We were down to a skeleton crew of five. Due to the severe gravitational pull of other local events like the ritual relocation of a certain pirate, the opening night of RENT (The Movie) and the booking of some inexplicably popular Bon Jovi cover band, the only hands on deck belonged to Nikki, Tony, Joseph, BJ and your host.
We had little luck with the College Sports questions. (Curse you, Ohio State, for not being the answer to one question and for being the right answer to another question.) We all failed to recognize Nikki’s observation that Venus could really be hotter than Mercury. (The greenhouse effect of a planet with an all-gas-all-the-time atmosphere is no joke.) The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620, not 1632. And the King Kong of 1976 chose to do his rampaging from atop the World Trade Center, as opposed to either The Empire State Building (as he had in 1933 and will again in a few weeks) or The Chrysler Building.
All was not for naught, however. In the end, Woodrow Wilson’s face on the largest bill ever produced in the United States sealed the deal and sent us home with a 1st place victory, thus restoring our championship status.
We also won beer and a bear. Really. A stuffed Falcons-themed bear with a lop-sided head.
