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In Pub Quiz, somebody wins!
Having the soccer peeps there wasn't as big of a fiasco as I'd feared but here are some helpful tips for the next time the Dynamo game coincides with the quiz:
- Wear comfortable shoes. Parking near by runs $30 - 40, more moderately priced lots can be found a few blocks away ($10) or, if your'e like me, you can park for free on Stolen Car Ln. or Rape Alley located a short hike from the bar.
- Wear something orange. It helps you blend in with the locals. You don't have to be covered in color, just something to let them know that you acknowledge them and accept them. Suggestions range from an orange shirt to a scarf to a set of hollowed-out oranges stuck on your ears in the style of Princess Leia. Feel free to experiment.
- Pack a lunch. Lucky's was on 'limited menu' for the game and the limit was, apparently, taste. Not sure how the delivery places are during the game but I didn't see any of the usual guys bringing food. Also, there was a food truck at the bar which claims to be the inventor of the 'Pizza Sandwich' but both the claim and the product sounded nefarious to me, so I skipped it.
Those small details aside, that other game really didn't have that much impact on ours. The bar was PACKED early on but they left like a plague of locusts at about 7:20. Seriously, the bar went from St. Patrick's-style insanity to Tumbleweeds in about 7 minutes. Crazy. Here's a tip for bargain hunters: once the migration started, there were several unfinished beers left around the bar. Perfect pickings for the frugal alcoholic.
After the tide of humanity left, we had a great little game! R1 started us off with a bang with Classic Horror Haikus. I read you a haiku poem and you tell me what classic horror film its about. FAAAAAANTASTIC! Yes, If you fall asleep / Better watch for knife fingers / Dude, that's Johnny Depp! COULD be describing Edwards Scissorhands but I think we all know its not. Congrats to New Stadium, Same Lame Sport for leading the round and summing up what everyone else was already thinking.
R2 was a revisiting of Jesus Told Me to Make Lame Parodies featuring songs by Apoogetix. Who DOESN'T want to hear Devil Went Down to Georgia rewritten with Christian lyrics? (me) You guys must really dig them too since scores were through the roof! Congrats to New Stadium, Same Lame Sport and Stephen Hawking's Fat Blasting Workout for leading with 15 each.
R3: Longer or Shorter Than Kim Kardashian's Marriage? was the easiest round I've ever had to score. I thought, initially, it would be the easiest round to play as well but clearly you guys do a little more over-thinking that I'd expected. In the future, any time anyone asks you if something was longer or shorter than that marriage, the answer is ALWAYS longer; whether it's the life span of a sea monkey or average wait time at the Pizza-Sandwich-Inventing Food Truck, EVERYTHING lasted longer than that marriage. Congrats to Farts are Just Food Ghosts for leading the round and, apparently, trying the Pizza Sandwich.
R4 was the Cheesiest Round Ever! Seriously, the only thing cheesier would be a pizza sandwich but no one in their right mind would try and pass that off as a thing, right? From Monterey Jack to Swiss Miss, you guys really know your cheese! Congrats to Farts are Just Food Ghosts, Stephen Hawking's Fat Blasting Workout and Dynamo Where to Park for 7 big points a piece.
R5 brought you Russian characters from stage and screen. BTW, Niko Bellic is actually Ukranian which is not in Russia and is, in fact, it's own country but no one noticed that error so eat it. Farts are Just Food Ghosts aced the round for the lead.
Inspired by my current reading of 50 Shades of Grey, I thought I'd throw a little torture your way with R6 tonight called Writer's Cramp. The questions don't have anything to do with writing but the answers are all VERY long and you gotta write the whole thing in that tiny space and still be clear enough for me to read it. SUFFER BITCHES! Yes, the 8 word Family Guy state name I was looking for was "State of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations" but "The Tiny Island Formerly Known as Rhode Island" was a good guess as was "Driving Through Rhode Island, Opps I'm Already Done". Again, Food Ghosts nabs the lead with a perfect score.
R7 was Love Themes from films. Everyone knows Karate Kid II but only a few knew Star Wars: Episode 2 and less knew Blade Runner. Beauty and the Beast and Dirty Dancing were both gimmies, you're welcome.
Add R8 with it's Random Knowledge and left-over jokerage and we've got a game! Congrats to New Stadium, Same Lame Sport for grabbing first tonight. Farts are Just Food Ghosts claimed 2nd place with Stephen Hawking's Fat Burning Workout coming in third by a slender margin of 1 point. I forgot to give the TBall Award to Mooseknuckle! Remind me next week and I'll hook you guys up…especially since your shirts are so mysteriously attractive. ;)
Join us next week as we continue the quest to expand our minds while destroying our livers!
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Welcome back to another edition of Pub Quiz or, as I like to call it, 'An Evening with Gene'. I've been trying to get the name officially changed, but the rest of the Quiz Masters around the country are not so hot on changing their names. Vain bitches.
R1 tonight got us started off well. The Beginning is the End asked you to answer simple questions with a word that starts and ends with the same letter. Easy Peasy! To be a pal, I also put all the questions in order so the answers were alphabetized. THAT'S how much I love you. Scores were very high but only Everything's Coming Up Milhouse got all eight to nab a perfect score.
I knew from the start that R2's Party Like It's 1998 was going to be very popular. Anytime we have an audio round like this, scores go through the roof and tonight was no exception. The AVERAGE score tonight was 12 with jokers falling like rain, setting us up for a very lively and competitive game. Congrats to Where The Wild Things Are No More for grabbing a perfect score here.
R3 asked you Which Came First out of two historic events. Things went pretty well here with Everything's Coming Up Milhouse, Where the Wild Things Went and Quiz in My Pants sharing the lead with 7 points apiece.
R4 brought you Mything Persons, a round on Myths and Legends. Again, scores were really good here but only Quiz in My Pants nabbed a perfect 8 to lead the round.
Round 5 was one of those Peoplerebuses that we're so fond of and this one was a little tough. Take two famous people's names and mash them together to make the name of a famous brand or company. The Canadians complained that it was unfairly tilted towards American pop culture knowledge (welcome to the USA) although I argue that people like Betty White, Ethan Hawke, Alan Rickman and Paul Ruebens are probably fairly well known outside the US as well. Congrats to Asscasket for being the only team to correctly identify 'CarMax' and for leading the round with a perfect score.
R6, Imaginationland! was a round on imaginary characters. We covered the gambit here from A Beautiful Mind all the way to Youth in Revolt. Congrats to Quiz in My Pants, Where the Wild Things Went and Travolta & Sendak - Big Bear, Little Bear for sharing the lead with 7 points.
R7 was the classic tale of Poor Boy/Rich Girl via film clips. All you have to do is tell me the title of the film. Easy Peasy! Where The Wild Things Are No More agrees and takes away 8 big points.
Add in R8 with its Random Knowledge and a few left-over Jokers and you've got a GAME! Shit. Actually, you've got a TIE! For FIRST PLACE! ARRRRGH!
Everything's Coming Up Milhouse and Where the Wild Things Are No More both end the game with 83 points and trigger a Sudden Death tie breaker. I ask 5 questions, who ever gets the most wins. At the end of those five questions, I scored them and WE HAD ANOTHER FUCKING TIE! Both teams got every one of the questions correct, leaving me standing there with that lost look on my face I reserve for Johovah's Witnesses and homeless people begging for money. We moved to a number-based tie-breaker and, finally, Milhouse emerges as the victor, snatching the win for tonight.
Quiz in My Pants made a HUGE surge in the final rounds to jump into third place and A&A XVI won tonight's T-Ball Award for lowest complete score.
John won tonight's email bonus prize pack, mostly by being the only person to actually have the answer, and nabbed himself a copy of Carrie Fisher's book, Wishful Drinking, and four tickets to go see her at the Hobby Center next week. (Dress like a Wookie, I hear she loves that.)
What a great night! Thanks to everyone who came out and I hope to see you all next week as we continue our quest to expand our brains while destroying our livers!
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How much do you think they pay me to stand up here? Yes, members of the Cult of Apple are, at heart, elitist about our devices but even our devotion has monetary limits. I mean, fuck, the aluminum case is already $2000, how much would it be it if were titanium? And, Apple kids can only have their heads so far up their own asses, right? No need to give them more ammo. Hold a moment while I share some photos that I took with my iPhone that synced to my MacBookPro through the Cloud.
Done. It just works. You know what else works? Sarcasm.
R1 was Pros & Cons about Professionals and Criminals (which, btw, are not mutually exclusive). Aside from the MacBookPro gaffe this round went pretty well. Quiz in My Pants, Everything's Coming Up Milhouse! and New Erection: Tallest in New York shared a three-way for the lead in this round.
R2 was songs about telephones and you guys did pretty well. None so much, though, as Jessica Simpson Has My Baby who nailed a perfect score in this round and threw down a Joker as a warning to anyone who might dare challenge them. I can't believe you guys all knew Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. I've never heard of it but will do some internet research to catch up.
Done. That video is adorable. My lawn guy doesn't look ANYTHING like that. I think she's had work done.
R3 was on the Most Exclusive Schools in America. People did fairly well although few got all 8 correct except, of course, The Pretty Kitty whose days of pouring over college catalogs finally payed off with a perfect score.
R4: Clowns You Wouldn't Want at Your Birthday. Let make this clear: for me that means ALL CLOWNS in any iteration, style or period. None. Never. Not Emmett Kelly, not Pagliacci, not even Ronald carrying a Royale with Cheese. Jessica Simpson Has My Baby clearly agrees (or disagrees) strongly as they nabbed a perfect score here.
Everyone assured me early on that R5 was a cake walk. Remind me never to let you guys walk my cake cuz you're a mess. A three-way tie for the lead with 6 points goes to Jessica Simpson Has My Baby, New Erection: Tallest in New York and Mooseknuckle. Wow, that's a lot of ties tonight. Glad you guys got that out of your system before the final round.
R6 was on the War on Women and, apparently, that war is being won because the scores here were pretty shitty. Everything's Coming Up Milhouse finally found a round in their wheelhouse and lead the round with 7 having mistaken one douchebag Governor for another.
R7 brought us The Voice of God. Yes, an entire round on the velvet stylings of Morgan Freeman. I could listen to him read the phone book. Seriously. Quiz in My Pants and Fat Pepole are Harder to Kidnap agree as they lead the round. (Congrats to all for not knowing the difference between Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty.)
Add some Random Knowledge and a last minute Joker sprinkle and we've got a game! In a surprise upset victory, Jessica Simpson Has My Baby nabbed first place by 12 big points handily winning the game since you KNOW ties are a big pain in my ass. Second place went to…
Fuck. My. Ass.
When you guys have a tie, you don't fuck around. In a tie for 2nd place was Quiz in My Pants, Fat Pepole are Harder to Kidnap, The Murdoch Saints and Everything's Coming Up Milhouse. That's not a tie, that's a FORGY! Holy crap!
After a very intense tie-breaker round where I constructed a spread sheet to track results and you guys wildly underestimated the number of digits a guy has recited Pi to, we had some winners. Quiz in My Pants nabbed second place with Everything's Coming Up Milhouse coming in third.
But wait, there's more! The lovely and talented birthday girl, Sybil, scored the email bonus prize for tonight and bagged herself a copy of Carrie Fisher's book, Wishful Drinking along with 4 tickets to see her speak at the Hobby Center! Holy shit, that's great swag! Happy Birthday Sybil, hope you have a great time!
Join us next week as we continue our quest to expand our minds while destroying our livers!