Trivia Tuesday

~ Update on me driving to Trivia, I'm now 75% certain of how to get to the bar.  I was able to make it this week with just a little assistance. Yay Me!

~ It's very hard to Trivia, when the guy sitting next to you is blowing his nose ALL evening long...

~ When there's no Orioles game on, the bar shows Water Polo, Swim Trials, and motorcycle racing, which are just about as exciting as they sound.

~ Us English nerds were super excited to get a question on Novel Characters.  We were not excited that the question turned out to be about The DaVinci code aka a book nearly EVERYone has read.

~ No one on our team is in the majority of people who live for Shark Week, evidenced by the complete lack of knowledge on any question in the Shark Week Round.  Thankfully, a 6 letter word for breaking the surface is the same when discussing whales as well, so breach wasn't too difficult to decipher.  But the other 2 were hopeless.

~ My need to email loads of different people at work every day made answering a question on the last 3 letters of an Army email address a breeze.  

~ The Twitter bird's name is Larry cleverly (or not so cleverly depending on whether your a basketball fan or not) named after Larry Bird.  Get it?  Way to be cute, Twitter overlords. (On a semi-related note - and since I discovered this during trivia this evening - Stephanie Block liked my tweet regarding Falsettos.  That's useless in the long run and really cool at the same time!)

~ Having someone sing Billy Joe and Bobby Sue can help greatly if you're attempting to figure out the name of the Steve Miller Band song - Because once they sing it, you sort of hear the rest of the song in your head and since the refrain is the title, it's super exciting.  (Take the Money and Run in case you were wondering...)

~ An entire round of "sporty" quotes was just a terrible point-loser.  Why don't we know sports people?! Unfortunately one of the quotes wasn't uttered by Sporty Spice so we really were screwed.

~ Reading articles upon articles on the EURef financial crisis and reading multiple times that the credit of the UK was downgraded by Moody's had no effect on my remembering that Moody's was the name of the credit company.  None whatsoever.  I could tell you everything about the UK's credit but nothing about who did it apparently.  Let's just say I can now.

~ Super excited to find the last question was about Neil Patrick Harris.  Super not excited to find that not only did we know the answer but everyone else did too.  So much for moving out of second to last place.