Trivia Tuesday

~ It turns out the Tuesday before Thanksgiving - as in the last day of school before Fall break - is the perfect time for teachers to indulge in a pitcher of beer.  This decision led to a pretty laid back atmosphere this evening.  Also, finding the right pose for the picture with your pitcher of beer is essential to the evening's festivities.  

~ Though being only 1 of 2 people at the table that has to work tomorrow, kinda stunk.

~ Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1939, only to have it revoked a few months later.  Turns out I was the only person at the table that had too much faith in the world to believe this was actually true, and the only person the team listened to when I said that wasn't the answer.  Oops!  After this election, I suppose I should believe anything!

~ Because of my ill-fated faith in humanity, when I knew that the Vietnam War was the longest war the US was involved in, no one believed me.  Tough crowd.

~ Neon blue shots are just as terrible as they sound.  I have no idea how people drink those things!  One sip and I was ready to wash my mouth out with soap.

~ Turns out that after partaking in 2/3 of the entire pitcher of beer, when Christmas is, becomes a little tough to decipher.

~ It's always awkward when the question asker comes over to say that he was sure he'd stump the english teacher on our team with tonight's literary question, after we answered it correctly, mostly because this particular English teacher was stumped.  It was the history teacher that answered Ben Hur correctly.  However, the English teacher was consuming a pitcher of beer at that point, and was too confused to tell him he did stump her.

~ No one but me had ever heard of the Thanksgiving song Alice's Restaurant.  I feel they've totally been deprived their entire lives.

~ When the last question is about the Special Olympics, and the entire team only knows one fact about the Special Olympics, it's super helpful when the answer to the question is that one particular fact you all know.  It really comes in handy when that happens!

~ Reason 1 million and 36 to love the television show Friends - it will sometimes provide you an answer to some obscure question about cobnuts.