Last week we posted our lowest score of the season – and last night – we posted our third lowest score of the My Trivia Live season. 😩

If we were your your kid bringing home papers from school with bad grades on them, it might be time for an intervention!

“You’re gonna have to spend more time on your homework and less time (choose one of the following activities):

Watching Tik Tok videos, making Tik Tok videos, thinking of creative ways to get people to smash the “like” button on your YouTube channel, recording videos for your YouTube channel, playing whatever video game kids are crazy about right now, listening to podcasts, taking vape breaks,  recording podcasts, making up new slang words to confound adults and send them to the Google machine to try to figure out what they actually mean.

Feel free to add to this list, I don’t have kids, so I’m just imagining how they waste their time these days!

But we’re two chronological adults who just f—ed up a couple of trivia games. We don’t have to answer to anyone! And we’re not trying to qualify for league supremacy this season, so…

Shake it off? Bitch about it a bit -then move on? 🤔

Truth be told, we probably used up all of our luck for the night by getting an awesome parking spot right by the door. On some other trivia nights here, we haven’t been as lucky, and had to park in the way out there zone in that parking lot with speed bumps.

Only one team managed to get the final question correct (or were the only ones getting it and betting it all), and it was a team tied with us for the bottom dwelling score heading into the final! I love it when things like this happen – whatever team it was (didn’t write down their whole name, the scores were read really fast so I used abbreviations for the usual suspects)…go them!

They sailed from last to first by getting this correct.

We were so close to getting it correct too – we had two possible answers written down in our brainstorming, we just happened to pick the wrong one. It’s one of our great talents in trivia battles! Talking ourselves out of correct answers – in addition to underthinking and overthinking answers 😔

There will be no trivia game at McShane’s on Tuesday, March 17. Since we usually sit in a seat close to the host stand, we could hear that at least a couple of teams may be disappointed about this tragic turn of events. Yes it’s a bummer when your normal trivia night has to be canceled for holidays (I feel you)! But there will be plenty of other opportunities to kick our asses in trivia games, so patience is a virtue 😂

If you’re looking for something pointless to do on St. Patrick’s Day that doesn’t involve raiding your wardrobe for green clothing or going out to drink, Rave Cinemas in Ann Arbor is showing the 1993 original Leprechaun movie with Jennifer Aniston! My husband and I saw this on one of our first dates! 🍀 🎦

But if you’re not up for any tomfoolery on that day, or you’re like me about 10 years ago and sick on St. Patrick’s Day, and maybe want to watch something more serious and in the Irish theme (sort of), you could look up In the Name of the Father. I think it’s the only Daniel Day-Lewis movie I like. However, I can only handle watching this one every 10 years or so (it’s not a joyful romp). I am a sucker for a good courtoom drama every now and then! Did Pete Postlethwaite win supporting actor or was he just nominated? Yep just nominated. Lots of noms for this movie, including Best Picture, but no wins.

I don’t know if any local bars are serving up trivia on St. Patrick’s Day, but you could call Red Rock Barbecue in Ypsi. It might not be a St. Patrick’s hot spot, and they’re a  new trivia kid on the block, and offer Sporcle Events trivia games.

Here were our extremely abbreviated questions:

Round One

Kids TV – Selena Gomez and Demi Levato both appeared in what singing dinosaur TV show?

Meat – What name for threads of fat in beef is shared with a rock?

Medicine – What does the letter B stand for in the condition abbreviated IBS?

Round Two

State Slogans – What state uses the slogan “Great Faces, Great Places?”

Fighting Words – What item of clothing has been thrown down when one throws down the gauntlet?

80s Movies – Vanna White played what Roman deity in the made for TV movie “Goddess of Love?” Glad I had a nerd boy playing with me to be able to tell me the difference between the Greek and Roman deities of this thing! 🤓

Round Three

Unions – As of 2025, Sean Astin is head of what merged union of entertainment professionals? We knew one of these unions, but not both, so here we go with our first f— up of the game. It won’t be our last one, so keep reading to see what else we f–up! I mean, what other reason is there to read these things besides schadenfreude about what we miss? 🤔

Geography – What is the westernmost continental point of Europe? We had to ask host Stacy to clarify that this question meant “continental” and not an island which would mean Denmark would technically be correct because of Greenland. Which as of now is still a European entity (sorry not sorry president T). So you see – we did do our best to not f— up this game! 😂

Speaking of f—ing things up…

Nobel Prizes – Who was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize, doing so in the field of physiology in 1904? Clearly our game was going to the dogs (this is a hint).

Halftime – Taxes

Name four of the five U.S. states that continued to impose poll taxes after the 24th Amendment prohibited them.

We picked three correct states. My husband had his own list of possibilities, I had my own list of possibilities, but even if we’d merged them better, we still would not have gotten all of these  correct. Shit…yeah these things happen in trivia sometimes!

Halftime scores: Smile, 6; mystery team I abbreviated as Un, 27; Pods, 29; Rather Be At/Wing/Maddie Platters, 30; We Were Never Here/Spacecats, 31; Three, 32.

Round Four

Iconic Images – What is the rhyming caption for the iconic 1967 photograph of a war protest where a carnation was placed inside the muzzle of a M14 rifle? I made a similar painting in high school art class, but it was a tank with a flower coming out of the cannon. It was pretty awful, but I was very excited that I managed to mix paint to create the right shade of brown! I actually made a friend in the class when I went up to them and randomly said “Look, I made brown paint!”

Beauty Brands – What actress and singer  launched the “Haus” beauty brand in 2019? Picked the wrong woman who is also an actress and singer, who probably has a beauty brand  too (Rihanna who has Fenty), miss.

Basketball – What NBA player is the only one whose jersey number has been retired league wide? Picked the wrong longtime player, miss.

Round Five

Phrases – What founder of the New York Tribune is credited with coining the phrase “Go West, Young Man?” Used our freebie answer here, just couldn’t think of this guy. Why did I think of Boss Tweed? 😂

90s TV – What is the “liberating” middle name of Dharma on the 90s TV series Dharma and Greg?

Olympic Sports – What sport introduced in 1960, is the only winter Olympics sport in which someone from the US has never medaled? We thought of the right sport…at first – but I started to think that the sport was older than 1960, so you can guess what happened here. Yup, no medals for us!

Round Six

Presidents – What U.S. president recorded a message that was played on the Voyager I spacecraft? Knowing what year this happened would have helped, we were one president off from being correct, miss.

Ancient Egypt – On paper, this seemed like it would be a fantastic category for my husband, who has left “Awakening Osiris” in his bathroom and ued for bathrtoom reading! Which I only know because I have to wander into his bathroom to change his towels every few days 😂

Sadly trivia categories can be misleading 😔

An oval with a line underneath it, known as a cartouche, indicates that the word enclosed in what kind of name? Miss. Let us do the Walk of Egyptian shame (where’s my tunic and pet asp)?

Nursery Rhymes – How many times is the word “merrily” used in the song “Row, Row, Row Your Boat?” Yay we got one correct in this last round! Just one more question to miss 😂 

Scores heading into the final:

Pods/Un, 49; Sticky Wings, 52; Rather Be At, 59; ? 62 (scores were read really quickly did not get them all), Spacecats, 65 and Three, 66.

Final Category – Copyrights

Registered in Philadelphia June 9, 1790, what was the frist published work under 1790 copyright law, which was a book on what subject important to those who write books?

I came up with option A and option B. Sadly we went with option A. Miss.

Yay to the mystery Un team that bet it all and got this right! They finished first, Three finished second, and Spacecats finished third. Had we also bet it all and picked option B, we would have been tied with them. Some of you know how much I love tiebreakers! Maybe another game. Pardon me while I let out a long disappointed  sigh!

Hitting up a local weekend trivia spot is…entirely possible! Especially now that weather is warming up, and I’m SO done hibernating. It gives me an excuse to get out of the house while Mike talks to his mom on speakerphone! 😂

As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Jimmy Carter! You were a real life superhero for what you did in that Canadian nuclear reactor 👍

Answers

r1 barney, marble, bowel

r2 south dakota, gloves, venus

r3 SAG/AFTRA, Portugal, Pavlov

H Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Virginia

R4 – flower power, gaga, russell

r5 horace greeley, freedom, biathlon

r6 carter, royal name, four

f spelling