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

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