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The Dubliner Pub (Cambridge)
2046 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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4:00 AM, June 14, 2013


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Need A Trivia Answer? Why Not Zoidberg?	85

Team Burpee	83

Team Noobs	72

Monstars	70

Dammit, Bears!	69

Tastes Like Schweddy Regina!

Jon Gabso

Ah yes, it doesn’t matter who shows up for a pub quiz, so long as everybody’s sauced the one guarantee is that if you successfully convey any manner of sexual innuendo, many a healthy guffaw will result. As esteemed as GWD quizzes are for their intended purpose, I feel like you could also use them to scientifically gauge the sense of humor of many inebriated bargoers. Dick jokes are a hit. Pronouncing “Regina” (as in Saskatchewan) correctly gets plenty of larfs. Harkening back to Alec Baldwin’s famous Schweddy Balls is always tasty. Salty yet sweet indeed!

It’s just as fascinating (at least for a veteran quizmaster like myself) to see what yet another shift in the quiz atmosphere can do to the quiz as a whole. Tonight’s quiz started off with a significantly weird configuration. As we sauntered up on 8 P.M., there were two enormous parties taking up huge chunks of the Dubliner for their own purposes e.g. homecomings and whatnot. We’re talking somewhere around 10-12 people each who had been sticking around getting hammered for at least an hour or so before the quiz. Of course I’m going to rope these folks into proceedings, because it’s always exciting to see how folks already in party mode before the quiz begin to perform when the first round starts. These two enormous parties split into The Meat Sock Marinade and ARE Team on one hand, and Bulger’s The Man and Team Burpee on the other. These folks by and large were not expecting a pub quiz at all, so I thought it a nice social experiment to weigh them up against regulars like Box Full Of Tacos, Need A Trivia Answer? Why Not Zoidberg?, Monstars, and Two Angry Beavers. Just who’d come out on top in tonight’s abbreviated prize race for the top 2 teams would be kind of a surprise.

Early on, Zoidberg and the dark horses Drinks On Us! JK would take a sizeable lead as the only two teams to joker Round 2, with Drinks notching 13 and Zoidberg an unbeatable 15. Although they didn’t joker (thankfully for them), Team Burpee and Team Noobs (who missed our 1^st round entirely) both notched a quiz-best 10 points in the geography crash course that was our Sooner or Later Round 3 to nudge themselves upward a bit.

As we made our way towards the end of Round 4, The Meat Sock Marinade couldn’t conjure a better answer for Question 8 in our visual Round 5 than “Fisting for Grownups 4”. Seeing as this was a visual round on Meryl Streep films, Fisting for Grownups 4 seems unlikely, and they seemed to think that was the title of A Prairie Home Companion. Parallels could be drawn, sure, but that’s far from a correct answer. To provode equal opportunity slagging, our trusted regulars in Box Full Of Tacos made a major flub in thinking that Tipper Gore’s PMRC stood for Parents’ “Masturbation” Resource Center, rather than the correct answer, “music”. Larfs, as established, but certainly no points.

Upon the quiz’ culmination, our eventual champions Zoidberg rode that near-perfect jokered Round 2 along with their botching of only 10 total points (combined with their deference of the 16-point option in Round 2) to tonight’s championship and a stellar 85 point performance. We’ll likely see them back next week with their $30 gift card, and runners up Team Burpee (who I suspect may have absorbed some members of Bulger after most of their players left) finished two points back after exhibiting a similar form of consistency and took home the $20 gift card for 2nd. Tonight, we decided with the slightly low number of teams not to reward 3^rd place with a prize, but few 3^rd place teams would be more deserving than Team Noobs, who walked into the bar well after the 1^st round was finished and still managed a strong 3^rd despite them completely zeroing out Round 1. Those dudes undoubtedly earned the hugest wow factor without actually finishing with a prize. Well, at least I got to reward one of them with an Angry Orchard hat after he was the only one in the bar besides me to know that Jason Leffler died yesterday. Leave it to me to toss out renegade NASCAR questions when George the badass Samuel Adams rep stops by to showcase their new Belgian stlye IPA and toss me tons of extra schwag to augment my bonus prizes. Thanks George! And Sam, for that matter.

Thus, a bizarre, rainy night at the Dubliner ends with a new championship team comprised of trusty regulars and the prospect of them repeating next week. Hell, it’s up to you and your buddies to unseat em anyway, isn’t it?

The Dubliner Pub (Cambridge)
2046 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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1:35 AM, June 07, 2013


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Fah Q's	78

Superfriends	77

Quiz All Over Your Face	74

You Can't Spell Crosby Without Bitch	73

Monstars	73

Steve Holt!	70

Box Full Of Tacos	69

Waving Flag	68

The Tank	67

Pandora's Padded Bra	65

Katie	63

Y'all Don't Say That	62

Homebrew	54

“Korea” Gets You Boos

Jon Gabso

The waves of progress drift the wayward onto foreign paths, wherewithal said strays rejoin upon that which originated thee sojurn. There’s your life lesson, so the rest of my quiz recap will consist of cussing and gay jokes. Well yeah, what goes around comes around, and weirdly enough after a couple mad busy quizzes packed with new players, our quizzee ranks slimmed down to 13 this week yet quite bizarrely saw a fuckton of long absent old regulars return. I haven’t seen The Tank at the Dubliner since it had a different name, and they came out three-strong for tonight’s quiz. We saw Steve Holt! return after a few weeks’ hiatus and Superfriends and Homebrew bring out sizeable groups after short lulls. And of course, Box Full of Tacos and our team of regulars with the morphing monikers (this week they were You Can’t Spell Crosby Without Bitch, which is true and don’t fucking question it) came out as per usual, with the former trying for a three-peat. And yet despite the strong revival of old friends, none of them won. Shit gets funky like that at the Dubliner.

Gawrsh, I get sweaty when the quiz is so close and I have to make so many tough officiating calls. In Round 1, I made the decision to make answers with names include the first and last names in order to be correct (since state capitals were in all the answers, thus making names immediately easier to guess), but when scoring I realized that discounting just “Olympia” for “Olympia Dukakis” wouldn’t make sense if Michael Dukakis is mentioned in the question. Then we had boos in Round 2 for me not counting “Dead Or Alive” as the song title for Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” (what’s new there?). Finally, two teams named “Korea” rather than “South Korea” as the developer of the Daewoo K1 assault rifle, which I decided to accept, garnering even more boos. C’mon, do you really think North Korea invents anything besides new human rights violations? Tricky calls all, and it’s certainly tough in such a close quiz.

So we had all these regulars return and none of them won. We can blame the five-man powerhouse known as Fah Q’s for this upheaval of the old guard. They apparently claimed they’d never played trivia at all anywhere as a group before, which is pretty remarkable for a team who one by one point with a solid total of 78 tonight. Their 16-point rounds were iffy, with 12 points jokered in Round 2 and 11 notched in Round 8, but in every other round they missed only five questions total. This, overall, is an incredible effort from an apparently rookie team. They edged out runners-up Superfriends by a single point. Superfriends jokered an impressive 13 points out of Round 8, and also scored 8/8 on a spectacular four rounds, but perhaps a 4-point Round 6 ended up being their undoing. And of course, it wouldn’t be a GWD quiz without a facepalm-worthy joker fuckup, and it was 3^rd place Quiz All Over Your Face taking that home with them, as they jokered an 8-point Round 1 for some reason. Had they jokered the very next round in which they scored a quiz-high 14 points, they would have been tonight’s champs by two points. Woulda coulda shoulda.

Ahoy, like last week, hockeytimes permitting, you should totes come on by next week to boo Korea and fuck up your joker. Or maybe just win some free grub instead.

The Dubliner Pub (Cambridge)
2046 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
Thursdays: 8:00 PM
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1:51 AM, May 31, 2013


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Box Full Of Tacos	75

Quiz All Over Your Face	69

Hobocops	68

Chubby Butt	66

Tortorella's Unemployment Officer	65

Toejam & Earl	65

Jello Biafra’s Only Relation to Def Leppard Is That He’d Likely Want To Pour Some Sugar In Our Quizees’ Gas Tanks

Jon Gabso

The aura at tonight’s Dubliner quiz was that of the classic crackin, elbow-to-elbow packed, super close and wildly exuberant variety. We had 17 teams, typical of a peak quiz crowd, and as per usual I was given several opportunities to tsk-tsk peoples’ lack of basic music knowledge like an elitist asshole. So basically, it was a top notch Dubliner quiz. It felt super awesome on a sweltering day like today to get into the AC, and it was even better to return after a Bruins-imposed hiatus last week to a riotous affair. And indeed, like usual, it ended up being a pretty tight field, but this time it was more out of some mutual failure than it was everybody killing it.

I set the stage after passing out the visual rounds and repeatedly telling people that it was likely the easiest Round 5 I’ve ever seen. Our quizees had to identify 8 of the most obvious band logos imaginable, it’s the sort of thing I’d get a perfect 8 on just by glancing at it for one second. To me, recognizing these logos is like recognizing what a stop sign means. Not for our quizees, though. Public Enemy’s logo was eventually mistaken for The Killers’ nonexistent logo, Radiohead’s bear head logo was assumed to be Deadmau5 or Danger Mouse, Weezer is Winger apparently, and perhaps worst of all, the Dead Kennedys logo was attributed by about three teams to (barf) Def Leppard. I was thinking this would be 8’s all across the board, but in the end only Box Full of Tacos and Tortorella’s Unemployment Officer managed to nail down 8’s.

The disappointment didn’t end there, as I once again assumed Round 7 would be everyone’s slam dunk. All the quizees had to do was indentify the genders of certain androgynous singers. T’was a damn 50/50 round too! Turns out, 11 of the teams somehow scored 5 or less. I suppose the Silversun Pickups frontman, Boy George, Nina Simone and Allison Moyet are such convincing vocal trapz, they had everybody thinking they had different naughty parts than in actuality.

These myriad fuckups set the stage for quite a close finish, whereas for the first few rounds newbies Jem and the Holograms (who were also quite sly for changing their name on me about 2 rounds in) held a commanding yet minimal lead after a jokered 14-point Round 2, and yet it was none other than the suddenly-legendary Box Full of Tacos, our defending champs, who jokered 13 points out of the final round to come from behind and score a six-point victory to repeat. It used to be the case that the Tacos would get devouered every week, and now all the sudden their manner of preparation has now given everyone the mudbutt, putting them in control of all of us. Can they make it a three-peat and send everyone dashing for the pot again next time? I’ll be there to find out.

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