QUIZ RECAP

This Labor Day Weekend, Team San-YAY came to play!

Quizmaster Sanyee had her older sister and friend visiting from out of town for the long weekend and after days of doing touristy activities, at first she told them to just sit and eat -- but they ended up hopping into the game and having loads of fun! Because pub trivia is the quintessential LA experience!

It became a most exciting game as RIP Tina Marie Carter soared to an early lead after a successful double down for Round 2, well-versed in their TV younger siblings.

Hey, hey, I'm a bossy younger sister too who made her sister come watch her host trivia on a Labor Day Weekend! Why wasn't I in that picture round?

And also can we talk about that Round 3 question about the ancient Greek philosopher who wrote the play, Electra? All of you knew your Greek philosophers but no one got the right one. Y'all named Hippocrates, Euripedes, and Aristotle -- but not the correct philosopher, Sophocles!

Props to Team San-YAY who named the connection in Round 5 as "all questions presented by Sanyee." Brownie points for creativity and for naming your team after me!!

The Drinking Round was the true turning point of this game, though.

When it came down to naming U.S. Presidents in the Drinking Round (cuz Labor Day is a perfect weekend to celebrate Presidents Day early...right? right?), What? Who's Danny Moore? impressed EVERYONE at the bar, since their team was from MANCHESTER in the UK and yet named SO MANY U.S. Presidents. HUGE round of applause for their savvy and representing.

However, it came down to Ms Christina (who had a great Labor Day Weekend buying lots of items at Ikea and Target -- just like QM Sanyee did at Target) and Team San-YAY rep (who spent the weekend playing Oscars-themed trivia).

Both went right down to the wire -- there were only six Presidents left unnamed and then...team San-YAY won the Drinking Round!

(Also how funny was it when your QM thought Andrew Johnson was on the $20 bill as he was named as a President during the Drinking Round? Some of us have never seen a $20 bill apparently. What can I say -- Those who can, play trivia and those who can't, host 🙂 )

We got back to the usual game shortly thereafter and that's when the trivia tides began a-turnin'.

After a successful double-down for What? Who's Danny Moore and San-Yay, they answered back with 41 and 47 points, as a less-successful double-down landed RIP Tina Marie Carter in 46 points.

Going into Round 7, each team was head to head -- and San-YAY pulled ahead to win First Place with two points. RIP Tina Marie Carter is going to come back next week for redemption and What? Who's Danny Moore? landed in third!

Congratulations to all the teams and thank you so much for spending Labor Day Weekend with me!

(LOL also way to prove me wrong, Team San-YAY! I will be the first to openly admit that I had little to no faith in your abilities to do well at trivia hahaha bc these q's are harddddddd and you guys were new to playing but looks like y'all were in it to win it after all and not just there to drink Shirley Temples and eat yummy food!)

And thank you to everyone at Rocco's for treating me like family these past two weeks -- can't wait to see y'all and sub in for Kevin next time he needs a sub!

QUIZ RECAP

We had a whopping 11 teams come out tonight to spend their evening playing trivia and a fabulous time was had by all, packing Rocco's of Westwood on a Monday.

RIP Tina Marie Carter held onto their lead in Rounds 1-6, roaring ahead of the competition through each round -- until a successful double down choice by Dr. P Fan Club caused a very unexpected plot twist, with Dr. P landing first place with 82 points.

DP Potluck came in second with 81 points and RIP Tina Marie Carter landed in third with 80 points.

Definitely a very close game all the way up till the end -- but hey, I'll reiterate what I said during that final round when I said okay, okay I understand if y'all want to go through the Five Stages of Grief (of not winning trivia tonight) but let's speed up to Acceptance and accept that trivia comes round every week and next week is your shot for glory!

See y'all next week.

Also huge shoutout to Marie Kondo This Bussy for winning the Drinking Round!

So we discovered that everyone watches more basketball than they do action films. Many successful double downs on Round 6 proved that our teams tonight knew their NBA players' nicknames like the backs of their hands but no one could guess (for the Drinking Round) The Rock's highest-grossing movie, which was...a wild and rip-roaring Jumanji!

That's okay though because many guessed his second-highest-grossing movie which was Furious 7. Because hey it seems like The Rock just finds the right franchises -- or the fans just find him and he keeps churning out more sequels.

Well, let's find each other at Rocco's Westwood next Monday. We can relax, play, and only your Quizmaster Sanyee will be doing the laboring on Labor Day Monday on your behalf. Just kidding. Trivia hosting is so fun it doesn't even feel like work 🙂 What other job starts at 9pm, and lets me have such a good time with a crowd of fantastic people to enliven up a Monday night?

Huge shoutout to Joe, Rob, and Michael for welcoming me to Rocco's and facilitating all the positive vibes!

PS And Props to 66 Yr Old Russians who thought the connection in Round 5 was "they were all moral pioneers who fought for the values and people they believed in." If New Orleans wasn't the right answer, that would have made a dang good one, too!

QUIZ RECAP

Awesome night of trivia at Rocco's on Monday. The 3rd, 4th and 5th place teams ended up within one point of each other, which made for a very challenging Round 7. Donner Party Potluck took 1st! Come back next Monday night at 9pm for more fun trivia here at Rocco's 🙂