*Great Questions: Stark Raving Mad question, that excellent Cyborg and Garfunkle song, “five o’clock, six o’clock, seven o’clock…,” Video Game Speed Round in general, and then there was that tough 40-point audio speed round.
*Awesome Answers: Danielle’s cooperating teacher found the answer to the Dr Seuss question, Jenny’s sister looking up the People mag at the CSB library, Big Tom guessing “Seamus O’Malley, Come On Down!”
*Those Narrow Misses when they won’t accept your answer even though the question hasn’t really closed or when, upon hearing the answer, remember having seen it. Ugh!
*Tom Kain checking in from Okinawa and his pleasure at being told that it took a whole team of Wisconsinites to replace the vacancy he left in our crew.
*The Search for the S.S. Doogie: Our short lived but enthusiastic quest to track down Neil Patrick Harris. You're a craft pirate Doogie, we've gotta give you that. But watch out, if we catch you, you'll be walkin' the plank for sure!
*All the answers that popped up on the IM to get us huge points and left us shaking our heads in wonder. Murphy talking to Curt Carstensen at UTVS who looked up the answer for question number one – Thanks, man!
*"Oh, thaaat treasure! Yeah, it's been on the ship the whole time.” Let's not worry about checking OUR bird book when we get the visual trivia... Well, not a bad last resort.
*Oft heard on board the trivia ship: Real men of genius, are you online?, turn it up, can we hear that again, this is team #15 for question #, can I get a partial?, what are you doing for valentine’s day?, knucks, aye aye captain, Arrrrr!
*Crew Morale Hours: Hengemuele Malts Hour, Burrito hour, Pop tart hour, Mystery Muffin Hour, Smoothie Hour & of course, Premium Hour Talking to Brent on the internet phone. Without Cory, Murf, Danielle, Loren, and Jonas putting up with his prodding, he claims he wouldn’t have been any help. Who needs books? We only got 70 points out of our books this year. As long as you’ve got the internet, phones and brains, having books on-site is really overrated.
*Signs That Your Ship’s Arrrrr-rived: You can no longer say “we were so close to getting that 500 pt question,” Computers were often sitting vacant because there are no open questions, You don’t need to ban video game sites on your network, You start brainstorming ideas for what you’ll say when you’re called up on stage, Random people start asking to play on your team, You read your team name in the newspaper on Monday, You consider playing other trivia weekends around the country because 50 hours of trivia per year just doesn’t cut it anymore.
