Trivia Tuesday

~ Unfortunately, Pluto is still not a planet.  While this fact unfortunately cost us points on the very first question, it did create hours (ok, at least 2 hours) of fun, while thinking of Pluto jokes we could add to each slip we turned in.  Because while it may not be a full blown planet, it's still a dwarf planet which technically still makes it the farthest planet from the sun.  My favorite joke of the evening came during the borders category - "Neptune is bordered with Pluto."   My other favorite was googled during half time "How do you throw a great party?  You planet."  Heehee!

~ I know nothing of any type of music that is popular today.  Who knew Justin Timberlake had a new song and who knew it was on the top of the charts?  Answer - everyone at my table except me.

~ So grossed out that the question on anatomy was about teeth.  That must be why we got it wrong.

~ We knew an entire round based on sports figure's nicknames was going to be rough.  But at least we were able to get one right.  Thankfully, we remembered that Gordie Howe passed away last week, so he was most likely Mr. Hockey rather than Wayne Gretsky which was who we were going to go with.  However, I have NO idea why Roger Federer would be called the Swiss Maestro or Fedex.  He's not Swiss.  Tennis doesn't rely a lot on time, nor does Federer "deliver" in the clutch (Tennis doesn't really have a clutch, right?)

~ The word "dilatory" is misleading.  Wouldn't you expect that a word having the route of "dilate" would mean to expand?  Apparently not.

~ Whenever a Shakespeare question is asked, it's always an easy one.  No fun!

~ Contrary to one opinion at the table Nairobi is a country not the capital of Libya.

~ Eros is Cupid's counterpart to the God of love.  Seeing as I guessed Aros out of thin air because it sounded like the name of something Greek, I'm pretty proud that the mythology expert at table who was struggling, confirmed that "Eros" was correct.  Sometimes you get an answer right and you don't even mean to.  That was my only success for the evening.

~ During Tony's week, when the category is "Musical Founding Fathers" don't put all your eggs in the "It's going to be about Hamilton" basket.  It might be about a singer/songwriter/producer who created some crazy band you've never heard of.

~ John Amos' name on Good Times was James.  Because we were told his son's name was JJ, choosing a J name at random (assuming JJ stood for something Junior) was surprisingly a good theory.  

~ Two of the four people that played this evening are visiting Mt. Rushmore this summer, 1 of the 4 has already been there.  And yet none of the 4 could answer what order the darn presidents are in on the dumb rocks.  (For the record, I'm the last one of the 4 that could care less about seeing giant heads of presidents...)