By: Chuck Miller
trivia, Uncategorized

Week 17 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament

Oh man, if last night was the money round for the Elbo Room Trivia championship, I should have just gone home. A year off on one answer, a decade off on another, I couldn’t hit anything correct. And when the 20th and final question rolled around, although I had a semi-respectable 70 points on the night, that only put me in 7th place overall for the evening.

I was off by two years on the release date of the film Jurassic Park (I said 1991, it was 1993), I didn’t remember the Jets quarterback that beat Indianapolis 41-0 in a playoff game (I never thought Chad Pennington had it in him, but apparently he did), and I messed up last year’s election date by one measly day (Nov 3 is wrong, Nov 4 was right).

But this final round didn’t cause me to lose or gain ground. I still walk into next week’s money round as the seed of eight teams. Not that Street Academy being means that I get bonus points over team or team , but it’s more bragging rights than anything.

Mayhem took the night again, earning five playoff points, while the Brown Van Experience notched three playoff points. But for Monkey Knife Fights, they took one playoff point – and actually earned the right to be first alternate in the trivia money round if one of the eight teams originally scheduled does not show up.

So after seventeen weeks, here are the standings, with the top eight teams playing in next Thursday’s “money week” round.

Elbo Room Trivia Standings – Week 17
Trivia Team Points Totals
1 Mayhem 5 33.3
2 Stern Fans 23
3 Big Red Machine 22.3
4 Street Academy 19.5
5 Clay Aiken’s Skid Marks 15
6 Brown Van Experience 3 12
7 Touched by an Uncle 7
8 Woo Hoo a Go Go 4.5
THE CUT LINE
9 Monkey Knife Fights (first alternate) 3.3
T-10 The Wrong Guy 3
T-10 The Third Wheel 3
T-10 Team Pattie 3
13 Dr. Occam’s Razor 2
T-14 Nasty Nate 1
T-14 Overqualified and Unemployed 1

So the finals are this coming Thursday, January 28.  The finals for the Elbo Room tournament are a little different than the regular rounds – after every five questions, there will be a chance for you to wager as many points as you have on an upcoming question.  You could double your points, you could lose everything you have.  Usually these “final Jeopardy” questions are set as the final trivia question of the night – but in the money round, those questions are interspersed after every five questions asked.

So good luck to all the teams playing in the money round next week.