pinocchio knows!

We won third place!
Shane, Sandy, and I were the only ones of our group that showed up for Trivia Nations' game at Coach's Corner tonight and we still managed to place third!
Truly, I'm very impressed with our win.
As I have said before, I'm not great at trivia. Neither are the other two. But we each do have our special areas of interest and we do have enough respect for each other that when one of us immediately reaches for the answer pad, we trust that that person knows the answer.
We have several that are sometimes present who do not willingly grant that respect.
So many times, we've had the correct answer and been talked out of it by one of the doubters.
That was certainly not the case tonight!
Most of the questions fell into the category of one of us knowing and the other two accepting. There were a couple that we all knew... as did all of the other teams playing. There were six other queries that none of us knew at all. Even so, some of those we got lucky with a guess; the others we missed, but we had been sure to only have low point values assigned to those questions.
We scored 26 points in the first half, acing 8 of the 9 questions and gaining two points on the bonus round.
The second half was more problematic, with us only correctly answering six of the nine. But, we correctly wagered our points again, so we ended up with another 26 to add to our total.
Amazing! We three were in third place!
And we held that, too, after the bonus round. We didn't have a clue on the chronological order of four movie quotes, so we bet nothing.
Good move!
That gave us $20 in Coach's Cash to use on a future visit!
...in addition to the $73.55 won on earlier wins, dating back to the fall.
I suggested we go ahead and use some of that "old money" for tonight's tabs...and so we did! We used a former second place win - that's a $30 gift card - to pay the tabs for all three of us, with Shane graciously handling the tip.
Bravo!
You know, if we were to cash in some winnings just once a month, I might be tempted to play more often.
Especially with these two!
No stress, no guilt, just three friends playing a game.
Thanks, Sandy, for asking me to come out tonight.
(smile)