That is correct folks, we’re headed back to the street of Baltimore this weekend. Last year’s quiz on the Wire was an instant classic, and this one promises to be great as well. It’s going down this Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Trestle Inn. Drink specials, great mac n cheese, great prizes, and plenty of questions about Omar, Bunk, and Bubbles. See ya there on Sunday!
Month: July 2012
Axis of Steak Combines Forces in Obnoxious Display of Power
Duane’s World Cruises at Bards
Lapsed Catholic Policy Center Wins Thriller at CTH
L. Ron Hubbard Wins Shootout at O’Neals
The Jams Win at…North Star?
First Place: The Jams 112
2nd Place: Avenue Hustlaz 94
3rd Place: Scientology Ruined my Marriage 67
USA Quiz Tonight
Alright, let’s see how much you know about your native country tonight. If the first few quizzes this week are any indication, the answer is “Most of you should be deported” “not as much as you should.” Anyways, no bounty on for tonight since Steak already played and I’m too lazy to write new questions. So the bad news is, there is no bounty. The good news is, it’s wide slam open for a new winner at the Bards for the first time in months. Action starts there at 10:15 p.m. Before that, we kick off at the Ugly American at 8 p.m. $2 Lagers at UA. $2.50 Lager Lights at UA. See ya tonight!
Question of the Week
Red White and Blue Week Starts Tonight
Yep, it’s an All-American quiz this week, with questions about the Founding Fathers, the Liberty Bell, and terrible movies starring Will Smith and Bill Pullman.
We kick off this Red White and blue extravaganza tonight at the North Star at 7 p.m. $3 Kenzos, and half off of hummus and mussels. On to the Sidecar at 9:15 p.m. Dollar off all bitter beers and free Phils tickets to give away.
As for the quiz lineup this week: there will be no quizzes on Wednesday, and only one quiz written for the week, since I plan on eating hamburgers and watching fireworks on the 4th, and not writing trivia questions about Alexander Hamilton. A good quiz to get you in the holiday spirit, and help you earn points for the JGTSI (I’ll have a scoreboard up on Tuesday).
Drinking Water and Ordering Nothing
Originally posted this a couple of years ago. Gonna repost, since I saw a large team recently send their waitress scrambling for waters all night while spending about $10 combined between the 6-8 of them. This typically isn’t a major problem at my quizzes, but I just want to make sure everyone is on the same page.
A team played this past week at one of the bars with like 8 people on their team. I like this team. They’re a young team, really nice, really cool, and I don’t want to call them out, so I won’t say which bar or which team. But they ordered, for the entire table, 2 or 3 beers (total between the 8 of them) and 2 apps total. And lots and lots of water.
That’s not the way it works. Don’t get me wrong. You don’t need to order any beers if you don’t want to. There is no two drink minimum, and I have never pushed booze on anyone at my quizzes. But everyone on the team has to order something. That doesn’t mean you need to order caviar and foie gras either. It just means that if you go to a bar, you need to be prepared to spend something. That’s the way the thing works. If you don’t have at least $5, then stay home and play Trivial Pursuit. Quizzo is more fun, and don’t act like you don’t have 5 bucks in change in your couch. I’ve seen your couch. I’ve searched it when you weren’t home. There is A LOT of change in there.
And this not just at quizzo, that’s a good rule of thumb in general. Get a Coke and an app if you don’t want to drink. That’s fine. But you just can’t go to a bar or a restaurant and order nothing. It’s just not good form, and it’s disrespectful of your server to have her running around grabbing you waters that you won’t be tipping her for.
I’m not saying this stuff to be a jerk. Hey, I was young once too and didn’t know better. And Rick from the Champs is over 50 and he still doesn’t know it*. But it’s something that everyone who plays quizzo really needs to be aware of.
*just busting your balls, pal. I know how worked up you get over stuff like this so I couldn’t resist.