Springfield Trivia

Dropped in on a really good trivia night at the DAV club tonight.   The team I sat in with was a lot of fun to play with and we actually tied for first (but lost the tiebreaker).  To add insult to injury, when I got home and asked my eight year old daughter one of the questions we missed*, she knew the right answer.  Ouch!  Had EmmaLou been there, our 91 would have won the night outright.

Ah well, it was for a good cause – Habitat for Humanity, and a good time was had by all.

Nothing on the calendar for a while, so off to St. Louis if you want to catch a trivia night before the summer is over.

*  The state mineral of Illinois is Fluorite.

Do you know how you can tell it’s the off season for trivia nights?

Besides the obvious lack of trivia in Springfield lately, there are only six events in the St. Louis area this weekend.  That can only mean that summer is here.

Here are the answers to this thing:
http://www.springfieldtrivia.com/2009/03/google-this-quiz-round-one/#more-177

Point (Point Pleasant, Match Point, Point Break, Kilauea Point, West Point, Point Shoes

Cobra (Cobra Kai, Mustang Cobra, Cobra Commander, Cobra Radar Detector, COBRA insurance)
Tank (Tank Girl, Da Vinci’s Tank, Tank Abbott, Tank Johnson, Dunk Tank, Tank Top, R&B Artist “Tank”)

Monster (Monster Cable, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Charlize Theron accepting her Oscar for “Monster”, Gila Monster, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Monster Energy Drink, REM’s album “Monster”, Monster.com, Tampa Bay Beach Monster)

Congrats to Mike Taylor, Dan Naumovich, and Joanne Hoagland who got all four correct!

If you had a team set up for the Sports Trivia Night this weekend, you should start making other plans for Saturday night because it has been canceled.  Just and FYI.

I’ve only received three responses to the Google image round, so I’m extending the deadline to this Friday at noon. If there are no more guesses by then, there probably won’t be a round two.

It may be time to knock a wall down at the FFLC.  Next weekend’s event adds to their string of sellouts – AND they had to add a couple of tables!  So scoot your chairs in…it will be a full house.

Here are the teams that got their reservations in:
Aidich, Bolletta, Brackenhoff, Briggs, Briggs, Cummins, Egizi, Filipiak, Fishburn, Flynn,  Frier, Heinzel,  Hood, Hornshaw, Huntley, Kellus, Kervin, Krushull, Long, Mate, Moore, Oleary, Patton, Race, Reyne, Roate, Secrist, Secrist, Self, Serra, Sitko, Taylor, Thompson, Winters, Wood

It looks like the only show in Sangamon County this weekend is in Williamsville.  So if you’re looking for something nearby, head north on 55 for 11 miles.

You could also head the other direction (and a few more miles) if you want to try one of the 28 events in the St. Louis area this weekend, including 9 on the Illinois side of the river.

Of course, you could always head over to Blog Free Springfield and take Dan’s latest test of trivial skillz.

***  Apparently there is also a trivia night at the Northend KC Hall tonight. I don’t think it was advertised in the SJ-R, and I didn’t hear about it until today when I was asked to play.

The disappointing thing about most online trivia quizes is that nothing stops participants from using their magical Googling powers to conjur the answers.  If you remember this site from 2 or 3 years ago, you might recall the old quiz league that featured Google-proof questions.  I’ve decided to revive the concept – and take it a step further.  Now, the quizes will be more of a test of not only how much you know already, but your skill at finding the right answers – even if it requires the help of Uncle Yahoo.

The first round will be a little warm up.  Only four parts, and a relatively simple test of your brainpower and search engine saavy.   I’ll give you four collages made from images returned from a Google Image Search (GIS) for a particular word.  For each of the four collages, all you have to do is tell me the word that I was searching for.

DEADLINE:  Noon – Wednesday, April 1st.
EMAIL ANSWERS TO:  russ@springfieldtrivia.com

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I’ve been informed that the number of tables at the FFLC trivia night on April 4th will be limited to 33.  There have already been 29 reservations made, so if you’ve been putting off claiming your spot, now is the time.  Once those four tables are reserved, you’ll have to sit in the bar while everybody else enjoys the greatest trivia night ever*.

To nab one of the four remaining tables, email Allen Reyne at fflctrivia@gmail.com.

* on April 4th, 2009, in Springfield, at the Firefighters Lake Club.

The Replacements

Here’s one from 2005.  This category is all about people who replaced (or were replaced by) another person in some capacity.  See how you would have done.  Let it load, then click the slides to continue.