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| "Trivia on Ice" Trophy WHYS 96.3FM |
Thursday is usually the end of Dice's Trivia week. After hosting a great show at the Rivershore on Thursday night, Dice took his mom on a Trivia-date Friday, then played remotely in a 24-hour Trivia contest for WHYS 96.3FM, a community-run radio station in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Trivia for this style of contest is significantly different than Dice's Trivia for Last Call, but is still a great time for everyone involved. This was WHYS 96.3's inaugural Trivia-thon fundraiser and Dad's Computers, my Trivia team from Stevens Point, Wisconsin picked up the victory. Hosting one of these contests is a huge undertaking and although it wasn't perfect, I'm sure they learned several things. Dice really enjoyed several of the ways they took the standard Trivia format and made it their own.
Dice knows a thing or two about making a Trivia show his own and the amazing staff at the Rivershore Bar & Grill in Oregon City knows everything about how to host a show like Dice's!
TEAMS: Giving a truly Herculean effort, DISNEY DIRTY (72) looked unbeatable early, then missed 4 of 6 questions making everyone, including themselves, think they were finished, but they returned triumphant in the final round. SWEDISH MEATBALLS (62) herdy der flerdy floopin'd their way a second place finish on their first visit...Bork, Bork, Bork! VICTORIOUS SECRET (61) had some awkward moments early, but is quickly blossoming into a fun Trivia team to play with!
Dice knows two things about the VAN OWLS, they'll be back...both to the Rivershore and to the top of the leaderboard. STANLEY CUPCAKES let the money slip away trying to post a better league score. THE PLOT THICKENS, were surprised by some of Dice's Trivia twists, but are eager to get back to the Rivershore for the sequel. Dice tried to give the SCHWINGS more credit than they deserved, but they couldn't pull off any last-second heroics this week. FRIENDS OF HENRY were playing to honor the life of team mascot Henry, whose soft and fluffy fur made everyone that ever met him, including Dice, love him. RIP Henry. SHIVER ME TIMBERS made a couple of big moves throughout the night, but fell short on their biggest, a final round 15 point wager.
TRIVIA: Alaska, the final frontier. Those words alone conjure images of wildlife roaming the streets, gold rushes, oil, Sarah Palin, Russia, fish, moose, and bears oh my! And while all of that may be true, your trusty Trivia Jockey Dice happens to have some inside knowledge about our 49th state. Prior to moving back to the Portland area to pursue his TJ career, Dice and his family lived in Alaska, so he's got the inside scoop you've been wanting.
If you've ever been to Alaska, you know it's a state of unparalleled beauty. At a minimum, you've probably seen the amazing mountains around Anchorage and through the valley. Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, and all of Southeast Alaska are truly some of the most incredibly beautiful places I've seen. Wildlife truly does walk right through the streets of Anchorage and the fishing and hunting are as amazing as anywhere in the world. Finding the beauty in places like Bethel where we lived was a little more difficult, but the tundra can be an amazingly bountiful and beautiful place when you see it through the lens of living in Western Alaska.
The Northern Lights are truly one of nature's greatest gifts and should be on your bucket list.
Tonight we worked through an interesting halftime question about Alaska's seafood industry. I can't speak for the state of most of the Alaskan fisheries, but living on the Kuskokwim River, home to world-class salmon spawning grounds, showed us first-hand how fragile the local fish population is. In an area that depends on these fish to continue their subsistence way of life, King Salmon populations have reached near extinction due to many factors, but often these fish never make it to the river and are picked up as byproduct in the capture of other seafoods. This issue is not just a local or Alaska problem, the entire state of the world's oceans and fish industry is in major peril and I hope places like the Kuskokwim River can find solutions to try to reverse decades of poor fishery and habitat management worldwide.
Dice's salmon preference (in order)...Bacon Cheeseburger, Red, Silver, King, Pizza, Smoked Chum.
Have you seen any of the Alaska "reality" TV shows on cable? Several of them have pretty decent production quality and often the characters are so crazy that they can't possibly be real, but they must be watched. Well, like most "reality" programming, there's enough real about them for me to say that I know several people that are easily as loony tunes as anyone you'll see on any show about Alaska. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of really amazing people in Alaska, but so many also fit a lot closer to the televised stereotype than they'd ever willingly admit. After all, as the very true saying regarding women and men and relationships in Alaska goes, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd!" If you're looking for the most accurate televised representation of Alaska, Alaskan State Troopers focuses on only a certain aspect of living in Alaska, but Alaska is a bit of a lawless, independent land and most of AST is not embellished for the camera. Bethel was frequently featured on Alaska State Troopers, fortunately any scenes with Dice made the cutting room floor.
TUNES: Tonight's Tunes feature has been postponed. Changes (not the Bowie song) are coming to Dice's blog very soon, so stay tuned for updates!
-Dice
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