Fourth Year Trivia Night drink specials + When it Rains it Pours $1 off specials = a packed house at Mellow Mushroom this past Tuesday night! Molly, Jon, Joe and I got there around 7 and were the last group promised a table for the night- the hostess had to turn away people left and right and we waited so eagerly for about an hour until a table opened up in the back near the bar. Now the Fourth Year Trustees email had promised Harry Potter trivia, but there were actually only two wizarding questions asked the entire night, and I am embarrassed that we got one of them wrong!
After ordering our delicious food (Jon tried the cinnamon pretzels!) I learned the ins and outs of trivia! All the tables form group names and play three rounds of three questions interspersed by some great music. Since there was misunderstanding about the trivia being HP, many of the team names were related or had something to do with a basilisk in the chamber of secrets. Molly concocted a slightly more PG team name than Jon wished, but we donned the initials HHW: Hagrid’s Horntailed Whores! It actually paled comparison to some of the other names including the Forceable Fondlers. There were a ton of innapriopriate ones, but the one that won the coveted title of best team name (and subsequent shots) was Team:
Whatsthedifferencebetweendrinkingthefourthyearfifthandtheresasullivan?Whenwedidthefourthyearfifthwewdidntthrowup. Ridiculous.
As the pitchers flowed at our table we went through surges of triumph and defeat in our answers. I helped with the first answer! A hippopotamus is the only herbivorous land animal whose mouth can open 180°! The best round though was the round with categories of Literature, TV, and Poetry … RIGHT UP Molly’s alley! And she banged out those answers like it was her business! Apparently the guys didn’t know she was an English major haha, but she was great at recognizing the opening lines from Anna Karenina which Jon couldn’t get over haha
I was so pleasantly surprised to find that not all the teams were cheating on the questions with their iphones! At the end of the six rounds we were definitely a contending team…third place even! But the bonus round did us in…it was an all or nothing sheet of alcohol logos. While we missed the Miller High Life woman on the moon, there was a weird firey horse I’d never heard of before. Oh well! The event was so fun! It gave me a break in this stressful week, time with some of my favorites (and getting to run into some sweet 4th years), awesome knowledge ahaha, and Mellow vibes which I hadn’t had since 1st year!! Team HHW will be back in the spring…back, bigger, and better than ever!
“The game of Trivia, like camp, is a product of the heart, not of the mind. It’s a social disease, it’s little things for little minds. It’s the last time you were able to act immature, to act like the college kid” – Edwin Goodgold
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