Rewind a couple of months to the Sporcle Events Globe Games. We attempted to do a merger of players from our trivia team with players from the Sparty On trivia team.

Almost all of those players met up again at McShane’s for a recent My Trivia Live game! The only one not playing – Stacy – was on the mic hosting the game.

The two players who couldn’t play the Globe Game in June were myself – and my husband Mike.

It was interesting to finally meet the “new guy” – a player named Archie –  who played for the first time at that game last June. Our friend Dave recruited him to help us at the game last June, and invited him out to the game at McShane’s. He turned out to be a big help on a geography question that stumped the rest of us!! ✊🌎

We hope that he’ll be able to help out at some more of our games in the future 😁

Side note, this wasn’t the first time we’ve played with someone named Archie on our team. May the other Archie – who backed us up at regular games and tournaments – rest in peace (he passed away in 2019 and we all miss him dearly). 🪦😢

As for how we did in the game? We finished second with 63 league points and won a $20/second place prize (no teams got the final question correct).

We are still not too hopeful about qualifying for semifinals at the end of this season. We just can’t seem to move up from third place. But that doesn’t mean that we’re giving up!

Here were our abbreviated questions:

Round One

Real Estate – What is the word for a loan taken out when purchasing a home?

Real ID – What symbol appears on Michigan driver’s licenses that meet federal standards?

The Real World – The Real World was one of the longest running programs on what cable network?

Round Two

Sports – Missouri will play host to the championships in what sport abbreviated XC?

Fabric Arts – What French derived word describes looping together yarn with hooks?

Books – What book features characters such as the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts?

Round Three

Games – At the start of a game of chess, what fraction of the board is occupied by pieces? Two different answers accepted for this.

Musical Cities – What Midwest city is mentioned in the theme song for the Drew Carey Show?

Newspapers – What southern Florida newspaper founded in 1903 is owned by the McLatchy Group?

Halftime – U.S. Presidents

With four of the five taking office within the same 40 year span, identify the four U.S. presidents who never won an election.

We got all of these correct.

Halftime scores – 23, Get; Keeping up with the Joneses, 26; Pursuit of O Snappiness/Titanic Swim Team, 28; Pocket Pool Sharks, 30; Dead Guys, 31; Ypsi Starlings Rugby/Nope/Happy, 32; MJ, 33; and Spacecats/Pods, 37.

Round Four

Medicine – What type of specialist’s focus is the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders and diseases?

Silver Screen – Dame Maggie Smith will not appear in the upcoming film adaptation of what TV series? “The Grand Finale” is the subtitle of that film.

Bodies of Water – What is the name of the strait connecting the English Channel to the North Sea which shares its name with an English city? Calais, France lies on the other side of this strait.

Our “new guy” Archie was the star here! ✊ 😊

Round Five

Paleontology – Challenging previously accepted theories on human evolution, what country was the location for the unearthing of 300,000 human remains in 2017?

We used our “answer of the day” here.

Quotes – What Irish playwright was credited with the quote “Youth is wasted on the young?”

Champions – Who is credited as the first professional golfer to rise form caddy ranks, doing so in 1860? Miss.

Round Six

What element of clockwork allows the movement of a gear one tooth at a time? Miss.

Toys – What does the acronym SNOT stand for in LEGO play, which describes a multi use piece that can connect to other pieces? Unsure if any teams got this one correct.

Calendar – What season comes to an end on September 22?

Scores heading into the final:

45, Get; Keeping up with the Joneses, 46; Pursuit of O Snappiness/Titanic Swim Team, 50; Dead Guys, 51; MJ, 53; Ypsi Starlings Rugby/Nope/Pocket Pool Sharks/Happy, 56; Pods, 63; Spacecats, 69.

Final Question Category – Royal Jewels

This question was pretty convoluted, and I don’t want to get it wrong, so…here’s my  abridged version:

In 1903, Queen Victoria Eugenie of what country, dictated in her will strict rules about her family jewels, which include a Fleur-de-lis tiara and a Russian pearl necklace?

No teams got this correct.

Game winners – Nope, Pods, Spacecats.

We’re figuring out our trivia game plan for next week. If anyone reading this is going to Sporcle Con in Chicago this weekend, good luck to ya! Have a Chicago style pizza slice and a Chicago style hot dog for me! Oh yeah win a trivia prize too 😂 As

As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Millard Fillmore (sorry I almost forgot all about you in the trivia game)!

R1 mortgage, star, MTV

R2 cross country, crochet, Alice’s adventures in wonderland,

R3 1/64 or 1/2, Cleveland, Miami herald

H Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Arthur, Fillmore, Ford

R4 opthalmologist, Downton Abbey, Strait of Dover

R5 Morocco, George Bernard Shaw, Willy Parker

R6 scapement, studs not on top, summer

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