Here were our questions from a recent virtual trivia game (I’m keeping this and the next couple of recaps brief because of time constraints):

1 Authors – Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for what 1936 novel set in Georgia during and after the American Civil War?

2 Runners Up – Name one of the three second place finishers in U.S. presidential elections that occurred in the 1960s.

3 US Cities – What city, located on the Cumberland River, is known as the “Athens of the South”?

4 Typing – When using the traditional touch-typing method on a standard QWERTY keyboard, what key is under the left-hand little finger when the hands are on the home row?

5 Advertising – What brand of chewing gum has used its ads to encourage people to “kiss a little longer”?

Name three of the four U.S. state capitals that have the letter “Y” in their names but do NOT have the word “city.”

6 Soccer – Which MLS team, a charter member of the league, plays its home games in the Denver metro area?

7 Sitcoms – Name either of the performers who play a title character on the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly.
NERD POINT: Name both.

8 What acid has the chemical formula HCl (that’s a lowercase “L”)?

Mystery Round Two –

Name the band whose name contains the name of a band member, given the year and the title of a song.

M1. “Crash into Me” (1996)

M2. “Jump, Jive an’ Wail” (1998)

M3. “Stuck with You” (1986)

M4. “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” (1964)

Got all of these correct.

Final Category – Capitals

Name three of the four U.S. state capitals that have the letter “Y” in their names but do NOT have the word “city.”

Got this, finished in sixth with 61 points.