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Trivia smackdown Tuesday night

Posted By Mike Orren in Square Pegs on June 19, 2007

We picked up via a parenthetical the 411 that D Magazine fields a trivia team at the Tipperary Inn on Tuesday nights.

Tonight, Pegasus News will be in the house. I won't go so far as to predict a win, but I'll point out that starving entrepreneurs are particularly motivated when the bar tab is the prize. All shall know why host Gary calls it Bloodsport Trivia.

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How'd it go?

Kathryn E. Palagonia Staff

2 years, 5 months ago
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We were in third until the all-crucial last question. Which I led the botching of.

Ironically, the two questions we really screwed were music.

Mike Orren Staff

2 years, 5 months ago
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What were the two questions (sans answers)?

David Cohen Verified

2 years, 5 months ago
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David, the last question (the one we lost 16 points attempting to answer) involved putting the following four music-oriented milestones in correct chronological order.

Girl from Ipanema wins a grammy
AC/DC get together
Simon and Garfunkel split
The Boss kicks off his "Born in the USA" tour

John Meyer Staff

2 years, 5 months ago
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shooting from the hip:

ipanema simon and garfunkel ac/dc boss

It seems too easy. There must be a catch or I'm stupid. maybe both.

J_Mortimer Anonymous

2 years, 5 months ago
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I guess that question depends on which Simon and Garfunkel split the question has in mind, since there have been multiple:

Girl from Ipanema (mid 60's)
Simon & Garfunkel split (late 60's)
AC/DC get together (early 70's - '73 I think)
Born in the USA tour (mid 80's - album was '84)

David Cohen Verified

2 years, 5 months ago
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J, David: don't shoot me, I'm only the movie guy.

It should be remembered that a) we were answering as a committee, which means that there were several iterations of the chronology under discussion at various points (one of which may well have been the correct one); b) beer was involved (some of which our otherwise-pleasant waitress spilled on one of our staff participants); and c) we probably had too much time to think about it, because the trivia master played three songs over the interlude of our answer opportunity.

Did I mention I'm just the movie guy?

John Meyer Staff

2 years, 5 months ago
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John, what about~:

Garota de Ipanema
The Graduate
Let There Be Rock
Blood Brothers

David Cohen Verified

2 years, 5 months ago
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David - very clever, not to mention amusing.

I'm such a musical ignoramus I had to google "blood brothers springsteen" to discover it was a Springsteen song. (SORRY!)

As for the movie Blood Brothers, no fewer than five show up in IMDB - nine if you count the "aka"s.

John Meyer Staff

2 years, 5 months ago
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The problem is that we second-guessed like J Mortimer and put AC/DC ahead of Simon and Garfunkel.

The other music question that gave us a hurtin' was:

*Name The Doors' four highest-charting singles. (2 points each)*

Mike Orren Staff

2 years, 5 months ago
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Light my fire. . people are strange. . touch me. .

The other one? I dunno.

J_Mortimer Anonymous

2 years, 5 months ago
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I think that "Hello, I Love You" was a number 1 song. "L.A. Woman" and "Riders on the Storm" were big hits too. I go with those three plus "Light My Fire."