Week 5 | March 1, 2012

It was a good night for the Trailer Park Boys!  This week Davey, Xavier, Pat, Eileen (Pat’s sister), Mary, Adriene (Mary’s sister), Mark, John M, and John D showed up to play for the TPBs.

The bonus question for round one was “What was called the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart by it’s builder?” The word “rampart” caused many at the table to start singing the Star Spangled Banner only to realize that they still couldn’t figure out what a rampart was.  After some discussion, we decided that it was part of a fort. (A rampart is a defensive wall.) That lead to our best guess, the Berlin Wall.  With my uncanny ability to rationalize away right answers, I started down the path of thinking that it couldn’t be the Berlin Wall because that was build after the Nazis were defeated in World War II.  So we answered Berlin Wall and wagered no points.  We were one of those teams that had the right answer and couldn’t bring themselves to risk even 5 points on it.  WAH-WAH

We came back to nail the Fast Action Bonus (FAB) at the end of round one which added 35 points to our score!  Pete caught us off guard by putting the answer of the week in a multiple choice question.  We thought he was faking us out, sure that Chrometophobia was the fear of color.  But it turns to be the fear of money.  Excellent dis-tractor, Pete! Another 5 points missed.  Pete came back to get us again in the FAB at the end of round 2 by asking what year the Berlin Wall was built (13 August 1961).

We earned 300 more points and came in second for the week! Starting next week we will have the ability to bet all of our accumulated points for the tournament on the final bonus question which could go along way moving us up the leader board.

Here are the standing as of February 29, 2012:

1033