Trivia Crack

                Trivia Crack is an app that is available for both systems that operate on iOS as well as Android devices. It is an app that you compete with people on. You first download the app, and you can connect it with your Facebook, your Twitter, or both. You then compete with people. The game is basically a bunch of quizzes. You compete with people, and you take turns answering questions. The different types of questions are geography, science, history, sports, art, and entertainment. When it is your turn you spin the wheel, landing on any of those spots or a crown, all which have an equal probability of being chosen. As of now, just ignore the crown spot, as I will be coming back to that later. For whichever spot the spinner lands on, you answer a question about that. If you get the question over that topic correct, then you get to spin again and keep going. However, if you get the question wrong, then your turn is over and it is the other person’s turn.

                When answering questions, there are a few powerups that you have at your disposal that can help you. The powerups are as follows: extra time, bomb, double chance, and skip. The extra time gives you extra time to answer the question, as you only get twenty seconds to answer the question. The bomb powerup removes two of the incorrect answers, leaving you with only two options left. The double chance powerup lets you guess two options instead of just one. The skip powerup lets you skip that question, giving you a new question of the same topic. Once you use a powerup, you cannot use another powerup. You have to buy powerups, though. You buy them with coins that you earn by answering questions correctly. You can get the extra time powerup with four coins, the bomb powerup with six coins, the double chance powerup with three coins, and the skip powerup you can get with five coins.

                You need to get three questions right to attempt for a crown. There are six crowns, each one representing each of the six question topics. These do not need to get all three in a row in one turn; you just need to have gotten three questions right. However, you can also spin and get the spinner to land on the crown option instead. Both of these two lead to the same outcome: you choosing which crown to attempt for. Whichever crown you attempt to get, you will need to answer a question of that topic to gain that crown. If you answer the question correctly then you gain the crown. However, if you do not answer the question correctly, then your turn is over, and your number of questions correct resets, so you need to get another three correct to attempt for a crown, or spin the crown itself. The winner of the game is whoever gets all six crowns first.

                You do not always need to attempt for a crown. You can also challenge your opponent. In order to challenge your opponent, you both need to have at least one crown. By challenging your opponent you both answer six questions, one for each topic. You answer all six questions first. After that, your opponent answers the same six questions. Whoever answers the most questions wins the challenge. They will gain their opponents crown that was selected then. Your opponent will also loose the crown that you gain. That all, however, occurs only if you win.

                Trivia Crack is a fun and entertaining app that many people play. You can play friends from social media, or you can play random people. It is a great way to pass the time, and by doing so you also learn information from the various questions that you answer.

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Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl is a very talented musician and he has been a part of many bands. Many people, including myself, find his music very entertaining, and enjoy his music. Dave Grohl started his music career with Nirvana, as their drummer. That is where and how he started his music career and made a name for himself. Nirvana’s lead singer was Kurt Cobain, who at the age of around 27 committed suicide by shooting himself in his brain through his mouth. In the autopsy of his body there was a lot of drugs, indicating a drug overdose. However, the amount of drugs in his system was enough meth for multiple men to overdose, making people wonder. However, Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl were two members of the band Nirvana. Some of the more well known Nirvana songs are Smells Like Teen Spirit, The Man Who Sold the World, Come as You Are, Heart-Shaped Box, Lithium, About a Girl, All Apologies, Waif Me, In Bloom, Where Did you Sleep Last Night, Something in the Way, Sappy, Dumb, You Know You’re Right, Lake of Fire, On a Plain, Pennyroyal Tea, Territorial Pissings, Serve the Servants, Drain You, Silver, Polly, Lounge Act, Aneurysm, Endless Nameless, Breed, Plateau, and Rape Me. Through his time in Nirvana Dave Grohl was able to make a name for himself.

After Kurt Cobain’s suicide, the band of Nirvana was dissolved. However, Dave Grohl wanted to stay in the music industry, so he formed another band, the Foo Fighters. The Foo Fighters are also very popular. They are known for some their more well known songs. Some of their many songs are Everlong, Learn to Fly, The Pretender, Best of You, Times Like These, Something from Nothing, Walk, Big Me, All my Life, Congregation, My Hero, Monkey Wrench, DOA, These Days, Wheels, Long Road to Ruin, Subterranean, This is a Call, Arlandria, Dear Rosemary, Breakout, White Limo, Rope, Walking After You, Stranger Things Have Happened, I’ll Stick Around, In the Clear, I am a River, The Feast and the Famine, Stacked Actors, I should have Known, Let it Die, Come Alive, What Did I Do/God As My Witness, and Skin and Bones. The Foo Fighters, along with Dave Grohl, are still around today, continuing to make albums and songs and tour across the country and in other areas. They just recently came out with a new album, titled Saint Cecilia.

This last year, on tour, Dave Grohl broke his leg. However, he kept up with the tours that had already been planned, changed the name of the tour to the Break a Leg Tour, and got himself a throne made from which he could perform onstage from.

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The Violent Femmes

One way to entertain oneself is by listening to music. There are many, many, many different types of music, as well as many different bands and artists. There are many different songs out there as well. Today, I will be talking about one band in particular. This band is an alternative band, and they have been to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, relatively recently. By relatively recently I mean that they performed here in Cedar Rapids over this past summer, over the summer of two thousand and fifteen if I remember correctly. This band that I am talking about uses an acoustic guitar in many songs, and they are a little weird with their songs I guess. It take an acquired taste to appreciate their songs. Two of their more famous songs are the songs “Add It Up”, as well as the song “Blister in the Sun” being two of their more popular songs that many people know of. This band is called the Violent Femmes.

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Star Wars

As many people know, the new Star Wars movie, Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, is premiering this week. On Thursday night it will be premiering. It is the seventh entry in the film series, as a main film, with many other small spin off movies or tv shows as well. The first movies to come out were the original trilogy, which consists of the Episodes four, five and six, which were A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, respectively. The very first movie to be made, A New Hope, was originally called Star Wars, and at first the entire sage, much less the original trilogy, was not even planned out. It depicts Luke Skywalker becoming a Jedi and destroying the Death Star, along with Han Solo, Chewbaca, C3PO, and R2-D2. The next film, The Empire Strikes Back, continues on it. Darth Vader is still alive, so Luke, Han, and the rest of them have to battle them again. In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda is introduced, the Force is explained, Han is tortured and made into an art piece, and Darth Vader reveals that he is really Luke's father. Then, in Return of the Jedi, this original trilogy comes to an end. Luke goes in and saves Han Solo, Bobba Fett dies, Yoda dies, and the final battle comes to an end. The Death Star needs to be destroyed, and the Dark Sith needs to be taken down. Luke goes into a head on against Darth Vader and the Dark Sith, almost going to the dark side of the force, but staying back and restraining. Darth Vader kills the Dark Sith before he is able to kill Luke, Darth Vader's son, and then Darth Vader ultimately dies as well. Luke escapes from the Death Star just in time before it blows up. At the end of the movie, the Dark Side of the Force was defeated.

Then, the prequel trilogy was released. It consists of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, and Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. In Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, we are introduced to Anakin Skywalker, and that he is the chosen one. He gets to be trained by Obi-Wan, who becomes a Jedi in the movie. Then, in Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, the two are Jedis together, and it depicts the lead up to the Clone Wars, a tv show and mini movie that is not part of the main franchise. In Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, Anakin is taken to the Dark Side by Chancellor Palpatine, who is the Dark Sith. A majority of all of the Jedi are brutally murdered, and Obi Wan defeats Anakin, who then becomes Dark Vader, finally setting up the original trilogy.

All in all, the worst movie was, by far, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, because it offered virtually nothing good to the franchise, and Jar Jar Binks was in it. Then, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones was the next worse, and then Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. The original trilogy is far better than the prequel trilogy, in almost every aspect, with possibly a few exceptions here and there. In the original trilogy, all three are better than any of the prequel movies, as previously stated. After the prequel trilogy, I think that A New Hope goes next. I think that it is a great movie, setting up everything else in the next two movies, but the other two are just a bit better I think. I think that next is the Return of the Jedi, as it wraps everything up, the final good against evil, Dark Sith is defeated, and Darth Vader is done for. The best film, in my opinion, is the Empire Strikes Back, as it introduces Yoda, it explains the force, it is the darkest film in the original trilogy, it has Han Solo become a piece of art, making you unsure if he will be back, and, above all, Darth Vader reveals that he is Luke Skywalker's father. All in all, the Star Wars franchise is an amazing franchise.
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Can Blogging be Entertaining?

I need to have another fifty one words for my blogs this week, so here goes. Alright, less than forty more words to go. I am on a roll. See, this is very entertaining. Blog and you will then be able to entertain yourself for a little bit. Oh look I have entertained myself for enough time to be able to stop. Yay!

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The Office

                The Office is a show that has received a lot of acclaim. The first season sort of starts off slow. It kind of drags on, like this blog is going to do. Then the second season it starts to pick up, and it starts a going. Speaking of a going, that reminds me of the song Rock of Ages by Deaf Leopard, which contains the lyrics keep a going, keep a going. Anyways, back to the topic of this blog. The Office. Well, it stars Steve Carrel as Michael Scott, the head manager of the branch of Dundler Mifflin, located in Scranton, Pennslyvania. It is fictional. Some other main characters are Dwight Schrute, played by Rainn Wilson; Jim Halpert played by John Krasinski; Pam Beesly played by Jenna Fischer; Ryan Howard played by B. J. Novak; and Andy Bernard, played by Ed Helms. Some other prominent characters are Angela Martin played by Angela Kinsey, Kelly Kapoor played by Mindy Kaling, Oscar Martinez played by Oscar Nunez, Darryl Philbin played by Craig Robinson, Erin Hannon played by Ellie Kemper, Toby Flenderson played by Paul Lieberstein, Kevin Malone played by Brian Baumgartner, Phyllis Lapin played by Phyllis Smith, Stanley Hudson played by Leslie David Baker, Meredith Palmer played by Kate Flannery, Creed Bratton played by himself, Creed Bratton, Roy Anderson played by David Denman, Holly Flax played by Amy Ryan, Jan Levinson played by Melora Hardin, and David Wallace played by Andy Buckley.

                The show focuses on the Scranton branch and what goes on there. Michael is the regional manager, and he is a goof off and a “moron”, who is basically an idiot who does not deserve the job he has. However, he does somehow manage to perform well in his position. Dwight is a little out there, and he is almost crazy. He is also a farmer and he is just plain out weird. Jim, like Dwight, is a salesman. He pulls pranks on Dwight and it is very comical. He gets promoted to co manager of the Scranton Branch at some point as well. He is in love with Pam. Pam is the receptionist, and then later a sales woman. She falls in love with Jim as well. Ryan is originally a temp, then becomes very high up in the company, only to commit fraud, get fired, and then become re hired and become another salesman, only to get fired again. He continually has a love interest in Kelly. Andy gets moved over to the Scranton branch as a salesman too, and he originally has anger management and then he becomes friends with Dwight and he is an interesting character.

                This is just a very brief overview of the show, The Office.

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Christmas Music

Christmas time is here now, yet again. And that means one thing for some people, and that is Christmas music. Christmas music. Some people play Christmas music way too much. Sure, it is very entertaining to them. But think about other people. Do you think they always want to hear Christmas music everywhere they go? Probably not everyone. Actually, let me rephrase that. Definitely not everyone. There are too many people that are obsessed with Christmas music. Sure, it is good and okay to listen to it for a little bit during the Christmas season. But Christmas season starts in December. Not in November. Not before Thanksgiving. Not in October. But in December. DECEMBER. Not any earlier than December. From December first through the last day in December, which I believe is December thirtieth, or maybe December thirty-first, wait yes it is definitely December thirty-first, well that is the only available time to play Christmas music. If you play it then then it will be good to listen to. Otherwise, you should listen to your Christmas music alone, or only with people that you know want to listen to Christmas music as well. Otherwise, Christmas music can be very good, just when being listened to under the right and correct circumstances during the holiday season.

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