Ice Doesn’t Count
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Today’s Fact:
The Empire State Building does have its own zip code, 10118. Kelly — the MC of Bustin’ Heads Trivia — owes us beer.
Knowing this, would those extra fifteen points — the 10 points we would’ve won from question #10 (“Which of the following building has its own ZIP code?”) and the five points we lost — have pushed us into the winner’s circle? Not likely. Like a Yugo fueled by gasohol and paperclips, our stalwart gang of triviots were far from firing on all cylinders. We chose a good name — “Hispanics with Stare Decisis In Their Eyes” — and we had a pretty full roster (Alyssa, Nikki, Tony, Rusty, Joseph, B.J. and your humble author — Darcey was either home with a flu or hanging out with five-course foodies). But for every question that left us staring into space, there were two that sent us into discussions that strayed far from the correct answer.
Tokyo and LA are busy airports, but we went with Hong Kong and Paris. The “Enola Gay” decimated Hiroshima, but the best we could come up with for Nagasaki was that famous fighting flagship, the “Chuck Norris.” Our worst moment? Telling B.J. that there was no way that Antarctica has the highest average elevation of any continent. Our reasoning? Ice doesn’t count.
It does.
So after a tie-breaking overtime, the big winners were our old rivals, The Olsen Twins. Better them than the whipper-snappers of Kelly Is A Girl’s Name. I mean, come on, we all know that Kelly is a girl’s name …
