Trivia Tuesday

~ In weeks that are considered off season - the questions seem to get easier and we seem to get dumber.  We literally ended the evening with 1 point...

~ Having the chance to bet all the points on the last question, instead of capping it 40 would have been a whole lot more fun if we had gotten the answer correct. Turns out 68 points disappear pretty quick...

~ Squab is pigeon meat as opposed to quail or pheasant meat.  It's lovely when you know the answer to the question immediately.  It's not so lovely when you talk yourself out of that answer, in favor of a wrong one.

~ For once the spelling question wasn't a gotcha tonight.  Turns out the word "cynicism" looks really weird spelled any other way than the correct way.

~ It's a fact that the English nerds at the table will feel far superior to everyone else when it's discovered they're the only team that knew the 2 female characters in Hamlet (Ophelia & Gertrude).  Also those very same English nerds will judge everyone else harshly for not getting that answer correct.

~ Pop-Tarts are Kellog's answer to something called Country Squares.  In a million trillion years, I would never have thought of Pop-tarts as answer to a cereal. Also, Pop-Tarts are rectangular - if Kellogs was trying to beat a product called Country Squares, don't you think the pop-tarts should have been square?

~ How, how, how was Full Metal Jacket - a movie all about soldiers in Vietnam - filmed in the UK as opposed to the other more obvious choice, the Phillipines?  I'm shocked and also annoyed because that was yet another question we got wrong.

~ From the teachers at the table - the answer to "What percentage of parents believe their child's hyperactive behavior is just a phase that they will grow out of?" is not 100%.  It's not even 50%.  48% just doesn't seem high enough for as many times as this excuse is used in schools.

~ A Shakespeare question and a Musical question in one week - jackpot!  Unfortunately, the musical they chose was Annie which is just not high up on the list of wonderful musical lists.  But it might make it up there yet since we were able to gain some points by knowing Mrs. Hanigan's name.