So, I walk to McGilvra's each week. Well, sort of, I hopscotch from bus to bus and then I walk the rest of the way. It's a pretty solid distance, up and down a couple hills, good for the legs. But today, I decided to try a different route. A shortcut, even. That did not work out so well. I somehow managed to wander into the Washington Park Arboretum, and I got my ass good and lost. At one point, I stumbled out of the woods into a kids' baseball game. Later, I emerged on a hill overlooking some truly beautiful scenery, but I was too busy worrying about getting to quiz on time to appreciate the majesty of my surroundings. Such is my devotion to you, my quizlings. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that this counts as a vision quest. Also, it ended when I got to the bar, so I'm pretty sure that my spirit animal is beer.

You shut your fucking mouth, my spirit animal is beer. Beer gives me visions, that is a hell of a lot better than most spirit animals can manage, discounting poisonous dart frogs and anything else that is naturally hallucinogenic.

Man, I have never had more people complain that they were the wrong age for the quiz. Everybody said they were too old... unless they said they were too young. I figure if everybody is getting a decent challenge, you might have to just suck it up and quiz, dudes.

A'ight, I'm out. I'll catch you next week. Hopefully this time I won't look like I just crawled my ass out of the woods. Have a sweet Thursday, people.

No You May Not Add This To Your XBox Live Account, Jackass

Evil Genius             65
RAE                     58
The Non-Athletic
  Tuiasosopo Kid        54
Yotes                   51
Sham Wow!               46
Dharma Initiative       40
Romano Was Robbed       39
Crocks                  27

Alright, we've got pictures and scores below. But before that, McGilvra's teams, I've got a bet for you. I want to see how many and how high-scoring teams we can pack in here next week. As added incentive, I've told Brian to bring his clippers. If I have four teams that score over forty, I told him we can finish the quiz with him shaving my head. We're doing this. Don't let Brian down.

And now, onto pictures and scores!

Placements =/= Placemats

Musky Treasures                            63
Red Flagged                                60
Wolfpack Drinks To Get Drunk, Bitches!     52
Canuck                                     48
II Live Brew                               42
Rocky                                      35
Bar Flies                                  29

Teams in the double digits, a damn fine quiz, and I completely forgot about April Fool's Day. All in all, not a bad night. Also, I learned I pronounce Bono wrong. Bough-nough? Really? I've been saying Bone-O. No wonder you guys looked at me funny. We'll put that one in the file with David Du-chuuuv-ney, Joi-let, and semi (not sem-eye, damn your uncultured American tongues) trucks.

(Super-secret-nerd-clue: Their name is totally my math fetish's fault this week.)

Of course, there's always more to win than just the quiz. There's the e-mail bonus question!

...Yeeeeeah, I was told to come up with something better for next week, much to my shame. Fine! You sign up for the mailing list between now and Wednesday, you'll have shot at winning an Edgar Allan Poe action figure. Don't forget, you can sign up here on the website if you didn't find time to sign up at the last quiz. I completely understand if you're too busy with the awesome pub quiz to remember to sign up on Wednesday nights, but now you ain't got no damn excuse. Ignore and grammatical challenges in the previous sentence and start getting clues!

Well, Obviously, Being Made Of Pi Is A Big Help In Any Situation

2/pi = Wolfpack!              64
The Copyrites                 61
The Poppysnaps                59
A Team                        58
Because I Make Bad Decisions       
  I'm a Home Wrecker          57
Canuck                        48
Goin' to California           44
Wino?  I Know                 37
Chow n Shells                 36
Connor & Company              30

As the token Canadian Quizmaster (quit oppressing my people, Dicker!), I feel that I'm the most appropriate person to make this particular testicle joke. I mean, that makes sense, right? I'm the closest thing we've got to an Englishman. A poor man's Briton, if you will.

...Does it add anything to my legitimacy as a faux-British person that I'm running next month's Harry Potter-themed Geeks Who Drink quiz? No? Fine. Look, bollocks is slang for balls, alright? I tried to get on the testicle pun bandwagon (much more fun than the testicle bandwagon, ew), but now you made me explain the whole thing. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Quiz summary! I was manic-depressive! Part of the quiz was shouted! Lots of people showed up! For the second week in a row, two person team Artsy Fartsy (they were Metal Urge last week) takes the win! They only had the high score in a single round, but daaaaaang. A thirty point music round is a hell of a start. They lost ground to the other teams for the rest of the night. In fact, the other teams gained ground almost uniformly, resulting in a four team pile-up at second place. We just had one hell of a high scoring night all around. Here's some pictures of our brainiacs.

Holy Four Way, Batman!

Artsy Fartsy              72
Wolfpack Isn't As Think 
   As You Drunk They Are  69+++
Blarney and Friends       69++
Team Awesome              69++
Poppysnaps                69+
Sparkly Sisters           64
Go Dawgs, Syracuse Sucks  61
Blue                      57
Ta-Land-Der-Ian           55
Voltron                   48
Barflies                  21

Tonight was amazing. You know why? I recognized almost every single face in my bar. There was a ton of you guys, and you were all returners. You like me! You really like me! (YouTube that if you don't recognize it. I swear it's topical this week.)

Quick reminder, quizzers. No quiz next Wednesday, because it's St. Patrick's Day. There will be live music, much boozing, and you may even be able to catch Sean the Quizmaster with his hair down, but there won't be a quiz. Come hang out at McGilvra's with me anyway!

Scormatronic Placement System

Metal Urge            59
Erin Go-Braless       53
Poppysnaps            51
Wolfpack Packs Light  45
Barflies              41
Chelsi & Nic Show     39
G & Dre               28