Category: Mythological creatures
Question: what is the official occupation of (most) Leprechauns?
BG’s guess: Thief
Answer: Cobbler
The only reason I got this right was Keebler cookies mascot is an elf and I thought Keebler = cobbler
Whoo! I legitimately knew that one. Perk of being married to the Irish.
The Keebler guys are elves. Not leprechauns.
My selective knowledge worked to my advantage!
Side note: I’m hosting trivia tonight. it’s through a company and I don’t get to make up the questions. But I think it will be fun anyway. (Well, I’m officially training tonight. But I’ll be handling some of the MC duties…)
Category: General Knowledge
Question: True or False. Queen Elizabeth I’s nickname was “Good Queen Bess”
BG’s guess: False. I have zero interest in monarch questions and very little knowledge on these kind of questions.
Answer: True
Category: Sports
Question: “Socceroos” is the nickname for what country’s soccer team?
A: Denmark
B: Saudi Arabia
C: Australia
D: USA
BG’s guess: D USA. I thought it was called ‘football’ everywhere else
Answer: C Australia. I also thought this was a too-easy-red-herring
Category: General Knowledge
Question: In the name J. C. Penny, the J stands for James. What does the C stand for?
BG’s guess: Charles. We had zero idea.
Answer: Cash
This one I actually knew.
I would have gotten this one right, not because I knew the answer but because it seemed like the most logical guess. I did know that the word “soccer” is not USA-specific, so that helps.
I learned that from watching Bend It Like Beckham with a Brit. The girls go into a store called Soccer City or something close to that… in London. I commented on it being off and the Brit corrected me, explaining that the words football and soccer are interchangeable over there. 
Yeah, the Aussies play their own version of Football so it wold seem reasonable that they might also call it soccer.
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Dude, they have Australian footy.
Will you be hosting for a Challenge Entertainment sub?
Category: Drinks
Question: Name the main alcoholic ingredient in these drinks:
Cuba Libre
Mimosa
Rusty Nail
Tom Collins
BG’s guesses: rum, champagne, bourbon, whiskey
Answers: rum, champagne, (scotch) whiskey, gin
Category: Space
Question: In 1965 Russian cosmonaut completed the first space walk, otherwise know as an EVA. What does EVA stand for?
BG’s guess: Exo-vehicular Action (we knew it was wrong)
Answer: Extra-vehicular Activity
While I was alive for that I don’t actually remember it from that. I have always been fascinated with the space program and knew that from lots of reading and documentaries.
See, I might have gotten the rum one but it would have been a guess and I wouldn’t have been able to come up with the others.
Dad liked a vodka Collins, so I knew it was a sub for the answer. Knew the first 2, and had heard of the third, but didn’t know it.
I knew EVA… going to Space Camp maybe helped with that.
I knew all of the drink ones except Rusty Nail which I probably would have guessed correctly but it certainly would have been a guess.