Wednesday night at Time Rift Arcade meant another packed trivia floor, four rounds, and zero mercy. This week’s lineup took teams from a galaxy far, far away to the streets of Albuquerque, then dropped them into Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Harrier jet before turning loose on four decades of video game history. Star Wars, Breaking Bad, True Lies, and Name That Video Game. If you survived all four, you earned every point. Here’s how the night went down.
Star Wars Trivia Recap
A galaxy far, far away showed up to Time Rift this week and brought every era with it. Prequels, originals, sequels, Mando, Skeleton Crew, nothing was off the table. Teams had to know their Jedi from their Sith, their Ewoks from their Mandalorians, and yes, who actually pulled the trigger on Jabba. Lightsabers stayed holstered, but the answers came in hot.
Q1: What organization do the Jedi serve?
A1: The Galactic Republic
Q2: What is Kylo Ren’s real name?
A2: Ben Solo
Q3: Who trains Luke Skywalker on Dagobah?
A3: Yoda
Q4: What is the name of Padmé Amidala’s home planet?
A4: Naboo
Q5: Who trains Rey in The Last Jedi?
A5: Luke Skywalker
Q6: Who says “I find your lack of faith disturbing”?
A6: Darth Vader
Q7: Who kills Snoke?
A7: Kylo Ren
Q8: Who is Rey’s grandfather?
A8: Palpatine
Q9: What planet is destroyed by the Death Star?
A9: Alderaan
Q10: What is the name of the baby in the Mandalorian who resembles Yoda?
A10: Grogu
Q11: Who kills Jabba the Hutt?
A11: Princess Leia
Q12: In Skeleton Crew, what is the name of the Pirate droid?
A12: SM-33
Q13: What nearly invincible metal is the Mandalorian’s armor made of?
A13: Beskar
Q14: What is the name of the moon that the Ewoks’ inhabit?
A14: Endor
Q15: Who kills Qui-Gon Jinn?
A15: Darth Maul
Q16: In Skeleton Crew what was the name of the secret planet where credits were manufactured?
A16: At Attin
Q17: What bounty hunter is Han Solo captured by?
A17: Boba Fett
Q18: Which species uses the phrase “it is the way”
A18: Mandalorian
Q19: Who commands the first Death Star?
A19: Grand Moff Tarkin
Q20: What type of race does Anakin enter as a child on Tatooine?
A20: Pod race
Breaking Bad Trivia Recap
From a chemistry teacher with a bad diagnosis to a desert empire built on blue rock candy, Breaking Bad rewarded the teams who paid attention to the small stuff. Color of the box cutter, name of the casino game, what got chucked on the roof in a fit of rage. Heisenberg fans came ready to cook, but a few questions separated the casual viewers from the ones who can quote Saul mid-sentence. Yeah, science.
Q1: Walter White’s transformation from nerdy high school chemistry teacher to criminal kingpin all started with what specific medical diagnosis?
A1: Lung Cancer
Q2: What color is the infamous box cutter that Gus uses to slash Victor’s throat?
A2: Lime green
Q3: Where does the show take place?
A3: Albuquerque, New Mexico (and surrounding)
Q4: What nickname does Jesse Pinkman go by before he joins up with Mr. White?
A4: Cap’n Cook
Q5: What business does Walter’s wife buy as a front for their money laundering operation?
A5: Car Wash
Q6: What kind of car does Walter White drive?
A6: Pontiac Aztec (bonus or tie breaker if they say one tire is always the spare)
Q7: You can easily tell Heisenburg’s meth from other cooks’ meth because of its signature color. What is the color?
A7: Blue (tie breaker, the prop was actually cotton candy flavored rock candy from a candy shop in Albuquerque)
Q8: Skyler concocts a story to justify being able to buy the carwash. From what casino game has Walt supposedly made all of his money?
A8: Blackjack (or just gambling)
Q9: Gus Fring built a meth lab under what business for Walt and Jesse to produce meth?
A9: Laundromat
Q10: To expand their empire, Walt and Jesse go into business with the owner of a Chicken restaurant. What was the name of this restaurant?
A10: Los Pollos Hermanos (The Chicken Brothers in English).
Q11: Walt doesn’t want to use his real name when conducting drug-related business.What pseudonym does he use?
A11: Heisenberg
Q12: In the Season 4 finale “Face Off,” Hector Salamanca uses his wheelchair bell to trigger a bomb that kills which character?
A12: Gus Fring (The Chicken Man)
Q13: To hide his piles of cash from his DEA agent brother-in-law. Walt puts his piles of cash in barrels and does what with it?
A13: Buries it in the desert
Q14: After losing his methylamine supplier, Walt and his crew pull off an elaborate heist to steal methylamine from what?
A14: A freight train heist
Q15: After Badger’s arrest, Walt hires a shady lawyer to help with the situation. What is this crooked lawyer’s name?
A15: Saul Goodman (His real name is Jimmy McGill) (Saul Goodman is a moniker for “It’s all good man!”)
Q16: The shady lawyer in the previous question was so well liked, a spin off prequel series called ______ was created.
A16: Better Call Saul
Q17: What memento from the carwash does Walt refuse to let the original owner Bogdan take?
A17: Dollar Bill (his first framed dollar from opening)
Q18: What is the cover business / front used by “the Disappearer” who relocates people with new identities?
A18: Vacuum cleaner store (bonus or tie breaker, you order a “Hoover Max Extract”)
Q19: What is the name of the company Walter White co-founded with Elliot Schwartz and sold his shares in for $5,000 before it became worth billions? This business was a constant bad reminder and regret for Walt.
A19: Gray Matter Technologies
Q20: In a fit of rage, which food does Walt infamously throw onto the roof of his house?
A20: Pepperoni Pizza
True Lies Trivia Recap
1994 called, and it wanted a Harrier jet back. True Lies put Arnold, Jamie Lee, and a whole lot of “you’re fired” energy in front of the teams this week. Tango scenes, tango bombs, telephone to the face, and the immortal “snow cone maker” line. Bonus points if anyone got the tape slot in the video camera. Honestly, if you grew up renting this one from Blockbuster, you had a real edge.
Q1: When Harry was asked “Excuse me Sir. Can I see your invitation?” to the Party in Switzerland, what did the invitation turn out to be?
A1: A bomb
Q2: On the ballroom floor, what style of music did Harry and Juno Skinner dance to?
A2: Tango (actual song was Por Una Cabeza)
Q3: In the hotel room scene, not knowing her client was Harry, what object does Helen hit him in the face with?
A3: Telephone
Q4: What was the name of the terrorist group that set off the nuclear bomb?
A4: Crimson Jihad
Q5: When Harry is about to be tortured, he tells his tormentor the elaborate method in which he would escape. When the tormentor says “And what makes you think you can do all of that?” Harry responds that he had done what?
A5: Picked his handcuffs
Q6: In reality Harry is part of a secret organisation that fights terrorism, but to his friends and family he talks constantly about his boring sales job? What is the job?
A6: Computer Salesman
Q7: What insulting name does Dana call the lead terrorist, that causes him to stop and rethink for a moment?
A7: Whacko!
Q8: A classic corvette driving man named Simon, who also claims to be a spy, is a source of frustration for Harry. What does Simon’s real profession turn out to be?
A8: A used car salesman
Q9: Which character says the following line “I know what this is…This is an espresso machine. No, No wait. It’s a snow cone maker!!”
A9: Harry
Q10: After watching her mild-mannered salesman husband single-handedly take down a squad of terrorists, Jamie Lee Curtis’s character delivers the stunned line, “I married Rambo.” What is her character’s name?
A10: Helen
Q11: What year did True Lies come out?
A11: 1994
Q12: During the torture shd scene, and after being given truth serum, Helen asks Harry “Are we gonna die?” What is his response?
A12: Yep. Then he said “They’re gonna shoot us in the head or they gonna torture us to death or they gonna leave us here when the bomb blows up…” “Yep” is the answer, but saying this adds to the fun of Trivia for the players after you give the answer.
Q13: Which character says the following line “You Know What? We’re Gonna Catch Some Terrorists, We’re Gonna Beat The Crap Out Of Them, You’re Gonna Feel A Hell Of A Lot Better.”
A13: Gib
Q14: At the end in the skyscraper that was under construction, inside what did the camera crew end up hiding their guns?
A14: A video camera (fun additional context for players “The slot for the Betacam tape. Tapes were huge back then.”)
Q15: When Helen asks Harry if he had ever killed anyone, he replied “yeah, but they were all ____” Fill in the blank
A15: Bad
Q16: Seeing Dana put on her helmet while getting ready to speed off with her boyfriend on a motorbike, ______ says “I remember the first time I got shot out of a cannon!”
A16: Gib
Q17: What sort of alert does Harry call in to indicate a nuclear detonation is imminent?
A17: Bright Boy Alert
Q18: What sort of aircraft does Harry borrow near the end of the movie?
A18: Harrier (Jump Jet)
Q19: Near the end of the film, Harry flying his jump jet prepares to shoot down a helicopter. Harry looks directly at a terrorist dangling from the nose cone of his missile and says what to him before pressing the fire button?
A19: “You’re fired!”
Q20: While being held over the ledge of a large bridge and questioned, who pees in his pants when he is frightened?
A20: Simon
Name that Video Game Trivia Recap
Four decades of gaming history rolled through the trivia floor this week. From a plumber stomping Goombas in 1985 to a blocky sandbox in 2009, teams had to dig deep into their gaming memory banks. Some questions were gimmes for anyone with a controller in hand, others required remembering oddly specific details about carpenters, janitors, and frog logistics. The retro heads ate this round alive, but the modern crowd held their own once Master Chief and Minecraft showed up.
Q1: 1990: Somewhat inspired by Tetris, you play a doctor who needs to create various colored pills and arrange them in just the right way to kill the germs.
A1: Dr. Mario
Q2: 2004: A massive online multiplayer game where players create characters to explore the fantasy world of Azeroth, battling monsters, completing quests, and leveling up.
A2: World of Warcraft
Q3: 1998: A realtime strategy game, where you must choose between playing Terran, Zerg, or Protoss and build an army to fight on alien planets.
A3: StarCraft
Q4: 1991: A puzzle-platformer where players guide a group of mindless, green-haired creatures from an entrance to an exit by assigning specific skills to different individuals.
A4: Lemmings
Q5: 1985: A side-scrolling game where a plumber must avoid obstacles and rescue the princess. Along the way you’ll climb down pipes to find hidden areas, and jump on top of monsters to kill them.
A5: Super Mario Brothers
Q6: 2001: A first person game that follows the super-soldier Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana battling against the Covenant and the Flood, often involving mysterious ring-shaped super weapons.
A6: Halo
Q7: 1981: You play a carpenter on a construction site who must defeat a giant gorilla who has captured Pauline and keeps rolling barrels towards you.
A7: Donkey Kong
Q8: 1982: I side scrolling game where you must traverse the jungle or caverns, avoiding scorpions and alligators. Occasionally you will find gold or a ring.
A8: Pitfall
Q9: 1980: You are in charge of 3 cities who are trying to defend themselves in a nuclear war. You’re job is to coordinate launching your own missiles to intercept the inbound nukes before the reach the ground.
A9: Missile Command
Q10: 2009: It is a 3D sandbox, open-world game focused on creativity, exploration, and survival. Players manipulate a blocky world to build structures, gather resources, and fight mobs.
A10: Minecraft
Q11: 1986: You control armored bounty hunter Samus Aran on planet Zebes, exploring a vast, interconnected, subterranean world to destroy space pirates and the parasitic warriors
A11: Metroid
Q12: 1992: You pick one of the Nintendo characters such as Mario, Toad, or Princess Peach and then race go karts in various themed tracks.
A12: Mario Kart
Q13: 1986: You control Roger Wilco, a hapless, lowly janitor who saves the universe while parodizing sci-fi staples like Star Wars and Star Trek through witty humor, exploration, and inventory-based puzzles
A13: Space Quest
Q14: 1993:A first person shooter where you play a space marine fighting hordes of demons across Mars and Hell.
A14: Doom
Q15: 1982: You play as Taizo Hori digging underground tunnels to eliminate monsters by inflating them until they pop or crushing them with rock.
A15: Dig Dug
Q16: 2003:A rail based shooting game where you play an AMS agent who has to kill undead mutants in a mansion outbreak caused by mad scientist Dr. Curien.
A16: House of the Dead
Q17: 1986: An action adventure game where you play Link, exploring the fantasy land of Hyrule to rescue a princess.
A17: Legend of Zelda
Q18: 1981: You control a lone frog who must traverse a busy highway and then a river full of dangers to reach the other side.
A18: Frogger
Q19: 1983:A vertically scrolling shooter where the player controls a Solvalou starship to combat alien forces. You are able to shoot ariel enemies and drop bombs on ground targets.
A19: Xevious
Q20: 1983: A LaserDisc based game, featuring cinematic animation, where players control a knight called Dirk the Daring in a high-stakes, time-event-based quest to rescue Princess Daphne from the dragon Singe.
A20: Dragon’s Lair
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That’s a wrap on another Wednesday night of trivia at Time Rift Arcade. Big shoutout to every team that showed up, especially the ones who knew SM-33 was the pirate droid in Skeleton Crew and could name a 1983 LaserDisc game without flinching. Trivia Night runs every Wednesday at 6:30 PM, so grab your crew, grab a drink, and come prove you know your stuff. New rounds, new themes, same chaos. See you next week.
