A return to bar trivia tonight, as Everybody Loves a Cane made a slight improvement on the last time out with a second place finish. As with last time, here's a sampling of the questions we didn't do so well with:

In the summer of 1941, what country became the first to use frogmen to fight an opponent? Italy (OTC) - Italian frogmen apparently took on the British, who were our guess after we summarily dismissed the French as a little on the nose. This was the first question of the night, which made for an inauspicious start.

What nationality has produced the greatest number of Nobel Prize winners? - USA - One of us said Britain, one said Germany, and I said the USA. So we played 3 Answer Monte by writing an answer each on an answer slip and had the fourth person pick. Unlike the popular hustle, where you win the first time to get sucked in, we did not find the lady, so to speak.

Rome and what four other European capital cities are spelled with just four letters? Riga [Latvia], Bern [Switzerland], Oslo [Norway], Kiev [Ukraine] (OTC) - we got the first three, as I had a brain fart and thought Minsk was the capital of Ukraine (it actually being the capital of Belarus). I threw out a guess of Baku, which is the capital of Azerbaijan. For what it's worth, they are in the European qualifying group for the World Cup. Had I only been able to make that argument last night.

What city in the Po River valley is known as Italy's food capital? Bologna (Ted) - we went with Parma, given the ham and the cheese (it's also the home to Parmalat, they of the frightening shelf-stable milk). Not sure if it's really in the Po valley, though. It's in the neighborhood, but none of the maps I've seen make it clear to me if it's in the valley or up in the hills.

Not sure if Bologna deserves this given what its self-named luncheon meat has become, but I suppose it's not their fault.

What US state has had its capital move the most - 12 times? Texas (Greg) - we were leading going into this question, which was the good news. The bad news is that we had no clue about this question. We did mention Texas, but then again we named about 20 of the states. We settled on New York and Georgia, flipped a coin, and guessed New York. We bet the minimum, thus only losing one point, but were passed by a team that got the question right and finished in second place.

As for the capital moving, Texas apparently had several temporary capitals when it became indepdendent. Which makes me wonder about the construction of the question, as I can't remember it verbatim. Not sure if they worded it such that it would allow for moves when Texas wasn't a US state.