Concerning Ethel the Frog's worthy ascention to the top of the trivia pack.

By which, of course, I mean the top of the Bell curve. With a team of three, we came 7/15. A great many things worthy of note occurred at trivia last night, let me tell you dear reader. Unfortunately, it is my melancholy duty to inform you that as far as I could tell they all happened to other teams.

To what should I direct your attention, I wonder? The manner in which the noble Sancho managed to confuse a stilson wrench with a monkey wrench in round one? This was, I admit, high drama indeed .... but up to the usual standards required of a trivia post concerning our most excellent of frogs? I think not.

Without further ado, then, let me just relate that the night's themes were as follows:

1. Tools
2. Military matters
3. Western Movies
   
4. The written word¹.
5. History²
6. Science and Nature
7. Pot luck
8. Grammy winners³.

And while we're on the topic of lists, let us see what manner of questions I can recall.

Questions such that, by virtue of supplying a correct answer, our noble frog earned at least 1 point.

1. What U.S. military unit goes by the motto "semper fidelius"? My thanks to the movie Rushmore, for the fact that the words 'semper fi, soldier, semper fi' (spoken in a Scottish accent, which I want you to imagine I'm imitating it right now, 'cause I am) were used in Max's play.
2. The polaris missile is used by which branch of the military? I knew this from an episode of "Yes Minister".
   
3. What battle tank was named after some general from the Vietnam war? Should I be ashamed of knowing the name of a likely, and it turns out correct, candidate?
4. Spell "brochure". Yeah, there's quite a range in question difficulty....
5. What is the difference between the words "flammable" and "inflammable"? Look, so most of the interesting questions I remember we fucked up....
6. 2007 best pop performance by a group 'My Humps'? Mentioned as an excuse to link to this.
   

Questions of such unparalleled dastardly cunning and insurmountable difficulty that our ingenious amphibian was incapable of supplying a correct answer, and was thus forced to go pointless.

1. How many branches of the U.S. Military are there? There's an obvious line of reasoning related to a famous building which occurs to you only when you know the correct answer.
2. What two actors starred in the 'trinity' western movies? For fuck's sake....
3. Who created the comic book character Dick Tracy?
   
4. The first working model of which device was invented in 1960 by Thomas Maimam?
5. Citius Altius Fortius is the motto of which organisation? Guessing roughly what he last two words meant, and reasoning that 'citius' was related to 'city' in some way ... we guessed the Freemasons. I wish we were right..... although, just quietly I think we were close (the organisation in question is fooling nobody, *touch nose*).
   

¹This category should not, I assure you, be confused with a literature round.

²For which a question about The Monkees apparently qualified.

³Where a "when unsure, just write 'Keith Urban'" policy earned us a point.