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Merchants Cafe and Saloon
109 Yesler Way # 100
Seattle, WA 98104
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11:35 PM, July 26, 2012
Scores
Hawaii Victory Team 56
America 52
Berods 48
Kris Collier Mom 15
Canada Doesn't Abut South Africa; That's Just How They Say "About"
Stephen


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Oskar's Kitchen (Uptown/Queen Anne), Tuesdays 8-10 pm 		Stephen ()

Oskar's Kitchen hosts the preeminent Tuesday night quiz in ALL of Queen Anne Avenue between Roy and Mercer Streets.  Bar none.

About the quizmaster:

Stephen spent the first 24 years of life in northern Colorado, when a little tech company called Microsoft convinced him to try living in the Pacific Northwest.  After four years, he returned to Denver; but at the end of 2009 another little startup named Amazon lured him back to Seattle, and, as it so happens, he moved into a little place across the street from a place with a Wednesday night pub quiz.

After being a team player for a year and a half, Stephen took the plunge and auditioned for quizmastery.  He currently resides in lower Queen Anne, in a deluxe apartment in the sky-y-y, with his lovely wife Laura and a psycho killer cocker spaniel from hell named Kuno.

What an exciting, bright, sunny, warm day today was.  Someday, you can tell your grandkids that in 2012, summer fell on a Thursday.  And there was a quiz at Merchant's Cafe and Saloon that night.  And we saw that it was good.

Here are some of the awesome highlights:

Kris Collier Mom had to leave at the end of Round 4 ... but got an extremely respectable 5 out of 8 in our round about oil-producing states.  In honor of their effort, I jokered their final round on their behalf.  Very nice and subtle play on words in the team name.

Hawaii Victory Team was reluctant to be photographed early on, but overcame their shyness by the end and proved to be quite photogenic.  Plus, they came up with by far the most difficult bonus beer answer of the night, with nary a hint.  Trapped in the Closet?  Uh.  Mah.  Gad.

America pulled off the high score in both audio rounds, exhibiting their mastery both over songs that make you want to hate love, and songs that make you want to watch world athletes do things you would almost never want to watch more than once very four years.  Let's face it, you're probably not gonna hear the Italy national anthem any other time over the next two weeks.

The Berods aced the visual round, and were the only team to come up with the Sparrow as the guilty party in the archery murder of Cock-Robin.  They also went above and beyond:  team members actually came up and provided me some quite excellent trivia questions of their own after the quiz.

* What Canadian province actually extends further south than the northern border of California?  (Answer:  Ontario, stretching itself around Lake Huron.)
* How many steps would it take to get to the observation deck of the Space Needle?  (Assuming 8-inch steps, 780 steps to the 520-foot deck.)

In the end, Hawaii Victory Team did in fact achieve ultimate victory, but everyone was a winner tonight.  I have to say, this was a most satisfying quiz experience.  Come aboard next week and we'll do it again!