Nonsense dispensed in fits and starts
Hullo! Yes, I’m still alive. For further proof, come to play trivia tomorrow night at the Hopvine on Capitol Hill, 8pm or so.
I’m just sayin’: you probably want to know a bit of British naval history and a bit about the Nicaean council. Oh, plus stay up late watching Bob Fosse choreography videos… Not that it will help, just that it’ll put you in my frame of mind!
Hope to see ya there.
I weighed 192.4 pounds this morning, a new record for me. I hit 190.6 a few days ago, that was a new record, too. “What gives?!”, you might be wondering, and you’d be right. Wasn’t it just a few months ago that I was pondering my rock-ribbed future? Indeed, that future has been nudged out a month or two, but it’s still coming.
You see, I’m signed up to start a circus class next week, and I’m gonna start ramping up the Pilates to a fever pitch next week, too. I might even start going to the gym again. The fattiness is just a phase, a dalliance, a dabbling in the ways of Lard.
That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway.
Circus class should be awesome. I’m starting with “acrobatics”, which may include some tumbling. If I like that, I’ll try trampoline class, followed by aerialist classes. Or (more likely), I’ll get bored and flit off to some other thing. One of my trivia questions from Tuesday night was about the definition of “dilettante”; any quiz contestant could have easily just pointed at me…
Trivia was a little stressful on Tuesday. Usually the bar kinda clears out a bit by the 3rd round, so it gets quieter and easier to deal with. But pretty much everyone stayed through Round 5, and four teams were basically tied for first place throughout. Thus there was a lot of yelling and freaking out, which detracts from my mellow mood. I make mistakes now and then about answers, or giving points to people… and this understandably bewoeifies ‘em. But the arguing and such really brings me down, and it’s harder to sort out when the place is so noisy.
I can’t seem to write any questions that have less than 60 words, multiple dependent clauses and bonus “gravy” trivia stuffed in gratuitously. Sample: “Olivia de Havilland in ‘Robin Hood’ rode the same horse as the ‘King of the Cowboys’ did in his movies, a golden palomino. What was this horse’s name?” I could just ask: “What was Roy Rogers’ horse’s name?”, but that would bore the hell out of me. It’s far more fun to mention that Maid Marian rode Trigger, but the long questions are tougher for people to hear.
Anyhoo, I’m a little burnt out on trivia right now. I have plenty of other fun things to do, you know? Like gaining 15 pounds.
A few of my trivia questions from the Hopvine this week were about New Year’s. One of them was “What year are we in, according to the Jewish calendar?”
Some teams had no clue, but a few got reasonably close. The correct answer is 5769, and the team that got the closest chose 5397. They laughed pretty hard when I told ‘em they won, because you know how they picked that number? If you spell out J-E-W-S on your phone, you get 5-3-9-7!
Just a quck reminder, ducklings, that you should pencil in this coming Tuesday at 8 p.m. to get your trivia on at the Hopvine on 15th. I’m feeling mighty damn patriotic, so there will be a lot of America America USA USA! type questions… should be fun!
Rah! Rah! RAH!!!
Trivia starts around 8, but you probably want to get there early. Order some soup (the onion garlic is my favorite) and some beer (the Hale’s Cream Ale is my favorite), put up your feet and stay a while.
See ya there!
After Monday night’s panic at having accidentally deleted a lot of my questions, I hung in there and managed to get 60 of ‘em written. I felt pretty good about the list, but you never know until other people try to answer them. Everyone seemed to have a great time, and several people said they really liked some of the questions, so that was really gratifying.
Two teams tied for first place at 46 right out of 60, but one of those teams only had 2 people (go Joe!) and the other team had 4, so the smaller team (“Our Science Is Tight”) won the big prize… almost $100! The other teams scored in the mid-20s, but they hung in there and kept on playing anyway, hopefully ‘cuz they were having a good time. (PS: Thumbs up to the “Super Phallic Fragile Lipsticks” for having the funniest team name of the night.)
I’ll post the questions below, and update it with answers in a week or so. Have fun guessing!
I just deleted 2-3 hours worth of work on my trivia questions for Tuesday night. Somehow I pressed ALT+F4, TAB, and RETURN before I realized what I was doing, and I hadn’t saved a copy of it yet.
That really sucks… some of those questions were pretty cool, but I was already feeling behind. I kinda like to have 60 questions ready, and I only had 30 or so done. Ugh…
What’s odd is that I can’t ever remember doing that before, and I’ve been using Excel for a really long time. Being naturally clumsy and a goof, you’d think that I’d have done it one way or another. First time for everything, I guess!
Back to the drawing board.
(Trivia at the Hopvine, this Tuesday night, starting at 8pm!)
Hey! Trivia was fun last week. I wrote my questions at the last minute, but I ended up really liking a lot of these questions; so even though only a few teams showed up to play, it was still a fun night. Most of the answers are Google-able, so I’ll just post the questions below. If you’re reallllly wondering about an answer, post in the comments and I’ll help ya out!
By the way, Round 4 was a “picture round”, where they had to name some movies and stuff. For that, I mostly took screenshots from the awesome Name-That-Film Flickr group.
Remember: Trivia is always the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Hopvine! It’s fun!
Click below to read the questions…
8pm! Be there, and win cash prizes! Or beer. Or eternal infamy, your choice.
I made my questions up at the last minute, even though I had TWO MONTHS to work on them. I am a horrible procrastinator.
Here’s a hint: For one of the questions, you’ll need to know something about ants. Get to studying!!
So, last night was my 3rd try at hosting Hopvine trivia, and it went pretty well… but I have to remember a few things:
Anyhoo, people had fun, I had beer and everyone went home without punching me! Hooray!
GBS would approve of that part, anyway…
Hello, trivia fans!
I have good news and I have bad news.
The good news: The earth is not currently expected to plunge into the sun, roasting us all in an agonizing hellish blaze.
The bad news: Hopvine trivia has been downsized! It’s now once a month on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. I’m alternating with Lucien, the other hoster, starting Tuesday the 13th of May. (You should go check out Lucien’s site, by the way — he shoots people!)
This is happening because the Hopvine owner found he wasn’t making as much money during trivia nights as on other nights… so if you’re playing, please be drinkin’! I’ll try to write questions that induce an urge towards bacchanalianism.
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