We walked into the last music quiz game of the season at Ypsilanti’s Corner Brewery Monday with everything stacked against us. Just two players on our team were available to play this game. 

It was just longtime music trivia “partners” Kim and I battling it out on this packed bar night. So packed that others asked if they could use our extra chairs (yes of course you can)!

It all started with My Trivia Live music trivia games at the ROC bar in Plymouth, which rumor tells me is currently being transformed into a different bar. We played there maybe once a month or so – always managing to make our almost complete opposite tastes in music work for us.

We also met up for occasional themed music Sporcle Events games in themes such as 80s and 90s music themes, taking first place at an 80s themed music game in 2017 at the Bowery in Canton.

We also occasionally cross county lines and play the music trivia nights at a Flint bar called New Jester’s. Try their homemade spicy ranch sauce if you go there! I’m not usually an “eating” person on trivia nights, but trust me, this stuff is GOOD! 😋

Since I knew that the music nights at Corner have gotten as popular as the Wednesday trivia nights in the same bar, I arrived 45 minutes early for this game to be able to secure our “favorite” table. We like to have a good view of the screen. Plus we’re creatures of habit.

We had our work cut out for us for sure! Fifty decades of music lore? Why don’t you give us something hard! 😉

Now now…get those minds out of the gutters – this means YOU!

We wound up finishing fourth out of fifteen total teams. Most teams had a minimum of four people, most had significantly more. At times, the noise levels from the players rivaled not only a 1978 Who concert – but the maximum sounds the trivia host Francy was providing from her poor beleaguered speaker!

There were some technical difficulties during the game, I’m hearing that a player from the “Text me when you get home” team helped out with some of those (it truly takes a village, doesn’t it)?

We played all 21 games of the season, and we held onto our second place overall finish for the season. Sadly, even though we were at the top of the charts for a few weeks, we were not able to, in the end,  best the dynamo team Heather, “Heather, Heather and Veronica.”

For the record, I identify as more of a Veronica than a Heather. Some of you might get this Heathers movie reference.  

Trivia competition, after all, means nothing without having “that” team to beat – does it?

After the game was over, I was on my way to the car when someone wanted to show me their new “baby.” Thankfully it was a dog baby and not a human baby! Because storing a human baby in a pet carrier in your car during a trivia game would be cruel, wouldn’t it? 🤔

Jeff M., a player from the team “Don’t Forget to Strip Your Bartender,” was showing off his toy sized Manchester terrier, which looks like this:

I’m not revealing any actual question details from the game (yet), because music quiz games are still in play this week, and may – or may not – have the same or similar questions to ours. That knowledge is above my pay grade!

Rest assured, I’ll post a recap of the game within the next week!