CABOT – Trivia night at the Den at Harry’s Hardware drew enough players to fill six teams, Tuesday, June 10, where Harry Besett and Joe Nudell created questions and led the event.
Besett and Nudell’s blend of straight trivia and categories resulted in a combination of puzzle answers that combined the two. The category must then be discovered by the players, who assembled into teams of three and four.
photo by Paul Fixx
The evening’s questions began with, “What branch of the U.S. military was formed on June 14, 1775,” recognizing the capitol city’s planned June 14 celebration. The answer, Army, was followed by the answers, murder, pride, sleuth and parade, leading to the category “groups of animals, with an army of frogs, a murder of crows, and so on.
An answer for the category is harder to arrive at when a team fails to answer several of the individual questions leading to it.
The second category resulted in random U.S. cities and states, all of which were names of food items, such as Boston Cream Pie and Baked Alaska. The next category was planets, with Freddie Mercury and the Venus fly trap as answers.
The Kenosha Kickers had 18 points and the lead after not missing a single answer in the first three categories. They were followed by Far and a Whey with 16 points and The Little Lion Who Roared with 14.
The Kickers came up short on the fourth question, gaining just two points as they missed coming up with U.S. coins, but returned to form with just one wrong in the next category, which included the answers John Jay, Ellen Degeneres, camel hump, Abraham and Mount Mansfield, leading to the category Vermont mountains.
The final category featured the names of songs, a poem and a book that came to their authors in a dream.
In the end, The Kickers walked away with 31 points and the top prize of a single beer, followed by Far and a Whey with 24 points, The Little Lion with 22 and Defecto, Woodbury Bear Gryllz and Tomkin bringing up the rear.
Harry’s Hardware & the Den is billed by its owners as New England’s only bar in a hardware store. Since 1896 hardware has been sold at the 3087 Main St. location in Cabot where the store has served as a community hub.
The store is now a women-owned and operated business that continues to sell tools, hardware, lawn and garden products, livestock supplies, feed, pet food, Vermont craft beer and cider
Future trivia events have not yet been scheduled.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
