April 29, 2005
The Sweet, Hoppy Taste of Victory
I attended Keegans' Trivia last night - and for the first time, managed to wrest the coveted trophy away from the Fraters.
On behalf of my teammates - Laura and David Hemler, Sisyphus from Nihilist in Golf Pants, and myself - I present...:
We won with 15 correct answers out of 25. The test was a tad harder than normal, since one of servers replaced Marty Newton as writer this week.
The Fraters tied for second with 14. Later, the Nihilist himself came over. "You should be ashamed of winning with 15". I think it was Laura who responded "Not as ashamed as you should be of getting second with 14..."
Nominally, we should have had 16; I had a gift-wrapped question dropped more or less in my lap - "If passing through Jamestown North Dakota [my hometown], and you encounter White Cloud, what species of animal are you talking about?"
Naturally, I've seen White Cloud, an incredibly rare albino Bison, many times. I answered "Buffalo (American Bison)".
It got marked wrong! The "correct" answer was "albino Buffalo".
Grrr. "Albino" is not a species, it's a genetic anomaly!
But Laura Hemler gave us the margin of victory, knowing (unaccountably) what year the kids from Beverly Hills 90210 graduated from high school (1993).
Huh. Who knew? I think I saw a grand total of ten minutes of the entire series.
Anyway, victory is sweet. And malty, with a hoppy "zing".
Posted by Mitch at April 29, 2005 12:52 PM | TrackBack
That should read "The Fraters minus Elder" (which really means that only two of the team members actually represent Fraters), since I was not disposed to drinking after my recent illness. The team's defeat was no doubt a result of the combination of my absence and the rumored presence of a member of the MSM in my place.
Posted by: the elder at April 29, 2005 01:50 PMCongratulations on the victory, and you're right, you was robbed on the bison question. Fortunately, it turned out to be petty theft.
Posted by: Doug Sundseth at April 29, 2005 04:04 PMYou neglected to mention that there were 4 teams tied for second place including the Fraters. First House Force comprised of First Ringer, Residual Forces and Our House was also a second place winner. And we got the Albino part correct. ;p
Posted by: Margaret at April 29, 2005 04:08 PMMitch,
I am accounting for my knowledge of 90210 trivia, of which I am quite proud. In an episode in 1992 (the year I was married) Brenda was wearing a dress that I had also purchased from the Gap. This is seared, seared into my memory. The episode was Brenda getting robbed at gunpoint at the Peach Pit. I knew that this was her junior year in high school during the Brenda/Kelly/Dylan triangle. And so I was able to correctly pinpoint graduation the next year in 1993. "Donna Martin Graduates!!!!! Donna Martin Graduates!!!!!!"
Posted by: Laura at April 29, 2005 05:40 PMWell, perhaps if The Elder had been present, he could have arrived at the 90210 answer through reasoning similar to Laura’s.
The best part of the “Donna Martin Graduates” story line actually took place the next year when Brandon was sought out and recruited by the California University Progressive Party to run for the Student Senate because they were so impressed that he organized the “Donna Martin Graduates” protest.
Posted by: Sisyphus at April 29, 2005 07:31 PMI must add here that the Fraters team relied solely on The Nihilist's vast knowledge of all things 90210 for that particular question. He very confidently screamed "1995" and we had no cause to doubt him. We may have to question that faith in the future.
It also seems that Laura was paying more attention to the 90210 plot lines while Nihilist may have been focusing too much on...other things.
Posted by: Atomizer at April 29, 2005 11:37 PMOh gosh, here's another sitcom of which I can safely say I've never seen a single episode. I wonder if this makes me older than dirt, and thus unable to relate to junk, ....er pop culture, or just discriminating. Probably not, because I love Star Trek.
Posted by: Silver at April 30, 2005 07:56 AMI'm not from Jamestown, and I got it right. The question did say be specific. We got Reykjavik wrong for spelling, but didn't cry foul. And we did have Strom on our side. I don't think he even knew we were playing.
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