Friday Night Trivia at Pretzels in Altamonte

Pretzels Pub has team trivia at 6 PM on Friday evenings. There are three games, two rounds each. The first two games are played for a free drink for each winning team member, with second place receiving a consolation prize. Sometimes the third game is played for a cash prize, requiring a $5-cash entry fee to play. In addition to the great games and prizes hosted by the amazing Rick, they feature a spread of free food (wings and such) during trivia and periodic dollar-shot specials. And that's not all! After trivia they have karaoke, which begins about 9ish.

Pretzels is located in the Jamestown Plaza at: 931 N. State Rd 434 Ste 1165, Altamonte Springs, FL. If you've read the above you see that they really go all out to please all comers on Friday evenings. So this pub has a lot to offer for your Friday night barroom experience.

Pretzels Pub and Rick the host

Monica's the boss--she's a buxom beauty with a great pair of lungs

Here are the trivia questions from the April 17 contests (answers are at the bottom of the page):

QUESTIONS
First Game, Round One (1 pt. ea.)
1. What is the name of the Obama's new dog?
2. Does the phrase "Bronx Bombers" refer to the Yankees or Mets?
3. Who sang the theme song to the TV show Married with Children?
4. Name the artist who had hit songs including The Authority, Big House, and Crumbling.
5. What is Australia's largest airline?
6. Name four U.S. Presidents who had the first name of "William."
7. What planet in our solar system has the longest year?
8. Which former NBA star is now the spokesman for Rent-a-Center: Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, or Larry Bird?
9. What was the first name of the character Bluto Blutowski in the film Animal House?
10. Which Constitutional Amendment proscribes cruel and unusual punishment: the sixth, seventh, or eighth?

First Game, Round Two (1 pt. ea.)
1. Which department store chain is doing the campaign, "Expect Great Things": Macy's, Sears, or Kohl's?
2. The Eagles were a backup band for whom?
3. WORD JUMBLE: HYGCOOLSPY; clue: What do you think?
4. What desert borders the Suez Canal to the East?
5. What spice is most commonly associated with Hungary?
6. What 2000 movie featured Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer?
7. What is the symbol for the chemical element Boron: B, Br, or Bo?
8. Which of the following vaccines was developed first: polio, rabies, or smallpox?
9. What were the titles of the two works of John Milton that began with the word Paradise?
10. In what desert will you find Las Vegas, Nevada?

Second Game, Round One (1 pt. ea.)
1. Who won best supporting actor for his role in Good Will Hunting?
2. Who is older, Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston?
3. Is Casey Jones the name of a real or fictional person?
4. Write a five letter English word using Roman numerals for letters?
5. What was French, post-impressionist painter Cezanne's first name?
6. What grocery store offers Green-wise line of products?
7. William Shatner is the spokesman for what online travel service?
8. Who is the author of The Yankee Years?
9. What is the capital of Kentucky?
10. What is the parent company of Bookers, Bakers, and Knob Creek whiskey?

Second Game, Round Two (2 pts. ea.)
1. What is Seth Rogan's latest movie?
2. What animated series features Fry, Leela, and Nibbler?
3. What brand-name product was sold by Madge?
4. WORD JUMBLE: LASGIN; hint: What do you mean?
5. Who is the husband of the famous actress Sarah Michelle Gellar?
6. In 1896, the war between Great Britain and Zanzibar lasted how long: 38 minutes, 38 hours, or 38 days?
7. Which state has the highest cigarette tax, and which has the lowest?
8. What rock band had lesser known members Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bob Weir?
9. Who is the only person to be named Sport Illustrated's "Sportsman of the Year" two times?
10. In what comic strip would you be most likely to read the phrase, "Must. Control. Fist. Of. Death."?

Third Game, Round One (1 pt. ea.)
1. Keith Colburn, Phil Harris, and Sig Hansen are three regulars on which reality show?
2. What happens to Madame Butterfly at the end: dies, gets married, or banished into exile?
3. When was the novel Sex and the City written: 1976, 1986, or 1996?
4. Larry the Cable Guy, Hillary Swank, Matthew Sweet, and Marlin Brando were born in which state: Illinois, Oklahoma, or Nebraska?
5. Which Asian Country was formerly know as Kampuchea: Cambodia, Laos, or Bangladesh?
6. Name the actor who played the title role in the movie Dr. Zhivago?
7. Before 1848, which state led the U.S. in gold production: North Carolina, Tennessee, or Kentucky?
8. What was the first and middle name of Dukes of Hazzard character "Boss Hog": Robert Edward, Jefferson Davis, or Jack Daniels?
9. Who was the president of the United States during World War I?
10. Name five fictional novels by Ernest Hemingway?

Third Game, Round Two (2 pts. ea.)
1. What broadway musical and movie featured the songs: I Could Have Danced All Night, Wouldn't it be Loverly, and The Rain in Spain?
2. What company owns Hot Pockets: Kraft, Campbells', or Nestle?
3. Who was the first Christian emperor?
4. Name the actress and actor who played Isabella and Edward in Twilight.
5. WORD JUMBLE: TVAAAGEND
6. In golf, what is the opposite of fade?
7. In what U.S. state will you find Lake of the Ozarks?
8. What is the only country in Central America where English ig the official language?
9. Does Havarti cheese come from cow's milk, sheep's milk, or Goat's milk?
10. Wayne Gretzky is the head coach for which NHL team?

ANSWERS
First Game, Round One
1. Bo
2. Yankees
3. Frank Sinatra
4. John Mellenchamp
5. Qantas
6. William Clinton, William Henry Harrison, William Taft, and William McKinley
7. Neptune
8. Magic Johnson
9. John
10. Eighth Amendment

First Game, Round Two
1. Kohl's
2. Linda Ronstadt
3. PSYCHOLOGY
4. Sinai
5. Paprika
6. What Lies Beneath
7. B
8. Small pox
9. Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained
10. Mohavi

Second Game, Round One
1. Robin Williams
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Real
4. CIVIC [CCVII=207]; CIVIL [CLVII=157]; IMMIX [MMXII=2012]; LIVID [DLVII=557]; MIMIC [MMCII=2102]. [VILLI and VIVID cannot be rearranged into actual Roman numerals.]
5. Paul
6. Publix
7. Priceline
8. Joe Torre
9. Frankfurt
10. Jim Beam

Second Game, Round Two
1. Observe and Report
2. Futurama
3. Palmolive
4. SIGNAL
5. Freddie Prinze Jr.
6. 38 minutes
7. Rhode Island; South Carolina
8. The Grateful Dead
9. Tiger Woods
10. Dilbert

Third Game, Round One
1. The Deadliest Catch
2. Dies
3. 1996
4. Nebraska
5. Cambodia
6. Omar Sharif
7. North Carolina
8. Jefferson Davis
9. Woodrow Wilson
10. Any five: For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea; To Have and Have Not; Across the River and into the Trees; The Garden of Eden; Islands in the Stream; The Torrents of Spring; Under Kilimanjaro

Third Game, Round Two
1. My Fair Lady
2. Nestle
3. Constantine
4. Kristen Stewart; Robert Pattinson
5. ADVANTAGE
6. Draw
7. Missouri
8. Belize
9. Cow
10. Phoenix Coyotes

Thursday Night Trivia at Gator's in Winter Springs

Gator's Dockside has team trivia on Thursday nights, beginning at 8 PM. There are three rounds, and the top three teams get bar tabs worth $20, $10, and $5. Gator's is located at: 5275 Red Bug Lake Rd Winter Springs, FL. It is hosted by the amazing Rick, who is assisted by the lovely Tiffany.

Host Rick scores teams' answers while Tiffany assists him

Here are the questions from April 16's trivia contest (the answers are at the bottom of this page):
Round One, 1 point each
1. In the Orlando Sentinel, Heather McPherson reports on what: Food, Theatre, or Sports?
2. What 2006 film featured Kenan Thompson, Julianna Margulies, and Samuel L. Jackson?
3. Dangle, Wiegle, Johnson, Williams [sic], and Junior are all characters on what TV series?
4. What playing piece is removed from the patient's ankle in the board game Operation?
5. "Pro-shoo-toe" is a type of ham, how is it spelled?
6. Curtis Sliwa is most famous for being founder of which organization?
7. Motor boating is a Boy Scout merit badge. True or False.
8. Wild Bill Hickok died in what Dakota Territory town?
9. What type of wine does Paul Giamatti's character refuse to drink in Sideways?
10. Identify this 1999 movie from a single prop: a red, Swingline stapler.

Round Two, 2 points each
1. This current film is in theatres now, Dragonball _____.
2. Who wrote the famous short story The Pit and the Pendulum?
3. Name the actor who played the title role in Transporter, Transporter II, and Transporter III?
4. WORD JUMBLE: NNOISEV; clue: Oh Dear [or deer]
5. Name the actor and actress who played John and Martha Kent in Smallville.
6. Name the Alaskan volcano that has been fuming since March?
7. Is Mortadella a type of meat, wine, or bread?
8. What was the only song by The Grateful Dead to crack the Top 100?
9. Name the ancient Greek and Roman gods of wine.
10. Name the facility that hosts the French Open tennis tournament?

Round Three, 5 points each
1. The country of Iraq has two official languages, Arabic and _____.
2. What band did the 80s songs She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing?
3. Which TV spokesperson is currently doing the line, "Beef, it's what's for dinner": Robert Mitchum, Sam Elliot, or Matthew McConaughey?
4. Name the six New England states.
5. Who is the current prime minister of Canada?
6. Which actress was in the movies Grosse Pointe Blank, Say Anything, and High Fidelity?
7. Who is the neighbor boy that palls around with Dagwood Bumstead: Early, Edgar, or Elmo?
8. American History: What frontier figure said, "I am the law west of the Pecos."?
9. Chablis is a French wine district. True or False.
10. Who played the title role in the 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman?

How did you do? There were 25 teams in attendance. First place scored 56 points. Second and third tied with 55 points each. The tiebreaker "Closest to the pin" question was, "In what year was the Smallpox vaccine discovered?"

Answers
Round One
1. Food
2. Snakes on a Plane
3. Reno 911
4. Wrench
5. Prosciutto
6. Guardian Angels
7. True
8. Deadwood
9. Merlot
10. Office Space

Round Two
1. Evolution
2. Edgar Allan Poe
3. Jason Statham
4. VENISON
5. John Schneider and Annette O'Toole
6. Mt. Redoubt
7. meat
8. Touch of Grey
9. Dionysius; Bacchus
10. Roland Garros

Round Three
1. Kurdish
2. Fine Young Cannibals
3. Matthew McConaughey
4. Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maine
5. Stephen Harper
6. Joan Cusack
7. Elmo
8. Roy Bean
9. True
10. Meryl Streep

Closest to the pin answer: 1796