Happy Halloween everyone!
Did you all know that’s it’s the 100th anniversary of Harry Houdini’s death? I didn’t know that until something about it popped up in my news feed this morning!
He died during a stunt in Detroit, which means if he has a ghost, it’s likely close to where I live👻
Unless ghosts travel 🤔
This recap is actually two days later than usual, I was just a little too tired on Devils Night. Plus I wanted to be able to watch my favorite Devils Night movie – which is The Crow! No, not the recent remake with the guy who played the new Pennywise.
OG Crow only for me please!
McShane’s has two My Trivia Live nights – Tuesday – and Thursday. We played the Thursday edition. Trivia crowds were a bit light on this night. Maybe a lot of folks were busy carving their pumpkins?
We won a third place/$10 prize.
Here were our abbreviated questions:
Round One
Musical Instruments – What is the name for the wooden rod used for playing the violin and similar instruments?
Movie Monsters – What type of monster is featured in the 1897 novel Dracula?
Long Words – What 14-letter word describes a wealthy person who donates to charitable organizations for the purposes of promoting the welfare of others?
Round Two
Three of a Kind – Lily, shoulder and crash are all types of what?
TV Hosts – What Family Feud host who left after it went off the air in 1985 returned for the 1994-1995 season? The only reason I knew this is because of the movie The Running Man.
Cookies – What fruity Girl Scout cookie shares its name with a refreshing beverage?
Round Three
First Families – What were the first names of the only twins ever to be part of a presidential first family? We only remembered one of these, miss.
Olympic Winners – What Scandinavian nation with only 5.5 million people has won more Winter Olympic medals than any other with 400 for 25 Olympic appearances? Miss. We needed Brad for this…
Film Actors – Casualties of War, The Secrets of My Success and Doc Hollywood all starred what actor in leading roles?
Halftime – Dictionary Additions
Answer the following four questions about words recently added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
H1 This day’s “scaries” are feelings of anxiety that the weekend is ending
H2 This “effect” of mass misrembrance is named for a leader who many thought died before he actually died
H3 Two word phrase meaning to get older and significantly better looking
H4 To “Rickroll” someone is to trick them into clicking a link for this hit song
We missed #3.
Halftime scores: Shove your ballroom up your fat ass, 34; Devils Devils Night – My New Favorite Holiday (us), 29; Justice League/Ypsi Starlings Rugby, 35.
Round Four
Broadway – Robert Lopez and what other two men created The book of Mormon?
Literary Characters – Who said to Mr. Rochester “I am no bird and no net ensnares me – I’m a free human being with an independent will.” Miss.
Toys – What U.S. Cities – What alliterative Washington city did Bugs and Daffy get a lot of mileage out of including using it as an incantation?
Round Five
Science – What tiny hair-like structure on the outside of a cell helps facilitate the movement of particles around it?
Movie Settings – Mystic Pizza is set in what Northeast US state? I saw this movie once. I didn’t remember this detail. Miss.
Prototypes – In the 1760s, cartographer John Spilsbury invented the earliest form of what amusement called “Dissected Maps?” Mike came up with this one…
Round Six
Art – What Post-Impressionist’s work Flowering Arches – Giveny is displayed in the Phoenix museum? Yay we made the right guess, usually we’re 50/50 on painters questions.
Same Name – What compound word is both a flea and tick medicine for pets and a PBS series that debuted in 1983? We used our “secret answer” to avoid having to blow points if we missed this.
Tape – What brand of 3M tape once used the mascot Scotty McTape?
Scores heading into the final:
Ballroom, 56; Pods, 61; Justice League/Ypsi Starlings Rugby, 71.
Final Category: Hit Songs
What song, that spent two weeks at #1 in 1999, and whose opening has been compared to the theme song of the film Jaws, was offered to the Backstreet Boys and TLC, before its singer excitedly recorded it?
No teams got this.
Final scores: Pods, 9, Ballroom, 56 and Starlings, 71.
Our star “duo” for music quiz is expected to be back together next Monday! Also in other exciting news, a general knowledge Sporcle Events trivia may be happening soon!
This concludes our trivial pursuits for the week, I hope everyone has a great Halloween! I’m happy to be home this Halloween, since I was in a…very bad place last Halloween. 🏥
As always, Go Pods, and stay classy, Nelson Mandela! And Rick Astley! And Britney Spears!
Answers:
R1 bow, vampire, philanthropist
R2 pads, Richard dawson, lemonades
R3 Jenna/Barbara, norway, Michael j fox
H Sunday, Mandela, glow up, never gonna give you up
R4 trey parker/matt stone, Jane Eyre, walla walla
R5 cilia, Connecticut, jigsaw puzzle
R6 monet, frontline, scotch tape
F: baby one more tim
