The Mindworms are @ it again

Art’s Music Holiday Party
By Capt. Lewis Nixon

(Nixon, Pn)

An obnoxious, TC Pub sausage-fest was the setting for the “Art’s Music Holiday Party.” Saxman Grill provided decent, if soggy, nachos for this last TC Pub trivia night for 2006.

J&B represented by Chemical Man, Hilts, Stix, Dragon, Gf and Lazers

The Competition: Bar, White Sox, Hitmen, and $5 (which I think originally wanted a longer version that I’m sure included the word “whore”)

First Half: Chicago Locations/Celebrity Birth Years/Sunday Sports Section

Date of birth for Gwen Stefani?
Date of birth for Kelsey Grammar? (brought up only because an exact correct answer by one team led to a response of “that’s gay” by another team)
First 2 running backs to rush for 1300 yards in 2006?

I didn’t catch all of the scores at the half. J&B was second or third with 870. Hitmen and/or $5 had a larger score.

Second Half: Sports Mix/Celebrity Stuff/Music Mix

Who hit the first Cub homer in 2006?
Played Mrs Claus to John Goodman’s Santa Claus in a movie titled something along the lines of “Year Without a Christmas”?
1991 Bulls went 15-2 in the postseason- what team(s) beat them for the two losses?

After a correct Backstreet Boys answer by $5, Benkowski: “That’s insight into your CD collection.”

$5 follows up by selecting “Gay Music” for 1000.

There was a tremendous amount of name- calling in the gay/homo arena, and surprisingly, most of it did not involve J&B.

Scores going into Final: $5 2400 J&B 1750 Bar 1380 Hitmen 1120 White Sox 510

Final Category: 1990s Movies
2 of 3 wins wager. All 3 correct will win 3000 bonus points.

J&B wagers 1011 (enough to defeat the third place team should they double)

Only 1990s movie to win Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress?
1992 Best Supporting Actress (from “My Cousin Vinny”)?
On a list of the 1990s winners for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, the only two actors whose names would appear twice?

Part II

J&B guesses Silence of the Lambs, Marisa Tomei, Tom Hanks and Anthony Hopkins. Moments after turning in their answer card, J&B realizes that the third part is not correct- should be Kevin Spacey instead of Hopkins.

First Half:
1969
1955
LaDainlian Thomlinson and Larry Johnson

Second Half:
Matt Murton
Delta Burke
Philadelphia and Los Angeles

Final:

White Sox- 510- guess A Beautiful Mind (no), Marisa Tomei (yes), Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino (no and no)- wagered 510- thanks for playing.

Hitmen- 1120- guess Silence of the Lambs (yes), Tomei (yes), Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey (yes and yes)- wagered 1120- with bonus, up to 5240.

Bar- 1380- guess As Good As It Gets (no), Tomei (yes), Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson (yes and no)- wagered 1380- thanks for playing.

J&B- 1750- not a lot of anticipation here- Silence of the Lambs (yes), Tomei (yes), Hanks and Hopkins (yes and no)- wagered 1011- up to 2761.

$5- 2400- guess American Beauty (no), Tomei (yes), Hanks and Tim Robbins (yes and no)- wagered 2100 or so- left with a couple of hundred.

Hitmen come from behind to win the final trivia night at TC Pub for 2006.

Championship Notes: The 2006 Trivia Championship at Salerno’s on December 28th will start at 7:30. We put in a deposit of $100. We need minimum 7 players and maximum of 10 players.

Benkowski was soliciting suggestions for categories. We provided a nice laundry list, many tongue-in-cheek (including “What’s in Benkowski’s Wallet?”), but Benkowski did seem intrigued by the “White Sox Stolen Base Leaders” suggestion. Considering the final will be a mixed bag of teams, I suggest research of the stolen base leaders of both the Sox and Cubs.

Benkowski said he would not use “Early 80s Porn” as a category for the Championship since he’ll have the live musicians, which will include his son. Apparently, the father/son relationship has not crossed the border over which porn is a comfortable topic. However, I would not rule it out for TC Pub in 2007.

TC Pub in 2007: trivia will kick off in 2007 on the very first Thursday, which I believe will be January 4th.

Other Trivia: the MIA team Save the Chief has been attending a cumulative trivia at Mama Luigi’s on 75th and Harlem (they have locked up the first prize of a trip to Las Vegas- J&B missed out on that one!). Stix suggested that J&B could probably show up for the final one on Tuesday, December 19th and still win the cumulative prize. Hmmmm? I’m sure that couldn’t be done in one night, but J&B very much likes the idea of attending that trivia event just to rattle the Chief. Starting time of 8:00 for that one. Who’s “in”?