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It’s almost as if two different McShane’s trivia teams – swapped games in two consecutive weeks!

Last week, we had our top scoring game of the season with 69 points, and had a perfect halftime round of questions about Academy Award-winning films. We also managed to get a final question correct, which is a huge deal in My Trivia Live games (and a rarity for us)!

This past game, another “team” (a one-player operation as it were) also had a 69 point game – and a perfect halftime round about original colors of M&M candies. And they also got the final question correct (we did not this time, we overthought it).

Damn it – when I saw what one of the original colors was, I was like “Why don’t they make them in that color anymore? Well, maybe they do in seasonal packages of M&Ms? I’ll let this meme from the 1989 Batman movie tell ya what color that was:

A little context, in this scene, Vicky Vale is attempting to…distract Joker while they’re in this awesome Gothic cathedral clock tower (Gotham Cathedral, as it were), so that Batman can come to save her. Not exactly an example of “female empowerment,” but sometimes a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do! And she did prey on the villain’s weakness (which is similar to the weaknesses of lots of people like him).

And another relevant meme here:

Still, we knew having a crappy game had to happen sometime! We won prizes in five different trivia games over the past four weeks, so we rolled with it! We’ll spend the rest of our holiday weekend committing the original colors of M&Ms to our memories and slapping ourselves silly as punishment!

Off topic, Batman and other iconic figures from the comic book universe will be entering the public domain soon. Which will most likely mean – Batman-inspired horror films! I say this because they’ve already done these with Winnie The Pooh and Popeye (the Popeye one is horrible, BTW).

There are interesting caveats with the copyright things – for example, with Mickey Mouse being in the public domain, it applies only to the “Steamboat Willie” version of him. And with Popeye, you can’t refer to the spinach giving him powers. Don’t ask me why this is, that’s way above my pay grade!

What will Batman’s copyright caveats be? Can’t call him the “Caped Crusader?”

Why stop with horror films, though? Why not do some X-rated animated films with the newly public domain characters? Who wouldn’t want to see a Betty Boop or Wonder Woman porno? Both of them are going to enter the public domain in the next several years, too. This will be a new frontier of horrible, horrible films! 😂

Still, a 63 point game with just two players and our only “real” misses being the halftime round and that pesky final question? Not TOO bad! Because “Tomorrow is another game!” Well, not “literally” tomorrow because most trivia shows are canceled for the Fourth, but I’m just basically butchering a dramatic movie quote from another best picture winning film – Gone With the Wind. Which I have never watched all of the way through, and don’t plan to…ever. And no, it’s not because of the African-American characterizations and antebellum references being offensive to today’s more “woke” audiences, it’s just too…damn long. If I’m going to watch a movie that long, there had better be epic battle sequences involving horse cavalry, brave Hobbits, undead glowing skeleton armies and giant spiders. Hey, we all have a “type” when it comes to movies, don’t we? My sister-in-law loves GWTW enough for everyone on the planet and can watch it ad nauseum in my stead! She’s my designated GWTW proxy!

So…no trivia prizes this time. I have some unspent trivia prizes from a couple of different places, so…we’ll be back to visit Water Tower Distilling and McShane’s at some point! One of those places for sure next week, the other is a “maybe.” We’re still figuring out what our trivia plan is for next week.

Here were our abbreviated questions from the game:

Round One

The Playground – What does one have a pocket full of when playing “Ring Around the Rosie?”

U.S. Presidents – Which U.S. president had a sign on his desk that said “The Buck Stops Here?”

Medicine – What is the colorful more common name for the condition conjuctivitis?

Round Two

TV Series – What series focuses on a female character named Piper, who lives in New York City and is sentenced to 15 months in the Litchfield Penitentiary?

Syndromes – What syndrome describes the effects of a prisoner making a connection or bond with the person who imprisons them?

Royalty – What princess, whose children included Caroline, Albert and Stephanie died in a car accident in 1982?

Round Three

Plants – What is the name for the main root of a plant from which other roots from the same plant sprout?

Country Singers – Written by Shel Silverstein, the song “A Boy Named Sue” was recorded by what country singer in 1969?

Beer – What beer cocktail is typically made with two types of beer – a pale ale – and the other a darker beer, usually a stout? When you can manage to pour one of these perfectly, take a picture (it’s not easy to do)! I think the pale one has to be on top…

Halftime – Sweet Treats

Name four of the five original colors of M&M candies.

We got two correct colors. Clearly we need to do a deep dive into candyology!

Halftime Scores:

OK, 25; Keeping up with the Joneses, 30; The Next Netflix Trainwreck Documentary (us), 31; Dead Guys, 32; Man, 34; Scotty, 35; and with 37 (perfect score – clearly these teams all know more about M&M original colors than we do) – Titanic Swim Team, Spacecats and Nope.

Round Four

Roller Coasters – The original Switchback roller coaster debuted in what entertainment area in June, 1884?

Markets – Overlooking Elliot Bay, what is one of the oldest continually operating farmer’s markets in the United States? We did actually guess the right city for this, but we couldn’t come up with the name. Isn’t this more of a Round Five question? We used our “Word of the Day” freebie this league lets players use once per game to avoid answering this. We usually like to save this one for Round Five, yet there we were – crossing our fingers that Round Five wouldn’t absolutely kill us! Spoiler, it would only maim us, not kill us!

Musical Instruments – What musical instrument was bandleader Glenn Miller famous for playing? We think that another team tried to challenge this question by showing different information gleaned from using Google AI, unsure if their challenge got anywhere. We overheard the host Stacy saying that they needed to have a better source than AI. More interesting is…whatever happened to Glenn Miller? He totally Amelia Earharted his way out of existence – hopped on a plane and was never seen again (like so many others). Big Band music was kind of going out of style by the time this happened anyway, and it’s not likely he would have adapted his sound to rock ‘n roll, which would start to become popular in the next decade. Or would he? Now we’ll never know! 😔

Round Five

Funny Women – What female comic got her start in Greenwich Village alongside other comics including George Carlin and Richard Pryor and hosted the Late Show in the late 1980s?

Wars – In what war was the sinking of The Juneau, which ended the lives of five brothers serving on the ship? We totally overthought this – focused on the name of the vessel, and the fact that five different brothers were involved in this. The draft would later restrict things like this (at least this is what my husband said). We went way too early with our choice of wars, miss.

Mythology – Who is the Roman god of fire and the forge? Now this is more like it…

Round Six

Marathons – First ran in 1970, what is the world’s largest annual marathon? Miss. Though we did think of the correct answer AFTER we handed in our slip (d’oh)!

Movie Characters – What is the name of the ugly little spud in the 1984 film Ghostbusters?

Birds – What is the name for a male goose? We joked around a bit here…Randy, Chaz, Phil…

Scores heading into the final:

???, 47; Dead Guys, 52; Man, 58; ???, 62; Pods (us)/Scotty, tied with 63; Spacecats/Titanic Swim Team, 65; and team Nope all alone with a very enviable 69 points (hey we did that last week)!

Final Question:

Mary Katherine Goddard was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1998 for having her name on what historic document?

We guessed a historic document from Maryland and totally overthought this. Teams who didn’t overthink this:

Spacecats, third; Titanic Swim Team, second, and Nope, first place.

We’ll have a rematch sometime next week! That day presently is TBD.

As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Glenn Miller! It really would have been interesting to hear how you would have adapted your “Big Band” sound with the advances of technology that happened each decade after your disappearance! Would you try to make an electric amplified trombone and be the Jimi Hendrix of brass instruments? Now we’ll never know! 🎶 🎺

Answers:

r1

posies, truman, pinkeye

r2

orange is the new black, stockholm, grace

r3

taproot, johnny cash, black and tan

halftime – red, yellow, violet, green, brown

r4

coney island, pike place market, trombone

r5

joan rivers, ww2, vulcan

r6

new york, slimer, gander

f declaration of independence (should have paid more attention to what holiday was coming up!)