“Just the two of us” hit up the weekly Sporcle Events trivia scene at Red Rock Barbecue Tuesday.

It’s all part of our “Trivia Tour of Ypsi,” where we pick a trivia spot we haven’t regularly played, and make a single season bid at that place.

When you’ve played trivia games as long as we have, it’s good to play at different spots from time to time to prevent boredom. And see different players!

When this season is done, we’ll start revisiting old trivia haunts like McShane’s, and maybe even OG if the weather is nice enough!

And of course continue to visit Red Rock for trivia occasionally too 😁

Corner on Wednesdays is … probably…out of the question unless I can hustle enough playas! We wouldn’t want to not have enough warm bodies to fill up their large tables!

Doing things to prevent boredom is kind of like our cephalopod mascots, who also have puzzles and toys to play with while they are in captivity.

Or, if you’re that naughty baby octopus that was recently in the news, you start munching on other creatures in a nearby tank! 🐙 😋 😂

I don’t think we’re gonna start resorting to cannibalism anytime soon 🤔

Or WILL we? 😆

On our way to the game, Mike dropped me off at the corner, and he parked and walked in. Wouldn’t you know that he witnessed a beating right in the middle of Washington Street! He told the bartenders about this, one of them went to investigate, and eventually called the police.

It was one guy getting pummeled by a group of other guys.

Pure Ypsi? 🤔

As for the game, we won two “bridesmaid” aka second place/$10 prizes. We are currently in fourth place in the overall standings, though we’re only a few Globe Points away from third place.

Red Rock is a fairly new trivia spot, offering trivia nights since December, 2025. Though it did offer Sporcle trivia nights back in the 2010s (which we occasionally played).

We got a late start to the season here, mainly because we wanted to wait until weather warmed up after this past brutal winter 🥶❄️

Here were our questions:

Game One/Round One

Languages – The official languages of NATO are French and what second language?

2 Playoff Games – What player holds the NBA record for points in a game, scoring 63 in a double-overtime loss to the Boston Celtics in 1986?

NERD POINT: Who led the Celtics in scoring that day, with 36 points?

We got both parts correct, but for low points.

3 TV Characters – Tripper, Wood and Snow are the last names of the main characters on what ABC sitcom that aired from 1977-1984?

4 Architecture – In 1983, influential American architect IM Pei designed a glass and metal pyramid that is located in front of what notable museum?

Mystery Round One

Cinco De MAYO

In honor of Cinco De Mayo, answer the questions that reference the number five.

M1 The TV series Party of Five originally aired from 1994-2000 on what network?

M2 What is the fifth-largest country by area, after Russia, Canada, China and the United States?

M3 Of the names mentioned in the lyrics of Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega, which one is five letters long?

M4 Name one of the two National League Central teams that have won the World Series exactly five times

Missed #s 2, 3 and 4 😩.

Round Two

5 Elements – Name one of the first two elements on the periodic table, when ordered by atomic number, whose names include the letter “A.”

Unsure if his was a nerd point question where we were given chance to name both. There are so many nerd point questions in games now 😲

6 Social Media – What country has the most Snapchat users, with more than 200 million, around twice as many as the United States?

NERD POINT: Snapchat’s mascot is named after a member of what hip-hop group?

Miss and miss.

7 Sequels – What 2014 film starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne follows a couple who come into conflict with a fraternity that moves in next door?

NERD POINT: What word fills the blank in the subtitle of its 2026 sequel – BLANK Rising?

Got this, Mike made lucky guess for nerd point ☝️

8 Tourist Spots – Hyannis, Provincetown and Falmouth are all towns located on what peninsula, which is known for heavy tourism in the summer months?

Mystery Round Two

This was audio…not recreating it (sorry not sorry)!

We were tied for first going into the final with 44 points with Dangerous Nights, 212 was in second with 40, Jill Scott’s Tots was in third with 32, Trixie Mattel was in fourth with 25.

Final Question Category Game One:

Political Appointments

Who is the only US president in the 20th century to never appoint a justice to the Supreme Court? He still had a significant impact on the federal judiciary, appointing an average of 66 federal judges per year during his term.

We missed, finished second, Dangerous Nights got first.

Round Three/Game Two

9 Shakespeare – Friar Laurence has the third most lines – behind only the title characters in what Shakespeare tragedy?

10 When a bird named Martha died in 1914, she was believed to be the last living member of the passenger species of what bird?

NERD POINT: At the time of her death, Martha was housed at what zoo, the second oldest in the US?

11 Another audio clip question…

12 Senators – In 2010, Republican Scott Brown won a special election to fill a US Senate seat left vacant by the death of what longtime senator, who was a candidate in the 1980 Democratic presidential primaries?

Miss, felt pretty dumb about it 🙄

Mystery Round Three

No AI Allowed

Answer to each clue is a five-letter word and the three-letter abbreviation that remains when an A and I are removed from the word. Give both the full word and the abbreviation. 

M1 A type of grastropod joins the cast of a TV series with 93 Emmy wins

M2 An outdoor home feature takes a combination of vacation, sick and personal days

M3 A sudden feeling of dread keeps an account at a bank headquartered in Pittsburgh

M4 One in a series of steps to the next level offers its vacation home on Airbnb

Missed #4.

Round Four

13 2026 Music – Name two of the three artists who have spent multiple weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2026 (as of the chart dated May 2).

NERD POINT: Name all three artists.

Nobody got this all correct. We named one correct artist.

14 Award Winners – Who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2010 for her role in Fences, and then won the Oscar for best supporting actress for the same role in the film adaptation released in 2016?

NERD POINT: What is the flowery first name of her character?

Miss and miss.

15 Rainforests – The Daintree Rainforest – one of the oldest in the world – is located about 65 miles north of the city of Cairns on the east coast of what country? Lucky guess from…me!

16 Miniseries – What Spanish actor is to play Max Cady in the upcoming Apple TV series adaptation of Cape Fear?

NERD POINT: What actor played Cady in the 1991 adaptation of the film?

Extra nerd point from me: Who played the OG Max Cady in the black-and-white original film?

Another extra nerd point from me: Who played the Max Cady-ish role in the Cape Feare episode of The Simpsons?

I made lucky guess on this actor here. Almost went with another Latin American actor who’s huge right now, but I remembered he wasn’t actually Spanish. I had no idea that they were turning this into a miniseries. Isn’t this like butter over too much bread? It was just fine as a movie. Two movies at that. But what do I know?

Mystery Round Four

This was visual, had to ID sportsball players who wore #5 jerseys in their careers. I’ve recreated it as best that I could. Have fun. We got ZERO of these correct. 😂

I didn’t get the standings leading into the game two final. I was settling our tab. I just remember that we were in second with 36 and Dangerous Nights were in first with 46.

Final question Game Two

Category – Big Concerts

Two of the songs performed at the 1985 Live Aid benefit concerts were Wouldn’t It Be Nice by the Beach Boys and Wouldn’t it Be Good by Nik Kershaw, one of two pairs of songs with four-word titles that differ by just one word. Name one of the other two four-word titles that differ by just one word.

No teams got this. Zero bets like ours prevailed.

Dangerous Nights got their second first place prize of the night (thanks for not temporarily deafening me with your celebrations again, lol 😂)!

This concludes our trivial pursuits for the week. We’ll be back in the music quiz saddle next Monday.

As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Ted Kennedy!

Answers

R1 English, Jordan/bird, 3s company, louvre

R2 carbon/ magnesium, india/wu tang clan, neighbors/sorority,

M1 fox, brazil, erica, reds and pirates

M2 audio

M3 snail/SNL, pati/PTO, panic/PNC, stair/STR

M4 dawn Staley, mcnabb, bench, lidstrom

F1 jimmy carter

F2 we are the world/champions