Trivia Night

So I just wanted to tell you guys a funny story. Myself and Kirsten Flower went to go get dinner in the downtown area on Amelia Island the other night during a freak monsoon. We decided to try a simple Italian restaurant but when we went inside the patio the main door was locked. So the owner came out and said they were closed for the evening due to flooding. So we ended up deciding on the Irish pub called O'Kanes next door (didn't feel like walking in the rain). We get inside and the hostess seats us in the bar room and tells us that it is trivia night. Meanwhile, we could have cared less about playing trivia, we just wanted food. So the woman in charge of trivia (Angie) comes over asks us if we wanted to play and we just decided sure why not, it would give us something to do before our food comes out. So just to paint a picture for you, me and Kirsten were the youngest people in there, we were the only table of 2 players, and we had the stupidest name for our group (not going to say, involves tennis though). Other tables had between 4 and 6 players, both male and female players, and cool kick-ass names like Sparta and It's the Freakin' Catalina Wine Mixer (from Step-brothers for those that don't know). So we are already thinking we are going to lose. The rules were simple, no using cellphones to check answers, no going to the bathroom with phone to check answers, no phone-a-friend. Simple. There were 6 rounds of 3 questions the categories were movies, tv, music, geography, vocabulary, and sports. And for each question you either had to give yourself 1 point, 3 points, or 5 points, and you could only use each of them once in a round. So Angie said if you know the answer use a 5 if you have no idea about an answer but a 1. So simple stuff. Here were some of our lucky guesses.
Which Hollywood character has been played by Russell Crowe, Sean Connery, and Kevin Costner? Me and Kirsten just looked at each other like who the hell knows. And then while Angie was coming around to collect our answers I remembered that Russell Crowe just starred in Robin Hood so I put that down and we got it right. Lucky guess #1

Hawaii consumes the most per capita of what Hormel food product? Again we had no idea of the answer until I remembered in the movie 50 First Dates that they keep talking about Spam. "Why don't you choke on your spam!" And Adam Sandler is given a box of Spam and Reese's before sailing off to Alaska. So we put that as an answer and got that one right too. Lucky guess again!

In 1744 who created the first mail order catalog? By process of elimination (1776 was the whole Declaration of Independence so we tried to figure out who was around at that time, and who was old enough to be around during 1744.) We thought Ben Franklin was so we chose him, and again another correct answer.

There was a halftime question and that was to name the these artists best selling album in the U.S. Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, and The Police. We only got Thriller and Born in the USA. The others were IV and Synchronicity. So with these we got an extra 4 points. And at that time we were in last place.

Some other answers were blood, Puerto Rico, Baltimore, John Elway, and Ozzie Guillen. (We only got the first 2 right.)

Then the final question of the night came and you could wager 1-16 points, if you got the question right you got however many points you wagered or you could lose those points. We decided to just go all in for 16, we had nothing to lose because we were in last anyway. But the question was to put these Johnny Depp movies in order from the earliest to the most recent: Ed Wood, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands, and Donnie Brasco. As soon as the question was read Kirsten's face lit up because she knows all about Johnny Depp, she has see all his movies and has even read his autobiographies. It was Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Ed Wood, and Donnie Brasco. Perfect for 16 points!

Then when all the scores were totalled up Angie was read out all the scores and it turns out we came in 3rd!!! From last to 3rd. We were so excited and all because Kirsten knew everything there is to know about Johnny Depp. It was great, we even got a gift certificate to O'Kanes so we got a free meal. But Angie said it is very difficult for a group of 2 players let alone of the same sex to win in trivia. We felt like rockstars the rest of the night. hahaha.