A year ago, I was but a newbie with a microphone and a red pen. A year later... QUIZMISTRESS, MOTHERFUCKER!

We celebrated a year of ME with a great quiz, launching with one of the infamous Duh! rounds. Thankfully, everyone scored 6 or higher, with a lot of perfect scores. Most people who didn't have a perfect score got tripped up with the hockey question, which isn't surprising since we don't have any ice in San Antonio except for our tea.

Round 2, Howl at the Moon, took wolves as its theme - everything from "Werewolves of London" to Steppenwolf to "Thrift Shop" - yeah, because of rockin' a wolf on your noggin. Also, one team called it "Gift Shop." That's cute.

I love Real or Shit rounds, and tonight's Round 3 on Real Subreddit, or Some Shit We Made Up? was no exception. Reading through the wacky descriptions, I really wanted them all to be real. The great thing? Even if they weren't real, someone on the Internet is already getting together to talk about all of 'em (even if it's not on Reddit). Man, the Internet is a strange and wonderful thing.

Round 4, Ride That Fence, took us through bo(a)rders of various types and locales. I keep forgetting that Barnes and Noble is still around, even if they took Borders out. Round 5 turned its back on us, and everyone did hella good on it, so that's all I'm gonna say about it.

Fun times for Round 6, The Satanic Versus. As much fun to quiz as it was to answer, I'm sure! The Powergloves knew that not only did Milhouse sell Bart's soul for Pogs - but it was Alf Pogs! Also, many of you correctly identified Moby as the sell-out electronica guy with an uber pretentious friend. Does anyone actually remember Play? I only remember one specific instance of listening to the album on purpose (as in, not in a commercial), and all I know was that it was college, there was a black light involved, and possibly some form of substance abuse and sexual tension. (Not even mine! ARGH!)

Aaaaanyway... Round 7 took on non-American actors doing "American" accents (with varying levels of convincing-ness). Damn those Faux-mericans, taking jobs away from hard-working Americans who don't have to fake ridiculous accents! We already HAVE ridiculous accents!

After a random knowledge round that challeged you to know things about everything from tea to ampersands to "Operation," we wrapped up with some strong scores. Congrats to The Powergloves, taking 1st place and $25. Beer Make Smart was just two points behind in second place, with Team Venture rounding out the top 3. A hearty handshake to Pat for winning tonight's email bonus, a much-coveted Obey Your Quizmaster pint glass. (Not that he ever does.)

I've had a blast over the last year with the crew at the Lion and Rose at the Forum! We have a tight crew of regulars that comes back week after week, which gives me the opportunity to get to know you all a little better. This is the only quiz I host each week - there are some QMs who host at three, four, or more venues a week - so I get to pour all of my energy into this two hours every week. I look forward to getting started on Year Two!

ALSO - check out Rumble in the Pub, a regional tournament kicking off June 1st and running through July 25th. We're just a short drive away from Austin, home of one of the regional smackdowns. It's free to join and you might secure a spot to the smackdown and a chance to win a butt-load of money! Click here to learn more about it. Oh, and don't forget to like Geeks Who Drink at Lion and Rose Forum on Facebook! See y'all next week!

It was kind of a quiet night at the Lion and Rose tonight with the Spurs playing Game 2 of their series (which ultimately, they did not win... better luck on Friday!). But many of our die-hard regulars showed up to PLAY. Awesome.

Let's go over what we learned tonight, shall we?

• The working title of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was actually Debbie Does Schertz (A Dramatic Retelling).
• The Janka scale measures the hardness of my dick. Not really... I don't have a dick. (Just a giant microphone.)
• Several teams think Michael Moore is a Big Fat Idiot. (Which may very well be true, but it wasn't exactly who I was looking for.)
• No one knows the second middle name of George R.R. Martin. R... something.
• Pocahontas came back in the mid-90s to score a pop hit with Vanessa "L. Yeah" Williams.
• More people consider The Drudge Report to be a legit news site than MSNBC (who knows, they may be on to something).
• It's a long-ass drive from Greece to Syria. And you have to go through Turkey.
• Bundesländer is a really really fun word to say. And there's an umlaut in it. Awesome!
• Agamemnon's wife was a real bitch.
• The stage names of Kris Kross actually started out as "Pete" and "Re-Pete."
• Montego is a place in Jamaica. (Wait, I didn't learn that, YOU learned that.)

Congratulations to our big winners, The Analrapists, followed by Venture in 2nd place and Mother Lovers in 3rd. Joe from The Easy Readers won tonight's email bonus, a fetch Mona Lisa tote bag. With a zipper!

Since May 9th is my official year-as-QM anniversary, we're gonna celebrate next week. There's talk of teams wearing costumes and who knows, maybe someone will buy me a shot or bake me a cake or something. Whatever happens, I look forward to continued shenanigans in the next year. Y'all make Wednesday one of my top seven days of the week.

Tonight was one of those nights where there was a little sumpin' sumpin' to offend everyone, and it totally did not disappoint. Luckily for me, we have a delightful crowd of regulars who love every minute of it.

Somehow we had a question about Maxim magazine that did not involve boobs, most beautiful women, or men trying too hard to seem straight. Go figure! We did, however, have a round on breakup songs that naturally opened with some T-Swift. I think we could do a whole round on breakup songs by Taylor Swift, but then I would have to kill myself.

For the people who appreciate the finer things in life, we had a Sooner or Later round on musicals. Well, the finer things in life, and Phantom of the Opera. Good gawd. Give me some Rocky Horror any day of the week before Phantom.

Oh, and we talked about Jesus. And the Buddy Christ. So, it wasn't like church or anything. And then this one guy was in the bathroom when I asked a South Park question and his teammates were a leeeeetle scared that he was gonna come screaming out of the john with his pants around his ankles. And then this song got stuck in my head for, like, 30 seconds.

Round 5 was nightmare fuel. Actresses without teeth. There's a reason people have teeth, and it's to keep me from waking up screaming.

And then... there was the Butt Sex round. You know, despite everyone's initial hesitation, I think everyone eventually enjoyed this round quite a bit, and the scores were high. So everyone finished very nicely. Also, we have a handy alternative list of lubricants Brando should have used in Last Tango in Paris, including:

• olive oil
• wine
• spit
• icing
• grape jelly

Yep... print that out and stick it in your wallet... someday it's going to come in handy. But that was really nothing compared to the team who declared, "Nothing, Brando always goes in dry." Well, that just pretty much made my night. I don't know what else I was expecting from a team called Sensual Fisting.

Oh, and ladies, the men of Jason Collins Came Out On Top (best team name of the night, by the way) know how to spell Grafenberg, as in who the G-spot is named after. Just putting that out there in case anyone wants to buy them a drink or ten next week.

Everyone was quite excited about Round 7, featuring startup sounds from various gaming systems. The scores were solidly average, which wasn't suprising because it ran quite a gamut and most people don't buy every single system. Right? Right? (This from the woman whose most current gaming system is a Gamecube. Oy.)

After all that nonsense, the teams of Beer Make Smart and Beerd Make Smart (you read that right) ended up tied for 2nd. So we did a good old-fashioned drink-off, but the catch was that I made 'em drink a pint of water before a pint of Miller Lite. (So, two pints of water. Hey-o!) The Beerd won it, so they got an extra five bucks for all that. Congrats also to The Powergloves, our first place winner by one point! And Marina from Beer Make Smart won tonight's email bonus question.

See y'all next week after all of your May The Fourth Be With You and Cinco de Drinko shenannigans! And watch your ass!

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