Necessary Roughness

To mark what could possibly be my last night in Kilgore/Longview — plans call for me to be in Houston for December instead — I went to the Sports Page and played about 4 hours of trivia: 3 hours of ½ hour countdown and 1 hour of Sports Trivia.

I got destroyed on the trivia about old movies and old tv. Clint Eastwood was Rowdy Yates in Rawhide? Bradley was the last name of the family in Petticoat Junction? Please. The first time I saw Lorne Greene was on Battlestar Galactica, not Peyton Place. The first times I saw Dean Stockwell was on Dune and Quantum Leap, but they asked about Anchors Aweigh instead.

I did much better on another set where they asked what chemical element was represented by Sn (tin), what former Clinton staffer wrote Power Plays (Dick Morris), and questions where the answer not-like-the-others was picked (Fox Trot in a group of foxglove and other plants, Ibex in a group of words that described collections). I ended up winning that round pretty easily.

Killer pulled his Sports Trivia stunt again, writing down the Sports Trivia answers Sunday night so that he can choose the game on Thursday night and score perfectly. He and his friend Lester scored a perfect 28500 to finish nationally; I didn’t get back to my console in time for a question and so I finished a paltry 6^th nationally with 28000. The location finished first in national average, naturally. I’m pretty terrible at sports trivia, for the same reason I’m terrible at old movies and tv. The only two questions I knew were what NFL team did Rod Smith become the person with the most receptions (Denver Broncos) and what NFL quarterback was the MVP for the now-defunct XFL (Tommy Maddox).