Well, what can I say? With a final score of 67 points, last night was the third time in our history of playing trivia at Mellow Mushroom (we’ve been playing there since September or October) that we did not place. On top of that, the Hispanics Deep Throating a Crane took first place (although, according to Thomas, that was almost not the case).
What killed us? Two things, really. First, the 4-part bonus question at the end of round 3 (4 points for each correct answer) was: “Name the first four books in the Lemony Snicket ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ series.” We knew one - The Bad Beginning. It annoyed the crap out of me, because I was working at Borders when those books started to become popular, and we did a big promotion on them; and, I was in the Borders near my apartment about two weeks ago looking at a big display of the series, reading all the titles and thinking that the alliteration was getting out of hand (complete list). The team o’ bloggers got all four.
Second, there was the final question. Ghatdammit! Thomas recounts it as “The drug Valkyr is at the violent center of what video game?”, but I think it was phrased differently. In any case, we got it wrong. Three people on our team were positive the answer was Resident Evil
But, even though we didn’t place, we played a good game (I’m looking over the score card and we did pretty damn well, it was just a few questions that hurt us) - and what fun is trivia without a little friendly rivalry? I also want to thank Nick for coming out in the rain for his first MM trivia night (even if he didn’t get free pizza out of it). I’m kind of disappointed that Seat of Our Pants didn’t show up last night; I wanted to point them out to Nick, and plus That Weird Guy would’ve been soooo freaking happy to see the Olsen Twins “go down.”
But next week? The Olsen Twins, back on top, baby!
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6 Responses to "A Record, of Sorts"
I heard the Olsen Twins like to be on the bottom. Just sayin’.
Mary Kate is a “top,” but Ashley is a “bottom.”
It’s the T-virus! Unless you’re playing Resident Evil 2, in which case it’s the G-virus! Or, Code: Veronica, in which case it’s the T-Veronica! Mmmglavin!
NOOOOOO!!!!! I KNEW THAT ANSWER!!!! FREAKIN’ MAX PAYNE!!!!!
Sounds like I missed a shitty game. A more cocky man would feel like my absence played some role in the loss, but instead I just feel bad that we didn’t do well. Do you have the questions written down? I’d like to see what the others were like.
(I don’t know any of the Lemony Snicket books, by the way.)
I don’t have any of the answers written down, but I have the score card, and based on the categories I can remember most of the questions. Honestly, I don’t think your knowing the final question would’ve given us first place. We may have placed second or third if we’d gotten that one right, but the Lemony Snicket question is, I think, what hurt us the most. Overall we played a good game - we didn’t miss many “regular” questions.
For the record - I wasn’t ‘positive’ about Resident Evil, but it was my first guess (I am more of a classic gamer) so the others’ decisiveness swung me.