Week 6 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament

Seems like the questions for the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament are getting rougher and rougher. Not only do you really have to concentrate and know your subjects, but you also have to be prepared for what I call “the Baker Triple.”

Follow along.

Every so often, the guy that comes up with the questions for Trivia Nights Live trivia, Kevin Baker, will throw in a triple bonus or a quadruple bonus in which – well, try this one out.

“Name the states of birth for the following actors – Ben Affleck, Will Ferrell and Jack Black. And they must be in order.”

Great. I was pretty sure Will Ferrell was from California, so now it was a case of figuring out where the other two actors were born. Ben Affleck loves to root for the Red Sox, so I surmised he might be from Massachusetts. Jack Black – total guess, I figured he was a New Yorker.

Turns out the correct answer was – Affleck, California – Ferrell, California – and Jack Black, California. All three were from California, and we all got snookered by a Baker Triple.

Baker’s done this before with questions – things like “In what decade did Topps first manufacture baseball cards, in what decade did they first manufacture football cards, and in what decade did they first manufacture basketball cards?” If you said “1950’s, 1950’s, and 1950’s,” you are aware of the Baker Triple.

Final question of the night was on video games – in what year was the first John Madden video football game sold?

I said 1988. It was 1989. That sound you hear is me groaning by missing the question by one miserable year.

Which now means I’m not only in a tie with Clay Aiken’s Skid Marks, but also a tie with the schoolteachers known as the Brown Van Experience, who picked up their first five-point win of the tournament.

After six weeks, here are the standings, and remember – only the top eight squads get into the final round.

Elbo Room Trivia Standings – Week 6

	Trivia Team	Points	Totals
1	Mayhem	3	9.3
2	Stern Fans		8
3	Big Red Machine		6.3
T-4	Brown Van Experience	5	5
T-4	Street Academy		5
T-4	Clay Aiken’s Skid Marks		5
7	Touched by an Uncle		4
T-8	The Third Wheel		3
T-8	Woo Hoo a Go Go		3
THE CUT LINE
9	Monkey Knife Fights		2.3
10	Dr. Occam’s Razor	1	2
11	Overqualified and Unemployed		1

Street Academy is still in the running, albeit now in a three-way tie for fourth place. Let’s see how things hold up for next week.