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The Twisted Sage is a great place to have a celebration of a Friday night, and it was a lot of fun to have a large gathering split into 2 teams competing against each other and the 3 King Trivia registered teams.

The scores were very even until the Connections round, and cheers to the 1st 2nd and 3rd placed teams who all doubled down successfully. Hey Dude cemented their win by Turning Up all 10 Songs and Artists in Round 6.

For the Beer round, because it is the British Open in Portrush Northern Ireland (have I mentioned I am from Northern Ireland?!?!) I asked teams to submit the names of as many male professional golfers they could write down in 2 minutes. Two points if Irish. Kelmos was up for the challenge, producing an impressive list of 22 names! Hey Dude inventively wrote down every Irish last name they could think of (not McIlroy!)

One of things I love about trivia is learning stuff and I now know who invented the piano - Bartolomeo Cristofori from Padua, Italy (1655-1731) and who John Laurens is (BFF of Alexander Hamilton). Useful, no, interesting, yes!

Thanks again to everyone for the fun and to the Twisted Sage for their lovely venue!

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11 teams turned out for the 12th (aka Orangemen's Day in Northern Ireland, where I am from) and a competitive event ensued!

Benefits without friends was benefiting by being on his own, and leapt into an early lead with a successful first round double down, but Hoof Hearted (hereinafter the team suffering from Equine Flatulence) and Wes' World (celebrating Wes' birthday - well, if it's his world, why not?) knew their actors in old makeup and caught up second round, the rest of the teams parrying for lower positions.

The Y2K round had some challenging questions, and the Guess Who was guessed by everyone. We had the beer round, a classic game of (waste) basketball, to cool off the fervor, (thanks to Island of Gilligan for ceding to Nico and the 9'ers otherwise I think you two would still be playing!), and then on to find the connections.

A cat's whisker separated Wes' World and Benefits after this round and they were not to be denied the final top two spots despite deep knowledge by other teams of literary louses and the Ivy league. The team suffering from Equine Flatulence secured 3rd by one point and the rest went home with the memories of the delicious epicurean delights they sampled at the wonderful Twisted Sage.

Thanks to everyone for playing and welcome The Not So Smarty Pants to the King Trivia Family!

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Another great night of trivia tonight! Not only did we have 9 teams tonight, but some teams had six or more players, ready to win! They were so ready to win, even the building shook with excitement! Or it may have been a 7.1 earthquake-- it's so hard to tell these days!

Smart and Stupid (there's a joke in there somewhere) were duking it our for the #1 spot all throughout the game throughout the night, with the rest of the players spreading themselves out amongst the pack. Round 5 saw Smart take a stumble, falling behind Stupid, but still putting up a good fight. But wait-- what's this? Continental Air Force hitting the afterburners and taking a 2 point lead ahead of Smart, and the 2nd place spot. The last two rounds had these three teams dogfighting...but the spots never changed, and Stupid defied their name and took the win.

Another big birthday congrats to Dick K., celebrating his 87th birthday with his family and friends on 32 Skidoo, and all of us. In all the excitement, your humble Quizmaster forgot to take pictures of all the fun. I trust you know what you look like, and forgive me.

Have a great rest of your holiday weekend!