Monday, May 14, 2018 |
Contestants: Jonathan Oakes, Jeff Culver, AJ Mass | |
The "Trivialympics" was a meeting of four popular trivia podcasts: Complete the List, Triviality, Beat My Guest, and Trivial Warfare (which served as the "home field" of the event). The match was a five-round event. The first four rounds were abridged versions of each of the four games, played by the three podcasts not hosting. (In each of these rounds, the Triviality team had to a nominate a single member to play; Jeff Culver contested the CtL portion.) The placements in each round translated into the "overall points" noted at the bottom of this partial game. Having placed first in each of the first three rounds, Andy took his turn in the MC's chair for this mini-game of CtL. The participants are all CtL alumni – and in fact, all winners. AJ Mass of Beat My Guest won Episode 23; Jonathan Oakes of Trivial Warfare won Episode 30; and the Triviality team split into two pairs for Episode 51, with Jeff and Neal Fischer prevailing over Ken Pendola and Matt Artz. | |
Categories | |
Push Play Ball | Eleven or More |
Quiero Doble Este Categoría | Other Gold Medalists |
Correct, unique: 2 points | Correct, repeated: 1 point | Incorrect: 0 points | Player doubled the category |
Name any of the twelve most populous states in the United States. Each state has at least eleven representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. | ||||
Jonathan | Jeff | AJ | Not given | |
California | Texas | New York | Michigan | |
Florida | Illinois | Ohio | ||
Pennsylvania | Virginia | North Carolina | ||
Arizona | Georgia | New Jersey | ||
ROUND 1 | 12 | 16 | 8 |
Name a country that uses Spanish as an official language. | ||||
Jeff | AJ | Jonathan | Not given | |
Spain | Mexico | Cuba | Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay; Bolivia; Costa Rica; Equatorial Guinea; Honduras; Panama | |
Colombia | El Salvador | Chile | ||
Venezuela | Nicaragua | Peru | ||
Ecuador | Guatemala | Belize | ||
ROUND 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | |
TOTAL | 24 | 16 | 18 |
Name a country that has been the home country of a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. They also receive a gold medal. Some laureates may have multiple home countries. | ||||
AJ | Jonathan | Jeff | Not given | |
United States | Germany | Poland | Australia; Belgium; Canada; People's Republic of China (via Hong Kong); Hungary; India; Ireland; Japan; Netherlands; Pakistan; Taiwan/Republic of China | |
Sweden | France | Denmark | ||
United Kingdom | Switzerland | Russia [Soviet Union] | ||
Norway | Italy | Austria | ||
ROUND 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |
TOTAL | 24 | 26 | 32 |
0-1 year away: 1 point | 2-5 years away: ½ point | >5 years away: 0 points |
IN WHAT YEAR… | Correct year | Jonathan | Jeff | AJ |
was the movie Django Unchained first released? | 2012 | 2012 | 2013 | 2015 |
did CNN begin broadcasting? | 1980 | 1987 | 1976 | 1986 |
was Britney Spears's album …Baby One More Time first released? | 1999 | 1998 | 1998 | 1997 |
did Rome, Italy host the Summer Olympics? | 1960 | 1965 | 1964 | 1956 |
was Neil Gaiman's American Gods first published? | 2001 | 2008 | 2004 | 2002 |
was Mount Rushmore completed? | 1941 | 1945 | 1935 | 1948 |
was the video game system now known as the Atari 2600 first released? | 1977 | 1977 | 1982 | 1978 |
did Diners Club first issue what were essentially the first credit cards? | 1950 | 1956 | 1957 | 1937 |
HALFTIME | 4 | 4 | 7 | |
TOTAL | 30 | 36 | 31 | |
OVERALL POINTS | 0 | 7 | 4 | |
Despite coming out on top here, Triviality was eliminated from the overall game; as such, it served as host and format of the fifth and final round, which was won by Andy. |