My husband and I hit up a Thursday trivia night at McShane’s Pub on a recent chilly fall evening. No prizes for us, but that’s OK! We’ve been on a hot streak of winning trivia prizes at least once per week for the past seven weeks, so we’ll just have to try harder next time!

Here were our abbreviated questions:

Round One

Fictional Families – Gomez, Morticia and Wednesday are all members of what fictional family?

U.S. Military – What seaworthy military branch was formally founded in March, 1794?

Disney- What type of fruit represents Cinderella’s carriage?

Round Two

Famous Names – what person born October 16, 1758 has become synonymous with dictionaries?

Tragedies – What Midwest city had a fire devastating it in 1871?

Seni-Scary Movies – What Tim Burton film features a ghost couple trying to scare away the new homeowners?

Round Three

Baseball – What former MLB player was known as “Mr. November?”

Mike came up with the right guess. Had I known that he knew this because of his job working on a sports memorabilia magazine, I would have told him to wager higher! Nice work, honey 😘

Holidays – What holiday is celebrated annually every November 11 in the U.S.?

Trademarks – What company owns the trademark PSL which represents one of its products even though they were not the first to make it? Miss.

Halftime Category – Reality TV

When given the debut  years and original hosts, identify the following reality TV or reality competition series:

H1 Phil Keoghan, 2001

H2 Alan Funt, 1948

H3 Nick Cannon, 2019

H4 Chris Harrison, 2002

Missed 1 and 4.

Halftime Scores:

Merfs, 27; Pods (Us), 28; Keeping up With the Joneses, 29; Mr. and Mrs. Dork/Dead Guys, 30; Spacecats, 31; Ypsi Starlings Rugby, 32 and Pants, 33.

Round Four

Novels – Who wrote The Godfather novel?

Greek Mythology – Who was Queen of the Underworld, daughter of Zeus and also known as goddess of the harvest? Yay Mike; ✊👊

Comics What truth seeking comic book character was created by the man who created a test for measuring  blood pressure? Miss.

Round Five

Costumes – In the 2012 book Wonder, Augie dresses as what character for Halloween which surprises everyone? Used our Answer of the Week here. No idea.

Festivals – What Hindu festival of lights the victory of good over evil? Damn it, Kim was telling me about this just a couple of days earlier! Did not recall the name…miss.

Under the Sea – What crustacean is sometimes called Norway lobster? It is considered the most important crustacean in Europe. Miss.

Round Six

Authors – What Gothic American writer was born in Boston in 1809 and died in Baltimore in 1849?

Backyard Games

What’s this game called?

Trivia Math – If you add the number of days in October to the square root of 9, what number do you get?

Scores heading into the final:

Merfs, 49; Pods, 54; Keeping Up With the Joneses, 57; Dead Guys, 58; Mr. and Mrs. Dork, 62; Spacecats, 63; Ypsi Starlings Rugby, 66; Pants, 69.

Final Category: Actresses

Name the actress, billed as Britain’s first prima donna in the 1950s, and performing voice roles in both Shrek and Despicable Me who has also won an Oscar and an Emmy?

We got this, but so did enough teams ahead of us to mean no prizes for us.

Game winners – Dead Guys, Mr. and Mrs. Dork, Ypsi Starlings Rugby.

This ends our trivial pursuits for the week. We’ll be back in the Sporcle Events saddle for music quiz next Monday after that, it’s alL TBD. 

Mike and I will be out of town for Halloween as is our tradition! As always, Go Pods, and stay  classy, Julie Andrews, even when you go topless in the 1981 movie S.O.B.! Was this movie to her what Striptease was for Demi Moore? 🤔

The things a gal will do in a movie if her husband directs the movie! 😂

R1 Addams, pumpkin, navy

R2 webster, Chicago fire, beetlejuice

R3 reggie Jackson , veterans day, pumpkin spice latte

H amazing race, candid camera, masked Singer, the bachelor

R4 Mario puzo, Persephone, wonder woman

R5 ghost face, Diwali, langostina (king prawn also accepted).

R6 poe, cornhole, 34

F Julie andrews