Trivia night

I've been neglectful with the posting lately, huh? It sucks when work gets in the way of blogging. What's up with that?

We didn't have volleyball this week. So instead, two of my teammates and I went to trivia night at a local restaurant. In case you're unfamiliar with this activity, I'll give a brief explanation (I don't know if all trivia nights are just like this one, but I bet they're all pretty similar). There are six rounds of three questions each. Within each round, you assign a point value to each question (1, 3, or 5 points for the first three rounds and 2, 4, or 6 points for the last three rounds). The catch is that you can only use each point value once per round. Then there are . . . OK, wait.

I'm feel like I'm kind of babbling and maybe you don't care about all these details. Bottom line - some guy asks a bunch of questions and teams of people turn in answers. Whoever gets the most points wins.

So our team of three was the smallest team, and we were also the youngest by about 20 years or so. Obviously, our team size was a disadvantage - not as many brains to pick. Not so obviously, our age was also a disadvantage - because the questions were skewed toward what is probably the usual average age at this particular establishment (i.e. - What year did "Unchained Melody" hit the charts?).

Despite our disadvantages, the first half went well - we were up in the top few out of eleven teams. We were feeling pretty good.

Then the second half . . .
We missed all the round 4 questions. Rounds 5 and 6 were a little better, but we weren't feeling so confident anymore.

Then came the last question. This question had four parts and you had to get all four correct to get the points. And you could wager up to 16 points. Well, we weren't looking so hot at this point, so we decided we needed to wager all 16 points (and get it right) to be in the running.

So we wagered 16 points, we didn't get it right, and we ended up finishing in last place. It was a little demoralizing.

The good news is that I now know that the Shenandoah River empties into the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry.