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1st place – Full Contact Trivia
The defending champions – Full Contact Trivia – topped the scoreboard with 105 correct answers out of the 120 questions. Pictured from left to right are Jack Ramieri, Leisa Gignac, William Donnelly and Stan Chacko. (Southpoint Sun Photos)
Top Secondary School Team - Canadian Geeks
Canadian Geeks had 61 out of a possible 120 correct answers. Lenore Douglas (Gr. 7 at Glenwood Public School) and Albert Douglas (Gr. 9 at Vincent Massey S.S.) held their own against their adult competitors.
2nd place – Dream Warriors
Coming in a close second place was the team of Dream Warriors with 102 correct answers. Pictured from left to right are Ram Sridhar, Heather Landry, Noe Lucier and Jody Carnevale.
3rd place – Taking Care of Quizness
The third place team with a total of 100 correct answers was Taking Care of Quizness. Pictured from left are Jim Dittmer, Andrea Dittmer, Lisa Campagna and Mark Broadbent.
LDMBA Trivia Night fun returned By Sheila McBrayne
LEAMINGTON – After a one-year absence, 48 teams competed in the Leamington and District Minor Baseball Association Trivia Night held at the Leamington Portuguese Club on Wednesday, February 12. Quiz Master Mark Ribble tested everyone’s knowledge of politics, history, sports, geography and a myriad of random trivia. The evening consisted of 12 rounds of 10 questions for a possible 120 correct answers. Topping the scoreboard with 105 correct answers was the team Full Contact Trivia. The Windsor team included Jack Ramieri, William Donnelly, Stan Chacko and Leisa Gignac. First place took home $400. In a close second place, the Dream Warriors ended the evening with 102 points. Team members included Ram Sridhar, Heather Landry, Jody Carnevale and Noe Lucier. The second place take home was $300. In third spot was Taking Care of Quizness, consisting of Jim Dittmer, Andrea Dittmer, Lisa Campagna and Mark Broadbent. This team took home $100. Canadian Geeks was the only two-member team and the top school team with 61 correct answers. Team members were Albert Douglas (Grade 9 at Vincent Massey
Secondary School) and Lenore Douglas (Grade 7, Glenwood Public School). The students took home $100 in prize money. With team registrations, sponsors and the 50/50 draw, approximately $3,700 was raised to support the minor baseball program. Terry Misener, who had been one of the main orga-
nizers of Trivia Night for 18 years, was present to volunteer at Trivia Night 20. His sudden illness last year caused the event to be cancelled in 2019. “It was great to have Terry involved again this year, and we leaned on him, as well as Maureen and Jeff Lamotte, to guide us through the process,” said Ribble. Volunteers from LDMBA
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out a couple letters to create a statement about preventing “owl litter.” A true gut buster if there ever was one. I always thought it was kind of cool that Ontario used to alternate between ‘blue and white’ and ‘white and blue’ plates every 12 months with the year stamped into the top of the pate in smaller numbers… plates for odd-numbered years were primarily blue while plates from evened-numbered years were predominantly white. I believe the practice ended after 1979 or so, by which point the MTO started the corner sticker renewal process that is now obscenely expensive (Happy Birthday, Ontario motorist! That’ll be $120 [$60 in the north], please!). A less noticeable change is the surface of the plate itself. It’s flat now, rather than having the stamped, raised lettering. To me, it makes them look cheap, as if they’d fall apart like cardboard if/when they get wet. If the letters/numbers peel off THESE plates, they’ll be undecipherable from any distance. Anyway, I might just live long enough to one day hear people say “hey look, one of the old white and blue plates!,” kind of like the old white and red Ontario health cards that are now being phased out of existence. Maybe the white and blue plates will soon be unique enough to be nailed to the walls of local bar and grill establishments, right next to a NWT plate that’s shaped like a polar bear.
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