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September 16, 2004
Pub Trivia N
Trivia last night ended up being just Mark, Alec and I as several people couldn't make it and one who said he would come didn't show. However, it turned out to be one of the best trivia nights yet as we all heavily contributed and ended up winning first prize even though we were in second place on points due to the top team having more than 6 people and we would have also had the most points if I had just been more agressive on the final bid. I ended up personally running the first quarter of questions and then we got to the picture round which is usually a killer and aced it with 10/10 as each of us had a guess for one person and all three guesses turned out right (the other 7 we were pretty sure of) and we then had a perfect second round as well. After this things got harder as we only got 4 points on the 'points go down from 10' question even though Alec had the right person at 8. Despite our difficulties, though, somehow we picked up a few points and went into the final two questions with a 2 point lead (over the strong team with 7 players) for 1st and a 13 point lead over the 3rd place team. This was mostly thanks to Alec's excellent job on the state capitols' third quarter bonus question which we aced. As it turned out, only I on our team had any knowledge of the final two bonus questions - the first one I was 90% sure of and got right for 10. The second, OTOH, asking what actor has voiced a role in all 5 Pixar feature films (and it turns out will also be inThe Incredibles), I was not nearly so sure of but I did get right but we bid conservatively to assure us of at least second place score and 1st place prize.
The really nice thing, again, was that we all seriously contributed. Mark got all 3 science questions right as well as the Muppets band name question. Alec led us on the state capitols bonus and got a rap music question that Mark and I had no clue on (which unfortunately we convinced him to bid too low on). I got the final two questions as well as another sports question, an opera question amazingly and a number of others.
Posted by aarondf at September 16, 2004 11:29 AM
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