Trivia Night Again, At Long Last!!
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which_chickI have previously discussed Trivia Night at Claysburg, most recently in 2020 just before Covid-19 lockdowns, when we won. There wasn't any Trivia Night for 2021 or 2022, but THIS YEAR there was, once again, a Trivia Night at Claysburg.
This event is to support the fire department and it's set up with a turkey dinner and raffle tickets and a 50/50 and stuff. There are 21 teams (usually) of mostly-eight-players-each (we take a team of four: me, my aunt Jackie, my cousin Heather, and Brother-the-Younger Joe.) at twenty bucks a head. It's apparently a pretty darned decent moneymaker for the fire hall, not just for the ticket sales but also for the well-supported Small Games of Chance that happen as part of the trivia night festivities.
But, while we do play the small-games-of-chance to the tune of another twenty dollars above our tickets and while we DO eat the turkey dinner and the snacks, we are really there for the trivia. Given that Claysburg is basically Bum Fuck Egypt in Greater Rednecklandia, they do a damn fine evening of trivia and you'd better bring your A-game. We do.
People have fun names for their trivia teams. "Tequila Mockingbird" and "Intelligent Donkeys" and "The Brainy Bunch" and "Really Good Guessers" and "No More Rice Krispies" and "Dot & Merle's Kin" and "Here For The Turkey Dinner" and "Quizzards of Oz" and "Older but no Wiser" and of course we are Dead Parrots, as we have been ever since Joe tried to make us be "Lack Blithe Chatter" the one year and we haven't let him pick the name since.
Some of the teams have team shirts for this once-yearly trivia night thing. I mentioned last trivia that we should get some team shirts, so that we could be More Official, and my cousin Heather got on that and procured team shirts. She got them for the 2021 trivia year but they didn't have any trivia that year because Covid, so we saved them for the 2022 trivia year. And then there was no 2022 trivia. So the shirts kept on waiting for their time to shine. This year, though, we finally got to bust out the shirts. :)
On to the trivia questions, which are just fucking delightful.
Round 1 (one point each)
1. How many total dots are there on a pair of dice?
2. Pop singer Britney Spears appeared on the revival of what popular kids' show from 1993-1994 when she was just 12 years old?
3. Who is the current chief justice of the Supreme Court?
4. A mimosa is made with equal parts of what two ingredients?
5. What friend of Wyatt Earp attended Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery?
6. What city's Greenwood District was known as "Black Wall Street" in the early 1900's?
7. What was Moses's occupation in Midian before he was called by God?
8. Because Pennsylvania had no coast, William Penn was given land in 1682 that later became what state?
9. Where are the Crown Jewels of the British Kingdom kept?
10. What constellation is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux?
11. The first full-color national TV broadcast was on January 1, 1954. What was broadcast?
12. What are the three main fossil fuels?
We missed #7 and were in 2nd place after round one behind the two perfect scores tied for first.
Round 2:
1. Nobel Peace Prize is presented annually in what country?
2. What color is the Ex in the FedEx GROUND logo?
3. The horns of the Great Horned Owl are made of what?
4. Who was the first First Lady to speak at a national political convention?
5. In what country were 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days in 2010?
6. Agent Smith is the antagonist computer program in what 1999 movie?
7. How many watts are used during one kilowatt hour?
8. What is traditionally eaten with Yorkshire pudding?
9. What seaport is Spanish for "white house"?
10. What Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928?
11. What is the name of "the heights" that serve as the setting for the 2021 movie In The Heights?
12. What is the largest Japanese island?
We missed #1 and #11, in second place at the end of round 2.
Round 3.
1. What Tech Entrepreneur named his baby son X AE A-12?
2. What specific part of the body has three sections named duodenum, jejeunum, and ileum?
3. What American author who lived in Key West Florida in the 1930's described cats as purr factories and love sponges?
4. What is Vermont's liquid gold?
5. Reading and Pennsylvania are two of the railroads in standard Monopoly. What are the other two?
6. What was the only US state founded because of the Civil War?
7. If, while rowing, you pass Oxford University and Windsor Castle, what river are you on?
8. Who is the only person to win the Indy 500 in both a front and rear engine car?
9. Former American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert tours as front man for what iconic rock band?
10. Michael Faraday was among the first to find that magnetism could be converted into what?
11. What three colors are the vertical stripes on Mexico's flag?
12. Complete Pro Wrestler John Cena's catchphrase "You Can't ______ _____!"
We missed 8 & 12 and finished the round in second place.
Round 4.
1. What cabinet department is in the massive building at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue in DC?
2. What name is given to the longitudinal groove along the flat side of a knife blade?
3. What is the more common name for a natatorium?
4. In what Alabama city can you visit the Voting Rights Museum?
5. The toy Lincoln Logs were invented in 1916 by the son of what well-known designer?
6. In 1977, what 34 year old professional football player became the youngest man inducted into the Football Hall of Fame?
7. In 1780 a British major rowed up the Hudson River by night so that Benedict Arnold could hand over plans to what fort?
8. What casino opened in Atlantic City in 1978 as the first legal casino in the US outside of Nevada?
9. What was the last name of the American engineer who invented his Magic Infallible Bank Lock in 1851?
10. What is the name of the process by which atoms or molecules acquire charge by gaining or losing electrons?
11. The name of what South Dakota national park refers to the difficulties of traversing its rugged terrain?
12. Real vanilla comes from a plant that is part of what flower family?
We missed 1 and 8 in this round.
Final point standings (round 2 & 3 are 2 points per question, round 4 is 3 points per question.) were as follows:
4th place with 67 points: McGee/Malone
3rd place with 70 points: Lucky Guessers
2nd place with 75 points: Brainy Bunch
1st place with 81 points: Dead Parrots
Brainy Bunch had a really tough round 4, because they were beating us by one point prior to the last round. But yeah, we won. Yay!
And our shirts were awesome.
I took kit margaritas this year. Kit margaritas is... I premixed and bottled the good-quality anejo, cointreau, and simple in a "Two Margarita" batch size for ease of making. I also took along three whole limes (in case one was dry or unsatisfactory), a lime juicer, a paring knife, a container of demerara+salt for rims, a cocktail shaker, ice, a ziplock baggie for the used up lime hulls, and my own pint glass made of real glass. Basically I took everything someone might need to have absolutely lovely margaritas while out and about. The entire margarita kit fits into a small cooler such as you might use to schlep a six of domestic 12 oz cans around so it's not any worse than what other people brought to the table.
Claysburg Trivia Night provides a reasonable amount of domestic beer for attendees BUT ALSO they permit BYOB so that I can bring Kit Margaritas to the table, WHICH I DID. The demerara/salt rims were killer and premixing the non-fresh ingredients worked VERY WELL for simplifying at-the-table margarita assembly while still maintaining the delightfully fresh taste of just-squeezed limes. It was totally 100% worth it.
Did other people stare? Well, yeah. You're gonna have that when you show up to a fucking firehall dinner in Claysburg with a portable cocktail setup and proceed to do your thing. Hell, my own family eyerolled me and were, "What the ... oh. my. god. You brought SALT FOR THE RIM? I can't even... Where did you even GET a cocktail shaker?" However, the event is BYOB and the B I wanted to bring was Very Good Margaritas, so... yeah. Go ahead and eyeroll at me. I can't hear you over the taste of my FUCKING DELICIOUS MARGARITAS.
This event is to support the fire department and it's set up with a turkey dinner and raffle tickets and a 50/50 and stuff. There are 21 teams (usually) of mostly-eight-players-each (we take a team of four: me, my aunt Jackie, my cousin Heather, and Brother-the-Younger Joe.) at twenty bucks a head. It's apparently a pretty darned decent moneymaker for the fire hall, not just for the ticket sales but also for the well-supported Small Games of Chance that happen as part of the trivia night festivities.
But, while we do play the small-games-of-chance to the tune of another twenty dollars above our tickets and while we DO eat the turkey dinner and the snacks, we are really there for the trivia. Given that Claysburg is basically Bum Fuck Egypt in Greater Rednecklandia, they do a damn fine evening of trivia and you'd better bring your A-game. We do.
People have fun names for their trivia teams. "Tequila Mockingbird" and "Intelligent Donkeys" and "The Brainy Bunch" and "Really Good Guessers" and "No More Rice Krispies" and "Dot & Merle's Kin" and "Here For The Turkey Dinner" and "Quizzards of Oz" and "Older but no Wiser" and of course we are Dead Parrots, as we have been ever since Joe tried to make us be "Lack Blithe Chatter" the one year and we haven't let him pick the name since.
Some of the teams have team shirts for this once-yearly trivia night thing. I mentioned last trivia that we should get some team shirts, so that we could be More Official, and my cousin Heather got on that and procured team shirts. She got them for the 2021 trivia year but they didn't have any trivia that year because Covid, so we saved them for the 2022 trivia year. And then there was no 2022 trivia. So the shirts kept on waiting for their time to shine. This year, though, we finally got to bust out the shirts. :)
On to the trivia questions, which are just fucking delightful.
Round 1 (one point each)
1. How many total dots are there on a pair of dice?
2. Pop singer Britney Spears appeared on the revival of what popular kids' show from 1993-1994 when she was just 12 years old?
3. Who is the current chief justice of the Supreme Court?
4. A mimosa is made with equal parts of what two ingredients?
5. What friend of Wyatt Earp attended Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery?
6. What city's Greenwood District was known as "Black Wall Street" in the early 1900's?
7. What was Moses's occupation in Midian before he was called by God?
8. Because Pennsylvania had no coast, William Penn was given land in 1682 that later became what state?
9. Where are the Crown Jewels of the British Kingdom kept?
10. What constellation is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux?
11. The first full-color national TV broadcast was on January 1, 1954. What was broadcast?
12. What are the three main fossil fuels?
We missed #7 and were in 2nd place after round one behind the two perfect scores tied for first.
Round 2:
1. Nobel Peace Prize is presented annually in what country?
2. What color is the Ex in the FedEx GROUND logo?
3. The horns of the Great Horned Owl are made of what?
4. Who was the first First Lady to speak at a national political convention?
5. In what country were 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days in 2010?
6. Agent Smith is the antagonist computer program in what 1999 movie?
7. How many watts are used during one kilowatt hour?
8. What is traditionally eaten with Yorkshire pudding?
9. What seaport is Spanish for "white house"?
10. What Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928?
11. What is the name of "the heights" that serve as the setting for the 2021 movie In The Heights?
12. What is the largest Japanese island?
We missed #1 and #11, in second place at the end of round 2.
Round 3.
1. What Tech Entrepreneur named his baby son X AE A-12?
2. What specific part of the body has three sections named duodenum, jejeunum, and ileum?
3. What American author who lived in Key West Florida in the 1930's described cats as purr factories and love sponges?
4. What is Vermont's liquid gold?
5. Reading and Pennsylvania are two of the railroads in standard Monopoly. What are the other two?
6. What was the only US state founded because of the Civil War?
7. If, while rowing, you pass Oxford University and Windsor Castle, what river are you on?
8. Who is the only person to win the Indy 500 in both a front and rear engine car?
9. Former American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert tours as front man for what iconic rock band?
10. Michael Faraday was among the first to find that magnetism could be converted into what?
11. What three colors are the vertical stripes on Mexico's flag?
12. Complete Pro Wrestler John Cena's catchphrase "You Can't ______ _____!"
We missed 8 & 12 and finished the round in second place.
Round 4.
1. What cabinet department is in the massive building at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue in DC?
2. What name is given to the longitudinal groove along the flat side of a knife blade?
3. What is the more common name for a natatorium?
4. In what Alabama city can you visit the Voting Rights Museum?
5. The toy Lincoln Logs were invented in 1916 by the son of what well-known designer?
6. In 1977, what 34 year old professional football player became the youngest man inducted into the Football Hall of Fame?
7. In 1780 a British major rowed up the Hudson River by night so that Benedict Arnold could hand over plans to what fort?
8. What casino opened in Atlantic City in 1978 as the first legal casino in the US outside of Nevada?
9. What was the last name of the American engineer who invented his Magic Infallible Bank Lock in 1851?
10. What is the name of the process by which atoms or molecules acquire charge by gaining or losing electrons?
11. The name of what South Dakota national park refers to the difficulties of traversing its rugged terrain?
12. Real vanilla comes from a plant that is part of what flower family?
We missed 1 and 8 in this round.
Final point standings (round 2 & 3 are 2 points per question, round 4 is 3 points per question.) were as follows:
4th place with 67 points: McGee/Malone
3rd place with 70 points: Lucky Guessers
2nd place with 75 points: Brainy Bunch
1st place with 81 points: Dead Parrots
Brainy Bunch had a really tough round 4, because they were beating us by one point prior to the last round. But yeah, we won. Yay!
And our shirts were awesome.
I took kit margaritas this year. Kit margaritas is... I premixed and bottled the good-quality anejo, cointreau, and simple in a "Two Margarita" batch size for ease of making. I also took along three whole limes (in case one was dry or unsatisfactory), a lime juicer, a paring knife, a container of demerara+salt for rims, a cocktail shaker, ice, a ziplock baggie for the used up lime hulls, and my own pint glass made of real glass. Basically I took everything someone might need to have absolutely lovely margaritas while out and about. The entire margarita kit fits into a small cooler such as you might use to schlep a six of domestic 12 oz cans around so it's not any worse than what other people brought to the table.
Claysburg Trivia Night provides a reasonable amount of domestic beer for attendees BUT ALSO they permit BYOB so that I can bring Kit Margaritas to the table, WHICH I DID. The demerara/salt rims were killer and premixing the non-fresh ingredients worked VERY WELL for simplifying at-the-table margarita assembly while still maintaining the delightfully fresh taste of just-squeezed limes. It was totally 100% worth it.
Did other people stare? Well, yeah. You're gonna have that when you show up to a fucking firehall dinner in Claysburg with a portable cocktail setup and proceed to do your thing. Hell, my own family eyerolled me and were, "What the ... oh. my. god. You brought SALT FOR THE RIM? I can't even... Where did you even GET a cocktail shaker?" However, the event is BYOB and the B I wanted to bring was Very Good Margaritas, so... yeah. Go ahead and eyeroll at me. I can't hear you over the taste of my FUCKING DELICIOUS MARGARITAS.
