Last night, Martel’s at the Capital Hills Golf Course hosted the 2012 Relay for Life trivia competition. It was a standard “Trivia Nights Live” matchup, with proceeds from the event going to charity.
It was a good game all around, some of the questions were really competitive – one of the 10-pointers was “In what city did the New Jersey Devils begin their NHL existence in 1974?” (Kansas City, I got that), while another 10-pointer was “Which President was the first to have his inauguration broadcast in color?” (Kennedy, and nobody got that one).
After nineteen questions, a team called “Par For The Course” held the lead, while my Street Academy squad was only a few points behind. A Few Cards Short of a Deck, the team that won the Relay for Life matchup last year, was also in the fight – although because of the maximum “five players per team” rule, the squad had to split into two entities; the second one, “Four Queens and a King,” were a few points behind me.
And now comes the final question – on the category of transportation history.
Ooh. Got nothing to lose. I bet all my chips.
“What President helped start the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?”
Owtch. Total throw-a-dart-at-an-answer question. I said Grant. So did several other teams. There were answers of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. One team even suggested it might be Theodore Roosevelt.
And the correct answer – was Abraham Lincoln. Nobody got it right. And only because they wagered all but three points, the team known as “Par For The Course” took the big prize, $125 in restaurant gift cards – and the win. Congratulations to them.
Then came the raffling of prizes. I won a $25 gift card to the Eddie Bauer store. No, I’m not giving it away on the blog. Chuck needs a new shirt.
The last prize offered was the framed picture of Barn Versus Weeds. There must have been a hundred tickets in that bucket. And I know at least two of my readers, neither of whom could be at the event, purchased the majority of those tickets.
And in the end, one of them won. Charlotte Diffendale, who posts as “Diff” on my blog, now has a framed Chuck Miller artwork for her collection. I expect to see a pic of it on your wall, Diff…
In the end, Relay for Life raised over $550 for the event, so a big round of applause for all who organized the trivia game, and a tippo de hat to Kevin Baker, owner of the Trivia Nights Live company, for being the trivia host for the night.
Lots of fun all around.
Chuck The Writer 
Congrats on a great trivia fund raiser. Congrats to Diff for winning the framed print (sighs, I SO wanted that!), and a big WTG on winning the gift card! It was nice that you won, good karma for promoting the fund raiser on your blog! 🙂
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Next year I hope to see all the trivia teams out playing for the title and to help beat cancer. After all, you can talk all the trash you want, but if you don’t show up and play, you can’t back it up.
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I’ll admit to not knowing the hockey question…but the JFK and Lincoln questions were EASY! I can’t believe nobody got those. I just asked a few people at random and they got both answers right.
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I am delighted! It reminds me of an abandoned house on my parents’ property that had vines and snakes coming up the walls. Sadly, I won’t be able to take custody of it until after Relay, at which point it can move in with Funny Cide and my “L is for Lobotomy” print. Thanks for donating it to the cause!
As for trivia, I didn’t know when the Transcontinental Railroad started but Lincoln makes sense and is possibly something I would’ve guessed just on the basis of him being a former railsplitter, while we’re on the subject of Chuck Miller photos in Cards’ homes. Can’t possibly be Calvin freakin’ Coolidge two years in a row.
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