J&B Blackout

written by Lazers

names edited by Hilts

To the surprise of nobody, trivia was not delayed due to the DC United/Saprissa match-up. For those of you who TIVO’d the game, please skip ahead to the next paragraph. Final score: Saprissa 2 DC United 2

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

The Competition: Bar, Morning Wood, Comfortably Dumb

Championship rules, with 3 throws and 1 Lady’s Choice

First Half: Chicago Baseball/Chicago Locations/Honeymooners & King of Queens

Only ’08 Chicago player with more than 400 AB and more BB than K?
Sox pitcher who passed on US Olympic team to play in MLB this season?
Played Alice on the original “Honeymooners”?
Played Carrie on “King of Queens”?
Where Norton worked on the “Honeymooners”?
AL pitcher who won 20 games for the fist time after multiple seasons with 19 wins?
If in Brookfield heading south on Maple- you pass 47th- what town are you in?
Played Trixie on the original “Honeymooners”?
Played Alice on the 70s version of “Honeymooners”?
(J&B guess: Barbi Benton. Benkowski: “I’d like to see that version.”)
If at 47th & Central- what town?

Ladies Only Drink Faster- J&B vs. Morning Wood- Gf emerges victorious

The end of the 1st quarter was punctuated with a J&B fight song: “Let’s go J&B! J&B let’s Go! Go! Go! Go!”

The half also included a rousing J&B chantee: (to the tune of the Houston Oilers’ fight song): “J&B! J&B! J&B Number One!”

Scores at the half: Bar 1260 J&B 1220 Wood 940 Dumb 490

Second Half: Music/News/Brady Bunch & Step By Step

2001- sang “In Too Deep”?
1992- sang “Save The Best For Last”?
2001- sang “You Rock My World”? (song had 10 minute video with several celebrity cameos)
2001- Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule song (2 words)?
Played Dana on “Step By Step”?
Actress who had been in an animal show and space show had a recurring role as Frank’s mother on “Step By Step”?
Alice’s last name on “Brady Bunch”?
Where Bill Murray tells friends to eat in Chicago?
Montreal’s 20 year old goalie, already considered a Top Five NHL goalie?

Long Distance Throw from the Door- J&B vs. Dumb- from the door at the corner of 97th & Cicero, Hilts Luckman throws the football first- fantastic throw across the tables lands within two feet of the box. The Dumb thrower is next. He throws, and the football hits the ceiling and ricochets towards a group of old people sitting out of the way. The football crashes into an older lady’s drink, knocking it over onto her. The old people were gone soon afterwards. I think we have seen the last of that challenge. Benkowski: “I’ll have to rethink that one.”

Ladies Only Biggest Tattoo- Wood vs. Bar- the tattoo sizes are close, and Benkowski has to pull out the ruler to measure them. Benkowski vigorously analyzes the measurements after writing them down. He eventually declares Morning Wood as the winner.
Hilts: “What formula did you use?”
Benkowski: “I used the area formula.”

Another challenge was for a team member to sing “Like A Virgin” for 10 or 15 seconds. The Bar had selected this question, but none of them would perform the challenge. It moves to J&B, and Hilts sings a couple of lyrics in a slow, drawn-out fashion. Benkowski then allows Dumb to sing. The Dumb player gave what appeared to be a very half-hearted attempt to sing a line or two. Benkowski awards the points to Dumb. Hilts is livid and let’s Benkowski know it for the next several minutes. He thought the points were J&B’s since the Bar didn’t perform and we did- the Bars’ refusal should not have allowed Dumb into the challenge. Benkowski never explains the ruling.

Scores after two halves: Bar 2440 J&B 2010 Wood 1630 Dumb 1460

Choice of Final Category: Aerosmith, Current NFL, 2008 White Sox, or Music Year of Birth

J&B selects White Sox and decides to wager 1251(the classic against the 3rd place team). Two of three wins wager. All three wins 3000 bonus.

2008 White Sox:
Sox player ranked 6th in the AL in hardest to strike out?
Sox player ranked 2nd in the AL in being hit by a pitch?
Sox pitcher ranked 3rd in the AL in best ERA during day games?

Current NFL:
As of 10/7/08- the 2 unbeaten teams in the NFL?
First team to be 0-5 this season?
Team allowing only 12.2 points per game this season?

No teams selected Aerosmith or Music YOB.

Hands on your buzzers….

Part II

J&B guesses Orlando Cabrera, Carlos Quentin, and Gavin Floyd. J&B feels only the Quentin answer was certain.

First Half answers:

Ryan Theriot (for the 3rd trivia night in a row)

Clayton Richard

Audrey Meadows

Leah Remini

Sewer system

Mike Mussina

McCook

Joyce Randolph

Sheila MacRae (on a “Jackie Gleason Show” that ran from 1966-1970…which seems to make “70s version of the ‘Honeymooners’” a tad misleading)

Chicago (Gf was adamant that the correct answer was Stickney, leading Hilts to check a road map in the car. I believe Hilts confirmed it was not Stickney. Per MapQuest, it came up as Chicago)



Second Half answers:

Sum 41

Vanessa Williams

Michael Jackson

I’m Real

Staci Keanan

June Lockhart

Nelson (Benkowski to Bar, who answered this correctly: “Answer of the night.” I’m of the opinion the June Lockhart answer by J&B was better)

Billy Goat Tavern

Carey Price

Final Question:

Comfortably Dumb- 1460- NFL- guesses Titans and Giants (correct), Bengals (correct), Bills (no)- wagered 1459- up to 2919 and the lead.

Morning Wood- 1630- White Sox- guesses Jermaine Dye (no), Carlos Quentin (correct), Gavin Floyd (no)- wagered 12- down to 1618.

J&B- 2010- White Sox- guesses Orlando Cabrera (correct), Carlos Quentin (correct), Gavin Floyd (no)- wagered 1251- up to 3261 and the new leaders.

And it’s all up to the Bar. Unfortunately, they look confident.



Bar- 2440- NFL- guesses Titans and Giants (correct), Bengals (correct), Bears (no)- they wagered 1581 (note: the classic) to finish with 4021 and tonight’s trivia crown.



Missing answers:

Sox- day ERA- John Danks

NFL- 12.2 points per game: Giants



Upon hearing that last NFL answer, Morning Wood starts to argue that they saw a feature on ESPN that was comparing the Titans defense to the 2000 Ravens defense- why would they do that if the Giants are leading in points allowed per game? This argument was bad lawyering on their part- they hadn’t even selected the NFL category. The Bar’s Lawyer needs to start a mentoring program.



Next trivia night in two weeks: October 23rd. I expect to be “in”. Hilts is out due to a Fire game. Assuming Gf is then also out, that gives her four weeks to memorize the names of Napoleon’s Marshalls- that knowledge will allow J&B to select “Can Name Les Marechal de France” as a Lady’s Choice challenge in the future.