Editor’s note: I was not present at this trivia game, but have provided questions from this game as typed up by a Toledo trivia team.

Here is the question set from Wednesday’s Sporcle Live venue tournament as typed up by Toledo team Steele Trap. Let’s see how I do on these questions (I have already heard that they were brutal)…
Game One
1. Video Game Characters: Twisted!, Touched!, and Swapped! are subtitles of video games featuring what Nintendo character who was originally designed to be Mario’s archrival?
Nope.
2. Mathematics: In branches of mathematics that recognize four conic sections, those four are the hyperbola, parabola, circle, and what fourth option?
Nope.
3. Song Titles: Mungo Terry, Sly and the Family Stone, and DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince all had top five hits on the Billboard Hot 100 with songs that include which 10 letter word in their titles?
Yup.
4. Country Names: Of the eight sovereign countries with names ending in the letter Y in the common English spelling, which European country comes first alphabetically?
Yup, but it took more than the time that would have been allotted!
5. Gifts: Which of the following is not one of the things the tree gives to the boy in Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree: apples, branches, leaves, or stump?
Yup.
6. Companies: When the Fortune 500 was first released in 1955, which motor company was #1 on the list?
Yup.
7. Box Office Bombs: What 2001 box office bomb is about a whole blood cell and a cold pill who must work together to prevent a deadly virus from killing the human body they are in who is played by Bill Murray?
Yup, and this very movie was asked about in a venue tournament in June, 2015.
8. Athletic Conferences: Which Division 1 conference includes universities with athletic teams nicknamed the Spiders, Minutemen, Rams, and Bonnies, among others? Nope.
9. Royalty: The monarch known as the Sun King ruled what country from 1643 until 1715? Bonus: what was his regnal name and number? I would not know this, but I just hollered this question up the stairs at Mike, who knew this and the bonus. Hey, who says I can’t use lifelines? This isn’t Learned League, after all! 🙂
10. TV Jobs: On what sitcom that aired from 1976 until 1983 did the two title characters work at Shotz Brewery?
Pardon me while I pour myself a milk and Pepsi…
Mystery Round: Movie Critics – all movies are adapted from books
1. 1971 – Roald Dahl disliked that the title was changed to highlight a different character
2. 1961 – Truman Capote said that seeing Audrey Hepburn in the film “made me want to throw up.”
3. 1964 – P. L. Travers strongly disliked the animation scenes
4. 1980 – Stephen King lamented that Stanley Kubrick made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones.
Missed #3.
Final Category: Government Positions
Final Question: William Martin, Arthur Burns, G. William Miller, and Paul Volcker were the four people who held a particular government position between 1951 and 1987. Name two of the three people that have held that position since 1987.
Would not have known this one on my own, but a couple of my teammates are stronger in this category than I am.
Game Two
1. Animals: The term “big cat” refers to any of the four largest living members of the Panthera genus. Which species is the largest of the “big cats?”
Yup.
2. The End of the Poem: What is the last word in “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost? Nope.
3. Hotlines: 1-800-273-8255 is a toll free hotline founded in 2004 that experienced a 27% increase in calls after a song with that title was released in April 2017. What subject does the hotline deal with?
Made right guess.
4. Board Games: Within two, how many triangles are on a backgammon board? Bonus for the exact number.
Uh, nope…
5. Allies: Not including any country that was part of the British Empire at the time, name one of the three modern day African countries whose preceding Kingdoms or Republics fought for or supported the Allies in World War II?
Yup.
6. Animated TV: What animated TV show that ran from 1991 to 1992 featured a title character with an adopted daughter named Gosalyn and next door neighbors named Herb, Binkie, Tank, and Honker?
No clue.
7. Super Bowl Rings: What NFL coach is one of two people to have won the Super Bowl seven times?
Is it that grumpy guy who coaches the Patriots? 🙂 Not even going to bother to look this up.
8. State Capitals: What is the southernmost state capital city in the continental US?
Yup.
9. 80s Movies: What 1984 dance themed comedy drama film starring Lucinda Dickey, Shabba Doo, and Boogaloo Shrimp, was followed by a sequel subtitled Electric Boogaloo?
YES! And ALL sequel titles should be called “Electric Boogaloo!”

I don’t know which one of these guys is Shabba Doo…but what I want to know is: “Shabba Dabba Doo…Where are you? We must be breakdancing now…”
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10. Cookies: Which of the following has NOT been a limited edition Oreo cookie variety: blueberry pie, candy corn, cookies & crème, or rocky road? Made right guess. And for the record, I HATE questions like these. They are just designed to thin the herd, amirite?
Mystery Round: Name the South American country based on the city given which is the most populous city in the country that isn’t the capital.
1. Sao Paulo
2. Medellín
3. Córdoba
4. Puente Alto
Nope, only know #1.
Final Category: Emmy Awards
Final Question: Two different series produced by Showtime have been nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. Name both of them.
Nope.
For inquiring minds who have read this far, I’ll be posting the recap of Wednesday’s game at the Wurst Bar on Friday. Tonight I’ll be playing the venue tournament at Original Gravity Brewing Co. and will have a recap of that game posted on Friday, too.