So somehow, not entire sure it wasn't due to a mathematical error, we made it to the Trivia semi-finals again. That meant a super fun Saturday edition of Trivia. However there are some downsides to that...
~ Semi-finals are always at a larger bar than the one we usually go to so they can fit up to 25 teams. This meant we were forced to drive into the city and visit the Horeshoe Casino. The restaurant - Guy Fieri's something (I'm still not sure what the actual name was) - was inside the casino. That brings us to point #2...
~ We regularly get the best service at our weekly trivia games because it's always the same 2 servers on Tuesday nights and they're wonderful people. We apparently take them for granted, because when receiving terrible service at Guy's place today, we had no idea how to act. Sometimes you do have to ask for a soda 4 times before you receive it. The same goes for the trivia host. Our weekly host's name is Phil and he's a lovely human being with a great sense of humor. I'm not sure what today's host's name was but he was an awkward human being who needed to stop eating the microphone if he intended for anyone to understand what he was saying. Please refer to these points when you wonder how we did so poorly - the servers and the host threw off our mojo. That's my story and I'm sticking to it... : )
~ Boxing is a sport that no one on our team watches, wants to watch or has even seen in passing. To reinforce our lack of knowledge the trivia host gave us an entire 3 questions having to do with boxing - a round in which we didn't get a single point.
~ When the first 2 categories are marketing and training, and the entirety of the team are either marketers, training specialists and teachers, you may wrongly assume you've got it made in the shade for the rest of the game. You will be very, very wrong.
~ While some may argue pulling obscure Star Trek facts out of thin air makes you "smart" or "cool", our team has decided that coolness is so not based on star trek - even though the 2 that pulled the facts were on our team.
~ To make us feel better - that's my assumption anyway - after the whole boxing round fiasco, the host decided to present a movie themed round. Easy right? Nope, yet another round where not a single question was answered.
~ Alan Turing created the enigma machine. The enigma machine is located at the cryptologic museum in Maryland. He was the father of modern computer science. He was gay at a time that you could be arrested for being so. There's a prestigious computer science award given in his name. There's a fabulous movie about his life starring Benedict Cumberbatch, that I saw and loved. It made me cry. All of this information floating in my head, and we get asked for the name of the stinking movie! Couldn't come up with "The Imitation Game" to save my life...
~ Somehow knowing that "Non Sequitur" was a two word Latin phrase for "it does not follow" and it's a comic strip made me feel just a little better, after getting every single question I attempted to answer, wrong.
~ It was a bad day for my brain. It might have had something to do with the $12 margarita I was surprised to find I had ordered.
~ In Words with Friends, there are 101 two-letter words that you can play. Starting out attempting to answer that question by counting on our fingers didn't really help at all.
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