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Last night I tried to leave work on time, and was only 30 minutes behind when I got home. Dragonet, Rohanna and I jumped into the van and hightailed it (for values of "hightail" that repeatedly approached 30 MPH) to Old Chicago in Overland Park, where we met Carol Doms and Liz Gooch, along with her parents, who were visiting from Texas. The reason for the get-together was the World Beer Tour that OC uses to get people to come in and drink (and eat). They were kicking off a mini-tour featuring Missouri's largest US brewery, Boulevard(1). There was a free buffet for a short period, and the first two Boulevards ordered were $1 off. Completing the mini-tour (drinking all eight beers on the list, though only three count per day) gets one a t-shirt, and that much farther down the road to completing the Tour itself.
But the real fun began at 7p, when Trivia Night began. We all decided to play, and Liz's father came up with a team name, which Liz chose to render as "No It Alls." Six rounds, three questions per, plus halftime and final questions. The first three rounds had values of 2, 4 and 6, which the team assigned to each answer per round. The first question was in the category of "Celebrities" and was "What was Rob Van Winkle's stage name?" Without hesitation, I said "Vanilla Ice," and everyone at the table looked at me as though I were daft.(2) When that was announced as the correct answer, I knew we were going to do well. The first real crunch question came in the second round, under movies, and I managed to locate the answer, which was "Brewster's Millions," somewhere near my prostate. Overall, we only missed two of 18 questions, and failed to remember that Willem Dafoe played Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ in the halftime question (Max Von Sydow, Jim Caviezel and Ted Neeley, no problem).
When it came to the final question, it was strategery time. We had to figure out how many points (out of 20 max) to wager so we could keep our lead if everyone got it right, and still stay in front if no one did. The delicate application of maths gave us the answer of 14, and sure enough we had just enough to hold off the second place team for victory! The prize? %$50 OC bucks, which we will spend the next time we all go to Trivia Night. Tons o' fun for everyone. And Liz managed to complete her Second World Beer Tour (110 different beers) and received a t-shirt commemorating the historic event. She took a victory lap around the bar in slo-mo, inspired by my suggestion to imagine the theme to "Chariots of Fire" as she ran.
(1) The Belgians own Anheuser-Busch, but I am still awaiting the rollout of Bud Kreik.
(2) I watched a lot of MTV in the early days, when it showed nothing but music videos, what can I say?
But the real fun began at 7p, when Trivia Night began. We all decided to play, and Liz's father came up with a team name, which Liz chose to render as "No It Alls." Six rounds, three questions per, plus halftime and final questions. The first three rounds had values of 2, 4 and 6, which the team assigned to each answer per round. The first question was in the category of "Celebrities" and was "What was Rob Van Winkle's stage name?" Without hesitation, I said "Vanilla Ice," and everyone at the table looked at me as though I were daft.(2) When that was announced as the correct answer, I knew we were going to do well. The first real crunch question came in the second round, under movies, and I managed to locate the answer, which was "Brewster's Millions," somewhere near my prostate. Overall, we only missed two of 18 questions, and failed to remember that Willem Dafoe played Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ in the halftime question (Max Von Sydow, Jim Caviezel and Ted Neeley, no problem).
When it came to the final question, it was strategery time. We had to figure out how many points (out of 20 max) to wager so we could keep our lead if everyone got it right, and still stay in front if no one did. The delicate application of maths gave us the answer of 14, and sure enough we had just enough to hold off the second place team for victory! The prize? %$50 OC bucks, which we will spend the next time we all go to Trivia Night. Tons o' fun for everyone. And Liz managed to complete her Second World Beer Tour (110 different beers) and received a t-shirt commemorating the historic event. She took a victory lap around the bar in slo-mo, inspired by my suggestion to imagine the theme to "Chariots of Fire" as she ran.
(1) The Belgians own Anheuser-Busch, but I am still awaiting the rollout of Bud Kreik.
(2) I watched a lot of MTV in the early days, when it showed nothing but music videos, what can I say?
