Month: March 2009

Local Emo Punk Band Inspired by Quizzo

killface.jpgThis from this week’s Philadelphia Weekly: How, exactly, does one stumble upon the moniker “Kill You in the Face”? For the eponymous local band, it stems from an intense dislike of Quizzo. “It was a tongue-in-cheek sort of thing,” says Kill guitarist Mike Romeo. The band regularly met at a bar Tuesday nights, despite the fact it also featured Quizzo. “We’d be mad about it, but one day we decided to play,” Romeo explains. They named their team Kill You in the Face, and a band name was born.

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Toughest Questions From Last Couple of Weeks

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  1. What country leads the world in beer consumption per capita, as its citizens drink almost twice as much on average as Americans.

    2. a) Ireland b) Germany c) Czech Republic d) Australia

  2. Titanic is the only film that is not a sequel to earn $1 billion at the worldwide box office. What are the three sequels ?
  3. When Forbes released its first list of Richest Americans in 1918, who was #1?

    4. a) John D. Rockefeller b) Andrew Carnegie c) Henry Ford d) JP Morgan

  4. Carl Switzer, who played this memorable Little Rascals character, was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1959 at age 31.
  5. What was the last NCAA men’s hoop team to enter the tournament undefeated?
  6. The only Democrat elected President between 1860 and 1912 was born on in 1837. Who was he?
  7. who wrote Portnoy’s Complaint and American Pastoral
  8. What is the capital of the Canadian province Alberta?
  9. What popular character did we get rom Lucy Maud Montgomery?
  10. At up to 2,500 pounds, they are the largest terrestrial mammals in North America.

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Couple of Quick Quizzo Bowl Notes

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First of all, just a heads up. We will be starting at precisely 6 p.m. on Saturday, not the normal Johnny Goodtimes schedule. Doors open at 5 p.m., but be in your seat by six, because that’s when the trailer to the Quizzo Bowl Documentary will begin. Also, I need one more person to help with scoring, preferably someone with a little Microsoft Excel knowledge. If you aren’t playing but wanna see the show and are good at grading papers, let me know. I will have tickets on me tonight at quizzo, or you can purchase them online. It’s gonna be a hell of a show folks. Where else will you see a Hall and Oates cover band, a Lion Troupe, and have a chance to win $800 this weekend?

Lion Troupe Added to the Show

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Got our halftime entertainment, gang. A Lion Troupe, like the ones you see on Chinese New Year, will be entertaining us for halftime (which we are gonna move back to the end of the third round). This is gonna be off the hook. As far as ticket sales, we just crossed the 125 sold mark, and I am holding another 50 for people. That leaves 100 unclaimed tickets left total. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY TO BUY YOUR TICKETS. I am fairly certain they will be sold out by then. I will have them on me tonight at quizzo, or you can buy them online.

Dark Horse John Hangs Up the Questions

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Last night marked the end of the line for a local quizzo luminary, as Dark Horse John decided to call it quits after four years of quizzing. John, who was once part of a solid team at the Bards called Stupid Sexy Flanders, ran a good quiz, and more importantly, had a good quizmaster personality. He seemed to know when the occasion called for being bombastic and smug, and when it called for being a bit more sensitive. The questions themselves were a good mix, and he ended with quite honestly his best questions ever last night. And in the true essence of nerdom, he ended his run with a post on his blog about science fiction. I realized yesterday that I started this gig around the same time that Battlestar Galactica came on, so ending it the same time the show goes off is a nice sort of symmetry reminiscent of a classic Greek drama or, well, Battlestar Galactica. One of Dark Horse John’s questions last night was about Sophocles, who once said, “Always desire to learn something useful.” Screw useful. Us quizzo nerds desire to learn things that are useless, and DHJ did a damn fine job of preaching the word of useless trivia to the thirsty masses. Kudos, DHJ. And in saying goodbye in the nerdiest way possible, I simply propose that you live long and prosper.