Thomas has already written a recap of the rampant asshaberdashery (see his post for a definition) at the ‘Shroom last night, so I will simply fill in the details of the Olsen Twins not placing.
We were feeling confident at the end of the first quarter. We’d gotten all four of the regular questions right, and despite getting only two out of four on the 4-part bonus question, we were in 2nd place (down by one point) at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, we got all of the regular questions right - except our three-pointer, which was, “What is the most prevalent color on a female cardinal?” I disagree with the answer Kelly had (not going to post it here - already learned my lesson about doing that!). It is light red - or at least that’s how it has always looked to me. There were several pairs of cardinals that lived outside our apartment in Athens and used to eat birdseed off our back porch… we watched them for months, and the females (in addition to female cardinals I’ve seen elsewhere) were definitely light red. Now, we figured “light red” would not be an answer to a trivia question. But we couldn’t agree on what he would use - brown, gray, pink, orange… So we just put light red for three points, and nobody cried too hard when we got it wrong. (For the record, my Google image searching is turning up pictures of female cardinals with a wide variation in color.)
I think what really did us in was the wagering question at the end of round two… How many stories does the Sears Tower have? Again, not posting the answer, but suffice it to say, we got it wrong; and having wagered 10, that meant we lost five points. So our score at halftime was 28, and I don’t remember how much we were down by, but I don’t think we weren’t in the top three.
In the next two quarters, we missed our two-pointer and four-pointer in both. Even though we got the six and the eight both times, it just wasn’t enough to pull us back. We also once again got only two out of four in the four-part bonus at the end of the third quarter - that’s probably what did us in for good.
We wagered 20 on the final question, which was ridiculously easy (”The song American Pie refers to a plane crash in which three musicians were killed; one was Buddy Holly, who were the other two?”), so everyone else got right it, too. We finished with 84. I don’t remember what the teams that placed had, but I think it was in the nineties for all of them.
Oh well! Despite the asshaberdashery and us not placing, it was a good game. And we won a free pitcher of beer, which made Hoover pretty damn happy. Oh, I should also mention that Joeventures joined our team last night. That guy is such a trivia slut! Can’t commit. Next week he’ll probably be back with the Bus Huggers. ;) But hey, I’m not trying to talk smack… he’s going to let me write for Bloglanta!
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I don’t have anything to say except that our team should not have listened to a non-regular for the Sears Tower question; however, we did get the female cardinal question correct. My first instinct was red - but my instincts are usually incorrect. Except when it comes to Barry Bonds!
My mom has a Peterson’s (Petersen’s? whatever) Guide for birds, and it says brown. The U Mich Animal Diversity site also says
But the Peterson’s thing is the only reason I knew it.
Too lazy to make a link: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Cardinalis_cardinalis.html
At the turn we were down by 15, which was the same amount that we technically lost by getting the question wrong. :(
Huh? What are you talking about? How did we lose 15 points by getting the cardinal question wrong?
Or maybe I should just shut up and go to bed… I’ll understand in the morning, I’m sure.
We lost 5 points. We could have been up by 15 points more if we had not got the question wrong (not losing 5 points, gaining 10 points = 15).
Saying we “lost” 15 points is like saying you lost $10 million in the lottery.
I’m still confused. We bet 3 points on the cardinal question.
Or am I just dense?
I’m not so good with the maths…
oh yeah, wrong question. 3 points. 15 was the sears tower thingy.