{"id":3741,"date":"2006-08-30T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spynotebook.org\/chip\/wordpress\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2006-08-30T07:45:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:45:37","slug":"our-night-at-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2006\/08\/30\/our-night-at-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Night At Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We thought that the cooties were out to get us but we managed to win the silver (2nd place in this case being $25 in Loco&#8217;s Dollars). Scrappy was sick, Ron wasn&#8217;t coming because Susan was sick, and I sat there by myself up until about five minutes before trivia started. But, people started showing up.<\/p>\n<p>Scrappy and the Strombot arrived (cooties in tow) and then by 8:30, Sheni had shown up and soon Marilyn and Kelly completed our team. We were ready to show off how smart we were about unimportant things.<\/p>\n<p>Things we knew:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pyrenees are between France and Spain.<\/li>\n<li>Ace of Base is from Sweden.<\/li>\n<li>Thelma was Geena Davis. Louise was Susan Sarandon.<\/li>\n<li>Pangea was that really really big continent a really long time ago.<\/li>\n<li>Temple of the Dog was made up of members of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam.<\/li>\n<li>Diane Lane played Sherri &#8216;Cherry&#8217; Valance in &#8220;The Outsiders&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louis Anderson, and Richard Carnes all hosted &#8220;Family Feud&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The US purchased Alaska from Russia.<\/li>\n<li>Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix were all memorialized on the cover of Rolling Stone between 1970 and 1971.<\/li>\n<li>The USS Missouri was the ship where the Japenese surrendered during WWII.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Weeds&#8221; takes place in Agrestic, CA.<\/li>\n<li>Burlington is the most populated city in Vermont.<\/li>\n<li>Sylvester Stallone, Janine Turner, and John Lithgow all starred in &#8220;Cliffhanger&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But there were also things we didn&#8217;t know or weren&#8217;t sure about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got confused in my ordering of &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; hosts and mistakenly placed Jack Parr before Steve Allen.<\/li>\n<li>We didn&#8217;t know that Sugar Ray Robinson was the 1st to win his 5th divisional world championship in 1958.<\/li>\n<li>We didn&#8217;t know Arbuckle was Jon&#8217;s last name in &#8220;Garfield&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>We didn&#8217;t know that the slogan of Keystone Light was &#8220;always smooth&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>We mistakenly counted 1 as a prime number even though there was a math major on our team when were to count the primes under 23.<\/li>\n<li>We didn&#8217;t know something about Sandy Koufax and baseball.<\/li>\n<li>We only knew five of the six Nobel Prizes.<\/li>\n<p>Special props to Marilyn from Newfoundland who knew Al from Home Improvement was named Richard Carnes for the &#8220;Family Feud&#8221; question and to my brain for knowing USS Missouri and Cliffhanger. Why that stuff is in there, I will never know.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you KNEW any of the things we didn&#8217;t know, you should totally come play with us (or against us) next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought that the cooties were out to get us but we managed to win the silver (2nd place in this case being $25 in Loco&#8217;s Dollars). Scrappy was sick, Ron wasn&#8217;t coming because Susan was sick, and I sat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2006\/08\/30\/our-night-at-trivia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}