marsBar is back like a beast this week, bringing our numbers back up to sweet, testicle-tickling happiness, set to a soundtrack of Aloe Blacc, Cheap Trick, and the Beastie Boys. And what happened during quiz? All the stuff below, y’know.

Round 1: Recently in Stuff: Almost All Political Edition

Comment: According to one team, Michael Bloomberg’s actual identity is Mayor McCheese.

Top Score: 8 (Mothers Against Dolphin Rape, Trivial League of Trivia)

Bottom Score: 2

Round 2: Who Put an SAP Button on My iPod?

Comment: I love Boyz II Men. No joke required. I totes saw a Boyz II Men/TLC/Montell Jordan concert in the mid-‘90s. (Actually, TLC canceled their third of the concert as one of them was sick. I assume T-Boz, who has Sickle Cell Anemia, and not Left Eye, who has the dead.)

Top Score: 13 + Joker (The Whitest Mexicans You Know, The Butcher the Baker & the Moneymaker)

Bottom Score: 4

Round 3: Simple Questions

Comment: Haha! I made you think about Victorian literature!

Top Score: 8 (The Whitest Mexicans You Know, The Butcher the Baker & the Moneymaker)

Bottom Score: 4

Round 4: Seriously, Stop Saying Tuh-Mah-Toh

Comment: The question was whether or not dried apricots went by any other name. One team (Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina) answered, “No! And fuck you!”

Top Score: 8 (Team Unicorn Fantasy)

Bottom Score: 0

Round 5: Muscle Groups Mix-n-Match

Comment: Rectus Abdominus is a funny thing to say out loud. Especially when you roll the Rs.

Top Score: 8 (Every single team but two)

Bottom Score: 5

Round 6: The Walking Dead Man Walking: TV Before & After

Comment: One team accidentally implied that Ted Koppel sang “Walk the Line.” Would that were true.

Top Score: 7 (The Butcher the Baker & the Moneymaker, Trivial League of Trivia, Mr. Dobalina Mr. Bob Dobalina, The Whitest Mexicans You Know)

Bottom Score: 5

Round 7: Halloween TV

Comment: Only one team (Dobalina) got the Freaks & Geeks answer, and for that, I salute their knowledge of awesome greatness.

Top Score: 8 (Trivial League orf Trivia)

Bottom Score: 5

Round 8: Random Knowledge

Comment: Whoa, man. Whoa. Total hostility about the French translation question. Whatever, mang. Y’all don’t speak the language of romance, that’s your own dang fault.

Top Score: 11 + Joker (Mothers Against Dolphin Rape)

Bottom Score: 6

Greetings everybody. We had another pub quiz last night at Café Venus & marsBar, the best goddamn bar in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Come on by, get some drinks, get some fan-damn-tastic food, and allow me to nerd all over you every Wednesday night for Geeks Who Drink. All them other bars in SLU, they ain’t got shit! Don’t believe me? Well, why don’t you try us out and see what all the fuss is about.

Okay, whoring over. Last night we took a page from Jimmy Kimmel Live and inserted a bunch of bleeps into innocuous songs in the marsBar’s first session of “Unnecessary Censorship,” we talked about balding television characters (JACKIE COOGAN WINS!), and much, much more. So why not look at this recap below? You have no excuse not to!

Round 1: Identity Crisis

Comment: Whoever wrote the answer “Zodiac Killa (Holla!)” gets mad respect points.

Top Score: 7 (Nobody Puts Baby in a Binder, Team Porkchop)

Bottom Score: 5

Round 2: Unnecessary Censorship

Comment: No, Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” does not also go by the name of Evanescence’s “Fuck My Butthole.”

Top Score: 9 (Megatoucher)

Bottom Score: 5

Round 3: Eight for Eight

Comment: No, Gary Carter did not play for My Mom, you sassy frassy team, you.

Top Score: 7 (The Smart Alecs)

Bottom Score: 1

Round 4: This Program Brought to You by Rogaine

Comment: Oh man, I friggin’ wish Walter Matthau played the title character in 1997’s “Mr. Magoo.” At that point in his career, Matthau was openly antagonistic about every single role he played in every single film, long since losing his status as an awesome Simon/Wilder/Donen leading man. Had “Mr. Magoo” been more filled with old man rage, it could have been a camp classic.

Top Score: 7 (Megatoucher)

Bottom Score: 3

Round 5: A Bumper Crop from the Oregano Orchard

Comment: I’ve never heard louder cheers about nutmeg, paprika, and mustard. You are all some spice-loving fiends.

Top Score: 8 (Binder Full of Women, The Smart Alecs)

Bottom Score: 3

Round 6: Let’s Put It to a Vote

Comment: Due to a slight mispronunciation of President Elect Muhammad Morsi, our bartender Tate thought I’d said that Morrissey had been elected President of Egypt. I’ll let you and your imagination figure out what that would be like.

Top Score: 6 (Team Porkchop, Binder Full of Women)

Bottom Score: 5

Round 7: Hollywood Déjà Vu

Comment: I think the entire bar agreed that Armageddon is a goddamn awesome movie, ‘90s critics be damned.

Top Score: 8 (The Smart Alecs, Nobody Puts Baby in a Binder)

Bottom Score: 4

Round 8: Random Knowledge

Comment: My piss-poor explanation of the etymology of the word “grenade” fell absolutely flat. This is why I am not a teacher.

Top Score: 13 (Team Porkchop)

Bottom Score: 6

That’s it for this week. I want to see all of you at marsBar next week. Tell your friends, create some grudge matches, and let’s fill this sucker up. Also, visit our Facebook page, tag your pictures, kick some ass.

Our trusty little band of quizzers heard my war cry last night as I watched the Oakland Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers with a walkoff run—only their seventh walkoff in their postseason history—in the bottom of the 9th thanks to the deliciously named Coco Crisp, a well-positioned runner and some defensive butterfingers. This shout of battle and joy helped along our low-key night of pub quiz; conversational, geeky as shit (how ‘bout that round on nerdy games?), and goddamn hilarious (thanks to the round based entirely around the amazing ‘90s animated sitcom The Critic). So yes, baseball, booze, and a whole lotta bombast. Welcome to Geeks Who Drink.

On! Her! Face! went home with the grand prize, That’s What Shri Said took second, and the happy hour Mac-and-Cheese destroyed yet another patron. Successful night!

My second-favorite part of the night (after the A's killing it) was the answer key turned in for the visual round by last-place team Completely Serious. The visual round showed pictures actors who have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor over the last 12 years, and it asked you to identify the movie. This team got zero points, and it’s the best zero-point round I’ve ever seen. I have been thusly trolled.

Q: Morgan Freeman, 2004. A: Million Dollar Baby. This team’s answer: Shawshank Redemption

Q: Javier Bardem, 2007. A: No Country for Old Men. This team’s answer: “I think that might be some guy called Robert.”

Q: Benicio Del Toro, 2000. A: Traffic. This team’s answer: “She thinks he’s the titanic guy.”

Q: Alan Arkin, 2006. A: Little Miss Sunshine. This team’s answer: “Is that Lex Luthor?”

Q: George Clooney, 2005. A: Syriana. This team’s answer: “THAT’S GEORGE CLOONEY”

Q: Christian Bale, 2010. A: The Fighter. This team’s answer: “Lost cust(?) love or sex or something.”

Q: Christoph Waltz, 2009. A: Inglourious Basterds. This team’s answer: “WHO IS THAT?”

Q: Heath Ledger, 2008. A: The Dark Knight. This team’s answer: “That really shitty Indiana Jones.”

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