QUIZ RECAP

Oh yeah?! What about it? Sure, we were rowdy as all hell but that's the way we like it! In case you weren't able to be here this week, you missed a night of friendly jeering, cheering, and beer-ing. It was all in service of sending out King Trivia's run at Petoskey's in style. Yes my friends, your esteemed host will no longer be holding trivia on Tuesdays, although Petoskey's as a venue may have something in store for you on Wednesdays in the future, so maybe we'll meet again in a different context. But enough with the sad tidings, let's focus on the good times we all shared and dive right into the quiz recap!

We had 6 teams joining me for the grand finale: Chance for a nap, Kevin's still not on our team, NFC Ya Face, Hash Slinging Slashers, I Believe in Miracles, and Cuties Only.

Things got kicked off with our General Knowledge Round 1 and the early results informed us that we were going to be in for a high-risk game of point gambling. Hash Slinging Slashers pulled off a quick Double or Nothing which set the standard for the rest of the teams to try to match. And we all had a good laugh about The South Butt clothing company which, alas, no longer exists as a result of The North Face's lawsuit.

Our Picture Round 2 had teams working to identify the TV shows based on their famous teachers. So whether it was everyone's favorite drug lord Walter White from Breaking Bad or the beloved Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World, everyone had a chance to represent their particular 'school'. Our the high-stakes competition continued into this round as well, as both Hash Slinging Slashers and NFC Ya Face pulled off a Double or Nothing, cementing their positions as our frontrunners. Just take a look at the scores to see what I mean:

1. Hash Slinging Slashers - 30 points
2. NFC Ya Face - 22 points
3. Chance for a Nap - 13 points
4. Kevin's still not on our team / Cuties Only - 12 points
5. I believe in Miracles - 11 points

But we still had a lot of rounds left to go, so there was plenty of opportunities for our teams to mount a comeback.

We moved into our Theme Round 3 entitled: "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar". Let me just go ahead and translate that into game mechanics to simplify everyone's life. Every question and answer involved suffrage or jungle cats. Don't believe me? Well then why don't you tell me what amendment gave women the right to vote (19th Amendment)? Or perhaps you can tell me what the fastest land animal is (cheetah)? Oh you knew all that? Well so did all our teams which is why they all got the same amount of points and everyone's placement stayed the same.

That means it was time for our Guess Who? Round 4 where contestants try to identify a famous person based on a series of increasingly more specific clues. In contrast to prior weeks, our ten-point clues were appropriately vague and prevented anyone from sussing out the identity off the back of their birth name 'Guynes'. In fact, it wasn't until the six point clue revealed their starring roles in GI Jane and The Juror that our teams swarmed me with the answer of Demi Moore. And because everyone guessed at the same time, the point standings stayed the same yet again.

Find the Connection Round 5. The fan-favorite. The chance for the creative teams to demonstrate their out-of-the-box thinking to come up with the unique links tying all our answers together. At least, that's what this round would normally celebrate, but this week our connection was, how can I put this politely, hmm...impossible to guess? So although you may have known that Gateway was the computer company with the cow boxes, that the Milwaukee Bucks play in the Fiserv Arena, or even that Manchester United is known as the Red Devils, you absolutely could not guess that the answers "precede or follow the word star". Yes, hold your pitchforks, I don't write them folks, I just read them, but the connection for those answers looked like: Stargate, Starbucks, Starman. Oof.

Before we head into the final rounds, let's get a quick score recap.

1. Hash Slinging Slashers - 49 points
2. NFC Ya Face - 40 points
3. Cuties Only - 29 points
4. I believe in miracles - 28 points
5. Kevin's still not on our team - 27 points
6. Chance for a nap - 24 points

Moving right along into our Handout Round 6, teams were tasked with matching famous TV catchphrases with their associated characters. Hey, wait a minute, didn't we already have a TV themed round back in Round 2...are our question writers overdosing on Netflix again? This was an easy round filled with three successful Double or Nothings for 20 points each by NFC Ya Face, Hash Slinging Slashers, and Cuties Only that put them significantly ahead moving into our final round.

This week's Final Round prompt was:

Who are the ten biological children of Caitlyn Jenner and/or Kris Jenner?

And you all surprised your host with your heretofore unknown Reality TV knowledge as two teams got all ten correct, and nobody got less than six correct. Chance for a Nap even pulled off a Double or Nothing for 20 points, but this valiant last-minute comeback fell short of third place by just one point. Take a look below to see the final standings, but Hash Slinging Slashers, NFC Ya Face, and Cuties Only were our top three finishers at the end of the night.

Thanks again to everyone who has ever stopped by on Tuesdays to help make trivia at Petoskey's so memorable. I loved my time with you every week, and a big extra thanks to those weekly regulars who kept the competition fierce through snow and sun alike. Sharing factoids, friends, food, and fun, what better way to kick it back on a weekday evening? I wish you all the best as we continue our journey through space and time on this big old rock we call Earth.

Peace Out!

QUIZ RECAP

What a wild and crazy night we had at Petoskey's this Tuesday. With 8 teams competing, we matched our previous record for total participants and forced me to push the sound levels to new untested heights (sorry about the feedback early on). Now although the questions themselves were relatively easy this week, that doesn't mean that the path to victory was an easy one. There were plenty of Double or Nothings to go around, so the winner's podium required strategic decision making in addition to trivia knowledge. The eight teams competing were Johnnies, The Team from Petoskey, Dimetrodon, I licked a butthole, Kevin is not on our team, NFC Ya Face, Heartthrobs, and Walleye Slaters.

Despite having so many teams, the game actually ended on time courtesy of those easier questions. If you're wondering why that would make a difference, well just take a look at General Knowledge Round 1. Did you know our former vice president's name was Joe Biden? Or maybe you knew that bread shaped into a twisted knot is called a pretzel. See, you could have joined Heartthrobs and I licked a butthole and Double or Nothing'ed too.

Picture Round 2 may have been our fastest yet. I had barely finished divvying up the pictures of famous NFL quarterbacks among the teams when they started to turn them back in. Although we did fool a few people into guessing the wrong Manning brother (we wanted Eli Manning), most of the teams were sports savvy and took only a minute or two to complete the task.

Theme Round 3 was all about the 'W'. And by that I mean that every answer had three letter 'w's in them. We even had some home-state representation in the question about the city/state combo that celebrates Adam West Day every year (Walla Walla, Washington). And although only a select few of the attendants tonight believed me, I was truly referencing an Oscar-night meme when I intentionally mispronounced Idina Menzel's name as Adele Dazeem.

At this point in the night the standings were as follows:

1. NFC Ya Face, 35 points
2. Heartthrobs, 34 points
3. Kevin is not on our team, 28 points
4. I licked a butthole, 19 points
5. Walleye Slaters, 15 points
6. Dimetrodon, 13 points
7. Johnnies, 10 points
8. The team from petoskey, 9 points

Guess Who? Round 4 didn't fool people for long. Our ten-point clue was relatively vague and referenced only their NYC upbringing and schooling. But after our 8-point clue capped off the list of jobs they held over the years as culminating with the New York Yankees, teams jumped to their feet to submit the correct answer as George Costanza (from Seinfeld).

Find the Connection Round 5 was a tricky connection to make even though the questions were relatively straightforward. Take the name of the Griffin family's dog on Family Guy (Brian), the brand name of Gillette's razors for women (Venus), and a 1965 Beatles song that's partially in French (Michelle) and see if you can piece together the missing link. If you were thinking it must be related to names, you're in the right ballpark, but the exact connection we were looking for was people with the last name of Williams (e.g. Brian Williams, Venus Williams, and Robin Williams).

Handout Round 6 was yet another quick finish. We asked teams to look at a list of Oscar Winning Best Picture films and match them with the decade that they were released in. It didn't take long for teams to knock out all the answers from the last 40 years, but the early 1900s were a little more difficult to associate. Quite a few teams swapped Hamlet, which belonged to the 1940s, with On the Waterfront, which actually belonged to the 1950s. But I don't think any of us were alive back then so I'm willing to give us all a pass.

Let's take a look at the scores before we reveal the Final Round Prompt.

1. Heartthrobs, 56 points
2. NFC ya Face, 52 points
3. Kevin is not on our team, 51 points
4. I licked a butthole, 42 points
5. Dimetrodon, 25 points
6. Walleye Slaters, 24 points
7. Johnnies, 15 points
8. The team from petoskey, 14 points

It was coming down to a photo-finish, but who would hang on and who would fall behind as we came around the bend for the final stretch. The final round prompt was:

After the USSR dissolved in 1991, Russia and 14 other countries were formed. What are any 10 of those 14 other countries?

History and geography majors rejoice, as this is a much more difficult question than you might expect. Although the USSR controlled many countries during the Cold War, only this small number actually formed after its collapse. So countries like the Czech Republic or Yugoslavia existed before the USSR was ever formed, and therefore were incorrect. We were looking for answers like Tajikistan or Azerbaijan, or the more commonly known ones like Belarus or Ukraine. And if you're thinking, well nobody could know all 10, check yourself!

Both Kevin is not on our team and I licked a butthole successfully pulled off a Double or Nothing which catapulted them into first and third place respectively. Heartthrobs got all 10 correct, but because they played it safe by not Doubling, they would only take second. NFC Ya Face fell just short of the podium at 58, while Walleye Slaters and Dimetrodon brought up the vanguard at 26 and 25 points. The Team from Petoskey and Johnnies were our caboose with 20 and 15 points.

Thanks to everyone for coming out and having a good time. Whether you were here last week or you are just tuning in after a hiatus, try to make sure to come by this next Tuesday for some announcements you won't want to miss.

QUIZ RECAP

You know, sometimes the summer weather is nice, and other times it's so hot that it becomes unbearable. We've had a bit of both over the last week, but that didn't stop a bevy of teams from coming on down to Petoskey's this last Tuesday. We had six teams of competitors join us: Geddy Images, Long Live Legolas' Legs+Ass, Don's Lil Angels, The Librarians, Hookers with a runny nose, and Pizza+Beer+Bacon.

Round 1 began with our General Knowledge round where we sample questions from a variety of categories such as history ("What state is home to the Harry S. Truman Reservoir? Missouri") or pop culture ("What actress re-teams with her Thor: Ragnarok co-star in Men in Black: International? Tessa Thompson"). It amused me that despite being in a bar with all the bottles available to you to see, nobody was able to identify Smirnoff as the vodka brand founded in Moscow in 1864.

Picture Round 2 was a pretty straightforward color-combo affair. We put up a series of eight purple colored characters and asked teams to identify them by name. Sure, you may easily know Grimace and Ursula down pat, but what about Tinky Winky and Sailor Saturn? Franchise is easy, names not so much.

Theme Round 3 was all about bologna. Specifically, all our questions and answers had to do with "oscar" or "meyer"; tee hee, get it? For an example, take our cult classic question about identifying what G.O.B's name stands for in Arrested Development (George Oscar Bluth). Of course not every question was so desirable to actually know the answer, but unfortunately I couldn't award you a point for not knowing that Dakota Meyer was divorced by Bristol Palin this year.

Before we head into the Guess Who? Round let's get a quick score recap. Tied for first with 15 points each was Pizza+Beer+Bacon and Don's Lil Angels. Second place was a tie at 14 points between Geddy Images and Long Live Legolas' Legs+Ass. Third place belonged to The Librarians at 13 points, while fourth was taken by Hookers with a runny nose with 9 points.

Unfortunately our Guess Who? Round this week was extremely easy to guess. The 10-point clue revealed, in part, that the character was married to a prostitute that their brother paid for. Everyone quickly identified Tyrion Lannister without issue, which didn't surprise me because when I tested the question on my mother even she was able to guess who it was on the 10-pointer.

Find the Connection Round 5 was equally easy for our teams to get through as they put up a collective accuracy of 80%. The only questions that threw off our teams were the common party supply invented by Faraday's experiments with gasses, but I think teams overthought themselves into a mistake by assuming it couldn't be the obvious balloons.

Handout Round 6 rewarded those among us who still follow the rituals associated with the old medias. Teams had to match child protagonists with the authors who created them. So if I gave you Jo March you would match that with Louisa May Alcott (Little Women). And in no surprise Seattle has a lot of book readers so I'm pleased to announce that three teams successfully pulled off a Double or Nothing.

This shook up the standings moving into our Final Round so let's take a look. First place was held by Don's Lil Angels at 53 points, second place was Geddy Images at 52 points, third place was The Librarians at 51 points, Pizza+Beer+Bacon was in fourth at 43 points, fifth place was Long Live Legolas' Legs+Ass at 40 points, sixth place was Hookers with a runny nose at 25 points.

Our Final Round prompt seemed simple on first glance, but it led four teams of our teams to confidently go for another Double or Nothing only to fall short by just one incorrect answer. The prompt was:

What are 10 of the 14 countries that have been to five consecutive FIFA World Cups?

For those teams that closely follow soccer, their expertise would turn out to be their downfall as although the Netherlands is indeed a skilled and capable team, they have not been to five consecutive World Cups. This meant that it was those teams who lacked confidence in their soccer knowledge that ended up on top (Geddy Images and Don's Lil Angels), as everyone else ended up with zero for this round.

The Final Standings can be seen below. Congratulations to all our competitors and we hope to see you back again soon.