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What another awesome night of quizzing in the Heights. Yeah, the weather got a bit chillier (always after turning on the swamp coolers...), but it was still and awesome night for quiz. There's something nice about packing the inside of O'Niell's with nothing but nerdy. It's the same amount of teams we usually have, but thrown together into one giant sweaty mass of geek. Here's how it went:
We started the night with a round on categories. Where does one procure bottle caps when it's not Halloween. Haven't had one in years. I'm sure it's fizzy sugary deliciousness was just a complete byproduct of the instantaneous cavities being formed, but I'd probably munch on some of them still.
Our music round of the night had both a light side and a dark side. On the light side we had things like The Doors, Kanye West, and Ellie Goulding. On the dark side of things were Bruce Springsteen, TMBG, and Dio. Then there was the creepy muscular has been side of things featuring Madonna.
Round 3. Oh round three. Little Miss Sunshine is Now Little Miss Legal, a round on could you legally have sex with someone (alternatively titled: You're fucking old now.) We learned a few things on that round. A)You can bone someone born on the night of Mike Myers' last SNL appearance. That most people who sit in the cove area of O'Niell's are NOT happy with California' 18 years age of consent. And that if you go to any quizzers computer and type in the letter "b," auto-complete finishes it up with arely legal.
On our round on #julia, we discovered that as much as Obama's imaginary friend love health care reform, she also loves clubbin' it up with Four Loko, Lilith Fair, and one night stands. Basically, Julia is that girl in college you hated.
Our visual round was a atomic treat. Yeah, most of you remembered that Na is sodium and that Pb is lead, but you got a little tripped up on Radon/Radium and then just not knowing anything. Like, I'm not sure half of you understand waht the elements are type of just bad wrong answers.
Fernando took you on a ride through the world of canine crime-solvers and then we jumped into re-imagined TV theme songs. Yeah, I was a jerk, but Ghostbusters was a movie, not a TV show. That was The Real Ghostbusters. Finally, we came to round 8.
It was there on round 8 we remembered that people have better computers than I and are playing Diablo III right now, that marsupials always have twice the amount of sex we do, that Guinea is somewhere in the world, but you don't know where, that Phantom Menace made a lot of money, and that no one seems to know who Ministry is, let alone their (moderatly awesome) side projects. In the end though, we found our winners de quiz:
Third Place
The Invisibility Boosters
Second Place
Giraffe in a Turtleneck: You're Welcome Untitled Hipster Band
First Place
Stuck With This Name
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Wasn't it cozy at O'Niell's last night? And by cozy I mean since the wind was so intense the patio was shut down we squeezed nerds into every last seat in the bar. Of course that's not a bad thing. You got to stare your quiz competition right in the eye.
We started the night with a round on State Haiku. It was all factual, like Michigan being where people get shot, murders, milk, and shitty beer in Wisconsin, boobs and bayous in Louisiana, and racism being a thing of the past in Alabama. Nah! That last one is a total lie.
Our music round revealed to us that Gwen Stefani can in fact spell out banana, that Ray Davies can spell out cola, that Mellencamp can spell both ROCK and USA and that Ke$ha is a god damned shit stain on the world of intelligent human beings.
Our third round was all about Gary Busey and Mel Gibson. I wasn't lying about May being national Mental Health Month. And neither was Mel Gibson when he blamed Jews for everything. One time I had a dream I went go karting with Gary Busey. I still hold onto that dream on cold, dark nights.
Form there we had some fantasy islands, and tried identifying other holograms we wish to see. FYI teams, the point of that round was that those people were dead. You weren't supposed to name people who are alive.
Naturally the best round of the night was the one Fernando read on Crack-Man and Donkey Bong. Between Angry Turds, Chronic The Hedgehog, Schmuck Hunt and Call of Hootie I felt that every answer needed Ed McMahon in the background. HIYOOO!
After rocking out to some Lonely Island and then we had our final random round. After drooling over the world that should contain barbecue goldfish crackers we found our winners of the night:
Third Place
1.21 Jiggowatts
Second Place
Arby's Macht Fries
First Place
Dr. Emil Schauffhausen
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That was one of many things we learned at quiz last night. What else was learned? Lots. We learned that you guys don't know classic porn as much as you should. That you've never seen How Green Was My Valley. And that I'm awesome. Okay, that last one wasn't directly from the quiz, but should have been established by being in my presence. Because it's true.
I'm glad that you guys loved the pyramid song as much as I did. Why? Because it's going to stick around I think. Switch it up from just the Price is Right song.
During round 4 I wondered why there was never that episode of Blossom where Mayim Bialik and Jenna Von Oy "experimented". Think about it. Totally hot. Maybe when there's a reunion show. Also, if you haven't seen The Prisoner, do so and quickly.
The nerd highlight of the night was all about the old-school computer games round. The Incredible Machine? King's Quest? Myst? These are all things that helped shape me into the socially awkward introvert I am today.
After learning that we were all fooled by Halle Berry (seriously, she made like two decent films), we came to our final round where you got fooled by hipsters, R.E.M., Dick Clark and more. In the end, only three teams made it through alive:
Third Place
What Has 75 Balls and Fucks Old Ladies?... BINGO!
Second Place
4th Place Money
First Place
Emo Kids Should Kill Themselves With Sigh-Anide