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We did game three of a “blitz” to finish the My Trivia Live season on a recent mild Sunday evening with just one more game to go. How rare is it when I put on jeans – instead of shorts – to go out on an evening in late June? In southeast Michigan? Why, it’s almost as rare as getting MTL final questions correct!

We strangely managed to do just that in our most recent game! Of course, after handing in our carefully debated answer, that’s when you start doubting yourself:

“Am I sure it’s (that musical duo) and not (the other musical duo)? “Maybe it’s an even different musical duo than the two we had it narrowed down to for our guess.”

Because of the final question’s misleading wording, it’s not surprising that there were at least three or four different answers for the same question. I’m not a professional trivia question writer, but I think using decisive words such as “best selling” and “all time” had better damn well be backed up – or don’t use them at all.

Citing a reliable source for a question like this, such as Billboard magazine, or the Recording Industry Association of America – would be great! When I heard the words “best selling” and “musical duo” in the final question, I immediately thought of one duo, but when I heard the qualifiers of “five studio albums” and “three number one hits” I thought of another which we wound up putting down as our answer, which was counted as correct. But I can certainly understand how teams who might have answered the first duo that I also thought of – and finding out it was wrong – could be frustrated. I would be, too! Just a simple Google search will even tell you that the “wrong” duo is the best selling duo of all time, after all. I guess it all came down to which question qualifiers teams felt were most important to satisfy. Oh the trials and tribute competing in the cutthroat world of pub trivia, right?

Getting the final question correct helped us get the bad taste of the rest of the game out of our mouths! Did I just walk into a dirty joke? 😏

Yeah, the three of us “amigos” didn’t do so hot on the regular round questions at all. Asking us questions about …fashion? Us? What would we know about a silly thing like that?

Not much, apparently! We also failed in the subjects of boy band members, cookies, the recording industry, businessmen, winds, books co-written by Stephen King and…Hawaii. No sir, it was not a very good round of questions for our collective brains!

About those questions, read on to see what our questions were! Please note that they are heavily abbreviated, and may be somewhat “reverse engineered:”

Round One

Holidays – What holiday is celebrated every last Monday in May?

Hair Care – What hair care products include an ingredient marketed as Pro V?

Sequels – What character from the 1986 film Top Gun has his nickname included in the 2022 sequel to that film?

Round Two

Kids Books – The character named LeRoy Brown, featured in a book series from 1963-2012, was better known by what nickname?

Movie Time – What time does the alarm go off on the bedside clock each day in the movie Groundhog Day?

Hawaii – What is the name commonly associated with Hawaiian statues typically carved from wood – as well as the style of certain tropical cocktails, including the Mai Tai? This is not exactly how this question was presented to us, I added the cocktail part…we missed this. Anyone else craving these kinds of cocktails now? I remember when I made zombie cocktails and nearly turned my husband into one!

Round Three

Comebacks – What knuckle sized cookie, which includes a frosting for dipping, disappeared from store shelves in 2012, but returned in 2020? Miss.

80s TV – What man launched the crime TV series America’s Most Wanted after grieving the murder of his own young son Adam years earlier?

Documents – What profession would be involved with documents pertaining to IEP?

Halftime –

Identify the continents from which the following winds originate:

Chinook, Loo, Sirocco, Mistral

We only got two of these correct.

We were in fifth with 28 points at mid-game. A duo (more about duos later, lol) playing under the name “Nope Part 2” was in first at the half with an impressive 36 points. So…what was your one point miss? If I had to guess, I’d say Groundhog Day or Hawaii? Hell, we missed both of those and more! 😆

Round Four

Government – What does the S stand for in the abbreviation SEC? This was the second of three initial-based questions we had in this game, the last one we’ll get in round 6 (SPOILER) and we’ll flunk it!

Businessmen – What billionaire founded the Boring Company? I was talked out of my suggested answer, which was correct 🤨

Dangerous Food – What is the Japanese name of the type of fish that contains tetrodotoxin in some parts it which make it poisonous, though other parts are edible? Of course this reminded me of The Simpsons, but I am trying really hard not to use any more Simpsons memes in recaps (trust me it’s funny though)!

Round Five

Motorcycle Groups – In what South Dakota city do hundreds of thousands of bikers congregate every August?

After the Band – Which member of N’Sync has had a post-band career as a TV host? Like that team that kicked everybody’s asses all through this game…Nope!

Literature – Which was the second book co-written by authors Stephen King and Peter Strong, and was a 2001 sequel to a book they published in 1984? Again…nope for us!

Round Six –

“Can the questions get a bit easier for us,” we plaintively pleaded to the almighty trivia gods. Their answer?

Or… “Nope?”

Sigh…let’s get this debacle over with, shall we?

Round Six

Record Industry – What do the letters A and R stand for in record industry lingo referring to talent scouting?

Nope!

Events – What event dubbed “Fashion’s Biggest Night Out” is held annually on the first Monday in May and is spearheaded by Anna Wintour? PLEASE MAKE IT STOP ALREADY! Ugh…miss.

Snacks – What type of popped corn is typically both sweet and salty? Yes this is more heavily abbreviated than it needs to be (hey I have somebody to meet in a an hour forgive me) 😁

OK, we were in fifth again going into the final with 53 points and team Nope Part 2 was ruling the roost in first with 70 points.

Final Category – Dynamic Duos

Based on total available certified units worldwide, not just promoted numbers, selling at least 60 million units around the globe, including five studio albums and three number one singles, what twosome is the best selling American musical duo of all time?

This question is NOT abbreviated, I checked it with the host and got it down in its entirety.

We eliminated one of our choices because I knew that they had recorded “Way more than just five albums.” How did I know that? Mom was a huge fan and bought a bunch of their albums in the 80s and took me to one of their concerts (my brother got to go to two)!

We got this, moved to third, won $10. Unsure which team won first place.

Seriously though, even though I’m happy that our answer was ruled correct, I still think that it could have been worded more clearly.

We have no real trivia plans this upcoming holiday week. As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Daryl Hall and John Oates (are you two still fighting – please stop it and make up already, life is too short for this petty stuff)!