# Pub Trivia in Seattle 2006: Electric Boogaloo **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 2, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101 "2006-01-02T18:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/241 "2006-04-06T19:09:45Z")
> [@Interrobang!?](#): > > We lost by one point. And one question we got wrong involved Canada. If you’d like to feel guilty about that, go right ahead. Oh no! What was the question. I refuse to feel bad until I know if I can answer it. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/242 "2006-04-06T19:22:45Z")
Sorry about dropping out of sight. My husband’s mom was diagnosed with colon cancer two weeks ago, so we’ve been fielding doctor’s appointments and such. I may be able to make it next week, but I’ll let you know for sure as it approaches. I’ll try to stay in touch better ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/243 "2006-04-06T23:48:20Z")
Actually, two of the stamps in that picture round were Canadian. And we got them both wrong, I believe. Let me add my congrats. Good trivia. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/244 "2006-04-07T04:44:21Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Sorry about dropping out of sight. My husband’s mom was diagnosed with colon cancer two weeks ago, so we’ve been fielding doctor’s appointments and such. I may be able to make it next week, but I’ll let you know for sure as it approaches. No rush, family comes first. Do what you need to do, and we’ll see you when we see you. Good health and good wishes to you and yours. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/245 "2006-04-09T20:14:58Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Congrats to **lissener** for running a much more polished quiz night last night. > > _No_ congrats for running a quiz in which our team came in frickin’ _second._ Grumble grumble. 😉 Oh, thanks, didn’t see this this till now. And apologies for accidentally switching your prize money pile with the third place winners, but I didn’t figure out that’s what I did till I reconstructed the scene of the crime later, in my head. (I’m still not sure that’s what happened, but that’s my best guess.) So, you were shorted ten bucks, but I’m not sure how to make it up to you. Maybe I’ll buy the table a pitcher this week. And of course I’ll karmically make it up by being more careful with future prize piles. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/246 "2006-04-09T20:33:42Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > Actually, two of the stamps in that picture round were Canadian. And we got them both wrong, I believe. > > Let me add my congrats. Good trivia. Thanks! Working on this weeks right now. If anyone knows they’re NOT going to make it on tuesday and would like to help me formulate some of this week’s questions, email me at [myusername][at][gmail][.][com]. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/247 "2006-04-11T15:40:34Z")
I won’t be there tonight. ☹ But I’ll be there in spirit. I hope everyone has paid attention to my anatomy and physiology lessons here, over the last couple years. 😉 I sent **lissener** a few questions, so I will be there in spirit. Make me proud, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/248 "2006-04-11T17:27:37Z")
I’ll most likely be there tonight, along with **inkysplotchy** , who doesn’t have fencing this evening. ( **lissener** , if you’re using any of his questions, he can just leave the vicinity for that round – John did that a few times.) ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/249 "2006-04-11T18:11:50Z")
I’ll be there, as usual. I guess we could make the back table our place, since it’s the same size and having us there helps **lissener** while at the same time keeping us from constantly talking to him, which I fear we’d do if we were up front. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/250 "2006-04-11T18:56:36Z")
I plan on being there tonight, unless someone calls for a random evening job interview. (Ha! There I go with that overactive imagination again.) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/251 "2006-04-11T19:38:56Z")
I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/252 "2006-04-11T22:44:07Z")
We’re in. A bit later than usual, but we’re in. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/253 "2006-04-12T04:08:33Z")
Apologies for missing tonight, family emergency going on. Hope to attend again soon. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/254 "2006-04-12T05:21:16Z")
Well THAT sucked. I handed out the teacher’s edition of the first Picture Round, so had to scrap it. Then I screwed up a couple answers. Then I had a couple people up front arguing with me a lot, which didn’t improve my mood. One guy bitched every time there was a question he didn’t know, complaining that I was asking questions that were too obscure. Then he complained that my question about the America’s Cup was too obvious. When I said to him, “So . . . are you complaining that the questions are too hard, or too easy?” he answered, “I’m complaining that spelling isn’t trivia. That was a copout.” So I said, “Write it up and submit it,” and moved on; he was clearly just after picking a fight. But he soured my mood. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/255 "2006-04-12T06:33:39Z")
I remember that team being pretty back-and-forthy with John, as well. It’s not you. And spelling makes a fine, if nervewracking, trivia round (said the guy who steered his team to 10 points in it). They’ve done spelling questions at the G&D and Irish Emigrant from time to time. You did a fine job. The thing is you rolled with your mistakes, which is what John did. Questions get screwed up; them’s the breaks. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/256 "2006-04-12T08:44:07Z")
Thanks, that helps. And actually, the whiner was a newbie; the regulars you’re talking about, they demand bewilderingly arcane clarifications of every question, but they don’t actually complain much. ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/257 "2006-04-12T15:04:15Z")
Meh. N00bs. Like **Interrobang!?** said, you did a fine job, and I’ve done spelling rounds before as well. Just gotta remember to remember your mistakes, and it’ll get easier each time. And **Anastasaeon** & **picunurse** , take care of family stuff first and always. We’ll be around whenever you can show. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/258 "2006-04-12T18:47:44Z")
> [@Aguecheek](#): > > I’ve done spelling rounds before as well. _—throws torn-up coaster at **Aguecheek** —_ ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/259 "2006-04-12T20:38:50Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > _—throws torn-up coaster at **Aguecheek** —_ Oh, not this again. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101/260 "2006-04-12T23:59:29Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > _—throws torn-up coaster at **Aguecheek** —_ :eek: I got served! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-trivia-in-seattle-2006-electric-boogaloo/338101.md?page=14)