A six-member team from Hargrove Engineers + Constructors lost out to a group of Birmingham librarians during a charitable trivia contest held statewide at lunchtime today.
Mobile’s Hargrove was the 2012 winner of the Mobile’s Brightest Company Charitable Trivia Competition, winning $10,000 for Penelope House, a shelter for battered women and their children in Mobile.
Today, though, the trivia questions seemingly proved too tough, and the workers came in second in the state finals of the contest sponsored by Protective Life Corporation and Impact Alabama. “Most of them today were terrible,” said Jerry Betts, a Hargrove trivia team member who works in quality assurance.
Here’s one question not a single team answered correctly during today’s contest: “In the first season of HBO’s “The Wire,” what westside Baltimore drug kingpin is the primary target of police?”
Do you know the answer?
Avon Barksdale.
I would have
Avon Barksdale.
I would have kicked ass.