Wednesday: The Pub.
Tom, Mo, and I played trivia the other night at the pub. We tried to think of a team name inspired by the March Madness tourney, but the best Mo could do is translate "angry march" to latin, so we went with “The Ides of March Madness" instead (though, yes, it was the 14th, not the 15th of March but “the eve of the ides of march madness was definitely too long).
It was an Irish-themed game, with special prizes (a tour of the Harpoon brewery for the winning team and up to 75 of their closest friends, and assorted Harpoon merchandise in lieu of the usual gift certificates), and it consisted of the hardest and most obscure questions I've ever encountered (e.g. Name the four provinces in Ireland. - I got "Ulster"). We pretty much used "Bono," "James Joyce," or "St. Patrick" as our default answers.
A nice twist: The winning team for each individual round got a free round of Harpoon ale.
We did very poorly. In fact we scored a total of zero points through two rounds, and after losing 5 points on the final question we were actually in the red. (However, do to some dubious scorekeeping we were awarded a total of eleven points at the end of the round!).
This trend did not continue, however, into the later rounds. In fact, in round 3 we scored eight points and in round four we more than doubled that by scoring an additional 12. (We wagered 8 points on a question to which "Bono" turned out to be correct - huzzah!).
The rest of the field had been slowly exiting the bar between rounds, no doubt disheartened by the increased difficulty of the questions. This left fewer teams in the running but did not significantly improve our standing as we remained dead-last, albeit in a smaller pool.
To cap off the night we were awarded a final roud of beers. Not for winning the last round, but because the moderators took pity on us.
Too bad we didn't win the Harpoon Brewery tour.
-t
5 comments:
Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, and Munster.
That's so fucking easy. Why didn't they just give the certificates away?
Bono
Latin Rocks.
oh yes, incredibly easy. next time sign your comment.
thanks.
"What is the northernmost county in Ireland?"
Donegal. Beautiful plavce, especially after seeing "Catholics Out" graffitied all around my youth hostel in Belfast.
Give me something hard, Tom.
these are all actual questions from the game:
Who introduced the potato to Ireland?
Which four Irish authors won the Nobel Prize for literature? (2 pts each)
What was the title of the first James Bond film? (ok, that one's not so hard)
Name one of the two people to ever have been nominated for four academy awards in the same year.
Name the professional golfer who came in second in each of the four majors in the year 200.
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