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Close, so, so close! We finished in second place in a recent virtual trivia game thanks to us having zero confidence in the category of 2010s music! We has a similar final question category a fee nights ago and failed it after wagering it all. But nobody expects us to beat the indomitable Bark and Stormy trivia team, do they? I think I can count on one finger – maybe two fingers – the number of times THAT’S happened!

These silly virtual trivia rivalries are just that. It’s not the same as having in-person “teams to beat.” In my more confident moments, maybe I’d like to think that sometimes – maybe not all of the time – that us ‘Pods were some other team’s “team to beat.” And it meant all the more when the team you tried to beat was in the same bricks and mortar room with you. Beating some other team in a Zoom conference just doesn’t have much meaning.

Still, though..second place in any trivia brouhaha? Sure, why not?

Here were our questions:

Round One –

1 Voting – What is the two-word term for a survey of voters taken immediately after they have handed in their ballots?
2 Movie Sequels – What title character straightens the Leaning Tower of Pisa  in a 1983 sequel film? Thanks to my husband for remembering this one! Then we had a little discussion involving Gregory Hines and Richard Pryor – and which one of the actors was in this movie (I won this little argument). Honestly, I don’t think my husband has ever seen any films with Gregory Hines in it! Anyone else remember that 1985 movie about ballet dancers called White Nights? I think one of my friends dragged me to see that one with her! Trivia, I think this movie may have had TWO Oscar nominated songs. One of them – Lionel Richie’s super catchy “Say You, Say Me” won the Oscar. Now who can name the other song that was nominated but didn’t win? Hint – Stephen Bishop wrote it. Sigh…oh ALL right, want another hint?? Duet. Phil Collins. Now you can figure it out from there (now I will rack my brain trying to think of the woman he sang with, someone named Marilyn)…. Enough commentary for one stinkin’ question, n’est ce pas?
3 Inspirations What fictional hotel in a 1977 horror novel was inspired by the real-life Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado?

4 TV Judges – Nina Garcia is the only person to have been a judge on every season of what reality TV series that debuted in 2004? Miss.

Mystery Round One- Visual

We missed #4. We were just old enough to get #3, and too old for #4! We just never got into “that” craze.

Round Two –

5 Elements – Name either of the elements on the periodic table that get their names from the Greek words for the Sun and the Moon.

NERD POINT: Name both.

Missed the nerd point.
6 NBA Stats – At the time of his retirement, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA’s all-time leader in what statistical category, with 3,189? Miss.
7 Bands – What band first played together during a 1968 tour of Scandinavia as the New Yardbirds, before changing its name and going on to release eight studio albums? Damn, we should’ve known this…miss.

8 Dice – On a six-sided standard die, when a five is face up, what number is face down? Trivial Pursuit question of auld.

Mystery Round Two –

Missed # 1. We mistakenly tried to think of all NYC landmarks.

Final question:

In the decade of the 2010s, four songs with “boy” or “girl” as part of their titles—either on their own or as part of another word—reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Name two of those four songs, which reached #1 in March 2010, December 2010, January 2017, and September 2018.

We wagered zero, only one team got it correct, so we moved to second. As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Wimpy!