Playing Catch Up

It's been a busy couple of weeks. We're working on getting some new venues and many of us have been doing some early-summer traveling. Schedules are nearly back to normal, so maybe we'll jump back on the blog a little more often. We're also working on a couple of new ideas for the blog and we're hoping to revive Movie Monday and Fun Fact Friday very soon. Until then, here's a quick recap of a few games from the recent past.

Last night was Waterfront Wednesday, the one event in Louisville that completely and consistently drains attendance at trivia. Both Molly's and The Bard's Town had 10 teams. A truly sad showing.

The Blues round was very polarizing! Teams either loved it or hated it, which is a huge improvement over last week's one hit wonders of the 60's, which was so universally hated that it is safe to say, everybody is tired of one hit wonders in the music rounds.  There won't be any of those for a long time.  The movie mash-up round was a hit!  Even if the teams didn't get the answer right, everyone enjoyed the storylines.  Overall, a great and fun week!

Over at Molly's the winning team was What Appears to be a Drawing of a Penis.  They took an early lead and never let go.  With an insane score on the last round like the one they had, we're not entirely convinced they have an actual baby in the carrier but a Google computer disguised as a baby!  Secret weapon perhaps?

What Appears to be a Drawing of a Penis

At The Bard's Town, Say Our Name, Bitch won the game by 11 points. We didn't get a picture, but you can see their winning photo from last week posted below. They've won plenty of times. We had a tie breaker for second and third. Even though they didn't win (they placed fifth with two other teams), He Liked It and Put a Ring on It was by far the best team name this week. Congrats to the newly engaged couple, Anna and Michael.

Say Our Name, Bitch

Tie Breaker Question: Did you know, according to something we saw on the History Channel a few years ago, if a man uses a cell phone for four hours a day, on average, his sperm count decreases by 25%? Who knew? And we've got no clue if that's 25% reduction each day or over his lifetime. That's just the number given to us by that random TV show.


Tuesday night at The Granville it was a very close game. For the bulk of the game almost all of the teams were within 5 points of each other. Stephen Hawking Karaoke Machine started off strong with 2 perfect rounds. The first 2 rounds went over well with everyone as we had really good scores in those rounds. Things slowed down during the picture round, but it was a hard fought battle until the very end. Murder is All She Wrote took the game in the last round after playing second fiddle most of the game.

Murder is All She Wrote

At Molly's on Tuesday, it was a good match up and one of the two teams with Duggar-themed names (19 Counts of Molestation and Counting) ended up winning after scoring 37 in the final round. We got a kick out of The Moops, though. Not surprisingly, people especially enjoyed the beer round, though the Brewer/Brewster question stumped a lot of folks, as did the beer that made Milwaukee famous.

19 Counts of Molestation and Counting

Playing Catch Up: A Weekly Recap

Last week was busy. Just plain pull-your-hair-out busy. Derby week usually is in Louisville. To top it off, we've got this crazy idea to host a special event for Star Wars Day, which took up even more of our precious time. Hopefully that event goes off without a hitch tonight. So, here are a few quips and a few pics from last week's games.

Wednesday night at Molly's and The Bard's Town we had some special Derby questions, and there was a high variance of results. Most teams seemed to liked it, but one team at Molly's wrote "horse racing is cruelty to animals" on their answer sheet. Fair enough. At The Bard's Town, we had an issue with the betting question and the word "profit." Our mistake.

The 70s music round was a challenge too--many people recognized the songs, but figuring out the artists was a lot tougher. It was also nice to see that we were back up to our normal number of teams this week after Waterfront Wednesday. Molly's winning team The Odd Squad requested no paparazzi, so there's no photo of them this week. At The Bard's Town, Six Hour Peacock snagged the win by a nose.

Six Hour Peacock throwin' up gang signs.

On Thursday, or Thurby as we're apparently calling it now, we had our regular game at DiOrio's and a brand new game at a brand new venue. It was apparently a tough game with some lower than usual scores. At DiOrio's team Bork dominated every round except the last one, but still walked away victorious by a single point.

Also on Thursday, we welcomed Jill to the team as she hosted our inaugural night at Great Flood Brewing Company. We're working on perfecting the sound, and may move our setup, but overall it went fairly well. We had seven teams finish the game with Pepcid Posse in the lead at 60 points. We're looking forward to seeing you fine folks again this Thursday.

Pepcid Posse

Last Night's Recap - Darn You Waterfront Wednesday

One of the great things about living in Louisville is that there is always something to do. Last night's weather was amazing and just so happened to be the kickoff of this year's Waterfront Wednesday. How do you compete with that? Attendance at trivia was a bit lower than usual, but we deal.

We had a fun game (don't we usually?) Chris was back at The Bard's Town from a nice trip to California, we had a one-hit wonders round from the '90s. It was just magical. One woman at Molly's yelled out "RUMPSHAKER!" when that song started to play. We let that one slide.

Team 309 was a no-show at Molly's, so we had a new champion creatively named Ice Bank Mice Elf. At The Bard's Town, frequent winning team Six Hour Peacock grabbed the win.

Ice Bank Mice Elf

Six Hour Peacock

Last Night's Recap - March 25, 2015

Last night saw the return of Movie Title Mashup, a frequently-requested round. So frequently-requested, when we broke the news on Facebook, we quickly got a request for ANOTHER Movie Title Mashup for an upcoming Sunday night game.

In the final round, we found out about Australia's Blue Mountains National Park and America's World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument(s).

Now for some actor-inspired Gorillaz.

Last Night's Recap - February 11

Brandon subbed in for Annie last night at Molly Malone's while she was off to Cedar Rapids for a work trip. Cedar Rapids in the middle of winter. Sounds fabulous!

We had a good number of teams playing and despite the UofL game being on, things went smoothly. There were a couple of hard-to-pronounce words in the Foot Round, but after some self-deprecating jokes, it went over well. The Love Song music round went well this time due to a quieter audience. We ended up with a three-way tie for 1st place with the winner, 5 Dwarfs, taking the tie breaker question.

Over at The Bard's Town, we had a smaller-than-usual crowd, but it was still a blast. Six Hour Peacock walked away with the win and bragging rights for the next week.

5 Dwarfs

Six Hour Peacock

Last Night's Recap - January 28

So...last night was all kinds of messed up. We had a record number of teams at The Bard's Town (23!). We ran our of picture sheets, so we had to improvise and share. What wonderful players we have. Over at Molly's, we had a little trouble with the audio round, so we just decided to skip Round 5 all together. Hey, it happens. We'll try it again next week and make it work. No pictures of the winning teams. We'll work on that as well.

We did have a question about our '90s round and the predecessor of Darth Vader in 1999's The Phantom Menace. The question at hand? "What was the name of Darth Vader’s predecessor with trademark a black and red face, horns on his head, and who used a double edged light saber in 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace?" We'll let you be the judge.

Ray Park as Darth Maul

Christopher Lee as Darth Tyranus

At Molly's, the winning team was Turn On The Heat with 93 points.  At The Bard's Town, Six Hour Peacock had 94 points.

Catching Up - Recaps from January 21 and 22

We were back at The Granville on Tuesday after last week's UofL-game-forced-hiatus. It was a small crowd, but an intense one. The winning team, Tequila Mockingbird, came back from behind and devastated the competition by winning the game by one point.

Tequila Mockingbird

Over at Molly Malone's, Scott took Tuesday night off and Chris hosted the game. A new team, the Mario Bros won. We always love when that happens.

Hump Day brought some high scores. The winning teams at Molly's (We Don't Know) and The Bard's Town (High Utilizers) both walked away with 96 points, just FOUR points shy of a perfect game. That ain't bad! 

We Don't Know

And as we learned at The Bard's Town, there are 3539 instances of the F word in the entire run of The Sopranos.

Last Night's Recap - Jauary 14

If We Lose I Go Into Labor

It was a fairly uneventful night. No major sound issues. It's almost like we know what we're doing. It was the second night in a row we talked about Eddie Izzard.We're not sure what that means. Looking forward to it again next week.

If We Lose I Go Into Labor grabbed the win at Molly Malone's. At The Bard's Town, the winning team was I Like This Guy, He Talks Fast and I'll be in Bed By 10.

Wednesday Night Recap - January 7

Annie's back and Chris* is here to stay! There were some technical hiccups at The Bard's Town, but with the help of The Bard's Town's own Scot, we got it all worked out. That PA system will forever be an enigma.
 

Drinkers Not Thinkers secured the win at Molly's. Kevin Bacon and Eggs took the lead at The Bard's Town. And we're full speed into a new season of scores.

*A little note from Chris after his first night: "I had alot of fun hosting trivia for the first time last night. Nathan Stalvey, you were right, The Bard's Town players are a super fun group of people; also they take no prisoners! There were a couple rookie mistakes made by me and there were some technical snags that will be ironed out by next Wednesday. Thank you to Louisville Trivia and to Scott Gibson for giving me this opportunity, I look forward to this in the months ahead! Also, thank you to The Bard's Town players for your patience and we'll see you all next week!"