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The Highliner Pub
3909 18th Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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4:11 PM, June 14, 2013


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A Team Named Slickback	88

Don?t Yell KKK in Public, Even at a Baseball Game	80

Caged Wisdom Saved my Life	79

Lots of Rainbow Dancing Bears	76

Aluminum Falcons	71

Meryl Streep's Wet T-Shirt Contest	65

Make It Happen Captain!	63

Lucky Star	61

Sailboaters Who Drink	60

Woosah!	59

Lummi Lummi	47

Ollie!	20

Free Booze	14

Miami Heat Sucks	8

Here's Why Basketball Sucks

R-Kenny

Basketball. The sport of slum lords and their underprivileged tenants. A sport that needs to punish players regularly for their behavior on social media websites, their proclivity to fall down when they are touched and their tendency to shoot limo drivers. I miss the good old days of basketball. When lanky white dudes like Larry Byrd, Detlef Schrempf and Jerry West ruled the court. I miss the days when the scary black guys went by less threatening nicknames like “magic” and “shaq” and “the glyde”. I miss the days when basketball's biggest controversies were how many babies Shawn Kemp fathered and whether or not the Bulls would ever lose in the NBA finals. In conclusion, basketball, in it’s current version, is a miserable excuse for a sport. The only reason we watch is to cheer AGAINST that one team full of assholes and that is a real bad sign.

Hall of Shame

Caged Wisdom Changed My Life and Meryl Streep’s Wet T-Shirt Contest – You were the two teams that missed points in R2 for simply listing “Korea” as an answer. News flash, that hasn’t been a country since the 1950’s.
Free Booze –You played one round, heckled the rest and even managed to get booed when you shouted out an answer as you walked out the door. And NO. You don’t get anything for putting “That One Swimmer Guy” for an answer in R1.
Lucky Star – Instructions don’t get more clear, than “No. Put the actor not the superhero”. I guess you were just THAT excited to see Spiderman in The Cider House Rules.
Woosah – Yes. You’re mum was one of the zords in the Power Rangers TV show. Which ranger rode her though?

Mad Props

A Team Named Slickback – You had the lone perfect score in R2! You certainly know your mashups!
Don’t Yell KKK in Public, Even at a Baseball Game – You earned second place by ending the quiz hot! You had the best score in R8 and managed to win the tie-breaker question as well! Momentum!

Bitchin’ Team Names

Meryl Streep’s Wet T-Shirt Contest
Don’t Yell KKK in Public, Even at a Baseball Game
Sailboaters Who Drink
Make It Happen Captain!

Our guests from down the road turned out to be conqueror’s and A Team Named Slickback went home with the grand prize. In a tie-breaker, Don’t Yell KKK in Public, Even at a Baseball Game took him second place over Caged Wisdom Saved My Life. In a real bonehead move, Woosah! Left before I could embarrass them with a tie-breaker, so Sailboaters Who Drink ended up with the “Thank God We Didn’t Come in Last Place” prize. Chris took home the Facebook free beer and Jannell won the email bonus prize. You’ve got just a couple more days to register for Rumble in the Pub, so get it done! Make sure you get on the Facebook page for a chance to win a free beer next week. I’ll see you all then! Cheers!

The Highliner Pub
3909 18th Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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12:27 AM, June 07, 2013


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Uncle Sam Can Hear You Now	87

Screw You, We're From Texas	79

If You Only See One Movie This Summer, Make It Grown Ups 2!	77

Monkeygeuse!	69

Lots of Rainbow Dancing Bears	64

WAANA-KAANA	42

2 Dudes	28

Bitches Better Have My Money	26

Sambo!	20

XXX	19

Bar Team Ho!	17

Adams	15

A New Journey Begins... A Hip Hop Journey...

R-Kenny

I have an announcement to make. Tonight a passion awoke deep inside of me. A passion to make sweet, sweet music in the way my forefathers did. A passion that will surely take me to far off lands like Tacoma, Everett, Spokane and maybe even Portland. Tonight, I retire the moniker that I selected when I began as a Geeks Who Drink quizmaster and officially begin my hip-hop career as R-Kenny. You can look for my first single “Titties on my Head” here shortly.

Hall of Shame

WAANA-KAANA – I could have assumed your listening skills were a little rough when I played you a birthday song and you didn’t notice. R7, “Listen Carefully: Life’s Too Short” cemented that reputation. 1 point is pretty sad.

Mad Props

Monkeygeuse – You knocked R8, “Random Knowledge”, out of the park with 15 points, but it was just too little too late for a comeback.
Uncle Sam Can Hear You Now – You were the top team in R2, R4 and R6! No wonder you took home the win!

Bitchin’ Team Names

If You Only See One Movie This Summer, Make it Grown Ups 2!
Lots of Rainbow Dancing Bears
Monkeygeuse!

After the win, Uncle Sam Can Hear You Now went ahead and registered for Rumble in the Pub for a chance to get invited to Seattle’s first ever Geeks Who Drink regional championship! You should register too! Second place tonight went to Screw You, We’re From Texas. The “Thank God We Didn’t Come in Last Place” prize went to WAANA-KAANA. Uncle Sam Can Hear You Now also cleaned house in our raffle prizes with Lee’or winning the email bonus prize and Wendy winning the Facebook free beer. Remember that THIS SATURDAY is the Game of Thrones theme quiz at Rock Bottom in Bellevue. Get there early because we expect the space to fill up. Quiz starts at 6 and there are bonus prizes for the best costume and the best team name. Have a blast out on the eastside and I’ll see you all next Thursday! Remember to get on our Facebook page to share your photos and for a chance to win a free beer at next week's quiz!

The Highliner Pub
3909 18th Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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10:06 AM, May 31, 2013


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U.S.S. Barry Goldwater	77

Caged Wisdom Saved My life	75

Aluminum Falcons	74

Loose Seals	68

Sergio "Finger Lickin Good" Garcia	67

Trampz	29

Cynthia and Flo	26

ZZZ	24

Chad	22

Bar Team	22

Major McDongle	22

Olivicus	19

Charlie	14

Sabrina	13

There Be Wisdom Here

R-Kenny

As our top teams gear up for Rumble in the Pub, I thought I’d use this week’s blog to teach a valuable lesson about Geeks Who Drink Pub Quizzes and to share a bit of advice on things to learn. The first rule of practicing for pub quiz, is you can’t practice for pub quiz. At Geeks Who Drink, we are professionals at the non-sequitor. Even if I give you the round’s theme, it’s likely that it has nothing to do with the questions that are actually in the round. For every time studying would give you the edge in a quiz, 5 times it wastes your time. A few other pro-tips are as follows. Always ask how many 16 point rounds there are. Sooner or Later rounds have been historically pretty easy and they are almost always the best round to joker. If you’re confident that you’re going to get 12 or more points in R2, always joker it. You all know that, at this point, R8 is a huge clusterfuck sometimes. Take the sure-fire 12 points and be happy. Last, but not least, if I ask a multi-part question with “Yes/No” or some other either or options, don’t guess. All “Yes” or all “No” unless you know the answer for sure. I can’t count the number of times I see teams get 1 or 0 points on those for guessing wrong. Generally, “Yes” and “Real” are the safer guesses.

Hall of Shame

Trampz – It’s clear you understood the R1 theme, but did you just give up at the end? Clearly “HBO” does not start with Fee Fi Fo or Fum.

Mad Props

Aluminum Falcons – Things didn’t go your way with the tie-breaker, but at least you had the best score in R4, “Recently in Stuff”. Look at you news watchers!

Bitchin’ Team Names

U.S.S. Barry Goldwater
Sergio “Finger Lickin’ Good” Garcia
Aluminum Falcons
Caged Wisdom Saved My Life

Thursday was the night of the tie-breaker. Shit, I even dreamed that I had to do like four more tie-breakers and it NEVER ended! U.S.S Barry Goldwater won first place without any controversy, but it took Caged Wisdom Saved My Life a clutch tie-breaker guess to take home second place. Now we know for sure that there are too many goddamn cell phones in America. In our “Thank God We Didn’t Come in Last Place” tie-breaker, Loose Seals edged out Sergio “Finger Lickin’ Good “ Garcia in an epic Rock-Paper-Scissors duel. Both of our raffle winners came from Aluminum Falcons with Michael taking home his second email bonus prize in as many weeks and Tim winning the Facebook free beer. Lots of doings in Geeks Who Drink world right now. Make sure you register for Rumble in the Pub which starts next week and be sure you are making plans to come out for the BEST THEME QUIZ EVER in a couple weeks. That would be the Game of Thrones theme quiz at Rock Bottom in Bellevue on June 8^th. Last but not least, make sure you click the like button over on the Facebok page for news, clues and a chance to win a free beer every week. Catch you next Thursday!

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