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Black Star Co-Op
7020 Easy Wind Drive
Austin, TX 78752
Sundays: 7:00 PM

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9:32 AM, May 14, 2012


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Rand Paul's Views on Marriage Could Not Be Any Straighter	80

The Koala Beers	77

No Whoreplay in the Pool Area	68

Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink	67

Birthday Bleach Blonde Mitt	66

Last Place is First Place	55

We Destroy Amusement Parks	55

100cc	50

Double Trouble	47

The Seaward	46

Sunday Denial Drinking	38

Whiskey Farts	35

Bango McChinnerson	35

We Are Rand Paul, And So Can You!

Evan

Thanks to everyone either for forsaking your mothers to come to the Black Star quiz, or for being a mother and forsaking your kids to come to the quiz!

Yeah, it was Mother's Day, and I neither got my mom anything nor did I see her at all throughout the day. Then again, I have a pretty good excuse-- she's on a cruise somewhere in Central America right now, avoiding everything having to do with cheesy Hallmark-created "holidays".

...wow, that last part made me sound like I should be holed up in my basement, studying articles on 9-11 conspiracies and mailing threatening letters to my congressmen.

On to the quiz recap!

The TV Showception round was pretty interesting. And we got two John Lithgow-related questions in the Tom, Dick, and Harry round, which I think should be the next subject of one of our famous themed quizzes. What, you can't get behind 64-or-so questions about the star of the last segment of Twilight Zone: the Movie and the fourth season of Dexter???

Poseur.

And oh man, we had jokers flying around everywhere tonight! The only rounds that no teams dared to double up were 1 and 5. I guess no one was keen on martial arts or little-seen celebrities.

Which raises the question: if you don't know what they look like, are they still officially celebrities? I mean, if no one recognizes them when you invite them to your annual charity gala for multiple sclerosis, then why the fuck am I sending a hand-written embossed invitation to Giorgio Armani anyway??

I should save it for Tim Gunn.

Thanks for quizzing with me tonight! It was a lot of fun, especially given how unpredictable and volatile the scores were. Which is how I like my women. And my coffee. (I have second-degree burns. From both.)

-evan

Black Star Co-Op
7020 Easy Wind Drive
Austin, TX 78752
Sundays: 7:00 PM

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1:43 PM, May 07, 2012


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One Whore Town	83

Stone Cold Jane Austen	78

Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink	69

Mounds Of Pound	66

French Fries With Sauce Socialiste	63

Thinko De Mayo	61

LuLu	59

Beer Cats	57

S&M	33

Botony Bay	25

Bombadiers	7

Boltzmann's Brain	5

RamRod	0

Some Old Bullshit

Ozzy F"N Zion, Ichiban

Got to admit, last night all y'all were pretty sluggish. Not the most lively quizzers I've seen but then again what can you expect since the night before everyone was celebrating Cinco De Mayo. When people consume that much mayonnaise there is bound to be repercussions. Also, I have to say publicly that I F"N love mayonnaise and I'm happy to see it finally has its own holiday.

I was impressed but not surprised by everyone's ability to ace round one, STATE HAIKUS, after the very impressive showing you all had during our STAR WARS haiku poetry slam. Five teams had perfect scores and two more got at least 7/8. Round two wasn't so impressive both in content and the results. High score went to Stone Cold Jane Austen (2nd) when they edged out their rivals One Whore Town (1st) 11 to 10 in that round but in round 8 the Whores wend 15/16 and jokered; there was little SCJA could do.

Perfect scores were running rampant last night making the Black Star Co-Op look like some kind of quiz version of a home run derby. All but one team scored 8/8 in round 4 and everyone went 8/8 in the visual round. Later on in round 6 the Whores were the only team to get them all right. Thus the friendly rivalry of Whores vs. SCJA continues for another week and everyone else doing all they can to upset the two heavyweights.

As the senior most Quizmaster in the state of Texas I always like to leave you with a little advice, some tips on how to do better and get the most out of your pub quiz. Take a look at your scores, if you're doing 60 or better then that means you could be a strong competitor at any quiz in town and this week 6 of our 8 teams earned at least 60. Also, this week's tallest midget (team that played every round and had the lowest score) had a honorable 57 points, not too shabby.

My second bit of advice, if I or any Quizmaster suggets you pick a new team name it is rarely because you are too offensive (really not possible). Instead it is because your team name lacks creativity and is a name we've heard 1,000,001 times. Such was the case with Team RamRod, who I believe did take my advice, "try to come up with something more creative by the end of round one" and thus became Botany Bay. The following are team names you should NEVER FUCKING USE EVER unless you are an unimaginitave dipshit who plays "trivia" at Pluckers:

Team Awesome

Car/Team RamRod

My Couch Pulls Out But I don't

My Grandma Doesn't Know Karate But You Should See Her Box

Channel 4 News Team

There are probably others I'm repressing forgetting but you get the point. Also, the initials of your teammates is totally boring too except in the case of last night's S&M (9th).

If you like prizes and scoring high on the quiz then there are two easy steps you can take to get both, sign up for the email list and follow the Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/gwdblackstarcoop

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We will give away the final Boulevard Brewery pint glass in two weeks which will also be my final time hosting your quiz! That is right, it is not that I don't totally fucking love you but I've been requested to host a quiz closer to my own shire. Starting in June I'll be at the Whip-In, check me out there next month.

"Life is just like sex, you can only take out what you put in"

Ozzy F"N Zion, Ichiban!

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Black Star Co-Op
7020 Easy Wind Drive
Austin, TX 78752
Sundays: 7:00 PM

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12:20 PM, April 30, 2012


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Scores

Starburns	77

Don't Do What Donnie Don't Does	75

Gone To See A Man About a Whore	73

We Destroy Amusement Parks	62

Silver Jews For Jesus	60

Cul De Sac, Bitches	59

Bloody Knuckles	55

Team-y Team Team	54

404: Team Name Not Found	50

PFGFs	49

High Fructose Corn Syrup	42

Goobers and Raisinettes	40

Volcan	35

We Won't Be Here Long	33

Happy Birthday James	31

Pick Something	31

Eastside Geeks	12

Lumberjacks	0

On an evening when I learn to keep my Jew mouth shut!

Ozzy F"N Zion, Ichiban

Just need to get this out of the way.

"So some of you people are down right unAmerican, smoked way to much dope in high school and college or suffered a head injury on the way to the quiz." This was my response to the teams that said the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION was the late 1700s important document writen by the "committee of five." Maybe your Quizmaster needs to learn when to just keep his big, dumb, Jew mouth shut! Although wrong because it wasn't written by the "committee of five," was drafted in 1781, a mere five years after the right answer, Deceleration of Independence. Mea copa.

As for the rest of the quiz y'all were very impressive. We had a large contingency of noobs and several teams in from Houston. I hope they will check us out at our nearly dozen weekly quizzes in H-Town. The first round on famous JEFFs was pretty cool (my parents named me Jeffrey, that's neat too). Sadly no questions about Jeff Lebowski but still Bloody Knuckles (7th) were the only team to go 8/8. Round two was just fucking awful. We've had some pretty unbearable audio rounds but subjecting my teams to 8 covers of songs by the cast of GLEE is unforgiveable. This agression will not stand! However, Don't Do What Donnie Don't Does (2nd) got 15/16, nicely done.

Geeks Who Drink needs more sports questions versus Geeks Who Drink has too many sports question squared off in round three and it was our top four teams that all scored 6/8. In round four on fives Bloody Knuckles once again aced the round as did Cul De Sac, Bitches (6th). No body got a perfect score in rounds 5, 6 or 7 but our top two teams both got 12/16 in round 8. It was STARBURNS (1st) consistency that kept them two points over DDWDDD. They never did worse than 6 in the regular rounds, 14/16 in audio and 12/16 in random knowledge. Solid from start to finish and therefore earned the top prize!

I gave away an extra beer and a complimentary BOULEVARD BREWING CO. pint glass for a bonus question that I posted on our venue's facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gwdblackstarcoop

Stay tuned there for more clues and more bonus questions. If you didn't sign up for the email list last night then do it here: SIGN ME UP! or here: I SIGNED UP, WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY EMAILS?!

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If you know of bars anywhere on planet Earth that should have a GEEKS WHO DRINK quiz please let me know: ozzy@geekswhodrink.com

I'll see you next Sunday for our Seis De Mayo hangover show at BLACK STAR CO-OP!

Ozzy F"N Zion, Ichiban!

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