Chemical names and me just don't mix.  No matter how many times I check the pronunciation I have a tough time with them.  I should just have Siri read some of those words for me.  When I first looked at 'acetylsalicylic' on question four in round six earlier in the day I was like 'ummmm,'  I had it figured out but missed it at quiz until Sarah corrected my pronunciation.  Thank you Sarah for that.  I apologize to everyone who came to quiz and had to suffer through a few mis-pronounced words.

It's ok though, quiz this week was awesome!  Not only did we have a tight race and a lot of teams, but we even had a tie for 1st place!  It came down to a chug off between Bryan of BEEF TITS and Kaitlin of DUTCH RUDDERS. (see the video here)   Kaitlin won in part because she started drinking as she lifted the beer of the bar.  Had Bryan done that method too maybe we would have had a tie.  Who knows.  You guys are awesome and congratulations to you both!

Quiz this week was impressive.  Scores for all rounds averaged pretty high except on round 6 which was the botany round.  Just about everyone had a perfect score on our visual round this week. I was a little bit shocked when we had people missing the question about the South Park Casa Bonita episode.  You live in Colorado and that episode is something that just about everyone knows about regardless if you watch the show or not. 

Regarding the South Africa Marikana mine, it does in fact produce platinum, check it out here.  While it's not at all shocking that just about everyone put 'gold' as the answer I was a little puzzled as to how one team considered diamonds a precious metal.  I'm looking at you CORY. 

SCORE RECAP (ALL SCORES ARE PRE JOKER)

That's a wrap for this week. Check out the video of the chug off here and visit our Facebook page to tag yourself in photos here. There were a lot of new faces this week and I expect to see everyone next Thursday at 8!