If Only There Were “Drink Slower” Challenges

written by Lazers
names edited by Hilts

addendum by Hilts

It was a quick and nondescript night of trivia at TC Pub. Benkowski was facing car troubles (and would receive a ride home from a J&Ber) and likely didn’t want a marathon session.

J&B represented by: Chemical man, Stix, Hilts, Dragon, Gf, the return of Joe Jokes, and Lazers.
Competition: Bar, Tight Pants, and Lucky Seven

TC Pub represented by: Earth Mother, with Newbie also in the house.

First Half: Sports/90s Music/Ads

1990 Cubs- catcher batted 8th on Opening Day?
Led 1989 Bears in scoring with 90 points?
Where Scottie Pippen ranks on the NBA all-time steals list (top 20)?
1986- Sox pitcher who threw a no-hitter?
1963 Bears beat which team to win the championship?

In a candidate for TC Pub trivia night’s most embarrassing moment, each team had a chance at that last question, and each team got it wrong.

For first half “throw the ball” tricks, an inside-out winter glove was used. Benkowski: “Pretend it’s a ball.”

J&B comes to the realization that its single biggest weakness is “drink faster” challenges. If I remember to do so, I plan on tracking the J&B record in such contests from here forward. With Lazers losing one last night, the stat-tracking begins at 0-1.

(Conversely, the “throw the ball” tricks are a J&B strength. I think Hilts was 2-for-2 last night. Stix got to “throw the glove” in the first half, but I don’t recall the result. If missed, I don’t think that should reflect negatively on the team’s overall “throw the ball” abilities.)

Scores at the half: Lucky Seven 1300 J&B 1270 Bar 710 Tight Pants 630

Second Half: Disney/80s & 00s Music/Very Mixed Up

From “Beauty and the Beast”- the beauty’s name?
Year that Walt Disney died?
Grafenberg’s discovery?

Controversy rears its ugly head in the second half when the Bar wants to use a “throw the ball” trick but Benkowski indicates they do not have any throws left. After a bit of back-and-forth, Benkowski: “Let me make a statement: The Bar has some qualities that are socially unacceptable…but they don’t cheat.” Benkowski allows them to throw.

Even if the Bar did not have any throws left, allowing them to throw anyway fits in with the rest of the night’s officiating, as I’m pretty certain both Lucky Seven and J&B each were allowed to violate the “no more than three correct answers in a row” rule on one occasion.

Surprisingly, Stix became gun-shy concerning the music category, mainly due to the 2000s element. However, that did not prevent him from pulling a good answer out of a music Hangman option.

Scores after two halves: J&B 2440 Bar 1660 Tight Pants 1540 Lucky Seven 1490

Choice of Final Category: Old School Drinks, In the News, Famous MaryAnns, or 1960s Entertainment.

Although Dragon once was a bartender, J&B narrows its selection to News and Entertainment. Both J&B and Lucky Seven select the 60s Entertainment category, while the other teams select News.

J&B wagers 881 (aka The Classic).

2 of 3 wins wager. All 3 wins 3000 bonus points.

1960s Entertainment:
Star of “The Cincinnati Kid”?
Song “Devil in Her Heart” appeared on their second album?
Played Dr. Kimball on “The Fugitive”?

News:
Biggest movie in North America for first weekend of November, with $46 million in sales?
Last Monday, ESPN2 showed 5 hours of “World Series of ______”?
6 words- show currently playing the Allstate Arena and soon to be in the United Center?

Though intriguing, the Famous MaryAnns questions remain unknown. I assume “Gilligan’s Island” would have been involved.

Gentlemen?

Part II

J&B guesses Steve McQueen, BeeGees, and David Janssen. J&B is not confident with its guess for the musical group.

First Half answers:
Joe Girardi
Neal Anderson
I think Benkowski gave answer as 4th, but NBA.com gives his place as 5th behind Stockton, Jordan, Payton and Cheeks. However, it may have been the team guessing 4th and had the leeway to be within one.
Joe Cowley
NY Giants

Second Half answers:
Belle
1966
The G-Spot (I hope nobody got this one wrong because I was unable to add the umlaut to Grafenberg’s name)

Final Question:

Lucky Seven- 1490- Entertainment- guesses Steve McQueen (correct), The Animals (no), Gregory Peck (no)- wagered it all- thanks for playing.

Tight Pants- 1540- News- guesses American Gangster (correct), Poker (correct), Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus (correct)- wagered it all- with bonus up to 6080.

Bar- 1660- News- guesses American Gangster (correct), Poker (correct), Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus (correct)- wagered only 1- with bonus up to 4661.

J&B- 2440- Entertainment- guesses Steve McQueen (correct), BeeGees (no), David Janssen (correct)- wagered 881- up to 3321.

J&B should have selected News as Tight Pants rises from the halftime ashes to win.

The only missing answer: The Beatles (further research expected from Stix).

The trivia gear is loaded up, and Hilts, Joe Jokes, and Benkowski lead Hilts’s dreadnaught into battle….

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the next trivia night will be in four weeks, on December 6th (I guess Benkowski doesn’t want to try to slide it in between football games on the Sunday after). I am “out”…

addemdum= Got there late after the dissapointing playoff loss for the Fire, and then the collection of the joking one. Joe Jokes got so plastered that on the final question- who was the Fugitive- he had to be told three times that it couldn't be Harrison Ford because it was a 60's question. I believe that Pat's answer of the Beatles could be classed under "Bullshit". Nope, I just checked, and they do have the song on their second LP- the English one. Whatever. I know that Pat helps out the non regular teams from time to time. It's ok. Next month.