Trivia Essay Question: Should I stay or should I go now?

The subsequent lyrics "if I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double," seem to imply the answer. Even though "trouble" is not a desirable outcome, "double" would literally be twice as bad. So on the one hand, it seems Mick Jones of The Clash should go. 

However, that only considers the downside. Perhaps the value of  the upside of going minus trouble is less than the value of the upside of staying minus double trouble. And in that case staying would be the better option. 

Therefore, the question is unanswerable until the song's recipient tells Mr. Jones the upside of staying. What is the upside of staying? Is therefore the real question Mick Jones wants answered before he decides to stay or go. And this question remains unanswered at the end of the song, therefore I will not ask "Should I stay or should I go now?" as a trivia question.

Hunger Games Trivia at An Tobar 5.10.14

1. Which Hunger Game's character is described as having. a "mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, [and] eyes the color of rotting squash?

Buttercup [the cat, The Hunger Games chapter 1]

2. What is the character Haymitch's last name?

Abernathy

3. Why does President Snow's breath smell like blood?

he has sores in his mouth from drinking poison

4. What does President Snow make Katniss agree never to do while they are conversing?

not to lie to each other

5. In what Academy-award nominated movie did Hunger Game's star Jennifer Lawrence cut off both of her dead father's hands with a chain saw in order to receive the cash bond to save her family's house?

Winter's Bone

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1. Buttercup [the cat, The Hunger Games chapter 1]

2. Abernathy

3. he has sores in his mouth from drinking poison

4. not to lie to each other

5. Winter's Bone

Mad Men Trivia at An Tobar 5.10.14

1. Which Mad Men character said this, "We're conquistadors. I'm Vasco da Gama, and you're...some other Mexican. We're gonna land there buy whatever they got there for the beads in our pockets. Our biggest challenge is to not get syphilis."

2. Which Mad Men character said this, "You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one. "

3. Which Mad Men character said this, "Who Cares? This country was built and run by men with worse stories than whatever you've imagined here. The Japanese have a saying: a man is whatever room he is in, and right now Donald Draper is in this room."

4. Arnold Rosen referred to groundbreaking heart-transplant surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley as what?

5. Who shot Don Draper?

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1. Roger Sterling

2. Don Draper

3. Bert[ram] Cooper

4. "some asshole down there [in Houston]"

5. Cutler's Dr. Feelgood (with a vitamin and proprietary substance shot in the butt) (In Season 6, Episode 8)

Pub Quiz Rules

Pub Quiz Rules

1.   No cheating at trivia.

2.   No cheating at trivia.

3.   All present here must pay the $5 entry fee. The entry fee is non-refundable. No limits on team size.

4.   The game is composed of three rounds of ten questions each, and a bonus round worth 15 points. At the end of each round, you'll turn in your answers and we'll score them. After an intermission we'll announce the correct answers to the previous rounds and the team scores.

5.   One answer per question slot. No extra answers, please. Incorrect extra answers will be subject to penalty.

6.   No outside help for questions. No shouting out answers. No use of electronic devices or reference books to help your team answer quiz questions. No laptops or references books allowed in the quiz area, not even between rounds. Leave them at home, please—or at least in your car. Cell phones may only be used between rounds. If you have an emergency use of your cell phone, please excuse yourself for the remainder of that round to do so.

7.   In the event of a tie, the tied teams will be asked five sudden-death tiebreaker questions. If there is still a tie after sudden-death overtime, then the tie will be decided by a closest-to-the-pin type question.

8.   Trivia-host Den may take some measures to promote the competitive balance of the Pub Quiz competition.

9.   The quiz host is the final arbiter of all quiz answers and Pub Quiz rules. Any ethical rule in the interest of fair play may be enforced by the quiz master even if not specifically delineated above.

Trivia is back at An Tabor: May 10, 2014

An Tabor Trivia Fact Sheet

For the first time since 2004, I will be hosting a trivia show at An Tobar. Every second Saturday of the month starting May 10. Go ahead and call it a comeback! 

Who: Dennis, the "once and future trivia host" at An Tobar, will be hosting there again.

What: $5 entry fee per person, cash* prize; 3 rounds, 10 questions each; bonus round worth 15 points; Second round will feature Hunger Games and Mad Men alternative questions (5 each). Bring out your friends who are fans, but there will still be general questions in that round for those who aren't. No limits on team size.

Where: An Tabor Pub 600 N Lake Destiny Rd, Maitland, FL

When: Saturday, May 10 at 7:00 PM

Why**: To test yourself and your team with the gold standard of trivia questions, and possibly win ca$h.

* I had a business professor who once said that "money" is the second-sweetest word in the English language. The first is "cash," it just sounds better.

**"All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use."--Alfred Edward Housman