Last night was Trivia Night. We gifted folk put together a crack team named Potpourri for 300; there were several team names dedicated to Dick Clark (too soon?) and even one dedicated to those enterprising young lads guarding the President in Colombia. We started strong in the General Knowledge category, although the team failed to believe me when I said Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe. Hey, I teach this stuff; I've got a database of every country in the world to prove it! We came back in a big way with knowledge of Scientists Everyone Should Know -- we did, indeed, know most of them. This week's Speed Round was drawing car logos. Since we had an artist and an architect on our team, we were set. We were hanging strong in third until the emcees dropped the bombshell (or Deringer) -- the next category was about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. What???? Didn't he just, like, get shot? How were they going to pull ten quest...
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