Trivia Tuesday

~ With 2 questions this evening on Arnold Palmer, I completely let the team and Arnie down.  I read countless articles this week on the man, and yet couldn't tell you where he went to college (Wake Forest.) Also, he won 92 tournaments all together - a number I would have sworn to on my death bed.  And it turns out I would have been correct - if that had been the question that was asked.  He only won 62 on the PGA tour.  (I was so darn sure of myself, that the question-asker apologized to me for the stupid question : )

~ It turns out that if you're going to ask, in a sports bar, the name of the baseball player that tragically passed away earlier this week, logic requires that name to pop up on at least 3 of the television sets at the exact moment you ask the question...

~ Anthony Hopkins is Welsh (also he narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey) which ups the number of Welsh actors I know to 2 - Ioan Gruffud and now Anthony Hopkins.  Luckily another team mate knew both Welsh actors and guessed Sir Hopkins.  Yay Wales for having just a few actors!

~ For being huge Beatles Nerds, when an entire round was dedicated to them - we only managed to get 1 question right.  Though, we'd like to challenge that a question asking who is number 2 to the Beatles in regards to number of number 1 hits is not technically a Beatles question.  It's sort of a Mariah Carey question - or in our case a Madonna question seeing as we answered it incorrectly...

~ Peggle and Bedazzled are 2 of only computer games that I've actually played.  PopCap makes them.  PopCap is based in Oregon and is a subsidiary of EA.  All of this I didn't know before I went to Trivia this afternoon.  A random guess at the only game maker I know - Nintendo - was less than helpful.

~ The Metropolitan Museum of Art is bigger than the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. How is this possible?  I mean, really?  The Air and Space Museum has a space shuttle inside of it!

~ The binnacle is where one holds their compass on a boat - not extra sails.  In my defense the logic for extra sails was sound - Binnacle sounds like Barnacle which are usually on the bottom of a boat, so in the bottom of the boat is where extra sails are kept.  See?  At least I had a good reason for being wrong...