Toughest Questions from Last Week

Answers are after the jump.

Before WW2, what flavored filling did Twinkies have?
What sea does the Danube River flow into?
What’s the name of the acid in vinegar?
The Sixers have had the #1 pick twice. Who did they pick those two times?
What organ in the body destroys old red blood cells?
Where does Spongebob work?
What beer did ET drink?
What two word question is the opening line of Hamlet?
What beautiful creatures are lepidopterists big fans of?
We call this animal by it’s dutch name, but if you translated it into English, it would be Earth Pig.

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JGT Summer Invite Hits Full Speed Tonight on Big Money Tuesday

Group W was the first team to put major points on the board, with 5 points yesterday. The Champs added 3 and Duane’s World notched a single point. Action kicks into full force tonight with quizzos at O’Neals at 8 p.m. and Bards at 10:15 p.m. See if your team can get on the board early! $3.50 Margaritas at O’Neals and $50 for the winner. WIth a Bounty at Bards, it is a $40 gift certificate PLUS $35 IF YOU CAN KNOCK OFF STEAK EM UP! $75 for winning quizzo tonight at the Bards. That’s tough to beat.

Question of the Week

In 1968, University of San Fran grad student Charles Hall invented this, which he called the “Pleasure Pit”.

The First Annual JGT Summer Invitational!

25 teams will be invited to the First Annual JGT Summer Invitational, which will be held on the afternoon of Sunday, August 15th at the Urban Saloon, and which will award an $800 purse (and the prestigious “Milton Street Memorial Cup”). But you must earn your invite. Here’s how: In the next 7 weeks, we will keep track of all of our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Teams. Teams will get 5 points for a first place finish, 3 points for a 2nd place finish, and teams that finish 3rd will get one point. Furthermore, I may very well throw in a few more fun ways for teams to earn points, just to add a little intrigue. The Top 25 scoring teams after 7 weeks get an invite. In addition, the Top 10 scoring teams over the next several weeks will be entered in a drawing to win another $200 in cash*. $400 for 1st Place at the Invitational, $200 for 2nd place, and $200 for the drawing. (Yes, there will be an entry fee to the event, but only like $10, to help maybe get us a little entertainment.)

To play in the Invitational itself, each player on the team must have played with the team at least once (Unless you have a player coming in from out of state for the event) in the previous 7 weeks. For the next several weeks, please come up with a team name that you are happy with so I can keep track of your team more easily. This is going to be a lot of fun, and kicks off with quizzo at the Westbury tonight at 10:15 p.m. Get your best team together. Remember, you can have up to 8 people on a team. Call your nerd friends and tell them you really need their help for the next two months. And spread the word by clicking “Like” below!

*You must be present at the Invitational to win the drawing.

Quizzo Tonight at the Westbury

The Invitational kicks off tonight at the Westbury, where a last place finish last week due to a Musical Theatre Round led to the round of my choice this week. Here’s the details, from quizmaster Mike Minion.

Once again, JGT put together a team to play my quizzo last week, and once again, the result was , shall we say, less than spectacular. After all, last place is “less than spectacular”, is it not? The upshot is that he and his cronies got to pick this week’s theme round. Being the highbrow intellectuals that they are, they chose a topic that virtually defines the literati -PRO WRESTING. So put down your glass of merlot, pick up a PBR, and come on over to The Westbury tonight for a round of wrasslin’. The steel-cage brain slam starts at 10:30. For you wrestling fans, that’s when the little hand is between the 10 and the 11 and the big hand is straight down. Oh, and make sure the sun is down, because the clock looks like that TWICE a day. Anyway, prizes are $40 for first and $20 for second, and (as usual) there will be plenty of good beer specials. Hope to see you there. P.S. Don’t tell anyone, but I actually LOVE pro wrestling. But let’s just keep that between us, shall we?

JGT Power Rankings

A huge week of upsets has wreaked havoc on the power rankings.

Steak Em Up. A loss on Thursday doesn’t knock them out of the catbird seat. Last week: #1
L. Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics. A win on Tuesday, a shocking loss on Thursday. Still, they move up one spot. Last week: #3
Grab Your Ankles, I Want to Put It Innuendo. I don’t remember any team playing their first ever JGT quizzo…and beating Steak Em Up. Who the hell are these guys? Does Steak Em Up finally have a rival? Last week: NR
Magnus ver Magnusson. Last week not even a blip on the radar, this week a Top 5 ranking. Funny what a win over the Jams can do for you. Last week: NR
Newman’s Own. The JGTQCS computer almost exploded this week, with another team playing for the first time pulling off a win, this time at Black Sheep. Furthermore, they make a hell of an Italian dressing. Last week: NR
Tube Sock. A 2 person team that had won a 98 Degrees CD just a couple of weeks ago for last place pulls off an Upset for the Ages at the Ugly American and finds themselves in the most prestigious power rankings on earth.
The Jams. Picked a bad week to lose by a mere 2. With so many upset winners they drop to 7th. Last week: #4
Duane’s World. A 2nd place finish at Westbury was acceptable, but a rare out of the money finish at the Sheep sends their stock tumbling. Last week: #2
Savage Ear. O’Neals former Lone Stars stuck in a 2nd Place rut. But at least Annie got her gift certificate. Last week: #6
My Couch Pulls Out But I Don’t. Another team comes out of nowhere to impress at the Black Sheep, losing by only two. Last week: NR

Also receiving votes: Inglorious Barristers, Phillie RNs, Unusual Suspects, Why Can’t Us, Crazed Sex Poodle, Pork Fried Rice, 1022

Quizzo News and Notes

Holy Cow, what an incredible week. Four consecutive shocking upsets. I don’t remember a time there were this many upsets in a single week. The biggest one may have been at Ugly American, where a 2 person squad that won a 98 Degrees CD a few weeks ago for last place shocked a full Diabetics team. But they were hardly the only top seed to fall. The Jams fell on Wednesday by 2 points, Duane’s World finished out of the money at Black Sheep, and even Steak Em Up lost a close one at the Bards to a team that had never played JGT Quizzo before. This leads into what should be a really fun summer tournament. I will have details coming on Monday, I hope. Still have a few minor details to work out, but I am hoping to iron them out this afternoon. If this thing gets off the ground, the rest of the summer is gonna be crazy. In other notes:

Play the sports quizzes I’ve been posting on Comcast.net. The soccer team or cheese one is pretty fun.

My dream of sampling Pee Wee Herman on a rap song finally became a reality. This is just a rough draft, but I think you’ll kinda dig it.

Have a great weekend everybody.

Why Are There Two Bottles of Soy Sauce In My Flower Box?

I got home from lunch at Paesano’s* and noticed a few items had been tossed into my flowerbox. Now, the empty bottle of Bud Ice was no big surprise. There are virtually no trashcans in my neighborhood, so my flowerbox becomes a de facto trashcan fairly regularly. But that is where the mystery begins. Underneath the Bud Ice can were not one but two unopened bottles of Soy Sauce. Who was on their way home and decided, “You know what, these two bottles of soy sauce were luxury items. I don’t need these.”? I mean, I could see one bottle of soy sauce. But two? Could someone have put them down to tie their shoe and then gotten home and realized they left them somewhere? If you or anyone you know is missing two bottles of soy sauce, please tell them that Johnny Goodtimes has them and has not thrown them away. I gotta be honest, though, they’ve kinda put me in the mood for sushi.