{"id":2009,"date":"2011-01-30T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/30\/geek-bowl-v"},"modified":"2011-01-30T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T16:25:00","slug":"geek-bowl-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2011\/01\/30\/geek-bowl-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Bowl V"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Last night I played pub trivia in the largest pub trivia contest<\/a> in the USA.\u00a0 Roughly 150 teams (900 people) gathered at the Fillmore for an extra special night of Geeks Who Drink trivia.<\/p>\n

It was kind of disappointing.\u00a0 The entertainment was pretty bad and the night went on long, despite shortened times to answer each round.\u00a0 It was hard.\u00a0 The categories weren’t very fun, like they usually are at our local game.\u00a0 It didn’t feel especially geeky.\u00a0 Bummer.<\/p>\n

But overall it was a fun night!\u00a0 We placed 27th overall.\u00a0 27!!!\u00a0 I’m proud of us.\u00a0 We wanted to make top 50.<\/p>\n

It was like a normal trivia night.\u00a0 8 rounds with 8 questions each.\u00a0 Second round is music, fifth is visual, seventh is audio (video in this case, since they had screens).\u00a0 Second and Eighth rounds are work double points.\u00a0 You have a joker you can use one time on any round to double your score.\u00a0 You write your answers on the score sheets provided and turn them in for tallying.\u00a0 No cell phone use allowed during game play. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Differences from a local game: tons of people, reserved table with our team name and score sheet pre-printed.\u00a0 No repeats of questions.\u00a0 The question was printed on the screen as well as read aloud (wish they could do this locally). Two minute timer after each round to complete your answers.\u00a0 This drastically cut down the amount of discussion and thought we could put into our answers.\u00a0 You have much more time locally.\u00a0 No internet bonus question or free drink speed-answer questions.\u00a0 The drinks were hella expensive and no pub food to order. The chairs less comfortable than at the Bulldog (impossible but true!). \u00a0\u00a0 Super tight security with proctors watching for cell phone users.\u00a0
Huh, I sound pretty crabby about it, don’t I?\u00a0 It really was fun and kind of a crazy thing to do with your weekend. I’m waiting for them to post the final scores and total list on their blog.\u00a0 Here’s a summary of the categories and how we did.<\/p>\n


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1) Cold Facts on Colfax (A random knowledge round using keywords “cold” or “fact” or “Colfax” in either the question or the answer.
Score = 5\/8<\/p>\n

2) Music Round. Identify the song and artist or album (as specified) played by the live mariachi band.
Score = 13\/14 (They tossed out one song, or else we would have had 13\/16).
We should have jokered this round but we didn’t know we did so well because a few were wild guesses.<\/p>\n

3) True\/False about True or False (each statement had “true” or “false” in it, was the statement T\/F?)
Score = 3\/8<\/p>\n

4) Pop, Culture (basically a random knowledge round using those keywords)
Score = 3\/8<\/p>\n

5) Visual Round “No, Ship!”\u00a0 Name the boat pictured.
Score = 6\/8<\/p>\n

6) Dowdy with a Chance of Meatballs (Feminism and meatball subjects, but hardly.\u00a0 More like random knowledge.\u00a0 Hated this round)
Score = 2\/8<\/p>\n

7) Identify the movie clips played.
Score = 6\/8<\/p>\n

8) Random Knowledge
Score = 8\/16 (jokered for total of 16 points)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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