Molly Malone's Recap from last Wednesday.  It was a threepeat from the team, renamed to No Baby, No Problem.  How long will the streak last? What's the record? New record perhaps?  The audio round of heavy metal covers was a huge hit! Although people didn't get them all, they thoroughly enjoyed listening to the songs!  I will be gone this coming week as i have a work related conference in Charleston, SC but never fear, I'll be back with another one of my favorite audio rounds.  Hope you all have a good week and be sure to be nice to Scott as he fills in for me next week.  Take care!

Trivia Breakdown!

Greetings trivia friends! Welcome to a new weekly blog installment that will profile one of our trivia questions from the past week (no spoilers!) and give history, fun facts, and weird information about the subject. It’s a fun way to learn more odd trivia to school your pals in.

I will most likely always pull from Thursday questions since that is my night of hosting (come out to Goodwood Brewing! Let me yell at you!). This week I’m pulling from round five, the category was words with “UNCH” in them:

Q: What nautical-themed breakfast cereal from Quaker Oats is popular with kids?

A: Cap’n Crunch

This is a simple enough question but I became curious about the history of the much beloved Cap’n Crunch and down the rabbit hole I went, ending up at their very obscure and demented use of social media.

But before I get to that, it’s vital to know the history of good ol boy Cap’n Crunch. Before he was a Cap’n, he was Horatio Magellan Crunch, born on Crunch Island in the Sea of Milk. His enemy is the barefoot pirate by the name of Jean LaFoote who is always trying to steal the easily purchasable cereal. The Cap'n also apparently battles something called The Soggies, in turn protecting us all from the pitfalls of soggy cereal. Cap’n commands the sea on the S.S. Guppy with his trusted pup, Sea Dog. However, his captain status has recently been called into question as his uniform is more likely that of a commander than a captain. 

That’s not the most interesting oddity at work though. The truly weird stuff happens on social media. Cap’n Crunch, Jean LaFoote and Sea Dog all have their own twitter accounts. Cap’n tweets what you think he would, weird #content that will never actually connect with the #cool #millennials. Sea Dog on the other hand just tweets “howl” over and over again, with multiple letters and random capitalization.

HHHOOOoooOOWWWwWLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

— Sea Dog (@RealSeaDog) January 10, 2014

On Jean’s twitter (and in real life) he is forever in pursuit of getting his greedy hands on that sweet cereal. However, his high jinks take a wild and truly depressing turn in June of 2012. Jean Lafoote ends up, well, dead and the terror was live tweeted…

I have taken over zee Guppy! Zee Crunch is mine! Take that, @RealCapnCrunch!

— Jean LaFoote (@RealJeanLaFoote) June 25, 2012

Zis @realseadog is biting at my leg! I shall geeve him some Crunch to keep heem at bay!

— Jean LaFoote (@RealJeanLaFoote) June 25, 2012

My leg! Zee Crunch not working on zis @realseadog! I am jumping overboard! Zee Crunch will still be mine!

— Jean LaFoote (@RealJeanLaFoote) June 25, 2012

Cap’n Crunch even responds to the death of his nemesis on twitter in a truly cold manner.

Hit the road, @RealJeanLaFoote! ... or should I say hit the water!

— Cap'n Crunch (@RealCapnCrunch) June 25, 2012

Truly great marketing for children’s cereal! See you kids next week. If you have any topics you would like to see explored during this weekly segment please comment and let us know. We also need a catchy name, so send in suggestions! 

Four Pegs Recap 6/7/15

We had another great game of trivia at Four Pegs tonight. We had a couple of new teams tonight and one, I just want to learn came out strong with a perfect score in round one.  They held the lead through round 5, but could not hold off our winners tonight, Forever Alone and Friends.

Forever Alone & Friends

In other news, despite tonight's answers there are other jockeys besides Pat Day. Here is a list for future reference. List of Jockeys

Goodwood Brewing Recap 6/4/15

Tonight was the first night at Goodwood Brewing and there was a lot more laughter than there were right answers! Just kidding, some teams got some answers right. Participants struggled through categories on dynamic duos, sports, and words with "ex" in them and didn't hesitate to glare at me in confusion!

There was one question that made me want to look up some more information: the physical characteristics of what famous duo known to preschoolers everywhere are modeled after an orange and a banana? This of course is Bert and Ernie; not, as one team guessed, "spongebob and squarepants." Upon some light research I learned that a pair of high-energy neutrinos were named after Bert and Ernie. I don't even know what that really means but it sounds important!

Anyways, special shout out to team Oooh Baracooter for coming out to trivia every week (apologies for my mispronunciation but I did make it up by saying it five times in a row at the end!). Our winner for this evening was team Killer Tomatoes (pictured below). They got a great swag package from Goodwood Brewing. Come out next week and let me make fun of your terribly incorrect answers!

Bard's Town Recap - 6/3/15

Last night, a solid crowd of 15 teams came to play trivia at the Bard's Town. The fun mix of categories in last night's game included a round of identifying TV shows by their major characters, animated scenes in live-action movies, and #1 hits from the late 80s and early 90s. In the game, everybody wanted to rule the world, as many teams Kriss Krossed their way up the leaderboard, but ultimately it Intellectual Chocolate was able to "hold on for one more day," thanks to their perfect score on the final round. Only one of their team members wished to be photographed, but I can assure you they had a full team.

Four Pegs Recap

We had another great night of trivia at Four Pegs last night.  For the first time ever we had a perfect round from every team in round five, our Word Ladder round.  It was a very close game throughout with 5 points separating 1st and last place going into the last round.  It was back and forth between two teams all night, Carrell and Hung Like a Dragon. In the end those teams had to duke it out not once, but twice in a tie-breaker round. Carrell took the tie-breaker round but ended up in second place. Our winner last night, with a come from behind victory, was once again Beercat.

Beercat

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