CABOT – Another session of trivia at Harry’s Hardware and the Den drew just four teams, Tuesday, June 24. Team names seem to be a highlight of the competition led by Joe Nudell and Harry Besett. The week’s winning team seemed to suggest an inside track, calling itself Harry + Joe, without either Harry or Joe playing on it, though the final tally might seem to indicate otherwise. They missed the first two rounds, but scored high 7s in rounds 3 and 5, with a 6 in round 4.
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The Luddites were back again after missing the second trivia outing. Far and a Whey dropped a spot to third after their second place outing June 14, tying with a new team, Harry’s Nardware .
The usual format had five questions with answers suggesting a common theme, also to be guessed for bonus points. The first round was quintessentially Vermont, with questions like: “What Channel Island is the warmest place in the British Isles, due to its southerly location” and a hint: “One of the 13 original colonies was named after this Island.” All the category’s answers named cow breeds.
A subsequent question yielded the answers President Garfield, Sylvester Stallone, Felix Leiter, Tom and Hobbes, to arrive at the category answer Cartoon Cats.
The final round began with the stumper of a question, “In what country did it become illegal to sell chewing gum in 1992? The answer is Singapore, but the answer required sussing out “the etymology of the country name” to identify the theme. Thus Singapore yielded Lion City, Malay and the rest were no less obscure. with Harry + Joe scoring just 2 points and the others with less.
Trivia at the Den will continue irregularly with a call to the venue being the only way to find out if the game is on for future Tuesdays.
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
