Tales from Trivia Night
This week, we had a hell of a team: MarkandNicole, JohnandBeth, Chewie, Irina, me, and Nicole's friend Mike. Usually we do well in the first round, but end up losing because EVERY. SINGLE. ROUND. includes a Sports question, at which we, well, suck. Mike helped us out with that this week. We also opted for a change of team name: we are now "Bros Before Hoes." Mark and John played Bloody Knuckles; we all busted on Beth for looking suspiciously like Kirsten Dunst; and I argued with John over the merits (or lack thereof) of Spiderman 3 and with Mark over the merits (or lack thereof) or Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; we all avoided eye contact with players from another team that we faked out a few weeks ago by telling them that an answer was "Ghostbusters;" and Chewie spotted two hotties sitting behind us and proceeded to pretend to take group pictures. There's another team there every week that dominates, but it's not fair: they've got more players, and more jock-types who know all the sports questions (because there's a sports in EVERY.SINGLE.ROUND.) But this week was different. We made only a handful of mistakes and got almost all questions, even the sports ones, right. In Round 4, things looked lost. There was a history question (What U.S. Cabinet Department oversaw Prohibition? I figured it out because I've seen The Untouchables a bajillion times), a cartoons question (What is the name of the pug dog on Johnny Quest? My pop culture recall is amazing) and a miscellaneous question (What are prom tickets called? Good thing I work at a school) Most weeks, we keep track of our score and reckon that we come in 5th, 6th, or 7th: better than most, but not scoring high enough to have our team name read aloud. Well, this week was different. BROS BEFORE HOES WON THIRD PLACE BY ONE POINT! AND WE WON A BASKETBALL!