Trivial Matters from Feb 13, 2007 @ The BU Pub/Club
This was my 2nd appearence as the trivia master at the BU Pub. There were a lot more teams this time around. As a consequence there was a lot more bitching. The query ppl seemed most upset about was the The MBTA Bus Routes Bonus Round.
Just click on a question to reveal its answer.
1st Quarter
Acadia National Park, Maine
(just about everyone got this one)
Wilson, Theodre Roosevelt, Jimmmy Carter
(most got this, Ford was a noteable inccorect answer)
The king of the mountain
(many answers along the correct theme were accepted)
(many people thought this was for the last rider)
Venus
(Polaris seemed to be a popular wrong choice)
Picture Round: Films of Martin Scorese
Correctly identify these Martin Scorese films.
Minus one point for incorrect answers.
1976
1980
1983
1986
1990
1991
1999
2002
1976: Taxi Driver, 1980: Raging Bull, 1983: The King of Comedy, 1986: The Color of Money
1990: Goodfellas, 1991: Cape Fear, 1999: Bringing out the Dead, 2002: Gangs of New York
(I was shocked how many teams couldn't get the obvious ones)
2nd Quarter
1985
(I think only one team got this)
Hawaii
(I was surprised that abou 2/3's got this one)
Prostate
(surprisingly, no teams answered skin cancer)
Guessing Game
This is played Price Is Right style—closest guess without going over
1825
(The closest guess was 1350, the worst was 77)
I just called BPD hackney division and asked them then answer for this. The woman on the phone yelled across the room to get the answer told me, and hung up, all the while displaying remarkable uninterest in any of it.
3rd Quarter
I think this is where things started to get a little too hard—stupid BU kids.
Oregon
(just a handful of teams guessed this)
Madagascar
(no one knows how to spell Colombia [no 'u'])
Yangtze
(I also accepted yellow river [though through later research I realized that the yellow river is a completely different river-oops])
(only one team missed this, about the only sure fire question of the night—maybe because I accepted the wrong answer?)
Bonus Round: Bus Routes of Boston
Name the usual terminus of the below bus routes.
Minus one point for incorrect answers.
- 57 inbound
- 1 inbound
- 86 outbound
- 66 outbound
- 8 inbound
- 39 outbound
| Route & Direction |
Terminus |
| 57 inbound |
Kenmore |
| 1 inbound |
Dudley Station |
| 86 inbound |
Sullivan Station |
| 66 outbound |
Harvard Square |
| 8 inbound |
Kenmore |
| 39 outbound |
Forest Hills Station |
(This was a disaster for teams. The best score was 3. Several teams got negative points, which I graciously counted as zero)
4th Quarter
1/72
(one team got this and there was an audible groan when I gave out this answer I tried making it better by explain that there are 12point in a pica, but I think that still seemed too esoteric–oh well)
Tea
(Camomille Tea was not an acceptable answer-I got booed when I said that. I so badly wanted to get into an argument about that with someone)
(about 1/3 of teams got it, but camomille tea was by far the most popular choice)
All the news that's fit to print
(I was very surprised that ~1/3 missed what I thought was a gimme)
2 Minute Drill: Retired Jersey Numbers
Here's the deal with this. There is an easy and a hard question. You may answer the easy question for three points. Or you may answer the easy and hard questions for seven points. The only rub is that if you go for both and miss one of them you get zero points. You must decide if you are only going for the easy question before you hear the hard question.
Jackie Robinson's 42
(everyone got this one)
Celtics with 22
(Only 2 teams managed the hard one. Yankees was most common wrong answer.)