it all started one cold winter’s day. or at least that’s how i’m choosing to remember it.
in some manner of typical barroom banter, the following question was posed . . . “Could Skrully hit a baseball out of the Anthracite?” and at that moment, a line had been drawn. and skrully is a man who is not afraid of lines. or arcs, triangles, or semi-circles for that matter.
the event became part of destiny. a shared destiny between the man on the mound (randy troutman) and the man with the bat, Skrully.
destiny came knocking on wednesday afternoon this week, while the sun shined and the camera rolled!
what transpired is something that you just have to see for yourself . . .
it is a story of the triumph of the human spirit, and the power of a never-say-die attitude! in the end, men tested their limits. and no one got hurt.
you can do better than that?
hat’s off to all who participated in this memorable happening!! and although this one deserves a place in the history books, rumor has it that this story has not yet been fully told. will there be a sequel??? time will tell . . . .
apparently that’s a line from Back To The Future. it also happens to be the name of this week’s team trivia champions . . .
they managed to make the most of the final bonus question “name the movies playing at the bloom cinema center” to come from behind at the end. it pays to look in the paper sometimes!
on her first trip to team trivia, Erin took a seat on the barstool of knowledge and successfully named ALL of the kids from the reality show “John and Kate plus 8″
this past wednesday we gathered for tacos, and a round of Sports-Only trivia.
the sports trivia differs from our regular Monday Night trivia in several ways, the most obvious being that all of the questions are sports-oriented. the other difference is that each team is limited to three players.
the following three players proved to be better than the rest . . .
for the month of June, Varano, Demansky and Tanney are our reigning champs in the realm of Sports Trivia. congrats gentlemen!
btw - this post comes at you directly from Dorko’s. that’s right, we now have wireless internet access!
last night was the closest trivia contest ever!! With 7 different teams competing, every team finished within two points of the top. and THREE different teams tied for the top spot!!
that means everyone sent their best man to the mike, trying to come away from the tie breaker question with a victory . . .
before we made it that far into the evening, players had to wade through questions such as . . .
How many feet are in a mile?
What are the first three words of the bible?
Name the seven characters that comedian Jeff Dunham uses in his ventriloquist act.
On an English dartboard, what is the lowest number that cannot be scored with a single dart?
The questions weren’t the only form of entertainment during the evening. The lovely shooter girls livened up the atmosphere . . .
while players tried to solve the problem of the 8 Queens. several people were able to successfully place 8 queens on a chessboard in positions where no Queen could attack another.
Here’s the collection of our puzzle-solvers . . .
in the end, after all the tie-breaking, the crew of “One minute, Let’s get it in” came out on top!!
congrats to everyone for such a solid showing, and close trivia conTEST.
SPORTS TRIVIA - That’s right, tomorrow (Wednesday night) we will be gathering for a SPORTS ONLY trivia contest. teams are limited to three persons and kickoff is at 7:30pm. slightly ahead of our usual schedule.
and yes, it will be the typical Wednesday TACO NIGHT as well. so, come on out and take a swing at the reigning champs (bower, builder, and Al), and take part in the taco-eating contest (skrully is the referee for that particular event)
Once again, Monday Night was Team Trivia with the usual suspects showing up to vie for the title of Triva Champs. the trophy from last week rested on the bar next to team “Multiple Scoregasms”, but was destined to find its way into the back room at the end of the night.
The final results had nearly every team finishing within five points of each other for what may well be the most hotly contested trivia contest in Dorko’s history. some of the more comical team names include:
“What’s Dana doing at Senior Week?” and “Fat, Drunk and Proud”. Despite their creativity, no one could best the efforts of “Shark Week”, our Monday Night Champs . . .
They took the title by answering questions like:
What four colors in a box of 64 Cryola Crayons have 4 letter naems?
What was the number on Speed Racer’s car?
What fast food chain uses the slogan “Do what tastes right?”
Next Monday night we will gather for another Team Trivia happening, and next Wednesday (not tonight) we will have a SPORTS TRIVIA contest where Bower, Builder, and Al will attempt to defend their crown. Remember, sports-trivia is a three man team event.
Two blonde girls were working for the city council public works department.
One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole in.
They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next street, working furiously all day without rest, one girl digging a hole, the other girl filling it in again. An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn’t understand what they were doing.
So he asked the hole digger, ‘I’m impressed by the effort you two are putting into your work, but I don’t get it - why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?’
The hole digger wiped her brow and sighed, ‘Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we’re normally a three-person team.
But today the girl who plants the trees called in sick.’
this week we had a new winner at the Trivia conTEST. and what a trivia contest it was!
we started the evening with a running math problem:
“A block of wood in the form of a shoebox 4″ × 9″ × 14″ has all its six faces painted pink. If the wooden block is cut into 504 cubes of 1″ × 1″ × 1″, how many of these would have pink paint on them?”
anyone who wanted to take a crack at the answer could, and the winner would get one of the traditional prize packages. Skrully deduced the correct answer, as did the Demansky couple.
congrats guys. there will be more running math quizzes in the future.
meanwhile, on the regular question front, here were a couple from tonight’s list . . .
What is the lowest ranking Ace in Bridge?
What is the only US State that ends with the state’s postal abbreviation?
Name 14 songs from the Grease Soundtrack, including 5 by Sha-na-na (one point for each)
and who was in the house trying to answer these questions you might ask? the ladies and gentlemen from team “Winning this will be easier than playing operation with Michael J Fox”
an honorable mention award goes to team “I’m not gay, but five bucks is five bucks”.
and then there is the winning team - Multiple Scoregasms
Good job guys!
as far as trivia contests go, in the upcoming weeks we will have the return of Sports Trivia - which is a three man team event, and on Monday July 6th we’re having our “Fourth of July” trivia night with some special prizes in the works.
