The Dozen Trivia's playoff bracket hit its Top 4 stretch with The Markettes (Nick Turani, Mark Titus, KB) drawing Team Minihane (Kirk Minihane, Robbie Fox, Chris Klemmer) for the 3-seed. Loser doesn't get bounced from the bracket, but seeding matters when the Championship is heading to Chicago on June 18th, and nobody wants to climb out of the 4-hole in a live setting.
The Top 4 matchup card setting up Markettes vs. Minihane for the 3-seed.
The episode itself was the usual Dozen buffet — an NBA round sponsored by DraftKings where Nick and KB locked in the Atlanta Hawks as the team that famously torched back-to-back lottery picks on Shelden Williams and Acie Law in 2006 and 2007. That is the kind of mid-2000s East cellar-dweller trivia that only rewards people who actually watched bad League Pass basketball, which is exactly the Markettes' lane.
Nick and KB clean up the Hawks question in the DraftKings NBA round.
The real centerpiece, though, was the New Amsterdam Vodka OG Bonus Round: name the 30 oldest active Big 4 stadiums and arenas. This is a category that sounds easy until you actually try it at your kitchen table. Fenway, Wrigley, Lambeau, Soldier Field, Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium, MSG, Kauffman, the Rate — those come quick. Then the board stops moving and you start guessing whether Arrowhead is older than the Coliseum and forgetting half the NHL has been in the same buildings since the Clinton administration.
The full bonus round with both teams chipping away at the 30-building list.
It also spawned the night's best aftermath take — John Rich pointing out that the 2007 Colorado Rockies (Coors opened in 1995, which makes it ancient in modern stadium years) were getting absolutely no respect on the answer board. Fair point. People remember the Rocktober run for about 11 minutes a year and then forget the building exists.
John Rich defending the honor of the 2007 Rockies and Coors Field.
My biggest takeaway from this is that people are disrespecting the hell out of the 2007 Colorado Rockies
Project Big Screen also snuck in its three-poster guess-the-actor game, dropping Baby Driver, Top Gun: Maverick and the 2025 Mean Girls as a Letterboxd fingerprint. If you didn't get to Jon Hamm inside 10 seconds, that one's on you — but it's a fun reminder that the Dozen ecosystem has quietly become a whole network of side bits, and the Championship in Chicago on June 18th is where all of it cashes out.