We caught the tail end of what would be the last trivia game in the “trivia marathon” today at the YpsiFest. Then the host said there wouldn’t be another game, even though the event was advertised to last until 8 p.m. (we showed up a little before 6).

Well, that was a bummer! We finally found an activity that interested us at this festival, which is essentially designed to take your money in exchange for all manner of barbecued foods, sugary drinks, deep-fried confections, helicopter rides, numerous useless chotchkies, tie-dyed clothing and beer – if you don’t mind paying higher prices for it. And also dealing with the hassles of buying tickets, etc.

Here’s the kicker – THEY GAVE OUT CASH PRIZES AT THESE TRIVIA GAMES! This was NOT advertised – and the host herself didn’t even know about the cash prizes until she arrived for her post this morning. The last time I played a “festival” trivia game there were no real prizes handed out – just various things offered by sponsors – bags of popcorn, etc. Meh… The host didn’t even keep track of scores! Prizes were just “randomly” given to teams regardless of how they did.

So…let me get this straight – there would have been a chance to win cash at this “take your money” festival and we missed out on that chance?

Color me bummed…

Oh well! I’ll be doing a little pit stop at home for a bit so that (hopefully) some crowds clear out and we can have some beers on late night happy hour! On that note…(drum roll)

I do have some questions to share… (sorry no answers do your best to figure ’em out and these are in no particular order…). This is a blog-exclusive deal! You will ONLY get to see these questions if you read/follow this blog!

• What is the total number of days in April?
• Since 2016, what corporation has promoted that they are “committed to being America’s first job?”
• Based on a Chinese game created in 1985, what casino table game’s object is creating two poker hands out to the seven cards the player is dealt, to try to beat both of the dealer’s corresponding hands?
• After a 1975 speech by President Gerald Ford, denying federal assistance to spare the city from bankruptcy, a newspaper in what city was prompted to run the headline, “Ford to city: Drop Dead?”
• What major world capital lies on the Molonglo River?
• What film from The Beatles, their second original film, started with the working title Eight Arms to Hold You?
• In technology, what word, also used in cleaning, means to drag a finger across a bar to find a certain position in a video or song?
• What woman, nicknamed “The Queen of Mean,” was reported as saying “Only the little people pay taxes” before her conviction on tax evasion?
•  When first released nearly 40 years ago, what was the original color of Post-It notes?
• What interjection is TV chef Emeril Legasse known for shouting when adding more spices to his dishes?
• In the game Operation, what visual effect happens to the patient if you perform an unsuccessful operation?
• A morel is what type of edible fungus?
• In biology, the “double helix” describes the specific structure of what double-stranded substance?
• In the standard unit of measurement, there are 500 sheets of paper in what unit?
• In the standard unit of measurement, there are 25 sheets of paper in what unit?
• Featuring characters like Chase and Heatwave, Rescue bots are a younger, kid-friendly extension of what group of heroes?
• First streaming worldwide on Netflix over the holidays in 2018, what Sandra bullock thriller move had the biggest seven-day viewership of any of Netflix’s original films to date?
• What president said, “Once you get into this stream of history, you can’t get out?” Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Franklin Roosevelt, or Barack Obama?
• Halftime – When given a TV series, indicate whether it ran for more or less than 10 total seasons – Law and Order, The Waltons, ER, Little House on the Prairie

Other questions:

Until the end of 2011, what Pacific island nation fell east of the International Date Line, until midnight of December 29, 2011, when they continued directly to December 31, skipping the entire calendar day of December 30, and effectively re-drawing the International Date Line? Be specific.

In the introduction to ABC’s Wide World Of Sports series, video of an accident from a 1979 competition in what sport accompanied the phrase “The Agony of Defeat?”

Created in the 1890s, the very first volleyballs were originally made from what other sport’s balls?

Tiebreaker – As of January 1, 2019, to the nearest penny, what was AAA’s average price of gas in the state of Michigan?