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The Bulldog Downtown
1111 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM
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6:13 AM, June 12, 2013


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Your Mom's Chesthair	75

House of Pickles	72

I wish this mic was a penis	56

Cat's in the Bag	56

Brandon's Angels	56

The Baby Sinyas	30

Cooper	14

I Only Hated You a Little R3, but My Quizzers Wanted to Murder You

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Oh, R3. We had such a love affair. I looked at you, and posted on FB, and discussed you with my roommate. You were clever and hard. After this, I was sure we were through. I was sure that the night would end in a lynching of someone. I was prepared to throw you out in a fit of scared and ire. No i won't do your laundry anymore, and stop leaving the towel on the floor. But no. You were still there when i woke up in the morning and i had to snuggle you and take you out out to meet my quizzers.

You still sort of sucked. Even though i managed to explain the round, people could not guess you. In fact, the two teams that turned this round in after the first call got exactly 4 points each You were clever and smart and well thought out, but i still hate you R3. They think we have an abusive relationship. Let's take it up with a counselor. I think we can still be friends.

Otherwise, the night was lovely. It was one of the first really nice nights weather-wise (even though my bike was stolen...damnit) here in Minneapolis spring, so our downtown Bully location was a bit sparse, but my regulars came out (sort of) and we had some new teams who have been sucked into the cause. Promising.

Many-time winners House of Pickles was unseated from their throne by Your Mom's Chest Hair, who like to change up their name every week to make sure i still know who they are. In a shocking revelation (not), they also got the email question prize. Luckily, i had a few more prizes this week, so they don't have the full set just yet. They avoided the fake facial hair kit. Man...i really want to make them wear that!

We had a 3-way tie for third place! Unprecidented. Cleverly (ahem) named I Wish this Mic Were a Penis tied with new folk Cat's in the Bag, and Brandon's Angels. Next time Gadget....neeext timmme!

So i said best air guitar solo for third got something and forked over some coasters to the only one of them who bothered to air guitar. I'm pretty sure he was doing Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," because that's what's in the head of anyone who does air guitar if they're not doing "Freebird."

We lost two teams mid-evening Coopers and The Baby Sinyas. One of them, however, was made up of people who work in a bar up the street who were on break and made a point to tell me they had to bail. I will be hanging out there. I hope they will hang out with me again too!

I did Rick Roll the pub, considering i had a question that was about a song that clearly Rick Astley had in mind it seemed slightly amusing to play it after they'd all figured out that question. And since it didn't give away any answers, i regaled them with the Bare Naked Ladies during that category.

What i learned or taught this week (you can decide which is which):

It's true, you don't order a Black and Tan in Ireland. Writers...you want The Republic of Ireland...you can still safely order that drink in Northern Ireland, they're different.

Half a satyr is really not a unicorn.

No one knows the name of Subterranean Homesick Blues. They have lots of other ideas about it though.

I've already covered R3, but seriously. Fuck you guys and your writing. No seriously, love you to bits, it was super clever, just hard for my normal crowd ;)

"Why the FUCK would you pay 1.5 million dollars to sit next to Leo anywhere? Really? I'd pay that to go to space but only if you sat me next to someone that was interesting."

No one here knows who the Memphis Grizzlies are.

Everyone here can evidently field-strip an AK. "Come to Minnesota, we're not only armed, we're really well prepared." Remind me not to piss off my quiz teams.

Almost no one can spell danke schoen, or knows about "A Fistfull of Dollars." However, they did guess a lot of other good westerns like "Tombstone." I reminded everyone to revisit their westerns. No one seemed to know about Roman Polanski's pedophile accusations. It's not just a quiz, it's an education!

I had no idea what "Epic" or "Now You See Me" were about. I was told. Worth a look. I was also a little sad that so many of them had seen "The Hangover Part 3," but not "Star Trek: Into Darkness" or "Iron Man 3." Demerits. They all also nearly all got the Steve Carell question in R8 but couldn't get the Star Trek directors. I need a higher class of nerd. Can i stage GWD at one of our conventions? Yes, maybe i can ;)

And, before i get to all the gnus that print i've fit, i want to say that, team Catbug was sort of in the house. The founding member was present, but didn't want to play alone, so just snarked at me for a bit whilst i ran. He's also submitted a round on the website, so good luck to him!

Love you all, have a great Wednesday, and happy quizzing!

The Bulldog Downtown
1111 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM
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11:43 AM, June 05, 2013


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Futile Pickles	78

Gladius	70

Marko Yolo	70

Catbug	65

Surfing the Crimson Wave	65

Charlie Needs a Drink	64

MD/JD/MBA	37

Two Girls and a Guy	32

It's Always About the Pickles

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The team that this week was known as Futile Pickles (formerly House of or Casa de Pickles) ran the quiz again this week. In an interesting turn, Gladius and Marko Yolo (egads, having to say *that* name all night wasn't silly at all!) were tied for second. They opted for a proper tie-breaker round instead of my suggestions of an air-guitar match or rolling a D20. I'm guessing they're regretting it now ;)

My home team, Catbug, managed to stay in a tie for third with Surfing the Crimson Wave. I have hopes of Catbug winning something one of these weeks...seriously. If you sit next to me and listen to me mumble under my breath, you probably ought to win one of these weeks. Sadly, I can't rig the quiz in your favour.

Charlie Needs a Drink tells me that they were sick of winning, so decided to deliberately lose for a few weeks. They claim that they're now bored with losing and will be back in full force next week. Riiight.

MD/JD/MBA did abysmally, despite needing to tell everyone about their advanced degrees. And Two Girls and a Guy were keeping up nicely, but had to leave early. Too bad. Next time, Gadget, neeext time.

We learned this week that my teams still don't know jack about sports, that they can't answer questions yet again about the state in which they live, and no one on earth seems to have seen the film 10,000BC (and why would they have?)

Team fail for all but two this week: tri-dimensional chess is from Star Trek, for the love of all that is good, not The Big Bang Theory! Egads, you whippersnappers, what are you thinking?

Those are the gnus that fit for this week. Happy quizzing (and bonus points if you get the reference).

The Bulldog Downtown
1111 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Tuesdays: 8:00 PM
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6:09 PM, May 29, 2013


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House of Pickles	93

Is Butter a Carb?	72

Catbug	61

Lizzie's Understanding of Baseball	55

Can I Get My One Night Stand to Call Me Back	51

HMC	49

Memorial Day Snark

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Got to the pub, and it seemed to be full of crickets. Not even a lot of people eating. The barstaff warned me that it had been slow all day and to expect that after a holiday weekend.

Ah, and then we found that someone who had run an event on a different night had taken my microphone home with him. <headdesk> Fully prepared to just not have a voice on Wednesday, I forged on.

When it finally came to quiz time, we had six teams raring to go. Mostly regulars. but a few new faces. I voice-projected my way through round one before said person showed up with the mic. I have no idea what he did to it, because it's dented to hell. Sigh. Still, it works, so whatever.

Regulars House of Pickles pickeled up a few extra players and owned the evening, winning by a more than 20 point lead!

Name-changing regulars Is Butter a Carb? came in second. For a change, Catbug was not in last place, despite deciding to yell out the wrong answers for part of the evening. Can I Get My One Night Stand to Call Me Back? (also known as various other related names) answered "fisting" to any question they didn't know (also "this is dumb"). Lizzie's Understanding of Baseball did just fine considering there were only two of them, and HMC proved that they know nothing at all about the before/afters in Round Six.

In Round one, we discovered that the nickname "The Big Unit" is not the same as "Big Balls" (Catbug) or "The Hammer" (Is Butter a Carb?) Kudos for the Dr. Horrible reference, though.

The One-Night Standers had to give their geek card up for completely narfing Round Four, as did Lizzies, who did only marginally better.

Despite many complaints about Round Six, most did rather well. The funniest answer that round went to Lizzie's with "Like a Virgin Enterprise." Gives a whole new meaning to "engage."

In Round Seven, I remembered that my laptop says "Lenovo" really largely on it and I had to keep myself from jumping to cover it up. We also learned that nearly all of my Minnesota teams cannot answer questions about the state in which they live. "Minne" does not mean "small," we don't produce a lot of pork, and despite all appearances and the prevalance of hot dish at every communal function, Lutheran is not the largest christian religion. Go figure. However, everyone did know that we weren't among the top 10 to legalize gay marriage--go you guys for remembering what was in the news just a few weeks ago.

So, all was lovely in the land of the Downtown Bulldog this week.

Enjoy the silly photos and happy quizzing!

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