Answers (most of them) are at the end.

Thursday turned out to be the best night for us to go out for trivia this week, so “just the two of us” decided to use up some of our leftover prize money and go to McShane’s.

There were lighter crowds than usual on this night, but there was some great competition in the room!

Sadly the Ypsi Starlings Rugby trivia team was absent on this night. In their normal spot in the room was a team called Our Table Now with 7-8 people on it who seemed to dominate the night –  they had highest score at the halftime, highest score going into the final, and they took a first place/$30 prize.

Also in this mix on this night was team King Cobra, whom we have battled in trivia games previously at local tournaments, and at former trivia spots Buddy’s Pizza and Maplewood Lanes.

We never like things to be too easy, so having to work for our $20/second place prize was just fine with us! 

Our host Stacy was trying something different by having the questions displayed on a tablet that she carried around to show the teams after reading the questions.

That proved to be quite handy – especially if I wanted to know how a French guy’s name was spelled for a question in round five!

Still, I did not copy down the questions word for word, so the ones you’ll see here will be abridged.

Round One

Rods and what other things are commonly found in the retinas of human eyes?

Hair – What is the name derived from Hindi describing bubbly stuff people lather into their hair?

Here’s an image from a movie with this same  name:

On the Body – In 1891, Samuel Riley patented an electric machine for making what artsy body modification?

Too funny, at the very moment I am typing this question, this very thing is being mentioned by name in the movie Idiocracy.

Round Two

The ’80s What puzzle toy with 93 quintillion combinations was on the cover of Scientific American in 1981?

Video Games – “Bonanza” is the name of the most recent installment of what video game series featuring a behemoth gorilla who throws barrels?

Business – What office machine had its stock price drop from $163 in 1999 to just $1 in 2026 because of a significant decrease in demand?

Round Three

Fictional Characters – What two fictional characters, as described by a social media user, caused six deaths and destroyed two families – all within a 72 hour period?

Oscars – What singer’s name did John Travolta famously butcher on the mic at the 2014 Oscars ceremony? Sweathog moment (sorry if all of my pop culture references are too old for some of you). 

Athletes – Two sisters-in-law shared what same surname while participating in the 1988 Summer Olympics?

Halftime – Besides the OG Die Hard film released in 1988, name four of the US titles of the four of this movie.

We got two of these correct.

Halftime scores:

???, 18; Mustard/Spacecats, 23; Pods/King Cobra, Keeping Up with the Joneses, 31; Our Table Now, 36.

Round Four

Reality TV – In recent years, what dermatologist who won “Big Brother 2” has been seen on “The Traitors” and “Deal or No Deal?”

Nope.

World Leaders – Before Christmas in 1970, what world leader said “Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country?”

Science! – What term identifies someone who is immune or asymptomatic but can still transmit an illness to others?

Round Five

Founders – What man founded the Sierra Club in 1892 and is widely considered to be the father of the national parks in the US?

It took me a minute or two, but eventually I remembered his name. I’d have to jump off El Capitan as punishment if I missed this!

Revolution – What Caribbean revolution led by Toussaint Louverture was the first successful revolution of enslaved people in 1804?

Recent Albums – What is the name of Lady Gaga’s most recent album, whose title means a word that evokes pandemonium? I was talked out of my correct guess, but pandemonium didn’t ensue!

Round Six 

Government – What 2002 law has been replaced with a different law called “Every Student Succeeds?”

Ratings – What TV rating falls between PG and MA? We weren’t quite sure of this, and we still had our freebie option to use, so we used it. 

Car Stuff – What does the letter “P stand for on a car’s gear shifter?

Scores heading into the final – ???,18; Mustard, 49; Keeping up with the Joneses/Spacecats, 51; King Cobra, 61; Pods, 63; Our Table Now, 70.

Final Question Category – U.S. Congress

Which U.S. state is the only state that never had a representative who was born in that state until 2022, when Mary Peltola became its representative?

Final standings stayed the same.

No more trivia for us this week. We’ll be back at it Monday for our music quiz game at Corner Brewery, unsure what we’re doing besides that – if anything next week.

As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Flo-Jo!

Answers

r1 cones, shampoo, tattoos

R2 Rubik’s cube, donkey kong, xerox

R3 Romeo and Juliet, menzel, joyner

H live free or die hard, a good day to die hard, die hard 2, forgot other one

R4 ?, lenin carrier

R5 John muir Haiti, mayhem

R6

No child left behind, tv14, park

F alaska