#049 - 15/12/17
The forty-ninth 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 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) every MONDAY, The Rec Room (255 Bremner Blvd) every TUESDAY, at Cardinal Rule (5 Roncesvalles Ave) each and every WEDNESDAY until the end of 2017, and at Farside (600 Gerrard St East) returning in January 2018! 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
Golden VHS announcement (3:35)


ROUND ONE
TRIVIA CLASSIC (5:12)
Thank you to DJ Schmoli for the mash-up, Alfra Martini for the Kitten Cover, and Robert Jones for the Trivia Royale!
KITTEN COVER CLUE:

TRIVIA ROYALE (9:47)
ROYALE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHBB_q1LPQ

TRIVIA CLASSIC ANSWERS (10:50)


ROUND TWO (14:51)
BOX OFFICE BULLSEYE (15:10)
The movies behind each category, MATHS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US – a movie featuring Ben, Jerry, or any member of the Stiller family is… 2007’s HAIRSPRAY
TURTLE-NECKING – a Diane Keaton rom-com is… 1996’s THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
THIS ISN’T THE END – a movie with a scene during or after the credits is… 2001’s A KNIGHT’S TALE

COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN (16:47)
GUESSES CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

SURVEY SAYS (18:10)
SURVEY ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION


ROUND THREE
TRI-PARDO (21:51)
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 (23:03)...

I WANT TO BELIEVE presented by Last Place Team (23:23)
LORDS OF THE RINGS presented by the Electric Mayhem (23:50)
ALL YOUR GOLDEN VHS ARE BELONG TO US presented by the Cunning Stunts (24:28)
COVER ME, I’M GOING IN presented by M. Night Shaym-Aliens (25:07)
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE VOTE IT presented by Trivial Knowledge (25:42)


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! (28:40)






BOX OFFICE MATHS

FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US – a movie featuring Ben, Jerry, or any member of the Stiller family is…
2007’s HAIRSPRAY - $ 118, 871, 849
113.0 to 124.8 for 5 points
95.1 to 142.7 for 3 points
83.2 to 154.6 for 1 point

TURTLE-NECKING – a Diane Keaton rom-com is…
1996’s THE FIRST WIVES CLUB - $ 105, 489, 203
100.2 to 110.8 for 5 points
84.4 to 126.6 for 3 points
73.8 to 137.2 for 1 point

THIS ISN’T THE END – a movie with a scene during or after the credits is…
2001’s A KNIGHT’S TALE - $ 56, 569, 702
53.8 to 59.4 for 5 points
45.3 to 67.9 for 3 points
39.6 to 73.6 for 1 point



COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN
Closest without going over: Red Rider + Leg Lamp with… EIGHTY!
The over/under “average” guess is… THIRTY-SIX!



SURVERY SAYS ANSWERS
Survey Says Answer Not On The Board: (19:00)
Survey Says Answer: FART (19:20)
Survey Says Answer: SMART (19:47)
Survey Says Answer: PART (20:08)
Survey Says Answer: DART (20:35)
Survey Says Answer: START (21:02)

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 L adies and gentlemen, your second annual Trivial Awards! With five and a half years of Trivia Club to celebrate it was our pleasure to bring back the awards that are just being honest about how trivial this kind of thing is... to officially celebrate the best and brightest that the Greatest Game Show in Toronto has to offer! Yes, we joke but it's an honor to put on this star studded event at the penultimate edition of Trivia Club at Our Original Home of Cardinal Rule that saw the cream of the trivia crop compete for the Trivial Award Championship! The Academy of Popular Cultural Questions & Answers (again, a totally legit institution on par with the Hollywood Foreign Press at the very least), worked closely with Trivia Club host Russel Harder to determine the Awards and their winners, and amoungst it all a full night of game show goodness was also enjoyed!
After  Trivia Classic , in this our now annual All-Star game/Awards show/holiday party rolled into one, Electric Mayhem were continuing to make up for lost time (hey, the second rule of Trivia Club is that family comes first) as they held the lead on the field once again. The Shaym-Aliens were four and a half points back in second, while half a point behind them were David Bowie's Corporate Whores! The Cunning Stunts were a point and a half back from the Corp that ended up being their friendliest of Grand Championship rivals. One point back from the Stunts were Team Name, returning for only their second night at Cardinal Rule in six months. Yes, for a team that had appeared at 145 events at the location, many of the 100 that they had missed had come in the last year. In sixth place, just outside of that forty point first round range were Trivial Knowledge, while in seventh just a point behind were Last Place Team! Tied with the Team making their 46th consecutive appearance and 48th feature of the year, were The Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes! Yes, making a pilgrimage west to experience the Original Home of Trivia Club while he could, was Hitch’s Beast from the East house team! Rounding out the field were Riley & Olivia, Lt. Dance’s name of choice for the night, as well as two new teams in Let's Get Trivial and Tinsel Turner!

Going into  Game Show Games  on this special night of celebration, we saw Countdown Takedown conclude with Electric Mayhem make a smart play for the TOP TEN! Then in Survey Says, the Mayhem grabbed another eight points, while Team Name grabbed the TOP TEN! Grabbing two and four points on a second Surveyed question, respectively, were Riley & Olivia and David Bowie's Corporate Whores! Finally in Combo Breakdown, pushing the High Score for 2017 to its limits, David Bowie's Corporate Whores was the last team standing for TWENTY POINTS, in the end outlasting Last Place Team who still were given a well deserved nine points.

Into  Tri-Pardo , the night was twisting towards record setting territory for multiple teams, chief amoungst them David Bowie's Corporate Whores who had broken down for themselves a one point lead, as well as that team now in second place the Electric Mayhem! Not to be out done of course were Last Place Team, the M. Night Shaym-Aliens, Team Name or the Cunning Stunts! Of course, with awards being given out, and the Golden VHS that Trivia Awards win in view, and a record in sight… it was a roll of the dice that could edge the scores ever higher in this Ico Era! The first question, the M. Night Shaym-Aliens rolled fifteen points on a category presented by the Electric Mayhem. The second question, Trivial Knowledge rolled eighteen points on a category that they themselves presented. The third question was chosen by Last Place Team who rolled fourteen points on a category presented by the Cunning Stunts! This made for a lucky forty-seven points up for grabs in the third round.

It was a triple kind of night, as a number of teams were ready and willing to take that swing! Gaining forty-seven points were Team Name, Last Place Team, the Shaym-Aliens, the Electric Mayhem and David Bowie's CW! Five teams! Gaining twenty-nine points from the first and third questions were the Cunning Stunts, while the Good Folks grabbed nineteen points and Trivial Knowledge grabbed fifteen points.

Of those five teams who swept the Tri-Pardo, one of them would falter on the Finale! Before then however, wagering had to be set. Of the teams that did not go all-in, Last Place Team left one and a half points on the board, while David Bowie's Corporate Whores held half a point back. Otherwise Team Name, The Good Folks AND the Cunning Stunts bet nothing. This was truly surprising, as Team Name had been within range to double up for more then 200 points… a feat they had never accomplished. They were not the only team to have a chance on doubling up on 100, as the M. Night Shaym-Aliens had a five point lead on Team Name heading into the Finale, and David Bowie's Corporate Whores still held that slight lead against the Electric Mayhem.

So it came down to the  Finale , and that one triple teams that fell at the last Awards show step were Team Name who as it correctly turned out, had nothing to lose. Otherwise? It was a personal best night for some of the, personally, best teams to ever play Trivia Club at Cardinal Rule or otherwise. Yes, on this penultimate night at Our Original Home, Last Place Team would finish with a personal best of 183.5 points and that would be a grand way to finish in fourth place. In third, also with a personal best of 218... were the M. Night Shaym-Aliens! Matching their personal best, and a high score mark that had held for more then a year and a half were the Electric Mayhem finishing as runners-up for the second straight week, this time with 235 points!

It would take a truly special result to make that happen, and once again another team was able to claw past one of the most successful teams in the history of Cardinal Rule at the last second, at the Combo, and winning by ONE AND A HALF POINTS, with a new personal high score of their own just three and a half points off of the All-Time High Score, 236.5 points to their name... NINETEEN TIME GOLDEN VHS CHAMPS, sixteen of those at Cardinal Rule, the fifth most at the location, your second annual Trivial Award winners... DAVID BOWIE'S CORPORATE WHORES!

 13/12/17 POINTS TABLE 

TEAM	CLASSIC	CT	SS	CB	PARDO	WAGER	FINALE
Last Place Team	36.5	0	0	9	47	(91)	183.5
Electric Mayhem	48.5	10	8	4	47	(117.5)	235
Cunning Stunts	42	0	0	7	29	(0)	78
M. Night Shaym-Aliens	44	8	4	6	47	(109)	218
Trivial Knowledge	37.5	0	2	0	15	(54.5)	0
David Bowie’s Corporate Whores	43.5	6	2	20	47	(118)	236.5
Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes	36.5	0	6	1	19	(0)	62.5
Team Name	41	2	10	4	47	(0)	104
Riley & Olivia	18	4	4	2	OUT	(--)	--

Congrats once again to David Bowie's CW, and thank you thank you thank you so very much to all the excellent teams and participants that came out to compete at Trivia Club this Wednesday, who have made Cardinal Rule such a great home over the years. We've got one more night, so we'll see you NEXT WEDNESDAY for The Last Rights & Wrongs at Cardinal Rule! We look forward to seeing you there, and for those following at home... yes, that means you too!

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 O n our first night in the upper-part of the Three10 restaurant, within The Rec Room... it was a celebration of all things chill in the last few hours before snowfall hit Toronto! Yes, this was Tuesday Trivia at the big stage, with returning faces mixing with all new folks!

Suck It Trebek would take the lead after the first round of  Trivia Classic ! Close behind them were the One Night Standards! Rounding out the Top Five (top five, top five) were TD Danks!, I Can't Believe We Won... and a tie between Our Couch Pulls Out But We Don't and Cool Name Pending...! In  Tri-Pardo , our second round at The Rec Room, it was a little more unpredictable as Suck It Trebek didn't gain any points, and the One Night Standards lost points, but TD Danks! and I Can't Believe We Won... both hit for the triple! This put those two teams within range for the win in  Trivia Finale ! With both teams going all in, it was those first round points that pushed TD Danks! over the top, and though I Can't Believe We Won... did win some runner-up swag...

Winning the GOLDEN VHS at The Rec Room this past Tuesday, TD DANKS! Congrats once again to that wonderful crew, our second corporate team to win in a row, aaaand the first Champs in the Three10 section of The Rec Room! The Finale Top Five were TD Danks! and I Can't Believe We Won... followed by Suck It Trebek in third, Leggy Player One, and English Is Our Second Language!

 12/12/17 POINTS TABLE 

TEAM	CLASSIC	PARDO	FINALE	WAGER	POINTS
Suck It Trebek	46	0	46	5	41
One Night Standards	43.5	-12	31.5	31.5	0
Cool Name Pending…	35	5	40	40	0
English Is Our Second Language	21.5	-7	14.5	14	0.5
I Can’t Believe They Won…	35.5	22	57.5	57.5	115
Our Couch Pulls Out…	35	-7	28	28	0
TD Danks!	39.5	22	61.5	61.5	123
Leggy Player One	26	-10	16	15	1

We'll see you all again for our final Trivia Club of 2017, NEXT TUESDAY December the 19th! Then after that we take the week off, and return in 2018 on January 2nd!

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 A t the penultimate event at Hitch for 2017, it was an intimate affair, but no less competitive as a  Trivial Award was rewarded in advance of the full event on Wednesday! Yes, between our bar team in Wookiee of the Year, our new regulars the Fighting Mongooses, and newcomers (on a first date!) Red Rider + Leg Lamp... it was a Golden VHS win to remember!

 11/12/17 POINTS TABLE 

TEAM	CLASSIC	CT	SS	CB	PARDO	WAGER	FINALE
Fighting Mongooses	39.5	4	8	1	15	(62.5)	5
Wookiee of the Year	47.5	6	10	11	42	(116)	0.5
Red Rider + Leg Lamp	29.5	8	2	3	8	(50.5)	101

Ultimately, even after an all-time night for Wookiee of the Year, they would fall at the  Finale , as would the Fighting Mongooses, and the night would see a First & Gold from the unheralded Red Rider + Leg Lamp! Yes, winning their FIRST GOLDEN VHS, and jumping to the front of the pack on the Finale, RED RIDER + LEG LAMP!

Congrats to Red Rider + Leg Lamp once again, and thank you again to Wookiee of the Year and the Fighting Mongooses! Excellent fun everyone, we'll see you again NEXT MONDAY for the last Hitch Trivia Club for 2017!

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