trivia today

So we qualified for teh trivia semi-finals today, which were held at Bamboozle's in dearborn @ 11am.

After a quick breakfast at Big Boy we went and played. And we qualified at the end to move on to the finals (which is a big deal....last time we qualified for the semis we didn't make it to the finals)

The finals were @ US-12 in Wayne. There were 35 teams there total. They fed us and the game started around 3:30pm.

It was pretty cool all in all. But in the end we failed to answer the final question correctly, combined with the wrong answers all thru the game, and we ended up betting it all at the end and lost.

There's always next time. For my team anyway. If i start working for mytrivialive I can't play in the tournaments anymore. But I can still play each week ^_^

Semi final questions:

1. HISTORY
Her formal names were Matoaka and Amonutet but she was more commonly known by this ... her nickname which meant "little wanton" in Powhatan.

2. MONEY
Before they switched to the Euro, this country used the escado as their currency.

3. SPORTS
This Big 10 team was known as "the Purple" until 1924.

4. CHILDREN'S TV
This children's TV show had a recurring character named "purple Panda" from the Planet Purple.

5. GEOGRAPHY
After Brazil, this is the most populous country in South America

6. CARS
This was the first car to come equipped with a lap belt and 3 point seat belt.

7. BUSINESS
Popeye's Chicken chain was founded in 1972 in this U.S. City.

8. MONEY
What decade did the Lincoln memorial replace the wheat stalks on the back of the U.S. penny?

9. MOVIES
"The Book of Shadows" was the sequel to what surprise 1999 theatrical hit?

HALFTIME QUESTION:
match the chities with their first African American mayor

CITIES:
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Los Angeles

MAYORS:
Coleman Young
William Bradley
Carl Stokes
Harold Washington

10.RELIGION
What ordinal number is the current pope?

11. SPORTS
Name 1 of the 2 states that have an NBA team but no NHL, MLB or NFL team.

12. MUSIC
What R&B singer was backed by the group Public Announcement in the 1990s?

13. CELEBS
The trendy restaurant El Vez in Philadelphia has pictures of what Love Boat regular on their bar stools?

14. GEOMETRY
How many sides does a Rhombus have?

15. MUSIC
What NYC ladmark is on the cover of the Smashing Pumpkin's 2007 album "ZeitGeist"?

16.HISTORY
What century did the Renaissance begin?

17. ROADS
Renamed in 2003 to US ROUTE 491, What was the numerical name of the stretch of road known as "The Devil's Highway"?

18. ANATOMY
How many vertebrae does an average human have?

FINAL QUESTION
TELEVISION
What do these 3 TV characters have in common?

Gossip Girl
Charlie Townsend
Stan Walker

ANSWERS:
(highlight for answers)
1.Pocahontas 2. Portugal 3. Northwestern 4. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood 5. Columbia 6. Volvo 7. New Orleans 8. 1950s 9 The Blair Witch Project HALFTIME: Chicago - Washington Cleveland - Stokes Detroit - Young L.A. - Bradley 10. 16th 11. Utah and Oregon 12. R. Kelly 13. Charo 14. 4 sides 15. Statue of Liberty 16. 14th century 17. Route 666 18. 24 FINAL You never see them on screen.

I was gonna put the finals questions here but I need to get back to crocheting and stuff...I'll post them either later or tomorrow.

And if you wanna know which ones we answered correctly it was
(highlight for answers)
1 3 6 7 9 missed 2 on the halftime (mixed up chicago and cleveland) 11 12 13 14 17 and got the final question right ^_^

Friday Five

1. What do you see when you are looking out of the window closest to you? my backyard
   
2. Who was the last person coming into your room? Kevin ... but technically it is OUR house
   
3. What is the most predominant colour around you? beige
   
4. What is right behind you? my cats
   
5. What is on today’s calendar sheet? some kind of classic car ... we got it free from someplace

movies I should have seen but haven't yet

(in no particular order)

(taken from the list of top 250 movies in imdb)

1. Casablanca
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3. Pretty in Pink
4. 16 candles
5. Scarface
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Citizen Kane
8. Dial M for Murder
9. Lawrence of Arabia
10. Spartacus
11. ben-Hur
12. Gandhi
13. Chinatown
14. Alien (any of them)
15. Friday the 13th (any but Freddy vs. Jason)
16. Bridge on the River Kwai
17. any John wayne movie
18. Pulp Fiction
19. The Sting
20. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
21. The Big Chill
22. Gladiator
23. Braveheart
24. The Big Lebowski
25. 9 1/2 weeks
26. Eat Drink man Woman
27. Taxi Driver
28. Nosferatu
29. The Hustler
30. King Kong (the original 1933 version)
31. The Philadelphia Story
32. Any Woody Allen movie
33. A Streetcar named Desire
34. Apocalypse Now
35. Any of the American Pie movies
35.

Places I want to visit someday

1. Athens
2. Stonehenge
3. The Winchester House
4. Puerto Rico
5. Hawaii
6. The pyramids in Egypt
7. Moscow
8. The Grand canyon
9. The Incan Ruins in Peru
10. Japan
11. The Great Wall of China
12. The White Cliffs of Dover
13. Hershey Pennsylvania
14. Wrigley Field
15. Mt. Saint Helens
16. Alaska
17. Nova Scotia
18. Fenway Park
19. Chichen Itza
20. India
21. Fiji
22. Toronto
23. Heinz Field
24. London
25. Vatican City

Things I learned last night from Trivia

1. the Aztec empire started after the Ottoman but before the Austro-Hungarian
2. Not counting Ronald Reagan, Wm. Henry Harrison was our oldest elected president at 68
3. da banshee loves "diff'rent Strokes"
4. Casper was a friendly ghost (okay so I didn't actually LEARN it last night ... but it was a question)
5. University of Texas Longhorns won the Rose Bowl 2 years in a row (2005 and 2006)
6. KeyWest is also known as Conch Island and Margaritaville
7. Benicio del Toro was in "the Fan"
8. Willem Defoe, Jodie Foster and Denzel Washington all starred in "The Inside Man" ... a Spike Lee joint
9. the first marathon finished in Athens
10. The Beaver is the mascot for M.I.T. and C.I.T.

SALLY O'MALLEY!!!!!

things I am grateful for

1. my husband
2. my family
3. my friends
4. our house
5. our cats
6. my health
7. my computer
8. my voice
9. yarn and crochet hooks
10. my TV
11. BEER

the end

Things I've learned from trivia nights

1. Ronald Reagan is our only divorced president
2. Gichigami means big water
3. The North Sea borders Great Britain on the East
4. Germany doesn't border Italy
5. France does border Germany, but it doesn't border the Netherlands
6. The phrase "What Would Jesus Do" came from an 1896 book entitled "In His Steps"
7. The first Rap act to appear on the cover of a Rolling Stone was Run DMC
8. Out of Elton John, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Sting, only Sting hasn't been knighted.
9. "The Sweetest Thing" is both a u2 song and a Cameron Diaz movie
10. The U.S. patent for the automobile was issued Nov, 5th, 1895

Computer's being wonky 2day:(will get blogs published 2moro