Way broad. Musical math was a category you had to figure out the # used in a song title than do the math of the #s to get the correct answer. Meteorology was a category.
U.S. history, states and their nicknames figured out by emoji.
Cy's House of Trivia 2023 edition
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Way broad. Musical math was a category you had to figure out the # used in a song title than do the math of the #s to get the correct answer. Meteorology was a category.
U.S. history, states and their nicknames figured out by emoji.
I knew the alabama one because alabama has their "rammer jammer yellowhammer" thing
Haha, every year my tables say I hope this round is weather.So did you special request the storm warning round?
I assume your group ran that round.
Last table said that and I barely spit it out that I've been coming for 10 years, there's never weather, boom it pops up!
9/10. I'd never heard of nephology before. Another table brought along a meteorologist from Ohio and he missed it too, so I don't feel so bad.
10/10 on Music Math and the famous company names one
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Can't speak for other year's but I know last year there was nothing isu related. I thought there would be at least 1 isu category.
Nice, the aggregate of my 8 tables put up 60, so not quite that high.
Emoji state nicknames was the killer.
I liked that they didn’t do the typical intro of the celebrities as that seemed awkward and would take a long time.
Everyone of the celebrities we talked to was glad they didn’t do it either.
1. Famous Iowans
2. Clone cones
3. Movies in a picture
4. US history
5. Beginning of business
6. Musical math
7. Emoji states
8. Cyclone weather alert
We contested three questions in the emoji states category that we got "wrong" and got them changed for everyone. Some of the emojis were ambiguous at best, definitely with more than one correct interpretation. I heard there was some debate by those putting together the questions about that category and that it might cause some confusion. I'm glad that the judges have always been willing to listen to someone with a valid point on why there might be more than one correct answer for some questions. They really have been good about that.
We got that one right. Our dedicated answer-writer-downer person started to write gopher after someone else said it and I said "Look at the tail - that's a beaver. It's Oregon."
Let's see if I can remember... there was the diamond emoji which we interpreted directly as "Diamond State", which is Arkansas (their answer was the "Gem State", Idaho); there was the one with two mountains which we interpreted as "Rocky Mountain State", Colorado (their answer was "Mountain State", West Virginia); and I don't recall the third one now. I'll come back and edit this if I can figure it out.
Edit: Now I remember - it was the one with the three trophies, pointing out the golden one. We said "Golden State", California. I can't even recall what they had as the answer, but we got that one accepted, also. Ended up with 10/10 in that round, thanks to the challenges.
Second edit: Looks like "Diamond State" is not the official nickname of Arkansas. It's the Natural State (really?). Although, there used to be diamond mines in Arkansas and it has been referred to as such unofficially. Delaware is the official "Diamond State". This stuff is kind of the reason I didn't like the category a lot. Many states have multiple nicknames, some only regionally known, many unofficial. It was a good concept, but not executed well, imo.
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So you got them to accept Arkansas even though that is wrong?
5th place for our table. Down a bit from last year, but holding strong to always in the top 20. Arkansas as an answer is questionionble. Irony is ND as the peace garden state...home to many ballistic missle sites and frozen more than 2/3 of the year. New Jersey was a viable confusing choice.
I don't believe it is wrong. It has a functioning diamond mine I believe and a State park where you are free to dig your own. I'm pretty sure the diamond State is one of its nicknames.
Emoji completely destroyed us. We were 3rd last year and ended this year in 23rd?
I don't know why they didn't do big intro like they normally do? Not many big name celebs. Got to hang with Soares, Holmes, Campbell, and CJL. Soares was awesome to hang out with. Enjoyed having her on our table.
We dominatd weather questions because one of our guys were meteorogist.
I really wanted to steal that Ames helmet. Some lady want red chrome helmet. I was extremely jealous of that. I wish they would do smaller prizes rather than big ones.
I don't know why they didn't do big intro like they normally do? Not many big name celebs. Got to hang with Soares, Holmes, Campbell, and CJL. Soares was awesome to hang out with. Enjoyed having her on our table.
We dominatd weather questions because one of our guys were meteorogist.
I really wanted to steal that Ames helmet. Some lady want red chrome helmet. I was extremely jealous of that. I wish they would do smaller prizes rather than big ones.
