El Centenario Trivia Night Recap — Monday, April 27, 2026 ~ Anti-Dentites defend their title with 276K points, 9 teams battle through wager chaos, and R2 produces two perfect 100% accuracy scores.

Nine teams packed into El Centenario on Monday night for four rounds of trivia — the biggest crowd the venue has seen yet — and the wagering drama was absolutely relentless. The Anti-Dentites came back to defend their title from last week and did it in dominant fashion, but the road to victory was anything but smooth.

The Final Standings

The story of the night is in those zeroes. Five of the nine teams scored zero points in at least two rounds — not because they didn't know the answers, but because the wagers ate them alive.

Round 1: Easy? Difficult?* (*User Experiences Will Vary)

The opening round covered a grab bag of general knowledge — tea varieties, Norse mythology, architecture, geography, food science, cartoon characters, Greek mythology, and more. Nine teams answered all 20 questions.

Room accuracy: 60%

Round 1 Winner: Anti-Dentites — 17,660 pts (80% accuracy)

The Anti-Dentites came out strong with 16 of 20 correct, including a successful wager on the Ronald Reagan/Cubs announcer question (Q10) that netted them +3,089 points. The final wager (Q20 — Uncle Sam poster, World War I) was a pivotal moment: Anti-Dentites wagered big and won +8,830, while Taste the Rainbow lost 6,017 points on the same question, dropping them to exactly zero for the round despite 70% accuracy.

The round's toughest questions were brutal. Only 1 of 9 teams correctly identified Abraham Lincoln as the only U.S. president to hold a patent (Q13, 11%). The "Watership Down" protagonist question (Q17) was equally punishing at just 12% accuracy — nearly everyone guessed Pimpernel instead of Hazel. And the potassium question (Q11) tricked almost the entire room — only 1 team knew white beans beat bananas.

On the easier side, Valkyrie (Q2), Sundial (Q3), Woody Woodpecker (Q8), and Enamel (Q14) all hit 100%.

R1 Question Accuracy Highlights:

• 100%: Q2 (Valkyrie), Q3 (Sundial), Q8 (Woody Woodpecker), Q14 (Enamel)
• 89%: Q1 (Arabica/tea), Q6 (China/rivers), Q15 (Polaris)
• 11%: Q11 (White beans/potassium), Q13 (Lincoln/patent)
• 12%: Q17 (Hazel/Watership Down)

Round 2: Same Name, Different Fame 👯

Round 2 used a clever riddle format — each question described three different things that share the same name, and players had to identify the common name. This was easily the strongest round of the night.

Room accuracy: 76%

Round 2 Co-Winners: Anti-Dentites & Shady Pines — 54,000 pts each (both 100% accuracy!)

That's right — two teams went 20-for-20 in this round. Every single question answered correctly. Both teams then nailed the final wager (Q20, Specter) for +27,000 each, ending the round in a dead heat at 54,000 points.

The room crushed several questions: Tabasco (Q1), Diablo (Q5), Crucible (Q17), and Prowler (Q19) all went 100%. The only real stumper was Dragoon (Q16) at just 22% — most teams chose Cavalier instead.

The first wager (Q10, Bramble) split the room — Anti-Dentites and Shady Pines each won +9,000 while Taste the Rainbow lost 8,000. The final wager (Q20, Specter) was the big one — Shady Pines (+27,000) and Anti-Dentites (+27,000) pulled far ahead.

After R2, the cumulative standings showed Anti-Dentites at 71,660, Shady Pines at 61,423, and Seis amigos at 42,113.

R2 Question Accuracy Highlights:

• 100%: Q1 (Tabasco), Q5 (Diablo), Q17 (Crucible), Q19 (Prowler)
• 89%: Q9 (Barracuda), Q11 (Raptor), Q12 (Marlin), Q13 (Armada), Q15 (Citadel)
• 22%: Q16 (Dragoon)

Round 3: Lyric, Please!

This round asked players to identify the next lyric in a famous song, or to identify the artist from a lyric snippet. It featured four wager questions, and the results were chaotic.

Room accuracy: 65%

Round 3 Winner: Seis amigos — 84,530 pts (70% accuracy)

Seis amigos exploded in this round. The biggest moment came on Q20 — a wager question with the lyric "Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying..." (Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"). Only Seis amigos got it right, earning a massive +42,265 points. Meanwhile, the other teams who wagered were devastated: Benjie lost 60,846, Thunderbuns lost 48,875, and Taste the Rainbow lost 28,439. That single question reshuffled the entire leaderboard.

Earlier in the round, the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" wager (Q15) was huge — 7 of 8 teams got it right, and the combined wager wins totaled nearly 100,000 points across all teams. Seis amigos picked up +19,554, and Benjie earned +29,082 on that one.

The toughest lyrics were the exact-phrasing questions — the Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" continuation (Q4) had only 25% accuracy because the answer hinged on "Where everything was" vs. "When everything was." The Amy Winehouse "Rehab" continuation (Q6) also proved tough at 29%.

The easiest lyric was Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" (Q13) at 100%, followed by the Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" continuation (Q10) and Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" (Q9), both at 88%.

R3 Question Accuracy Highlights:

• 100%: Q13 (Beyoncé — "Single Ladies"), Q17 (Beatles — "Yesterday")
• 88%: Q9 (Dolly Parton), Q10 (Queen — "Bohemian Rhapsody"), Q15 (Eurythmics — "Sweet Dreams")
• 25%: Q4 (Guns N' Roses — "Sweet Child O' Mine")
• 29%: Q6 (Amy Winehouse — "Rehab")
• 20%: Q20 (Marvin Gaye — "What's Going On") — wager devastation

Round 4: Trivia Potpourri

The final round was a wild mix of science, animals, linguistics, geography, and cultural oddities — and it produced the single most dominant individual round performance of the night.

Room accuracy: 58%

Round 4 Winner: Anti-Dentites — 198,000 pts (80% accuracy)

Anti-Dentites had entered R4 trailing Seis amigos by nearly 50,000 points in the cumulative standings. Then they absolutely obliterated the field. They were the only team in the entire room to correctly answer Q10 (collective noun for porcupines = "a prickle") — earning +35,000 on the wager while every other team lost. Then on the final question (Q20), they were again the only team to know that cheese is the most frequently shoplifted food item, and their wager win of +99,000 points sealed the championship.

Those two wager questions (Q10 and Q20) combined for +134,000 points for the Anti-Dentites and devastating losses for everyone else. Seis amigos lost 38,000 on Q20 alone, dropping from 1st to a final 2nd place finish.

The room's toughest question was Q12 — "In the United States, which month consistently has the highest number of births?" — which went 0% accuracy. Not a single team picked August. The tennis ball covering question (Q2, "the nap") and the silent letters in "queue" question (Q6) both hit 38%. The Greenland shark lifespan (Q11) stumped most teams at 29%.

On the easier side, the durian fruit question (Q16) hit 100%, and flamingos (Q7) and golf ball dimples (Q9) both reached 88%.

R4 Question Accuracy Highlights:

• 100%: Q16 (Durian fruit smell)
• 88%: Q7 (Flamingo color), Q9 (Golf ball dimples)
• 86%: Q13 (Marie Curie notebooks), Q14 (NASCAR origins), Q19 (Letter Q)
• 0%: Q12 (Highest birth month — August)
• 14%: Q10 (Porcupine collective noun — "a prickle")
• 20%: Q20 (Most shoplifted food — cheese)

By the Numbers

• Teams registered: 9 (largest El Centenario crowd to date)
• Total questions: 80 (4 rounds × 20)
• Overall room accuracy: R1 60%, R2 76%, R3 65%, R4 58%
• Perfect round: Anti-Dentites AND Shady Pines both scored 100% accuracy in R2 (20/20)
• Biggest single wager win: Anti-Dentites, +99,000 points (Q20 R4, cheese)
• Biggest single wager loss: Benjie, -60,846 points (Q20 R3, Marvin Gaye)
• Biggest comeback: Anti-Dentites — trailed Seis amigos by ~48,000 entering R4, won by 150,000
• Biggest collapse: Taste the Rainbow 🌈 — 70% overall accuracy but just 14,000 total points. Wager losses in R1, R3, and R4 wiped out all gains.
• Hardest question: Q12 R4, highest birth month (0% — nobody got it)
• Easiest questions: 7 questions hit 100% accuracy across the night
• Zero-point rounds: 12 instances of a team scoring 0 in a round — by far the most wager-volatile night of the season
• Cross-venue sighting: Anti-Dentites (Front Street Taproom Friday regulars) defended their El Centenario title from last week
• Returning regulars: Shady Pines, Taste the Rainbow 🌈, Natural Born Losers all back
• New teams: Seis amigos, My own team, Thunderbuns, The girls, Benjie

Join Us Next Week!

Trivia at El Centenario is every Monday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Come enjoy amazing food and drink specials — 3 soft shell tacos for $5.00, 24oz Margaritas for $7.99, and 12oz Margaritas for $5.00 — while you test your trivia knowledge!

El Centenario is located in Bettendorf, Iowa.

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