The Winners - Humphrey Dumptrucks

On February 5th Margarit and I paid our usual Wednesday evening visit to our local neighborhood pub, Mimi's.  Every Wednesday they host trivia night, and when we are available, we attend.  We usually do pretty well with general knowledge questions and classic music.  We are terrible with modern music and don't do well with questions about video games, technology or celebrities.  The event has been taking place for a couple of years now, and is getting very popular.  If you don't get there early, or reserve a table, sometimes you don't get in.

There are a couple of teams that seem to win most of the time.  They generally are larger groups, with a mix of young and old players.  We just go for fun, and are satisfied if we don't come in last place.  Sometimes friends and family come out and play on our team.

Every team has to have a name, and we have been calling ourselves Humphrey Dumptrucks, after an old 70's rock band from Saskatoon called Humphrey and the Dumptrucks.  This time around we brought a bunch of people to play on our team.  Margarit's friend Cathy and her husband Ken [in the Oilers jerseys], our friends Arturo and Sharon, and their son Camilo.  Between the seven of us we seemed to have a pretty good handle on most of the questions.

There were about 12 teams playing and by the end of the six rounds we were tied for first place with a team called Skunk Den... both of us with 45 points.  These guys are regular players and one of the teams that often wins.  It came down to a tie breaker question, which was, how many pounds of poop does the average adult expel in a year.  The team with the closest guess, without going over, would win.  We guessed 350 Lbs., and won.  I't not sure what Skunk Den guessed by the correct answer was 380.  We all thought it was kind of fitting that a team named Dumptrucks would win on a question based on taking a dump.  We got to write our name on the Sticky Note stuck to the trophy... until next week, and also got a Coors jersey and a $25 gift card.  We will return next week to defend our title.

In our years of playing I won the event once before, that was in the early days, when the turnout was not very big.  My neighbor Brian and I won a couple of beer glasses.  But since then, and until now, we have not been able to repeat that victory.