What a night of quizzing!  Our three teams were in fantastic spirits and ready to fight.   Armed with a surprising, if disparate, knowledge about both French and Adam Sandler films, these folks had some impressive rounds.  Take That Tater Tots (T4) and Corny Corner Creepers (C3) came together, and they swore the alliterative names were independently created.  While these two teams jockeyed for first place position throughout the evening, it was Polypropos who won the award for ‘most badass’ team.  Just take a look at the photograph to get a better sense of why. 

Some interesting notes from the evening:

1. At one point, fully 60% of the women in the bar were named Katelyn.  Seriously, even one of the servers was a Katelyn.  If you forget someone’s name when drunk in Boston on a Thursday night, go with Katelyn… the odds will be in your favor. 

2. Take That Tater Tots has a peculiarly strong knowledge of how famous people died.  C3 did alright too, but when they argued that Tupac could have been killed by firing squad, they lost some serious credibility.

3. T4 managed a perfect round in the 4th.  This was the first such round that this quizmaster has lorded over.  I tip my bicycle helmet to you, good sirs. 

Ultimately, while it wasn’t a blowout, T4 held the lead for a good portion of the night.  Never a foregone conclusion, but they were sitting pretty after a strong round 7.  Well done one and all.  See you next week.  

This week’s quiz was like the Civil War, in that it tore families in two and reeked havoc on previous relationships.   Take, for example, our second and third place teams.  You’ll note in the picture a group of 7 friendly and seemingly happy women celebrating a happy occasion.  Enter the pub quiz, with its 6-person team limit.  Suddenly, and without warning, factions develop.  The happy group ruptures into a 3 and 4 person team, sitting at the same table, pretending to be nice, but feeling blind hatred inside.  Look again at that picture of the 7 of them.  Have you seen a more thinly veiled rage? 
Just the same, Thursday was a mostly peaceful night at An Tua Nua, with steady competition throughout the evening.  We Miss Harrison staked out an early lead in the first round, busting out impressive knowledge of the solar system among other things.  It was Full Frontal Nerdity who took the lead in round 2, though We Miss Harrison quickly regained and held control for the rest of the evening.  The angry women on Who The F Cares and Full Frontal Nerdity continued to duke it out for second place throughout the evening. 
It seemed like the nerds would win second for sure (nobody could touch We Miss Harrison by round 5 or so), but a badass display of random knowledge by Who The F Cares propelled them into the lead at the end. 
Ultimately, Harrison proved irrelevant to this team of experts, who dominated the show without him/her.  Let’s hope these folks don’t cause any trouble, now that they’ve had a string of wins the last three times they showed up.  Harrison may well not miss them if they let it all get to their head.  A final note, a lot of people know a great deal about what y’all are going to make DMX do.  And more than I would have expected about Honey Boo-Boo.  Go figure.

It was a perfect fall evening Thursday night for a pub quiz, with a cool breeze that practically pushed 4 teams into An Tua Nua.  Good thing for us it brought some serious competition in the form of The Bulgarians and Me Duck.  Bulgarians, I learned, shake their head "no" when they mean "yes" and nod "yes" when they mean "no."  Of course, that didn't stop them from holding a steady lead throughout the first 7 rounds.  Presumably, this was due in no small part to an impressive knowledge of the broad categories of romantic comedy and sin (or romantic sin and comedy, I suppose--the lines were a little blurry in this week’s quiz).  And who knew that collecting midi files of all of Van Halen’s hits would have paid such dividends to CL in the lullaby round?

Meanwhile, our 4th round was topically relevant for the evening, since it was all about presidents saying the opposite of what they actually did.  As the round started began, so too did our two vice presidential candidates start saying the opposite of what they really thought at the time.  And frankly, we wouldn’t have been too surprised to hear Biden blurt out “I hate your ass face” during the debate either.  In reality, though, it was once again The Bulgarians who dominated your assface in round 7.

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