A couple of years ago, when I did that quizzo at the Kimmel Center for summer solstice, I decided to stick around rather late and saw these guys perform in the main lobby. And they were incredible, so incredible that I thought, “I’ve got to get these guys for Quizzo Bowl one year.” This is the year. They will be performing at the TLA between rounds at Quizzo Bowl VI. You can learn more about them, and listen to more of their songs by going to their website or by going to their Myspace. But listening to them online doesn’t do them justice. They are just lights out live. Trust me. This is going to be a crazy show.
Month: February 2010
Quizzo Bowl Tix Go on Sale Tonight!
Quizzo Bowl tickets will go on sale tonight at Johnny Goodtimes Quizzo. They are also available for purchase online, but there is a service charge online, while there is no service charge to purchase them from me. Quizzo Bowl will be held on Saturday March 20th at the TLA. Tickets are $25 each, and that includes not only quizzo, but also a great between-round band, which will be announced later today, and a halftime comedy performance. And of course, plenty of giveaways and a few surprises, as always. Maximum team size is 8. Teams of 4 or less will be combined with other teams of 4 or less to make one larger team. If you have a smaller sized team or are a free agent hoping to help another team out, feel free to let me know beforehand and I’ll see if I can get you matched up beforehand.
This event will sell out, so do not wait too long to purchase your tickets. Teams that dress up in uniforms or outlandish outfits will get VIP seating, just like last year. Yes, you are welcome to wear your uniforms from last year for credit. And no, one member dressing up does not count as the team dressing up. This is going to be a lot of fun, and there are even rumors of the Denver champions making an appearance at the event. I’ll have more on that soon.
Question of the Week
What terrible 2003 romantic comedy starred Ashton Kutcher and Tara Reid?
The Power Rankings
The QPR computer received an extensive upgrade this past week, and now is more powerful than ever. We are even able to save the rankings on floppy disk!
- Steak Em Up. Kenney defects to the Dysfunktion, who knock off the Steak, and yet they regain the top spot. The new computer apparently awards teams who play fair. Last week #2
- L. Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics. The Diabetics win their 5th in a row. Bounty Bowl this week! Last week: #1
- Narcotyzing Dysfunktion. The addition of Kenney, if permanent, would probably mean that the Dysfunktion would become the best team at the Bards. Last week: NR
- The Jams. They maintain the 4th spot by a single point at the most competitive venue on the tour. Last week: #4
- Lambda. Are these guys in training for Quizzo Bowl? They have been starting to creep around O’Neals on Tuesday nights here and there, and scored an impressive 113 this past week.
- Unusual Suspects. A come from behind win at the Black Sheep, enabled by a perfect Round Four, lands them in the 6 spot. Last week: NR
- Ivan the Trivial. A 2nd place finish comes on a week that a lot of teams have big wins, thus dropping them 4 notches. Last week #3
- Quiz on Your Face. One point is the difference between a top 10 ranking and a Top 5 ranking. Last week: NR
- Catcher in the Rye. Perfect through three, this two man team answers 37 out of 40 questions correctly, but fall in the 4th to Unusual Suspects at Black Sheep. Last Week: NR
- Magnus ver Magnusson. Remain in the Top 10 with a third place finish. Another 3rd place this week and they’ll be in the “Also receiving votes” category. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Last week #8
Also receiving votes: Catdog, Axis of Evil Knieval, The Ear, Duane’s World, 1022, Claudia Kishi Fan Club, Joe Spectre, Why Can’t Us, Phillie RNs, 4th Estate, Same Name as Last Week.
Super Bowl Stuff
Our family has an annual tradition of getting together with the family of my dad’s college roommate for the Super Bowl. My dad and his buddy Ron have watched every Super Bowl since Super Bowl III except for one when my mom was sick. Unfortunately, it looks like this year might be a wash due to this snow. So I’m not sure what I’m gonna do. Anyways, here’s a quiz on Super Bowl goats I think you might dig. Oh, and I’m rooting for the Saints. You?
Jams Win at Locust Rendezvous
First Place: The Jams (repped by Super Squibb) 104
2nd Place: Quiz on Your Face 103
3rd Place: Magnus ver Magnusson 99
Lambda Wins at O’Neals
First Place: Lambda 113
2nd Place: Ivan the Trivial 104
3rd Place: Einstein Disguised as Robin Hood 90
The Wing Round
In honor of that peculiar Philly Institution, the Wing Bowl, this week’s Wild Card Round was “Wings”. See how you do.
- Who has won the most Wing Bowls?
- Who released a song called Little Wing in 1967?
- Ahoy, sailor. This bar in Buffalo claims to have invented the chicken wing in 1964.
- Who was the lead singer for Wings?
- What two men are credited with creating the Wing Bowl?
- This woman starred in the film in An Officer and a Gentleman.
- Who were the two actors who starred as brothers on the show Wings?
- What was the first name of the lead vocalist for the band Winger?
- Bette Midler recorded the song Wind Beneath my Wings for this 1989 movie.
- What sport boasts a team called the Philadelphia Wings?
The Dirty Truth About Wing Bowl
Emetophilia is a sexual fetish in which an individual is aroused by seeing other people vomit. And the largest congregation of emotophiliacs in the world assemble annually for Wing Bowl, hoping that their perverted desires are met by gargantuan wing-eaters and scantily clad strippers. These emetophiliacs are predominately angry men embittered by a lifetime of following Philadelphia sports teams (I am going to coin a new term here: emeto-masochists). A smattering of scantily clad sirens, hoping to get a quick rush of self esteem by exposing their greatest assets, populate the arena as well.
I arrived on the high one gets by staying up all night with friends, ready to tackle a new and unusual experience, combined with a fair amount of alcohol. We entered the arena, and as our buzzes wore off, our eyelids began to gain weight. That is because Wing Bowl is a 15 minute event stretched into a 2 ½ hour spectacle. The contestants’ lap around the arena floor takes an interminable amount of time. The first couple of guys to enter gain a fair amount of attention due to their scantily clad escorts, who occasionally satisfy the crowd’s incessant chants of “Show your wrists*!” It is initially amusing, but after you’ve seen the first eight pairs of fake wrists, you’ve seen them all.
Then as the crowd begins to to doze off, the Jumbotron displays the highlight of the 2001 Wing Bowl, when a losing contestant released a torrent of vomit that rivaled anything you emitted on your most drunken night of college. And the crowd goes wild, their emetophilian desires met.
I began to fall asleep, until a fan angrily screamed at to “Wake the heck up**!” (Apparently, I was sullying the integrity fo the event by falling asleep.) And so I awoke to what seemed like Dante’s seventh level of hell: slothful men, surrounded by women of vice, cheered on by the types of people who root for career ending injuries in football games, my faith in humanity irreparably damaged.
*Ok, so they were chanting something that sort of sounds like wrists. And the guy next to me chanted this at least 400 times, without ever uttering another sentence.
**He did not use the word “Heck.”
It’s Official! Quizzo Bowl VI on March 20, 2010 at the TLA on South Street!
That’s right, folks, it’s on. Quizzo Bowl VI will be brought to you at the Theatre of the Living Arts on Saturday, March 20th at 8 p.m. sharp. We will have many more details in the coming days and weeks, but for now save the date. Tickets should go on sale next week. If anyone is interested in helping to sponsor the event, please let me know. This is a sweet venue. This is gonna be fun.