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Merchants Cafe and Saloon
109 Yesler Way # 100
Seattle, WA 98104
Thursdays: 7:00 PM
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12:22 AM, May 18, 2012
Scores
No Shame, Only Points 74
I'm the Juggernaught, Bitch! 67
Huskie Irish Tigers 63
Children of a Lesser Pencil 61
Pwn - Noobs 3
If Loving You is Wrong, I Still Wanna Be Right & Win the Free Beer
Stephen


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Wing Dome (West Seattle), Tuesdays 8-10 pm Merchants Cafe and Saloon (Seattle), Wednesdays 8-10 pm 		Stephen ()

Stephen spent the first 24 years of life in northern Colorado, when a little tech company called Microsoft convinced him to try living in the Pacific Northwest.  After four years, he returned to Denver; but at the end of 2009 another little startup named Amazon lured him back to Seattle, and, as it so happens, he moved into a little place across the street from a place with a Wednesday night pub quiz.

After being a team player for a year and a half, Stephen took the plunge and auditioned for quizmastery.  He lives in lower Queen Anne with his lovely wife Laura and a psycho killer cocker spaniel from hell named Kuno.

It was our first Thursday 7pm quiz tonight!  We turned the corner, opened a new chapter, took That Next Step in our quizzing relationship.  Just as if we were writing a new verse in our very own sappy 70's song.  (As long it's not The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.  That's some pretty depressing crap, there.)

There are not as many quizzes on Thursday night, so we kind of have downtown Seattle to ourselves.  And I have to say, I also like the slightly earlier quiz time.  The quizzers at Merchant's have places to go and things to do on these weeknights, and I respect that.  That job starts awfully early, the day after an 8 pm weeknight quiz.

And your brains are livelier, too!  Four teams -- including one 1-person and one 2-person -- who all scored OVER 60 POINTS EACH.  Good grief, I threw a quiz and the Honor Society came.  By far this was the best overall performance by a quiz at Merchant's Cafe and Saloon.

It didn't hurt that you were able to glean the actual songs out of horrible YouTube karaoke covers.  12-14 points across the board for all of you.  That really set the tone the rest of the night -- except for the visual round, nobody had fewer than four points on any round at all.  From racism to Shakespeare, you did this Quizmaster proud.

It was icing on the cake when owner Darcy bestowed bottles of wine to the winning team as part of our awards ceremony.  A self-professed wine aficionado, she provides some lesser-known yet awfully flavorful selections.

Next week, bring your friends!  Bring your neighbors!  And let 'em know they get to eat and drink and rock some quizzery and still get out while there's still some twilight in the sky.  I'll have their pencils waiting!

Merchants Cafe and Saloon
109 Yesler Way # 100
Seattle, WA 98104
Thursdays: 7:00 PM
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2:35 PM, May 10, 2012
Scores
Where the Hell is Green Eye? 67
Awesome-O 58
Frenchies 21
Schwab 5
I'll Take Opportunistic, Condescending, Self-Indulgent Know-It-Alls for $1000, Alex
Stephen


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Wing Dome (West Seattle), Tuesdays 8-10 pm Merchants Cafe and Saloon (Seattle), Wednesdays 8-10 pm 		Stephen ()

Stephen spent the first 24 years of life in northern Colorado, when a little tech company called Microsoft convinced him to try living in the Pacific Northwest.  After four years, he returned to Denver; but at the end of 2009 another little startup named Amazon lured him back to Seattle, and, as it so happens, he moved into a little place across the street from a place with a Wednesday night pub quiz.

After being a team player for a year and a half, Stephen took the plunge and auditioned for quizmastery.  He lives in lower Queen Anne with his lovely wife Laura and a psycho killer cocker spaniel from hell named Kuno.

Tonight was the final Wednesday quiz at Merchant's Cafe and Saloon.  We're heading to Thursday 7 pm next week.  Perhaps it is fitting that our Wednesday finale was one of the weirdest-a** quizzes it has ever been my pleasure to master.

We started out with three teams, went to two after Round 1.  Another team arrived at the final scoring break, and they immediately got the high Round Seven score.  The bar was alternately ghost-town and hopping busy.  We had a round where I didn't even need to read any of the questions.  And free beers were scattered among almost every participant in the quiz.

It ended with Darcy, our gracious host and owner of Merchant's, throwing in bottles of wine for every member of the winning team.  All in all, a fine and fitting way to close out Wednesdays, and set the stage for next week and our first Thursday weekly wingding.

So we blazed a trail of fiery knowledge through the night, like Halley's Comet of random facts, only visible to the naked brain.  Here are some random thoughts that came to me as we quizzed.

  • Parodies.  They're not just by Weird Al anymore.  Perhaps they should be.
  • Glanced up and saw a commercial for Diablo III on one of the bar TVs.  Had a nerdgasm so strong that my knees are still shaking.
  • My lovely wife is excellent at identifying stars, but does not enjoy science questions.  After tonight's visual round, I'm lucky I'm not sleeping on the couch.
  • The movie Up is one of the best movies of all time, and Nickelodeon's Guts is one of the best TV shows.  Space Jam and Mama's Family are the opposite.
  • Merchants clientele increases by around 4.5 terjillion percent after sporting events let out.

Our new schedule will be AWESOME.  A 7 pm quiz will let you toodle downtown after work, chow down on some tasty Merchant's food (burgers are great and the taquitos are to DIE for), quiz your collective brains out, and get home in time to chillax.  And as a pleasant bonus, your quizmaster will almost always have sufficient stamina to complete the blog by bedtime.

See you next Thursday!

Merchants Cafe and Saloon
109 Yesler Way # 100
Seattle, WA 98104
Thursdays: 7:00 PM
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12:41 AM, May 03, 2012
Scores
Doogie Howitzers 53
Children of a Lesser Pencil 41
Team Fourstar 29
Santa Barbarians 22
Han-Ang 17
D-Bag 15
Gather 7
My Condolences to Ringo's Family
Stephen


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Quiz Schedule
Wing Dome (West Seattle), Tuesdays 8-10 pm Merchants Cafe and Saloon (Seattle), Wednesdays 8-10 pm 		Stephen ()

Stephen spent the first 24 years of life in northern Colorado, when a little tech company called Microsoft convinced him to try living in the Pacific Northwest.  After four years, he returned to Denver; but at the end of 2009 another little startup named Amazon lured him back to Seattle, and, as it so happens, he moved into a little place across the street from a place with a Wednesday night pub quiz.

After being a team player for a year and a half, Stephen took the plunge and auditioned for quizmastery.  He lives in lower Queen Anne with his lovely wife Laura and a psycho killer cocker spaniel from hell named Kuno.

The Seattle Sounders bring out some of what's best in this rainy old town.  But one byproduct of the soccer team is some bizarre quiz side effects on game nights at Merchant's.  Tonight was further proof of that.

Don't get me wrong, it's not BAD, it's just a different.  The crowd's a little different; lots of the regulars take the night off, and the new folks who drop in are a little more low-key, a little more transient.  It's like replacing the lead singers in an opera with Springsteen and Joan Baez and some cloggers.  It's a whole new form of entertainment.

The American Idol judges would have loved you guys.  You took that quiz and made it your own.

Then we got audio rounds that did the EXACT SAME THING.  Round Two and Round Seven each took existing sounds, and changed them up to the point of being unrecognizable.  In my personal opinion, they were less entertaining than you guys were.  But still.

Our teams were flowing in and out, and massive numbers of Sounders fans started flocking in postgame during Round Seven.  Plus, let's be frank, the questions were some of the trickiest brainrackers we've come across in several weeks.  So, scores were not at the level we usually get either.

So when knowledge fails you, you can fall back on sheer persistence.  Out of seven teams who played, there were three who pushed through and turned in scores for every round.  Those are your Top Three of the evening.  Mad props to the Doogie Howitzers, Children of a Lesser Pencil, and Team Fourstar.

For the rest of you -- I hope we get to see your Mad Skillz for a full eight rounds next week!  There is no Sounders game so it'll be a fair quiz.  I'll have your pencil waiting.

!!! NOTICE !!!

The Merchants quiz schedule is CHANGING in two weeks.  Next week we have our normal Wednesday 8 pm quiz; but from that point forward, we will be moving our little brain-stretching soirees to Thursdays at 7 pm.  Be sure to tell your friends!

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