No More Ties
10/14 '26
My three least-favorite parts of our trivia league are multiple-choice questions, toss-ups (random numbers), and the betting of up to 40 points on the last question. Today my bet landed us in a three-way tie for first, and I didn't realize that we'd end up with another toss-up to resolve the tie. It really does usually come down to all or nothing as the best bets.
What city is the home of Batman?
How many stars on the flag of China?
What creature has a hyperphagia contest in Katmai National Park?
What percentage of U.S. adults with ADHD were diagnosed as adults?
In what letter-shape does a chess knight move?
What Danish toy manufacturer recently promised not to use AI designs?
What Harry Belafonte song was involuntarily sung in Beetlejuice ?
How much is the first-offence fine for physical contact with an official in the NFL?
What store changed their motto from "Always Low Prices" to "Save Money. Live Better"?
What is the Italian name of mural painting on wet lime plaster?
What Aboriginal Australian wind instrument makes a droning sound?
What clothing and shoe brand is named after a kind of antelope?
What K-pop band's fans are called Blinks?
What company created an assistant called Clippy?
How many contestants out of 750 beat the Green Line train in a Boston race?
What 1994 film based on a Stephen King novella is #1 in the IMDB Top 250?
What 2026 film with a one-word title stars Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson?
In what pub does Harry Potter first taste butterbeer? The Three Broomsticks, The Leaky Cauldron, or The Hog's Head?
What percentage of U.S. adults read at less than a 6th-grade level?
What British sketch comedy team considered silly walks and a dead parrot?
Whose final public performance was "Nessun Dorma" at the 2006 Olympics?
What German potato-and-egg casserole is also the name of a Dutch rum-and-egg drink?
What is the name of one of the two men who twice served as Continental Congress president?
At what age did Charles II of England die?
China stars: um... 6?
knight move letter: L or J
Danish toy: Lego
Belafonte: Day-O
store motto: Walmart
Italian painting: fresco
Australian instrument: didjeridoo
antelope shoe: Reebok
Blinks band: Blackpink
Clippy creator: is this designed to weed out young players or something
1994 film: Misery?
2026 film: Verity
British comedy team: well it's certainly not the Goon Show
One
Bat
20%
L
Lego
The banana boat song (day-o)
$5000
Wal-Mart
Fresco
Didgeridoo
Don't know
Don't know
Microsoft
700
Don't know
Verity
The Leaky Cauldron
35%
Monty Python fer cryin'... we're old
Don't know
Don't know
Hmm... who wasn't in uniform or in France... John Hancock why not
23
I'm gonna buy Post Three-Oh-Six
American Legion
paint it red
with five gold stars." [flag of China]