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Tonight’s Game of HQ Trivia Is Definitely Not Brought to You by the NRA

Kathleen Toohill
4 min readMar 27, 2018

Welcome to tonight’s live game of HQ! We’ve got a pun-packed trivia game for you this evening — you might even say we’re packing the heat!

We’ve decided to switch things up a bit this evening, thanks to a generous donation from our anonymous corporate sponsor! Instead of our normal $5,000 jackpot, we’ll be giving away a brand new teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini. No, that’s not quite it — we’re giving away a brand new AR-fifteeny!

You heard me right, H-cuties. This poppin’ pixie stick has yet to be used in any school, veterans home, or church — that we know of, at least! If you’ve played before, you know the rules: answer a question wrong, you get shot — out of HQ-land, that is.

All righty-o tight-io! I’m contractually obligated to speak in rhymes and exclamation points. Are you ready for this Q&A about the 2A?

Que-mero numero uno:

1. Which of these is a type of pie?

a) Apple

b) Keanu Reeves

c) Alabaster

That’s right, HQ-cuties — it’s that quintessential American classic, dapple apple pie! Two thousand of you thought Keanu Reeves was a type of pie — he is a cutie pie, but we meant the edible kind. Let’s move on to…

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Kathleen Toohill
Kathleen Toohill

Written by Kathleen Toohill

Words in @tnyshouts, @TheAtlantic, @mcsweeneys, @CatapultStory, @ElectricLit, @yelp. Defender of puns. Former sunflower seed butter apologist.

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