the Rizza, or not the Rizza

last night was the follow up to St. Patty’s Day trivia, and a chance for the Rizza to take down back-to-back Team Trivia titles.  of course the rest of the teams would be trying thier best to keep that from happening!

team name of the night goes to . . . “Larry Lost Two Stripes in Louisiana”.  and yes, there’s a story behind it

teams made their wayy through four rounds of questions such as . . .

• What meat traditionally becomes a Weiner Schnitzel ?
• With 5.3 million sold since 1953, what’s by far the most successful British Car of all time?
• What clothing item was first known as the ‘slide fastener’?

besides the questions that are actually worth points in the game, there are prize questions that must be answered from the barstool of knowledge.  last night players were vying for a prize package by trying to list all of the numbers with names that have no repeating letters. 

for instance, “One” has no repeating letters.  In the word “Nine”, the letter ‘n’ repeats.  There are 16 in total, including the number “Zero”.  Good luck!

when all of that was finished, we had one lucky player choose from the magic envelope pile, where there is a $50 bill hidden, waiting for a new home!  several people found “Golden Tipped Shooters” and now have a chance at winning seats on a bus trip to a baseball game at Camden Yards this summer.

and after all of THAT, we found out that TWO teams were tied for First Place!

The Rizza and “The irresistable force meets the immovable object” . . . .

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the question?  When the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia, what did we pay per acre?

as it turns out, we didn’t pay much – abut $.02 per acre.  Rad came closer with his answer during the showdown, which means that “The irresistable force meets the immovable object” came away with the Trivia Title for the evening!!  Congrats guys!

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