guarantee you see every single day. That's right, this was a tech icon round, and although we did have a few social media icons like Instagram, most of our ensemble were more difficult to decipher (such as the icons for Xerox and Bing).

Score-wise our two teams were keeping it pretty close moving into Round 3. Not My Night King was in 1st place with 21 points, but Second Deck was channeling their inner Arya by sneaking close with 19 points.

Round 3 is our Theme Round and last Tuesday it was T.N.T (all answers begin and end with the letter 't'). Nobody else was courageous enough to sing the AC/DC song with me though, so thanks a lot for making me look like a crazy person to all the pedestrians walking by. They saved their energy for coming up with answers like Trident (Gum brand sharing a name with a weapon) and The Tempest (Prospero is a character from this play).

Round 4 is our Guess Who? Round. This was a tricky one too, as both our teams initially thought we were looking for a historical French architect after the 8 point clue revealed their building of the Palais Garner in Paris. But once they heard the clue a bout the person being played by multiple actors like Gerard Butler and Charles Dance they immediately turned in the answer: The Phantom of the Opera.

Score-wise things had started to pull apart. Not My Night King extended their first place with an impressive 39 points, while Second Deck trailed behind at 29.

Round 5 is our fan favorite Find the Connection round. With 10 questions there's plenty of opportunities for players to be able to utilize various domains of knowledge. Whether you're a biologist (Carotid artery is located where? Neck), a new parent ("Goodnight Moon" bids goodnight to a bowl of what? Mush) or even an adult kids cereal eater ala Jerry Seinfeld (Dig'em the Frog is a mascot of what brand? Honey Smacks), everyone has a chance to help contribute on the way to identifying the Kissing connection.

Round 6 is our Handout Round, and we asked the teams to match together famous TV Bosses with their associated TV shows. We had a mix of the old gods and the new, so you had to be hip with Lou Grant (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), J. Peterman (Seinfeld), and Selina Meyer (Veep).

Heading into the final round things hadn't changed much. Second Deck had only closed their deficit by one point, so they still trailed Not My Night King by a considerable margin (52 points to 43 points).

Our final round prompt was a pop-culture bonanza at the box office:

Who are any 10 of the 13 actors/actresses with the highest domestic grossing filmography?

Our teams decided to play it straight and actually come up with some balanced lists of represntation from multiple genres and generations. Unfortunately they would have been better off just listing off the cast of the Marvel Cinematic Universe because they held 8 out of the top 13 spots. Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, and Tom Cruise all snuck on the list too, but the true dark horse was Anthony Daniels (best known for playing C-3PO in the Star Wars franchise).

Victory went to Not My Night King with 55 points, while Second Deck finished last with 48 points (cause if you ain't first, you're last). They both beat the host's score of 41 points though, but only because they both pulled off some Double or Nothings early on in the game, but I'm not bitter.

I know we've got some beautiful and amazing weather now in Seattle, but once you've got your annual Vitamin D absorbed and are ready to hibernate again, come on down to Petoskey's for some Vitamin F(un). I promise I won't make terrible jokes like that.