A couple of weeks ago we talked about the coming onslaught of Star Wars movies and this week we are only days away from the yearly May the 4^th celebration. We are also poised on the eve of the summer movie season and with a movie heavy quiz tonight it seems appropriate that we take a look at what is coming up in the next few months. Lots of super heroes from Iron Man to Wolverine to Superman to Kick Ass, Giant Robots fighting Giant Monsters, Johnny Depp taking top billing as a side-kick with a dead bird on his head, more of the Wolf Pack and their unlikely adventures in Vegas…this time the animal is a Giraffe, more Star Treking and this time into some darkness, a black and white take on Shakespeare shot by a guy who writes dialogue almost as well, and a Nicolas Winding Refn’s follow up to Drive which once again features Ryan Gosling saying not much while brutally beating the hell out of people. Lots of potentially good stuff mixed in with a lot of potential shit. It is the way of the summer. Now on to the quiz…

They say that lots of things come in threes like celebrity deaths, jokes, the organization of many structures of the human body, French hens, Billy goats gruff, days of the condor and occasionally double point rounds. This was one such game with three rounds worth double points. Luckily no celebrities had to die to bring this to fruition and there weren’t any hens and Billy goats running around the place. This did break up the traditional strategies involving the Joker and when to use it as a fair amount of teams decided to go for the gold ring at an odd spot. They say fortune favors the bold but this time around the two top teams went a more traditional route with Jokers in Round 2. As it turns out, sometimes fortune favors the people who can name a lot of songs and bands in music rounds. But we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves here.

Let’s hit the recap.

Round 1 was all about Of with every answer including the word Of in it…this was pretty easy for most teams if you set aside confusion over which mountain meatballs are on top of or what band likes to sing about their bathing suit areas.

In the music round we had songs about God and Jesus. I know what you are thinking, a bunch of songs by Stryper and Jars of Clay, maybe some Audio Adrenaline but it appears that secular bands have a lot to say about the ultimate father and son team. Apparently one of those things was ding a ling dang my dang along ling long. It’s a love affair.

Round 3 gave us our extra double point round as three clues were given and if teams could guess with just those three clues then they got double points. If they wanted they could hold out for two more clues for single points. A lot of people swung for the fences with Jokers on the double points and a lot of people got caught off the wall by the center fielder. It was a good effort but sometimes it is better to hit in on the ground through the gap.

That clunky baseball analogy leads us into Round 4’s sports theme that asks some relatively easy sports questions that proved to be relatively hard for more than a few teams. A few got a good piece of this meatball and went yard but most went down swinging.

Round 5’s visual round asked players to identify the movie or TV show featuring the cross dressing characters. This proved pretty easy for our progressive players who know their way around drag shows (and movies).

In a shout out to the new film, Round 6 Iron Man Three Sheets to the Wind asked players to string together a movie title with a phrase with a shared word or syllable. Teams did pretty well here but some learned the hard way that when  it asks for a movie title you have to give the whole title. Seriously, we said it several times. Why assume that title doesn’t mean the whole title? You know what happens when you assume right? You lose points for the question.

Round 7’s audio round asked players to name clips from movies from February, March and April. There were a couple of gems hidden in this batch of films from the notoriously worst time of year for movies but for the most part the movies were god awful. If there is a take away from this it is that geeks who drink have pretty good taste in movies even if it bites them in the ass in audio rounds.

Round 8 was Random Knowledge as usual. Scores were pretty middle of the road here with fewer teams using the joker rendering the round less potent and much less game changing than usual.

At the end of the night, two man team ‘Crazy’ Wranglers wrangled their way into 1^st place and a $25 gift certificate for Bumsted’s while Dan Halen skirted any manner of Sammy Hagar or Gary Cherone shaped landmines to come in 2^nd place and earned themselves the $10 certificate. Quizzer Colin won the email bonus prize which was Understanding Men Breath Spray and Jake won the Facebook group challenge question and opted for a tasty dessert in lieu of beer. Anyone who has every had a dessert at Bumsted’s knows that this is definitely a smart play for a smart player.

So that wraps up another raucous week at Bumsted’s for Geeks Who Drink quiz. Join us next week for more and May the 4^th be with you!

Last night we were reminded of the golden rule.  Fortunately no one demonstrated helicopter dick for us.  You wanna know their secret?  Once the lights go out, she leaves. 

Ok, so apparently we pissed off an old gypsy lady.  A few quizmasters are experiencing medical pains.  Fortunately mine stayed at bay long enough for me to enjoy a night with you all.  With time my pain will pass so I can come back and abuse you all some more.

Mari  will be back as well.  It turns out there was something going on with her cat or her boyfriend’s cat or something along those lines.  I didn’t probe too hard, but that’s just me.  I’m probably completely off, but I’ll let her tell you all about it when she returns.  I’m sure she’ll blame it on me anyways.

When it came to quiz, what was on board? 

We start with recently in stuff.  Shit is still bad, people dying tragedy all around and then they go and spit in our faces and give Ryan Lochte his own show.  Well if the Kardashians can have one, why not another zero personality douche.  Well at least he has some kind of talent.  We then moved on to paradise.  Eddie Money has two tickets, but after seeing that insurance commercial, I don’t think I want to go.  Unfortunately Weird Al was booked elsewhere and couldn’t make the round.  Ok, so LARPing is too much work.  I can never find the right boots for it.  Now some D&D is fun, I still don’t understand Magic: The Gathering.  I know there are cards and flipping and traps and Pokemon and the occasional Alyssa Milano appearance, but I never got to sit down and try to play.  Oh well.  I’ve got some Fullmetal Alchemist to catch up on.  (I’m kidding, I’ve seen them all.)  Ok, let’s move on to winning now. Adrien Brody fizzled out for an academy award winner.  It turns out you don’t get a Nobel Prize for making atomic bombs. There go my dreams.  Also The first Death Star was destroyed at the Battle of Yavin.  Alderaan wasn’t really much of a battle, it was more of a massacre.  So it seems sports teams hop beds more than a Jersey Shore club girl.  When did the Rockies move?  Don’t they know it’s dangerous to go to Jersey?  1984 was an interesting year.  It shows we had no idea what we were thinking back then.  Beverly Hills Cop did better in theaters than Ghostbusters?  On second thought, let's not go to the 80s. It is a silly place.  So Bilbo wouldn’t shut up, so you had to.  He went on and on about a story and a lot of you answered spot on.  You must know how to read.  Is it me or are Hobbits hippies?  They love growing things, smoke “pipe weed” and like ales and food, they live on a collective, ad don’t wear shoes.  Sound like a bunch of hippies to me.  They were short a Frisbee and a drum circle.  So on to the last round.  Lay’s is making some odd flavors.  Just know it is going to get worse before it gets better, so expect Honey Boo Boo’s Sketti flavor soon.       

1st place by a big margin was When my girlfriend does anal, she uses a diarrheaphram.  They claimed the $25 Bumsted's gift certificate and took the Canyon's crown cert as well.  2nd place went to the confidently named With a commanding lead of .76 points.... the took the $10 Bumsted's gift certificate.  Email winner Brianna got the bathroom survival kit to keep her privates safe in public. Well done.

So another week is done.  Mari will be back with more quiz. So get your asses down to Bumsted's and share in the fun. 

We are about to head into the summer movie season in less than a month and while this year doesn’t look like it will hold a candle to 2012, there are a few interesting movies this summer. As interesting as those movies are, and as interesting as the movies of 2014 are sure to be, we are likely standing on the precipice of a looming darkness. The darkness in question is uncertainty for the future for us that is a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away for movie goers. According to a presentation at Cinecon, a convention for theater owners that takes place in Las Vegas, Disney intends to roll out a Star Wars movie every year starting in 2015. This means that one year we get a numbered installment and the next year we will get a spin-off standalone movie. Think about that for a second, a new Star Wars movie every year forever…or at least until they stop making money. It is a good thing every character in the universe has a name and some kind of cobbled together backstory because we are going to be seeing a lot of material. Think this is random? Think again and wait until you get to the Round 7 recap.  

So now on to the quiz which turned out to be an epic struggle which culminated in a deadlock for first that can only be resolved with a head to head tie-breaker round, but I am getting ahead of myself. Like Memento we are going to go back and see how we got to the end. But we aren’t going backwards so I guess it really isn’t all that much like Memento after all. So let’s just forget the Memento thing, okay? You know, like in Memento where he forgets things really quickly? Just like that.

Round 1 asked players to name a celeb who is also a sentence. Huh? Yeah. We needed the first and last name. The first part of the sentence described the celebrity and the second part specifically addressed the last name. It sounds confusing but with more than a few perfect and near perfect rounds it clearly wasn’t confusing enough. Clearly.

As usual, Round 2 was an audio round based on songs that deal with greed. Gordon Gecko says greed is good but a lot of you disagreed since only two people jokered this round. Given the scores on this round, that was probably smart.

Judging by the scores in Round 3, you can really tell that Arizonans don’t have to worry about tornados as naming 8 of the top 10 states in terms of total tornados per square miles in 2 ½  minutes wiped most teams out like they were extras in Twister. Watch out for that cow. It hurts when it hits the face.

The good ship Geeksalot righted itself a bit for Round 4 where the theme was Holland, Oats & That One Group. And for you Hall & Oates fans the number for the CallinOates hotline is 719-26-OATES. You’re welcome.

In Round 5 the geeks took center stage as you were asked to name the movie or TV show the pictured geeks were from…and judging by the scores you geeks can smell your own because there were 9 teams with perfect scores out of 15. And three of the others scored 7. You geeks know your geeks.

Round 6 was an exercise in cruelty for some teams as we asked you about China. Turns out a goodly portion of you don’t know much at all about China. It is understandable given the amount of time most of you spent watching TV shows and movies featuring geeks that facts about China escape your notice. But come on, the least you could do is know some stuff about Mulan.

Round 7 was the rare extra double point round and what’s more it was based around Star Wars. And when I say Star Wars I mean the original trilogy. The real deal. We had Chewy interrupting lines from the good movies and players had to give the missing word or words that Chewy roars over and then give the roman numeral of the episode in which the lines were spoken. This is where the majority of teams jokered and by and large, they killed it like a Rancor standing under a pointy gate.

The dreaded Round 8 was somewhat toothless this game not because it was easy or more random knowledgy that normal but rather because so many teams jokered Round 7. From sovereign nations to tax evasion, Round 8 was pretty random but it didn’t do diddly squat to turn any tides this time around. Blame George Lucas. Everyone else does.

When the dust cleared and the screaming stopped, there was a ton more dust and screaming as One Too Many Penises found they had one too few correct answers to beat the Gentlemen of… outright so they had to head into a heated tie breaker that found Penises victorious. There was some complaining that the tie breaker was not a wacky dance off or Macho Man impression-off but as long time players will know, you only win the top spot by being the best at trivia and not shaking your ass. That is for lower places and various favors afterward in the parking lot. Congratulations to all the teams and hold your heads up high. We can’t all have one to many penises. Be happy with however many penises you have and see you next week here at Bumsted’s!  

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