#025 - 30/06/17
The twenty-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 (twitter.com/trivia_club), 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 other MONDAY of the month, 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
Golden VHS announcement (2:11)


ROUND ONE
TRIVIA CLASSIC (4:05)
Thank you to Arty Fufkin for the mash-up, Alfra Martini for the kitten covers, and Francisco Aram for the Trivia Royale supercut!
KITTEN COVER CLUES:
A)

B)

TRIVIA ROYALE (9:05)
ROYALE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gppwg3hD-w
ROYALE ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION
TRIVIA CLASSIC ANSWERS (10:00)


ROUND TWO (14:00)
BOX OFFICE BULLSEYE (14:25)
The movies behind each category, MATHS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

SELFIES – a movie in which the lead actor is also the director is… 2001’s ZOOLANDER
RIGHT TO BARE SMALL ARMS – a movie with a T-Rex in it is… 2009’s LAND OF THE LOST
DICK TRACY – a movie that feature someone drawing people in the nude is… 2007’s SUPERBAD

COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN (16:05)
GUESSES CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

SURVEY SAYS (17:25)
SURVEY ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION


ROUND THREE
TRI-PARDO (20:45)
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 (21:57)...

SCIENCE! (22:15)
CH-CH-CHOOSE (22:46)
WIZARDS AND WITCHCRAFT (23:17)
MATURE CONTENT (23:46)
PUT A BIRD ON IT (24:14)


POST-SHOW (24:45)
Thank you once again for playing Pause + Play, and remember... it's not what you know, it's what you learn along the way! (26:54)





BOX OFFICE MATHS

SELFIES – a movie in which the lead actor is also the director
2001’s ZOOLANDER - $ 45, 172, 250
54.3 to 58.8 for 1 point
46.2 to 54.2 for 3 points
44.3 to 46.1 for 5 points
44.2 to 36.2 for 3 points
36.1 to 31.6 for 1 point

RIGHT TO BARE SMALL ARMS – a movie with a T-Rex in it
2009’s LAND OF THE LOST - $ 49, 438, 370
59.4 to 64.2 for 1 point
50.5 to 59.3 for 3 points
48.4 to 50.4 for 5 points
48.3 to 39.5 for 3 points
39.4 to 34.6 for 1 point

DICK TRACY – a movie that feature someone drawing people in the nude
2007’s SUPERBAD - $ 121, 463, 226
145.9 to 158.0 for 1 point
124.0 to 145.8 for 3 points
119.1 to 123.9 for 5 points
119.0 to 97.2 for 3 points
97.1 to 85.0 for 1 point




COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN
Closest without going over: Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes, Distasteful with… FOUR!
The average guess was… TWO!




SURVERY SAYS ANSWERS
Survey Says Answer Not On The Board: (18:15)
Survey Says Answer: EARS (18:34)
Survey Says Answer: TAIL (18:58)
Survey Says Answer: BARK/ATTITUDE (19:25)
Survey Says Answer: BONE (19:49)
Survey Says Answer: BITE/MOUTH (20:12)

ANNOTATIONS for the JUNE 2017 SCOREBOARD

• The first event of June also gave the top two scores of the month, with Last Place Team not only topping the Monthly Scoreboard, and gaining the top score at Cardinal Rule for June, but also beginning just the fourth THREEPEAT in the history of Trivia Club! 
• Last Place Team appeared three times on the list, for each of their Golden VHS winning nights in June! Their losing night, on the fourth Wednesday of June, was the twelfth highest score of the month. 
• Also appearing multiple times on the Top Ten are the Cunning Stunts, back after a May away from Trivia Club and the Monthly Scoreboard! 
• Team Name, the runners-up on June 7th, with the second highest score of the month, also gave us the highest score for a team that did not win a Golden VHS! Team Name have actually not won a Golden VHS since September 7th of 2016. 
• The top score at Hitch for June belongs to Quiztin Tarantino, one part Wookiee of the Year and three parts newer participants! They came within 8 points of the Sesquicentennial Mark on June 12th. 
• Two of the top scores of our monthly Top Ten belong to teams that competed at Hitch, while the other eight naturally come from teams that competed at Cardinal Rule! 
• The eleventh highest score of the belongs to the returning Peal from Sales, who scored 94 points on June 14th! 
• The Mean Team for June, the high score closest to the scoreboard average, are the Cunning Stunts!

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

 F our teams have threepeated at Trivia Club, it's a very rare feat. Rarer still, is winning a fourth in a row. Something that no team has done, not the Cunning Stunts, not the Electric Mayhem, not the Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes… but with Last Place Team, could the fourth time be the charm on a RE RE PEET?! They would have to defeat a collection of newcomers, legacy teams, and long-time (if friendly) rivals!
With the first round of Trivia Classic in the books, it was the M. Night Shaym-Aliens with the lead! Friendly rivals with Last Place Team, it has been a battle of association between the two teams, each regulars at Cardinal Rule, though both with the long game in mind… and always with a fun time being had on the night. Last Place Team were four and a half points behind in second place, with only a half point lead of their own on the Cunning Stunts. The Grand Champions had returned the week before, just in time to watch Last Place Team join them in threepeating! Even in taking off the month of May, no team has won more VHS tapes in 2017 then the Stunts. Four points behind the Stunts in fourth were Agatha Quiztie's Murder She Guessed?, friends and in part former Golden VHS winners with the Shaym-Aliens! Rounding out the field at our Original Home were newcomers Team Has No Name, and Na Triur Amadain!

When the second round of Game Show Games rolled around, it was another rare occasion like with Monday, of not one but multiple teams getting the FIFTEEN ON THE POINT answer, with Na Triur Amadain, Agatha Quiztie's, and Last Place Team nailing it, which gave the Last Place Team the lead after the M. Night Shaym-Aliens went one over and were left as the only team pointless in the first game! The Shaym-Aliens would bounce back in Survey Says, though with two good points, while Team Has No Name grabbed six points, and Last Place Team grabbed another four points! This of course made for a dramatic Combo Breakdown, which saw the M. Night Shaym-Aliens rally back as the last team standing and add FOURTEEN POINTS to their total, bringing them within a point and a half of the lead!

First though in our third round of Tri-Pardo, we would get to experience our very first critical failure, when Team Has No Name rolled a ONE on the first question! A truly historic role of the Icosahedron, from a first-time team at that! With the first question being worth 1 point, the second question was worth 11 points, and the third question was worth 111 points... no wait, 19 points! This made for a wildly weighted 31 points up for grabs! With the weight thrown off, the M. Night Shaym-Aliens got one question right and one wrong but lost eighteen points still! Agatha Quiztie's also lost points, while Last Place Team and Na Triur Amadain each grabbed a point. Team Has No Name would grab twenty points, pushing them within three and a half points of Last Place Team, while the Cunning Stunts would hit for the triple, and leap forward into first place for the first time of the night!

With the Cunning Stunts in the lead it was now a race to the finish, as the field pushed their chips forward for the Finale! The biggest danger the Stunts had was not getting the final answer correct... but they did not need to worry! No, on this night they were returning to the winners wall for the first time since their Grand Championship April!

Winning their NINTH Golden VHS of 2017, their THIRTY-FIRST all-time at Cardinal Rule, and their FIFTY-EIGHTH overall, the CUNNING STUNTS! Welcome back you all-timers, it was a come from behind victory that kept the fourth consecutive Golden VHS from Last Place Team, who finished in second place, also keeping them from sweeping June (a three out of four feat that the Electric Mayhem first did in August of 2014)!

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

 I t was a night of rowdy fun at the Home Away of Trivia Club, with our latest Limited Edition of Hitch's bi-weekly game show goodness bringing the room together to test returning teams and new faces alike, with the Golden VHS going to the night's Champion... and everyone making sure that they kept it 100!

Trivia Classic saw a first round with a close field, that was led by newcomers in Perfect Strangers at the corner of the bar! Only two points behind them however were the returning Golden VHS winners from two weeks ago, Quiztin Tarantino, now known as Trivia Bonhem Carter! TBC had a one point lead of their own on another pair of newcomers, the wonderfully named Second Breakfast Club! Two points behind them... were the returning Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes! The house team of Hitch was himself two points ahead of Distasteful!, a group of combative individuals ready for some trivia... and no doubt in competition against Almost Hitched and the new regular at our east-end Trivia Club night, Lt. Dance, who rounded out the field!

Game Show Games began with Countdown Takedown and saw a very rare tie-up, as the Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes AND Distasteful! grabbed a FULL FIFTEEN points, while Lt. Dance grabbed six points, and the Perfect Strangers and Almost Hitched each grabbed four points! In Survey Says, Second Breakfast Club jumped on the board with the TOP TEN, while Lt. Dance grabbed another eight points, and the Perfect Strangers and Distasteful! grabbed another six and four points respectively! Trivia Bonhem Carter would NOT be shut out of the second round however, as they held out against the field and were left as the last team standing for FIFTEEN POINTS!

This led to a Tri-Pardo of wild proportions, as the first question was worth twelve points, the second question was worth nineteen points, and the third question was worth eighteen points for a sooolid forty-nine points up for grabs in total! Reaching that total would be three teams, Second Breakfast Club, Trivia Bonhem Carter, and Distasteful! This would bring the teams up to 81, 84, and 85 points respectively, not only raising them against the other teams but leaving a VERY SMALL margin of error for each team! Perfect Strangers after an excellent debut at Hitch would lose one point in the third round, while the Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes would get the first question incorrect, but correctly answer the next two for an additional twenty-five points!

This meant heading into the Finale, three teams were the heavy favorites, but it could go to any one of the five teams! Trivia Bonhem Carter and Distasteful!, with one point between them, went ALL IN! Second Breakfast Club went in the other direction and wagered only five points! The Perfect Strangers went with slightly more then half of their points on the wager... while the Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes aimed squarely at finishing with 100 points if they were able to answer the Finale correctly.

It was less a wager for victory, for Arnis of Laramie, and more a tribute to his grandmother... who would have turned 100 years old on the day!

It was less a wager for victory, but it was a path that led to victory none the less! Yes, the Finale tripped up the three teams ahead of him, while the Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes were able to answer the final question correctly... giving THE GOOD FOLKS FROM LARAMIE CIGARETTES their EIGHTH Golden VHS!

#024 - 23/06/17
The twenty-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 (twitter.com/trivia_club), 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 other MONDAY of the month, 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
Golden VHS announcement (2:11)


ROUND ONE
TRIVIA CLASSIC (4:05)
Thank you to oneboardjeu for the mash-up, and James Chapman for the Trivia Royale supercut!

WHO DAT CLUES:
A)


B)

TRIVIA ROYALE (9:05)
ROYALE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLW_OCLzjCY
ROYALE ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION
TRIVIA CLASSIC ANSWERS (10:00)


ROUND TWO (14:00)
BOX OFFICE BULLSEYE (14:25)
The movies behind each category, MATHS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

NEW DAD – a movie in which Caleb Deschanel (Zooey Deschanel’s dad) was the cinematographer… 2012’s JACK REACHER
THE DOGFATHER – a movie that features dyslexia is… 2010’s PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY – a movie that features cocaine is… 2012’s FLIGHT

COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN (16:05)
GUESSES CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION

SURVEY SAYS (17:25)
SURVEY ANSWERS CAN BE FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DESCRIPTION


ROUND THREE
TRI-PARDO (20:45)
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 (21:57)...

BOND POWERS ARCHER (22:15)
FINGERS TIP (22:46)
TENNIS, ANYONE? (23:17)
STAND ON GUARD (23:46)
LIT (24:14)


POST-SHOW (24:45)
Thank you once again for playing Pause + Play, and remember... it's not what you know, it's what you learn along the way! (26:54)








BOX OFFICE MATHS

NEW DAD – a movie in which Caleb Deschanel (Zooey Deschanel’s dad) was the cinematographer
2012’s JACK REACHER - $ 80, 100, 736
96.2 to 104.1 for 1 point
81.7 to 96.1 for 3 points
78.4 to 81.6 for 5 points
78.3 to 64.1 for 3 points
64.0 to 56.1 for 1 point

THE DOGFATHER – a movie that features dyslexia
2010’s PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF - $ 88, 768, 303
106.7 to 115.4 for 1 point
90.7 to 106.6 for 3 points
87.0 to 90.6 for 5 points
86.9 to 71.0 for 3 points
70.9 to 62.2 for 1 point

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY – a movie that features cocaine
2012’s FLIGHT - $ 93, 772, 375
112.7 to 121.9 for 1 point
95.8 to 112.6 for 3 points
91.9 to 95.7 for 5 points
91.8 to 78.0 for 3 points
77.9 to 65.7 for 1 point




COUNTDOWN TAKEDOWN
Closest without going over: David Bowie’s Lonely Whores Club Band with… FIFTY-TWO!
The average guess was… FIFTEEN!




SURVERY SAYS ANSWERS
Survey Says Answer Not On The Board: (18:15)
Survey Says Answer: JAIL/BIG HOUSE (18:34)
Survey Says Answer: DOGHOUSE (18:58)
Survey Says Answer: WHORE HOUSE (19:25)
Survey Says Answer: GLASS HOUSE (19:49)
Survey Says Answer: OUT HOUSE (20:12)