Granville 1/12/16 Recap

We had another small game at the Granville last night with only three teams. Despite the small number of teams we still had a good time. It was rough getting going for our teams, but we pulled through. After round one our eventual winner, The Granville-billies, took the lead and never looked back. We are still waiting on the gift certificates to come in so our winner last night walked away with $25. Hopefully, next week we will move forward with our winners taking away a $25 gift certificate. Still a great time to come out to the Granville.

Four Pegs 1/10/16 Recap

The snow may have kept a small number of our teams away last night, but we had plenty of newcomers to make up for it. The first couple of rounds were a little rough. Even through the third round, which is normally the turning point for are more difficult games. Last night's teams waited until round four before making their move. if was our abbreviation & acronyms round that got everyone on board. Last night's winners made the best of a rough round one to grab the lead and never let it go. The closest 2nd place got was a tie in the later rounds before falling to our winners who put up a near perfect last round, 45 out of a possible 50. Congratulations to our winners, Forever Alone & Friends.

Forever Alone & Friends

Granville 1/5/16

We had a small game to start the new year at the Granville after our three week hiatus. First round was rough, but our three teams rebounded from there with perfect scores the next two rounds and good scores the rest of the way. Three seemed to be the theme of the night, three teams, 3 common bonds, and movie three-scriptions. Our returning team, the Honeybadgers, jumped off to a quick lead and held that until round 5, but there victory was snatched from them in the last round by the winners, Welcome Back, Kotter.

You can see the victors sporting their spoils from the win $25. Starting next week our 1st place team will be receiving a $25 gift certificate along with swag. Great time to join us at the Granville.

Welcome Back, Kotter

Four Pegs 1/3/16

Happy New Year! 

We had a great first game of the year last night. Several teams jumped off to a great start with near perfect scores. We had several teams carry those strong start throughout the game. We had a fun Bears and Bears and Bears round. Which may have given our winners, Sad News Bear, a bit of an advantage.

Sad News Bear & Bartender Brent

When everything was said and done we had a tie for second place that came down to a tie-breaker. The closest team, Bed, Bath, and Beyonce, walked away with second place.

How much money has been spent attempting to bring Matt Damon back from distant places? A Lot!

Four Pegs Recap 9/20/15

Yesterday was a beautiful day. So rather than stay cooped up inside we moved trivia to the back patio. We only had five teams. The atmosphere was very low key and relaxed yesterday which makes for an easy going game.  With the exception of our host, Brandon, reading the answer to one of the questions the game went off without a hitch. We had a close game all the way through with our winners, Alien vs. Pedobear aka the Bear Team, taking a early lead and holding the teams off throughout the game to take the crown. Hopefully, next week will be just a beautiful outside and we can have another al fresco trivia night.

Alien vs Pedobear (the Bear Team)

Four Pegs Recap 9/6/15

This week was a holiday week so we went into Sunday's trivia game assuming to have a small crowd. Boy, were we wrong!. The bar was packed with people ready to play trivia. It was standing room only. As a matter of fact, there was no where to sit for our trivia host, Brandon. Luckily, a lovely couple gave up their seats so we were able to get started. The game got off to a strong start for mostly everyone. We had several teams start with nearly perfect scores and one team who did have a perfect score. Round 2 went just as well for our teams with one again having a perfect score. As a matter of fact, the same team that grabbed the lead from the beginning never let it go.  Our winners last night were We Started From The Bottom and Now We Are Bear or as I like to call em, the Bear Team.

We Started From The Bottom and Now We Are Bear

Four Pegs Recap 8/30/15

We had a smaller crowd than normal for our trivia night. There were fresh faces and regulars alike. From the start we had a battle between two teams of newcomers. This was a battle for the first couple of rounds before Irresponsible Teenagers began to pull away from the pack. Thanks in part to almost perfect scores in the Same Name and Audio rounds.  They led the pack right up until the last round where our winners, Schmidtlapse, took the game with an impressive final round. It just goes to show you that you should always prepare for the final round and make sure you are looking into the secret question.

Great Job to our new winners, Schmidtlapse!

Schmidtlapse

Four Pegs Recap 8/23/15

We had another GREAT night of trivia last night at Four Pegs! The bar was packed with trivia teams. It was great to see. From the start we had good scores across the board. It would be hard to pick a round that was the crowd favorite because everyone scored really well. After the first two rounds it looked like the game would shape up to be a two-horse race with two teams fighting all the way to the finish. In the end the winner was crowned by less than five points. After having a tie for almost every round out winner, Forever Alone & Friends, finally took the outright lead when it was needed.

Congratulations!

Forever Alone & Friends

On a side note. I would like to apologize for everyone in attendance last night for my atrocious Rain Man impression. I am sorry you had to sit through that multiple times.  - Brandon

Four Pegs Recap 8/16/15

We had a great, close trivia game last night at Four Pegs. We had a tie game at the end of almost every round. Most teams put up strong scores through Round 4. It was in the 5th round that we had some teams falter. Our 5th round these week was a math round, The Number After 2, with most questions being a math problem that had a 2 in the answer where we were looking the number after the 2 in the answer. After the last question in our math round, it turns out the most teams need to brush on on the periodic table as well.

After all was said and done our winner, Trivia Newton John, led almost start to finish, with the exception of our Math Round. The final score had Trivia Newton John one point ahead of 2nd place. When asked, her response was, " I only knew one horse constellation." Turns out one was enough.  Oh yeah, not only was one question enough, but one team member was enough. Our wining team consisted of just one member.

Trivia Newton John

Four Pegs Recap 8/9/15

We had another great game of trivia last night at Four Pegs. We had two teams tied at every turn last night and had to resort to a tiebreaker to settle it. It was very exciting! Like most games, things started out strong for most teams, scoring very well in the first round. Our second round was rough on a lot of the teams. Apparently, the crowd last night, were not big fans of  The Simpsons.

 

             The Simpsons

Our Picture Round in Round 3 was a chance for most of our teams to rebound moving into the 2nd half of the game. Things stayed tight for the whole game for most of the teams. Our Urple round was not as much fun for most teams as it sounded. Apparently, everything purple is not high up on everyone's priority list. After everything was said and done we still had two teams tied for first place, P.K. Mafia & Cocaine Cowbears. So we went to a tiebreaker.

How long is the Mississippi River in kilometers?

With a guess of 3300 km, Cocaine Cowbears took the win. 

Cocaine Cowbears

Four Pegs Recap

Brandon was back for another great round of trivia after a weekend off. We had a strong start for a couple of teams with several teams coming in at 9 for the first round. Our Famous Doctors round was meet with cheers, but not the scores to back it up. I think our crowd was hoping for a Dr. Who round and not famous Doctors. We will know for next time. The picture round saw an increase in scores with a lot of teams getting close to a perfect score.  Our "Pen" is Mightier round was a crowd favorite. If you have never seen the SNL clip, I would highly recommend it. Funny TV, PG, but funny. Our "G" ology round was great. It is amazing how many of the answers looked the exact same in our contestants handwriting! We had an extremely close game going into our last round with most of our teams being within 10 points of each other. Sadly, the last round was a rough round with the high score being a 25.


After all the questions were answered and all the score tabulated it was Forever Alone & Friends back at the top of the leaderboard.

Forever Alone & Friends - Winners once more

Four Pegs Recap 7/19/15

We had another exciting game at Four Pegs this week. The good news is that Brandon read all of the questions as written so there was no ambiguity. Round one started off great for most everyone. The scores dipped in rounds two and three. The picture round was rough with the dueling pictures. Round four saw better scores for our acronyms. Leading into the last round we had a very close game. Our game ended up being decided by only one point. This week's winner was Bearcula. Or as I like to call them, the Beary Creative Team.

Bearcula - aka - the Beary Creative Team

Four Pegs 7/12/15

Four Pegs was the place to be this Sunday! We had a packed house. We had returning teams and a lot of new faces as well. Round 1 went well for most teams. When we got into round 2 and ran into a snag with our first couple of questions about movies with colons. Apparently, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise all us colons in their titles so there were several correct answers. Even with this ambiguity the scores were kinda of average. With the number of teams we had this week we actually ran out of picture forms for our picture round and had to get creative so that everybody could play. We did discover that Robert Guillaume looks a lot like Don Cornelius, at least according to several of our teams. Our Ladies Night audio round was hit and miss, some teams loved it, some didn't. We had a close game going into our last round. Our game was decided by one question. With our winner Bear!Bear!Bear! pulling out a victory.

Bear!Bear!Bear!

Our trivia host, Brandon, also learned an important lesson about fulling reading the questions. The question was supposed to read, "Name the FIRST 5 countries with a McDonald's franchise besides the US." The question asked was, "Name a country with a McDonald's franchise." Our last question went from having 7 possible answers to a possible 118, HUGE difference. Which makes it a little easier than we had originally planned. Sorry about that.

Granville Update 7/7/15

Last night proved that you don't need a large crowd to have fun with trivia. Our game started with another patron of the bar offering to buy a beer if anyone could answer his sports question. After several rounds of open guessing the teams threw in the towel and our host earned the free beer. We only have 3 teams playing last night and for awhile we had the whole bar to ourselves. The first couple of rounds went really well for everyone with the scores being extremely close. Unfortunately, we lost steam in the music round. Our contestants had trouble with our midnight round, even when giving the chance for extra points. Coincidentally enough all of our teams had similar troubles so our scores were still very tight going into the last round. Our game was decided by one question. Our second place team got the question correct and then marked it out for the wrong one opening the door for our winner, Better Late Than Pregnant.  Next week is our Tournament, but we will still be having trivia at Granville for those who are interested.

Better Late Than Pregnant

Four Pegs Recap 7/5/15

Obviously a lot of people are still recuperating from celebrating America's birthday or cheering on America's Women Soccer team because we had a small game tonight at Four Pegs. We had a small crowd overall so our bartenders were able to get in on the action. With only three teams it was a very close game from start to finish. There were four points separating 1st and 3rd going into the last round. Tonight's winners, Malnourished Reindeer, put away the competion in the last round scoring 41 points.

Malnourished Reindeer with our bartenders

Granville Recap 6/30

We had a late start to trivia this Tuesday. We waited to watch the USA Women's team pull out a thrilling victory against Germany first. After the "USA" chats died down we were able to get started. We had a small but dedicated crowd stay for trivia. We had a couple of returning teams, a new team, and a visiting team from Molly Malone's. We did run into some snags with our Last Line Round. Apparently, most of the movies came out before the bulk of our contestants were born which led to some funny answers that can't be repeated.

We Don't Know

Our visiting team, We Don't Know, took the lead early and never let it go.  The rest of our teams put up a fighting pulling close to our leader several times, but ultimately the winning team pulled it out by one correct answer in the final round.

Four Pegs Recap 6/28/15

This week was another great week at Four Pegs. The bar was packed with trivia players again this week and most of our teams were new teams. It was a great game with the score being tied by two or more teams several times throughout the game. Our last line round went over with mixed reviews, but everyone seemed to love TV Tribond. We had a three-way tie going into the final round. Once the answers were turned in and the final scores tabulated. It was Beercat back on top.  Congratulations!

Beercat wins again!

Four Pegs Recap Father's Day Edition

With it being Father's Day we had a smaller group for trivia, but it was definitely nice to see the dads out supporting their kids trivia habit. We had some great scores with several perfect scores in the first couple of rounds. The picture round was an overall hit and a very fast round. Our Rhyme Time - Literature Edition was a huge hit with most teams scoring a perfect round. The game as a whole went very quickly right up to the final round.  It was such a close game that it really came down to the end so every team took their time to get as many right as they could. When time was called and the final scores were counted it was Taking Bear of Business crowned our winner.

Taking Bear of Business

Molly Malone's Recap 6/17/15

Last night's game at Molly Malone's was a BLAST! Brandon stepped in to cover hosting duties for a smaller crowd or 9 teams. Despite having a smaller group it was a lively group. We were able to play a side game of "Make the Host Giggle" for some prizes and the teams did not disappoint. We had some good scores in the first couple of rounds, but it wasn't until the picture round that we got our first perfect scores with several teams getting all of our talk show hosts. Our audio round was a big hit last night with several teams scoring well if not perfect scores. Nothing was quite as funny as hearing the entire bar singing R Kelly's Bump and Grind. The round was not without some controversy though. The Who song "Baba O'Riley" proved to be a tricky one with some teams guessing the incorrect name of "Teenage Wasteland". We then had a new team join us for the Literature Round. These three gentlemen must have been studying on the way in because they had a perfect score in the Literature Round.

When all was said and done after 6 rounds the score came down to one point. Our winner, Bad Toupee For President, pulled out the victory 66 to 65.  None seemed more surprised then them.

Bad Toupee For President

Four Pegs Breakdown

It was another "hot" game over at Four Pegs, literally and metaphorically. While the temperature may have been a little elevated in the room the quality of teams certainly was. We had several first place teams trading off throughout the night. We had several teams who scored perfect scores throughout the night. Our TV theme song round was a hit with the crowd with people singing along to their favorites. Oddly enough, the Mr. Belvedere theme song was not well known. The sports round was meet with mixed reviews. Cheers from the team who scored a perfect score and jeers from the team who looked as if they were close to throwing tomatoes at the Host. (For reference, I would have just tossed them back right at ya. :)) 

In the end we had two teams fighting for the win, Grow a Bear and Quizlamic Extremists. It came down to a tiebreaker question. With Quizlamic Extremists getting closer to the number of times "the" was used in the Gettysburg address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

 

Quizlamic Extremists