Most of my Darwin stories often involve my workmates doing something random.
Tonight, Elles, Kostas and I ended up at a trivia night at Sweethearts. We had no intention of going to a quiz night. We'd chosen the pub because it being Elles' birthday in the coming week, they mentioned they'd like to go to this newly opened place down on Mitchell Street, Sweethearts. The food was supposed to be good. We'll ignore the fact the place is named after a famous crocodile which sits in the museum up here.
It was only on arrival did we find out that there was a trivia night about to happen, just as we found out it was cheap steak night (bonus). We looked at each other and said we were up for it.
We introduced Kos to rare steak, never having had it like that as he comes from a family who likes their meat well done.
We toasted Elles's imminent birthday.
And we got ourselves ready for trivia.
First up, our team's name. All good trivia teams need a name. We went with a mnemonic. Panda. Elles. Kostas. Pek Pek. We didn't tell anybody that that word is slang in Tagalog meaning 'lady parts'. As all good workmates do out with a glass of wine, we got a little bit of a giggle out of this.
And then we were off. Six rounds of ten questions. A picture round. A music round.
They started off easy and worked their way up.
What are the names of the three Hemsworth Brothers? It's not Major, Minor and Lesser. It's Chris, Liam and Luke. (I still think Major, Minor and Lesser suits them).
In what year did Prince Charles and Princess Diana get married? 1991. Elles and Kos are Millennials. I'm Generation X. I didn't tell them that I remembered that day in first year high school. They weren't even born...
The song, Mrs Robinson was in what film? The Graduate.
What car company has the tagline "Sheer Driving Pleasure"?
"It's not Vorsprung durch Technik. That's Audi. I'm pretty sure it's BMW."
"How do you know this crap?" asked Kos.
"Just call me Rainman. It helps that I've got a head for useless crap and a semi-photographic memory."
What's Ross Geller's child called in Friends?
"Ben." That came without blinking.
Elles didn't register that Ross and his ex-wife, Carol the lesbian, had a child before the series. Youngsters, I say.
There were a few bumps in the road. In which US state do you find Memphis.
Kos, being our scribe, wrote 'Tenisy."
"Can you please spell that correctly. T-E-N-N-E-S-S-E-E please. Your spelling is hurting my brain." Elles agreed.
When it came to the penultimate question, name the Seven Dwarfs.
"Kos, give me that paper and pen."
I duly wrote down Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy. Dopey, Bashful and Doc, without blinking, before handing him back the answer sheet.
In the end, after a decent feed (Very good steak at Sweethearts) a drink or two and a hell of a lot of laughs, we came out on top. By a reasonable margin.
Between us, we won a $150 voucher for food and drink at the pub and bragging rights.
We won the inaugural pub quiz! Whoop!
And nobody cottoned on that our team's name was a little on the blue side.
And after, we stepped out into the close Darwin night, reveling in our win and trying to ignore the 30 degree, 80% humidity night as we ambled our way home, agreeing that we need to do this again in the near future.
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