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So my college buddy (who just finished up his MBA at UT) & I attended our first TN up here in T.O on Monday 6/20.
Mon 8pm - Pour Boy, 666 Manning Ave (& Bloor St), just west of Bathurst St in Korea Town, Metro: Christie/Bathurst, Wi-Fi, cash-only, $10/team (max 6 players) with the money going to charity, the Horizons Children's Centre (http://www.facebook.com/Horizons.Childrens.Centre).
Trivia takes place on the 2nd floor of Pour Boy, a nice gastropub with a healthy menu that's not typical of must restobars. I really like how they serve Creemore on tap. Trivia didn't start right away at 8pm as most people were still eating dinner before participating.
There were 5 other groups besides my friend & myself. Most groups had 5 of 6 people, so we knew we'd have our asses handed to us w/o teaming up with others. Luckily, the Quiz Master asked her sister's group if we could join them, and the 3 of them obliged.
We teamed up with the woman who ended up founding this Trivia Night), the QM's sister, & her fiance. It was a perfect pairing b/c each of us knew genres of knowledge.
The format was 4 regular rounds with 10 Questions each. Round 1 Q's were 5pts each, and each subsequent round's Q's increased to 10pts, 15pts, & then 20pts. There was also a Name That Tune round (essentially Rd 5, 10 Q's, 10pts ea), and a Final Question (same wager rules as Final Jeopardy).
We couldn't come up with a good team name, so I just pulled up a name from the past, "Quiz in a Box" (I was trying to think of "Quiz in My Pants, but couldn't remember the name).
After Round 3 (see the attached scoreboard pic), we were perfect. 50pts in Rd 1, 100pts in Rd 2, & 150pts in Rd 3. For Rd 4, we missed 1 Q, and had 9/10 correct for 180pts (out of 200pts).
The Q we got wrong was:
"What type of veins are provide blood between the heart and the head?"
Louise guessed Jugular, but I thought the QM wanted something more generic, so we settled on arteries. Turns out it was "Jugular Veins".
The Name That Tune round was a lot easier than what I'm used to down at NYC trivia nights. No super obscure songs. We only needed to name the song title. Some songs were Kiss (by Prince), Under Pressure (by Queen & David Bowie), some Rush song (they're Canadian), I forget the rest.
Going into the Final Question, we had a 560 vs 545 lead against the 2nd place team "The Trebecs", so we wagered 531pts, so that if both teams answered the Final Q correctly, we'd win by 1pt. Likewise if everyone answered incorrectly, and if every other team wagered the full amount and dropped to 0pts, we'd end up with 29pts. We were able to set our wager after finding out the category, "Physical Geography", which we were confident in.
Final Q:
"The Sahara is the hottest desert in the world. What is the coldest desert?"
Answer: Antarctica.
3 of the teams got it right. 2 got it wrong. 2nd place got it right, but fortunately we did too. We won 1,091pts vs 972pts. The QM told us that our score was the highest ever score set at Pour Boy! The highest possible score is 1,200pts.
We learned some interesting facts. All of these questions we got right, but using logical guessing.
Q: In 1887, a German physiologist invented what optical device?
A: Contact Lenses
Q: What Italian dessert means "pick me up"?
A: Tiramisu (lucky guess)
Q: What pasta means little tongues?
A: Linguini (sounds like "lengua", which is tongue in Spanish, and -ini means small in Italian)
Q: What is the largest muscle in the human body?
A: The glutius maximus (the butt)
Q: Terry Fox's (a deceased Canadian running legend) mother recently died. What was her name?
A: Betty
Q: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is made of what stone?
A: Marble (we figured it needed to be something heavy, to cause the tower to lean, so ruled out limestone)
Q: What is the scientific word for sense of smell?
A: Olfaction
Q: For golf's Davis Cup, which two geographical regions compete against each other?
A: Europe vs. USA
Q: Who did the Blue Jays beat in the 1992 World Series?
A: The Atlanta Braves
Q: What is the second book in the bible (Old Testament)?
A: Exodus
We were lucky they didn't ask many Canada-specific Q's!
For placing 1st at Pour Boy, we won Steam Whistle collector's sets that came with a tall can of Steam Whistle beer and a pint glass. Steam Whistle is a brewery located in downtown Toronto.
I really liked this Trivia Night and will return. It's great that they donate the fee to the children's center, a boys orphanage in Ghana. The TN organizers are active volunteers and finance and built the orphanage and are currently trying to build a larger building to house the boys.
Two sets of QM's (both are couples) rotate as the QM each week.
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