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What did we learn at trivia last night?
Alan Freed looks like Bob Hope.
Putting babies to sleep on their backs equals "slut practice."
Team Fourth Place is not allowed to babysit, as they're the only team that got "on their backs" wrong.
"Ephyra" would be a good term for a baby elephant.
At least one team confused Robert Mappelthorpe's work with William Wegman's.
Thirteen teams pitted their collective brains against each other last night at the Old Pequliar, answering 80 questions in 8 categories. The winner took home $100, the last place team took home a beer-themed long-sleeved shirt and three Cointreau baseball caps.
Final standings:
1) Hüsker Don't: 52 points ($100)
2) Mexican Fighting Chickens: 47 points ($20)
3) Fourth Place: 44 points ($10 because they won the tiebreaker question)
3) The Bombed Bastards: 44 points
5) Corn on the Macabre and Homeless and Unemployed, 43 points
7) Pogue Mahone: 41 points
8) Team Guinness Stout: 32 points
9) The Balla from Walla and Zoji Ba Ba, 31 points
11) Jorge, 28 points
12) BCH, 27 points
13) Spine-Tingling Toast, 26 points
This is the second win in a row for Hüsker Don't, who are frightfully well informed about inconsequential stuff. We encourage all other readers to assemble into groups of five, Voltron-style, and take down the big brains. (Nice job, guys. Be sure to defend your title.)
Next week: Seth hosts!
The answers to last night's quiz are after the jump. Want to take the quiz first? Scroll down.
Stumpers vs. gimmes: If an answer's in bold, no team got it right. If it's in italics, every team got it right.
Round 1: Geography
1) Los Angeles
2) Whidbey island
3) Saskatoon
4) Australia
5) Thailand
6) Argentina
7) the Atlas mountains
8) Norway
9) Vienna, Austria
10) Chicago
(Fourth Place, Hüsker Don't, and Mexican Fighting Chickens got 6 points, Zoji Ba Ba got 1 point)
Round 2: Pirates vs. Ninjas
1) Snake-Eyes
2) Spider-Man
3) The Hand
4) Captain Kidd
5) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6) privateer
7) You Only Live Twice
8) Kobe
9) Eric Van Lustbader
10) Cutthroat Island
(Five teams scored 7 points, BCH scored 2 points)
Round 3: Safety
1) electrical
2) 2
3) Stop, drop and roll
4) April
5) 3
6) gas masks (the eyepieces)
7) Eddie Eagle
8) 8 minutes, 58 seconds (8:53 to 9:03)
9) Occupational Safety & Health Administration
10) defensive back
(Corn on the Macabre and Hüsker Don't scored 8 points, Homeless & Unemployed and Pogue Mahone scored 4 points)
Round 4 (picture round): Identify the radio personalities
1) Dr. Drew Pinsky
2) Rush Limbaugh
3) Dr. Laura Schlessinger
4) Casey Kasem
5) Alan Freed
6) Dr. Demento
7) Susan Stamberg
8) Wolfman Jack
9) John Peel
10) Howard Stern
(Hüsker Don't scored 9 points, Zoji Ba Ba scored 4 points)
Round 5: Babies
1) Emily
2) on their back
3) Eraserhead
4) Canada
5) Brahms' Lullaby
6) Baby Michelangelo
7) jellyfish
8) "Baby Boy" (Beyonce with Sean Paul)
9) FreeInternet.com
10) Jacob
(Mexican Fighting Chickens and Homeless & Unemployed scored 5 points, Spine-Tingling toast scored 1)
Round 6: Heat
1) jalapeno
2) 310.15 degrees
3) The Trammps
4) Hot Stuff
5) Libya
6) Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People
7) The Reverend Horton Heat
8) Glen Rice
9) The McDLT
10) napalm
(Hüsker Don't, Homeless & Unemployed, and Corn on the Macabre scored 7 points, Jorge scored 1)
Round 7: Movies
1) Ghost
2) Bicentennial Man
3) Finding Nemo
4) The Ladykillers
5) RoboCop 3
6) Jersey Girl
7) Dave
8) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9) Office Space
10) Stephen Root
(Hüsker Don't scored 9 points, Team Guinness Stout, Spine-Tingling Toast, and BCH scored 2)
Round 8: Name the photographer, based on a photo
1) Man Ray
2) Anne Geddes
3) Cindy Sherman
4) Larry Clark
5) Robert Mapplethorpe
6) Robert Doisneau
7) Annie Leibovitz
8) Bunny Yeager
9) Diane Arbus
10) Ansel Adams
(The Bombed Bastards, Fourth Place, and Mexican Fighting Chickens scored 7 points; 5 teams, including Hüsker Don't, scored 3)
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On Round 1, Question 8: "Not including the British Isles, Scotland's nearest neighbor is what country?"
Er, the answer should be Faroe Islands (Denmark), not Norway. Mind you, it's only closer by a matter of about 2 km.
Hm. Well, on the plus side, the only team that got the question wrong -- that is, that didn't put "Norway" -- guessed France. So it didn't really cost anyone a point.
Had I discovered this while writing the quiz, however, I would've ditched the question, because it strikes me as one of those "gotcha!" questions that really annoy me as a trivia player.
But I'm glad you mentioned it -- if it ever comes up when I'm playing somewhere else...well, I'll have to try and figure out if that quiz master is going with the easy-to-find answer or the tricky answer.