#035 - 08/09/17
The thirty-fifth episode of Trivia Club's Pause + Play, available every Friday! The downloadable PDF can be found on the Pause + Play page. Enjoy the special Pause + Play Golden VHS to win, and let us know all about your playing experience including your score! 


Trivia Club's Pause + Play is the portable version of Toronto's Greatest Game Show hosted by Russel Harder (facebook.com/triviaclub), a version of the live event that you are able to play at home with friends or on your own, especially if you aren't in Toronto. If you are in Toronto, you can find Trivia Club at Hitch (1216 Queen St East) WEEKLY every MONDAY, at The Rec Room Roundhouse (255 Bremner Blvd) every TUESDAY beginning September 5th, and Cardinal Rule (5 Roncesvalles Ave) each and every WEDNESDAY! Pause + Play is easy to find every FRIDAY, with the questions from that week’s trivia event, as part of the TRIVIA CLUB NETWORK of podcasts on SoundCloud & iTunes!


PRE-SHOW
Patreon (www.patreon.com/triviaclub) News & Thanks
THE REC ROOM TUESDAY announcement
HITCH WEEKLY announcement
Golden VHS announcement (3:38)


ROUND ONE
TRIVIA CLASSIC (5:20)
Thank you to DJ Lobsterdust for the mash-up, Alfra Martini for the Kitten Cover, and Slacktory for the Trivia Royale!
KITTEN COVER CLUE:

TRIVIA ROYALE (10:24)
ROYALE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2SiMTVjibQ
TRIVIA CLASSIC ANSWERS (11:27)


ROUND TWO (15:30)
BOX OFFICE BULLSEYE (15:55)
The movies behind each category, MATHS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

ROBOCOPE – a movie where robots try to deal with humans emotions is… 2001’s A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS – a movie with three or more monsters is… 2017’s THE MUMMY (as of Labor Day Monday)
NICHOLSON DIMES – a movie in which Jack Nicholson coins a popular phrase is… 1997’s AS GOOD AS IT GETS

COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN (17:36)
GUESSES CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

SURVEY SAYS (18:58)
SURVEY ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

ROUND THREE
TRI-PARDO (22:22)
The first question chosen is worth TEN POINTS, the second question chosen is worth FIFTEEN POINTS, and the third question chosen is worth TWENTY POINTS! If you get these answers wrong then you lose those points, but if you get them correct then you win the points! After these trio of questions, mark yourself or your friends, before selecting one of the two final categories for the TRIVIA FINALE! For the Trivia Finale, you can wager up to as many points as you have, or as many as TWENTY POINTS if you have less then twenty points.

... and the categories are (23:34)...

ALSO KNOWN AS (23:55)
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS (24:28)
I’M WITH THE BAND (25:03)
BILL$ (25:32)
ROLL CREDITS (26:00)


POST-SHOW (26:28)
Thank you once again for playing Pause + Play, and remember... it's not what you know, it's what you learn along the way! (29:12)








BOX OFFICE MATHS

ROBOCOPE – a movie where robots try to deal with humans emotions
2001’s A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - $ 78, 616, 689
94.4 to 102.2 for 1 point
80.3 to 94.3 for 3 points
77.0 to 80.2 for 5 points
76.9 to 62.9 for 3 points
62.8 to 55.0 for 1 point

KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS – a movie with three or more monsters
2017’s THE MUMMY (as of Labor Day Monday) - $ 80, 101, 125
96.2 to 104.1 for 1 point
81.8 to 96.1 for 3 points
78.5 to 81.7 for 5 points
78.4 to 64.1 for 3 points
64.0 to 56.1 for 1 point

NICHOLSON DIMES – a movie in which Jack Nicholson coins a popular phrase. “You make me want to be a better man.”
1997’s AS GOOD AS IT GETS - $ 148, 478, 011
178.3 to 193.1 for 1 point
151.6 to 178.2 for 3 points
145.5 to 151.5 for 5 points
145.4 to 118.8 for 3 points
118.7 to 103.9 for 1 point




COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN
Closest without going over: Great JEEEOOORB! with… ONE-HUNDRED AND TEN!
The over/under “average” guess is… EIGHTY-FOUR!




SURVERY SAYS ANSWERS 
Survey Says Answer Not On The Board: (19:50)
Survey Says Answer: MARRIED (20:11)
Survey Says Answer: DISEASE (20:34)
Survey Says Answer: ANIMAL (20:56)
Survey Says Answer: NEW CAR (21:21)
Survey Says Answer: HAIR CUT (21:48)

Click here for more photos of the event's CHAMPS on Facebook!

 W e are BACK at Cardinal Rule, after the Labor Day weekend, and after our debut on the big stage... returning to the Original Home of Trivia Club! Presented as has been the habit by Steam Whistle, it was a wild and wonderful crowd with the unexpected and the enjoyable! Legacy teams went head to head, newcomers entered the fray, and it was wonderfully competitive from start to finish!

Trivia Classic opened things up with a first round that saw three points divide four teams, and the fifth team in attendance add a third member AND change their name! Last Place Team (the Diet version, if you will, with half the team off circling the globe) were in first place, while a new team with a thumbs up to Coach Z, GREAT JEEEOOORB! were in second place just one point behind! One and a half points behind them were another new coming team, the largest group of the night at a full six, Karl Pilkington: Breast 2 Breast! Half a point behind Pilkington were Trivial Knowledge, on their 63rd appearance, while Let's Get Quizzical rounded out the field five points behind them!

Game Show Games began with a fun name change, as Let's Get Quizzical changed their name to an overheard answer from the first round, and became Chasing Squirrels! This team name, sung to the tune of "Jessie's Girl", helped establish a fast and friendly rivalry with Karl Pilkington, and also saw Chasing Squirrels grab eight points in Countdown Takedown! Last Place Team nabbed six points of their own, while GREAT JEEEEOOOORB! picked up the TOP TEN! Trivial Knowledge was in fact the closest team, but they did go over! Survey Says then saw the field run the board, with Trivial Knowledge bouncing back to grab the TOP TEN! Karl Pilkington grabbed eight points, while Chasing Squirrels nabbed six points! Finally in Combo Breakdown, Trivial Knowledge picked up FIFTEEN POINTS as the last team standing, helping them top the point totals in the second round! They held out in a real head to head with Last Place Team, who still finished with five points!

This meant that Trivial Knowledge had found themselves in first place after the second round, with Last Place Team in a close second place! Tri-Pardo then decided to roll with a small ball approach, as the heavier then it looks icosahedron gave a three point category rolled by Chasing Squirrels for the first question! GREAT JEEEOOOORRRB! rolled ten points for the second category, and Last Place Team rolled nine points for the third category! This kept the third round uncharacteristically tight, as Last Place Team made the biggest push forward with a SEVEN POINT gain, while Trivial Knowledge still picked up three points, to keep a three point lead on their friendly rivals! Picking up for points, keeping themselves in a strong third place before the last question were GREAT JEEEOOOORRB!, while Chasing Squirrels and Karl Pilkington; Breast 2 Breast, both lost points.

The Finale itself was chosen by Karl Pilkington; Breast 2 Breast, and it was a question that proved difficult for all in attendance! Most teams went pedal to the metal, save for GREAT JEEEEOOOORB! Their cagey wagering however was only good for second place, as ONE TEAM did get the Finale correct, and with that answer walked away with the Golden VHS...

Winning their THIRD GOLDEN VHS on the 230th edition of Trivia Club at Cardinal Rule, the 63rd appearance for them... TRIVIAL KNOWLEDGE! With just six appearances since their last victory, this is by far the quickest turn around for a Golden VHS win for Trivia Club's greatest underdogs, who won their first Golden VHS after 38 appearances, and then brought home Golden VHS #2 at CR#222, some 19 appearances later! No wonder they're getting jaded by all this success! Don't let the gold lose it's shine!

Click here for more photos of the event's CHAMPS on Facebook!

 L adies and Gentlemen, WELCOME to Trivia Club at The Rec Room! It was a pleasure to have you all in The Hall on Tuesday night! We're certainly getting used to our new digs VERY quickly! The trivia is the same you know and love, but the scope is certainly something different! More prizes, a whole new audio and visual experience, and more then enough games to keep you busy before and after Trivia Club!

Joining us on this debut event were a wonderful crowd of Trivia Club notables and newcomers as well! The Bastards led on the night after the first round of Trivia Classic, yes back for their first appearance since April, and making their ONE-HUNDREDTH APPEARANCE at Trivia Club! Close behind them were the Cunning Stunts and the M. Night Shaym-Aliens, tied for second! Half a point, yes HALF a point, behind them in fourth were Team Name, who were certainly traveling well! Rounding out the Top Five after Trivia Classic? Lt. Dance! Yes, at full strength for the night were another recognizable Tuesday night team! The Barnacles, known in the past as Cardinal Rule winners Super Awesome Notorious Trivia All-Stars (or S.A.N.T.A.S.) and the first Lou Dawgs champs Matthew McConaughey Arnold, were in sixth. I Thought This Was Speed Dating were in seventh, with Strike Back one point behind them in eigth! Rounding out the top ten were Three Blind Mice, and Team Groom, with The Sho's Show (keep an eye on Not Oasis, they're very funny people) just half a point behind Team Groom to round out the field!

With this much Trivia Club up for grabs this led to an unpredictable Game Show Games round, as teams wrote down their answers on their sheets and to the quality answers came even more points and a fews prizes as well! Box Office Bulls-eye saw the M. Night Shaym-Aliens (featuring Marc of David Bowie's Corporate Whores, as well as his mom and dad at a time throughout the night!) grab the TOP TEN in the first BOB at The Rec Room! Picking up seven points were The Bastards and The Sho's Show! While Team Name picked up three points for their guess! Then in Countdown Takedown, a handful of teams picked up a TOP TEN, with ten points going to The Bastards, I Thought This Was Speed Dating and Team Groom! Finally in Survey Says, the TOP TEN went to another round of teams, with The Sho's Show, Team Name, I Thought This Was Speed Dating, Team Groom, and The Barnacles all picking up big points! With the one-two punch of Takedown and the Survey, Speed Dating and Team Groom both grabbed the most points in round two and nabbed prizes!

Finally, with a competitive field going for broke on Tri-Pardo, The Bastards still led after the second round but it was truly anyones game! With the big fluffy twenty-sided die introduced, Team Name rolled the first category for six points, while The Sho's Show rolled the second category for fourteen points, and Strike Back rolled the third category for fifteen points! This led to all number of results after the third round was all said and done, with the M. Night Shaym-Aliens walking away with an additional twenty-nine points, while The Bastards and Team Name both picked up twenty-three points, and I Thought This Was Speed Dating picked up twenty points!

Heading into the Finale, The Bastards, the M. Night Shaym-Aliens, and Team Name all had a chance to top 100 points, while the rest of the field had to depend on a mix of luck and quick thinking! With the Cunning Stunts choosing the Finale, a question was chosen that lent a bit of luck, however not enough to knock the top teams all the way down the standings! With their chosen Finale, the Cunning Stunts finished fifth in the end of the night's Top Five! In fourth place were Team Groom! Team Name finished in third with 117 points. Runners-up on the night with 124 points were the M. Night Shaym-Aliens! Finally, wagering big and following through with the result...

Becoming the first team to win the Golden VHS on their 100th appearance, the inaugural GOLDEN VHS CHAMPIONS at The Rec Room, and now THIRTY-SIX TIME CHAMPIONS overall... THE BASTARDS! Yes, with a tried and true name that will have to be made a bit more family friendly on the video screens around The Rec Room this week, The Bastards helped in opening our new Trivia Club Tuesday location with a bang!

09/05/17 POINTS TABLE

TEAM	CLASSIC	BOB	CT	SS	PARDO	WAGER	FINALE
The Bastards	29.5	7	10	2	23	(70)	141.5
Cunning Stunts	23	0	0	6	1	(30)	60
Lt. Dance	20	0	0	0	1	(21)	0
M. Night Shaym-Aliens	23	10	0	0	29	(62)	124
The Sho’s Show	12	7	0	10	8	(30)	7
Team Name	22.5	3	0	10	23	(58.5)	117
I Thought This Was Speed Dating	15	0	10	10	20	(20)	35
Team Groom	12.5	0	10	10	7	(39.5)	79
Strike Back	14.5	0	0	2	-14	(20)	22.5
The Barnacles	19	0	0	10	8	(37)	0

Congrats to The Bastards, one more time. Thank you to everyone, thank you very much indeed, for making our opening night at The Rec Room such a fun experience! We can't want to grow, to explore the space, really take over The Hall, and get to know The Rec Room as a whole! Oh, what we'll be able to do when we know all the bells and whistles we can play with!

We'll see you BACK at The Rec Room next Tuesday, for another edition of Trivia Club! Yes, as much as the night felt like a special event... it's literally only the beginning! Trivia Club Tuesday is back, and better then ever!

Remember, it's not what you know... it's what you learn along the way!

ANNOTATIONS for the AUGUST 2017 SCOREBOARD

• As was stated on the Monthly Scoreboard last month, July of 2016 was the last time that a score of less then 90 points appeared on the Scoreboard. Though the tenth highest score is higher this month then last month, their were more scores below 90 points then ever before! 
• David Bowie's Corporate Whores make their fifth consecutive appearance on the Monthly Scoreboard, while Last Place Team make their fourth consecutive month on the Monthly Scoreboard! Also making their third consecutive appearances on the Monthly Scoreboard are the Cunning Stunts and Trivial Knowledge! 
• The top score of August of 2017, and the top score at Cardinal Rule for the month, belongs to David Bowie's Corporate Whores! They're 176 points on August 2nd is one of two appearances on the Monthly Scoreboard for DB's CW, along with the second highest score of the month! 
• Last Place Team, along with Treasure Butt, also make multiple appearances on the Monthly Scoreboard! Treasure Butt's top score of the month is a Golden VHS winning score, and seven points more then a score that saw them earn a runner-up spot. Last Place Team also won a Golden VHS with their highest score of the month, with their second highest score of the month just one and a half points behind it (and good for third place on August 9th)! 
• Treasure Butt has the highest score of August for a team who did not in the Golden VHS on the night, with their 77 points on August 2nd, though yes they would go on to win the next week. 
• The Fighting Mongooses, the newcomers who won both Golden VHS tapes at Hitch for the month of August, had the tenth highest score of August 2017 but the top score at the friendly neighborhood Hitch! Their 50 points on August 7th also brings the first tie to the Scoreboard, alongside the Date Night Shaym-Aliens, since a three-way tie in June created a ten-team top eight. 
• The twelfth highest score of the month (thanks to the tie at tenth) belongs to The Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes, who scored 48 points at Hitch on August 7th, finishing two points behind The Fighting Mongooses. 
• The Mean Team for August, the high score closest to the scoreboard average, are Treasure Butt!

#034 - 01/09/17
The thirty-fourth episode of Trivia Club's Pause + Play, available every Friday! The downloadable PDF can be found on the Pause + Play page. Enjoy the special Pause + Play Golden VHS to win, and let us know all about your playing experience including your score! 


Trivia Club's Pause + Play is the portable version of Toronto's Greatest Game Show hosted by Russel Harder (facebook.com/triviaclub), a version of the live event that you are able to play at home with friends or on your own, especially if you aren't in Toronto. If you are in Toronto, you can find Trivia Club at Hitch (1216 Queen St East) WEEKLY every MONDAY, at The Rec Room Roundhouse (255 Bremner Blvd) every TUESDAY beginning September 5th, and Cardinal Rule (5 Roncesvalles Ave) each and every WEDNESDAY! Pause + Play is easy to find every FRIDAY, with the questions from that week’s trivia event, as part of the TRIVIA CLUB NETWORK of podcasts on SoundCloud & iTunes!


PRE-SHOW
Patreon (www.patreon.com/triviaclub) News & Thanks
THE REC ROOM TUESDAY announcement
HITCH WEEKLY announcement
Golden VHS announcement (3:38)


ROUND ONE
TRIVIA CLASSIC (5:20)
Thank you to DJ Lobsterdust for the mash-up, and Super Cut Videos for the Trivia Royale!
WHO DAT CLUES:
A)

B)

TRIVIA ROYALE (10:25)
ROYALE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-RJGwFaflk
TRIVIA CLASSIC ANSWERS (11:27)


ROUND TWO (15:30)
BOX OFFICE BULLSEYE (15:57)
The movies behind each category, MATHS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

NO TIME FOR LOVE DR. JONES – a movie were Harrison Ford does not have sex is… 2013’s ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES
ROCKY’S HORRIBLE PICTURE SHOW – a bad Sylvester Stallone movie is… 1986’s COBRA
TURTLE-NECKING – a Diane Keaton rom-com is… 2003’s SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE

COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN (17:36)
GUESSES CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

SURVEY SAYS (18:58)
SURVEY ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION


ROUND THREE
TRI-PARDO (22:22)
The first question chosen is worth TEN POINTS, the second question chosen is worth FIFTEEN POINTS, and the third question chosen is worth TWENTY POINTS! If you get these answers wrong then you lose those points, but if you get them correct then you win the points! After these trio of questions, mark yourself or your friends, before selecting one of the two final categories for the TRIVIA FINALE! For the Trivia Finale, you can wager up to as many points as you have, or as many as TWENTY POINTS if you have less then twenty points.

... and the categories are (23:34)...

SINK AND/OR SWIM (23:55)
ROCK AND/OR ROLL (24:21)
LIKE MIKE (24:53)
SPOILERS (25:24)
RENT (25:52)


POST-SHOW (26:26)
Thank you once again for playing Pause + Play, and remember... it's not what you know, it's what you learn along the way! (29:03)





BOX OFFICE MATHS

NO TIME FOR LOVE DR. JONES – movies were Harrison Ford doesn’t have sex.
2013’s ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES - $ 125, 168, 368
150.3 to 162.8 for 1 point
127.8 to 150.2 for 3 points
122.7 to 127.7 for 5 points
122.6 to 100.2 for 3 points
100.1 to 87.6 for 1 point

ROCKY’S HORRIBLE PICTURE SHOW – bad Sylvester Stallone movies
1986’s COBRA - $ 49, 042, 224
58.9 to 63.7 for 1 point
50.1 to 58.8 for 3 points
48.0 to 50.0 for 5 points
47.9 to 39.2 for 3 points
39.1 to 34.3 for 1 point

TURTLE-NECKING – Diane Keaton rom-coms
2003’s SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE - $ 124, 728, 738
149.7 to 162.1 for 1 point
127.3 to 149.6 for 3 points
122.2 to 127.2 for 5 points
122.1 to 99.8 for 3 points
99.7 to 87.3 for 1 point




COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN
Closest without going over: Last Place Team with… FIFTY-THREE!
The over/under “average” guess is… FORTY-ONE!




SURVERY SAYS ANSWERS
Survey Says Answer Not On The Board: (19:50)
Survey Says Answer: CHURCH (20:10)
Survey Says Answer: WORK (20:29)
Survey Says Answer: HOSPITAL (20:58)
Survey Says Answer: SCHOOL (21:17)
Survey Says Answer: JAIL (21:37)