BNP ends its run
From Brian (although I echo his last statement):
In what was announced as the last Bison Turf trivia contest, BNP again made a good early showing but faded down the stretch.
In the first round the team answered all but one question correctly, the team only stumbled on a 3 pt. question, the last Chinese dynasty (Manchu, not Ming). This resulted in a three-way tie for first place, with a pitcher of beer and two beer glasses at stake.
The first play-off question was the year Mad Magazine started. BNP and another team both guessed 1954 (correct answer, 1952), which eliminated one team. The SECOND play-off question was “How long to build the Great Pyramid at Giza”. BNP guessed 40 years. The other team (our nemesis, Pizza), guessed 75 years. Correct answer: 23 years. Victory!
The second round, BNP also missed only one question (the fort being shelled while the Star Spangled Banner was written). We got both the song lyric question (a Beatles song) and the really easy movie dialog question (“Houston, we have a problem”), but could not dredge up Fort McHenry. Unfortunately this was 6 pt. question, and despite doing well, for us, in the second round, two other teams tied for first place in that round.
Things went downhill from there, as is the BNP pattern. First, BNP was continually jobbed on the quick answer questions. John knew the answer almost every time, but we were sitting too far back, and other people ran up first. Then, in the third round, we missed questions about the tides (6 hours! not 12), the Super Bowl MVP last year (Hines Ward! not The Bus), the country containing Elba and Capri (Italy! not France), and the loser to Truman in 1948 (Dewey! not Stevenson).
When the final question came around we were in 6th place (out of 9), 15 points back of the leader. We bet the full 20 points, got the question wrong, and went down in flames. The question: in what order did these appear, Wonder Bread, Ragu Sauce, Kraft Cheese Singles, Sweet and Low. That is the correct order. We had the last two reversed. The winner was 15 points ahead of us, got it right, and beat us by 55 points on the 40 point swing.
And thus we conclude the brief and sometimes glorious run of BNP at the Turf. Total swag: 6 beer glasses, some 2-for-1 movie rentals, some pitchers of beer, and quite a few Bison Bucks. One first place finish, one third place,
some near misses. Not bad.
I salute you, comrades.
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