Necessity is the mother of invention, the old proverb says...
...and King Trivia is also the king of innovation, as has been demonstrated many times throughout the years. And if ever-oh-ever there was a need to innovate, the last 18 months have been downright inspiring to the genius-level quiz kids at KT headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland!
(Okay, yeah, the KT headquarters is actually located in an underground bunker in the San Fernando Valley. But isn't it sexier and more exciting to imagine 'em toiling away in Zurich!? You betcha!!)
The necessity of social distancing in the age of communicability inspired the creation of the King Trivia Players App, which allows us to gather once again to engage in trivia battle while doing away with those pesky pencils and answer books. The app is, in a word, awesome, easy to use, and very, very effective. It sure didn't take long for our regular players to embrace this elegant piece of computer programming. They love it! We love it! And a whole heaping helping of kudos goes to the crew at HQ (in Zurich! No, really!!) for their fine work creating it.
But last night, just for a moment, we were reminded of how things used to be. A brief glitch cause the app server to hiccup, and we were left with no way to communicate other than -- gulp -- the old fashioned way!! Egad.
But just as we were unpacking the answer pads and pencils, the app was restored and all was right with the world. But in that brief interim, your faithful QT was subjected to all manner of smart assersy!! So no, I am not the reincanation of Fred Flinstone. And no, I do not watch I Love Lucy on a black-and-white TV with rabbit ears and no, I do not keep score with an abacus!! (I do, however, actually know how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together!)
And yes, you're all very, very funny. I love you all. See ya next week.
“Hide not your Talents, they for use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!” -- Benjamin Franklin
Well there were certainly no shady sundials this week at the Brewyard Beer House in Burbank, and ol' Ben would have been rightly impressed by the performances of our top teams. Let's begin with a robust round of kudos for Bishop Sycamore Alumni, who harnessed the formidable power of several well executed double-or-nothing gambits to build an insurmountable lead and win the night! "Woot! I say," quoting Franklin yet again! "And furthermore, I'll add a second Woot!!"
That Ben Franklin! He's outta control!
Did we describe the Alumni's lead as "insurmountable?" Well I suppose that's true. But just barely. BIG MOUTH BILLY BASS very nearly caught 'em in the end, finishing just two slim points behind to take second. And then there's the Perfect Strangers, who finished just one slim single point shy of the Big Mouths to take third.
But WAIT! There's MORE!! Princess Amy's Flying Monkeys (they're gonna get YOU and your little dog, too!) finished in fourth place when they failed to find that elusive single point that would have put them in a tiebreaker with the Strangers. Perhaps if the bewitching Amy had contributed more. But no, she was too busy pondering her sister's red shoes!
Yup, you read that right. Our top four teams finished a total of just five points apart! Now THAT is some upper level trivia competition right there!! Or, as our friend Ben memorable said: "He who cometh to engage in trivia battle at the Brewyard hath besteth bringeth their 'A' game!"
(It's all right there in Poor RIchard's Almanac. You could look it up!)
* Won Tiebreaker
