Trivial Matters

The campus was closed last night because of the holiday. I decided to take my night off and attend one of my old pub quiz haunts, the Bridgeport Brew Pub in the Pearl District. A couple of my friends joined me, and we demonstrated that we are really out of practice.

This week’s theme is Monty Python, of which we were familiar, but not too well versed. And apparently we weren’t too well versed in many of the other questions. By the end of the bingo round, we had 13 of 25 questions correct. We didn’t stand a chance at getting the bingo (which one team got after only 7 answers were revealed).

Round two was a little better, but not by much. We did a new type of game called “By The Numbers” which, personally, I thought it was a silly and confusing premise. Each question was based on a particular number, but the way the questions were phrased, it was difficult to tell what was being asked for. For example, the second question (which corresponded to the number 2) described The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. We knew which movie she was talking about, but thought she wanted the two members of Python that were in it, not the name of the movie.

By the end of the second round we had moved up to a respectible eighth place, and didn’t budge after the handouts were graded. Both were very easy and it seemed like everyone got the same number of points so the standings didn’t change. The three of us left before the final round.

Unfortunately, I won’t have any more time off from school other than Thanksgiving, and I doubt there will be a quiz that night. I guess we’ll have to go back in December and try to restore the supremacy of Mostly Confused.

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