Author: aetchells

Update on Quizzo Bowl, Etc.

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OK, first of all, I’m getting a ton of questions about Quizzo Bowl. Unfortunately, I was real close to signing a deal with the Marriott. But I thought I could convince them to drop a few more bucks off their room rental rate and they refused to do it. So here’s the deal. If I charge $25 a head, we can get the Marriott and do it next month. If I charge $20 a head, as I had initially hoped, I gotta find a new place and we won’t do it until at least the end of March. The $25 a head includes the normal entertainment (band, etc.) and a great venue but does not include alcohol (yes, there will be alcohol for sale but it’s not included in the $25 price.) I’m posting a poll below. Let me know what you think.

There is also a problem that doesn’t happen much but sometimes it does and I need to throw out a reminder. Do not come to quizzo if you are going to drink water and not order any food. I mean, you don’t gotta drink, but if you’re not gonna eat either then I would rather you not come. No offense, but these bars are running a business not a charity. If you’ve got a table of 8 and your bill is $20 you are wasting everybody’s time and space. Again, this is pretty rare and hardly worth mentioning, but I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page here.

Biggest hot streaks right now? Duane’s World has won 4 in a row. The Jams have won 3. As far as best chances to win? I’d say right now, the Black Sheep may have supplanted the Good Dog as most wide open. No offense to Duane’ World, who are a great team, but they have not had a good, solid rival in a while, now that Catdog has been scarce. If you want a solid shot at winning, I’d suggest Black Sheep.

And finally, a rather amusing antecdote for all of you Sofa Kingdom haters out there. They missed 3 questions out of a total of 80 in two quizzos this week…and lost both quizzos.

Scoreboard, Brought to You By Some of the Shots I Will Be Making Tomorrow

O’NEALS

  1. But Why is John’s Rum Gone? 97
  2. This is Not a Bus 84
  3. Brief Interviews W/ Hideous Men 79
  4. Dork Sided 77
  5. City Lickers 2 66

BARDS

  1. The Narcotyzing Dysfunktion 105
  2. Sofa Kingdom 104
  3. A Good 8 Yr. Old Doesn’t Need a Mom 84
  4. Emo Lawns Cut Themselves 80
  5. Chablis 60

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. The Jams 102
  2. We Have Nothing to Fear, But the Aliens 96
  3. 1022 91
  4. Trust Us We Know 89
  5. Dan and Kristy Forever 86

BLACK SHEEP

  1. Duane’s World 97
  2. Always Money in the Banana Stand 92
  3. Green River Wolves 70
  4. The Nordiners 67
  5. Air Jordan 62

GOOD DOG

  1. Guantanamo Bay Packers 117
  2. Barack Steady 106
  3. Invincible Ignorance 104
  4. Where the Hell Are my Friends? 91
  5. Young Jeezy 76

BARDS

  1. The Hurtin Bombs 119
  2. The Sofa Kingdom 114
  3. Lamda Lamda Lamda 107
  4. Just the Tip 97
  5. Happy Wrong # By the Sea 93

Hurtin Bombs Record Perfect Score; Goodtimes Vows Revenge

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It was a packed house at the Bards last night, and when the dust settled, one team did what only two teams have ever done before; they recorded a perfect score. And the Hurtin Bombs needed to answer every single question correctly, because even with a perfect score, they barely held off the Kingdom, who only missed one question. “I knew this was a fairly easy quiz after a team got a 117 at the Good Dog,” said Goodtimes. “But I wasn’t feeling extremely well so I didn’t compensate by adding a couple of tougher questions at the Bards. I regret that now. As a quizmaster, it is a sign of failure to surrender a perfect game. Therefore, I am declaring that next week will be ‘Nobody Scores 100 Week’ and the questions are going to be harder than hell. I’m sick of this s***.” As mentioned earlier, this was only the third perfect score in JGT Quizzo history, the other two having occurred at the Bards as well. The Kingdom did it in 2005, and the Narcotyzing Dysfunktion did it a mere four months ago. Goodtimes was ungracious about the perfect game, and stormed out of the Bards moments after the contest, vowing revenge. “We’ll see how everybody does next week, when I start asking questions about obscure Etruscan poets and the early history of laundry detergent. This is War!”

Speaking of Birthdays of People Who Died Strange Deaths, We Present…


…the birthday of one of the most idiosyncratic history makers of the 20th century. I’ve read several books about this guy. I mean, could you imagine if Malia had some unusual disease, and some crazy charlatan was the only person who could cure her, so Obama started having this strange guy stay at the White House, and while he was there he started sleeping with the wives of all of the higher-ups in government, so they had him killed? And then, well, if you don’t know about his death, do yourself a favor and read about it. Die Hard, folks. Oh, and he had a huge penis. Happy 140th birthday Grigorii!

Pub and Kitchen Donates Yards Kegs for Bowling Party

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Quick update on bowling night Saturday: Our good friends at Pub and Kitchen have gotten in on the act, donating two kegs of Yards Brawler for the fundraiser. If you can find a better deal than $20 for a night of bowling and good beer, let me know about it. In case you’re wondering where 16th and Shunk is click here for a map view. It’s 3 blocks off the Oregon stop on the orange line. (North one block, west two blocks). To RSVP, click here.

Getting Engaged…Via Quizzo

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A few weeks ago, quizzo regular Matt Ortman asked me to help him propose to his girlfriend Katherine. Some of you old schoolers might remember that I had performed this ritual several years ago**, and I pitched the idea to Matt that we do this one in a similar fashion: by spelling out the BIG QUESTION via quizzo answers. (These were all different questions than last time, btw.) Let’s see if you can figure it out. I had one team pick up on it early, but pretty much everybody else there (including the lady in question) had no clue that something was up as I asked the first round questions. The answers (and more importantly, her answer) after the jump.

  1. The Caribou and the moose actually belong to what family of animals?
  2. Three of Henry VIII’s wives had the same first name. What was it?
  3. Where on the body will you find the acqueos humor and the hyaloid canal?
  4. What’s the last name of Kurt Cobain’s former wife?
  5. What is a female sheep called?
  6. By George, he’s written a conservative column for the Washington Post since the 1970s and also written several books about baseball.
  7. What letter came before the word boat in the name of these German submarines used in both World War I and World War 2?
  8. Queen Elizabeth I had this Queen of Scots executed for treason in 1587.
  9. What is the postal code for Maine?
  10. Questlove doesn’t normally start his name with a Q, but with this, sometimes called an interrogation point?

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BMT Survives a Plane Crash

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When I saw the plane make the emergency landing in the Hudson last week, I thought of my good friend and quizzo regular BMT (above, red sweater), who was involved in an extremely hairy crash landing a few years ago. I asked him to relate his harrowing tale to us. Here it is:

When I lived in Boston I used to fly back and forth to the Buffalo area every other week. Like many misguided people, I was attempting to maintain a long-distance relationship which is always pointless and doomed. On one such trip I was flying to Rochester, NY but not until a lightning storm kept me sitting at Logan airport for 5 hours.

I had never been real keen on flying—-I was a jumpy, nervous psychological weakling in flight—-and so it wasn’t so much a relief when I finally boarded the plane. Because I made this 1-hour flight so frequently, I had a routine where I’d whine internally for the first 35 minutes of the flight and then get up and go to the bathroom, somehow knowing that when I zipped-up we’d be making the descent. For some reason this made me feel better.

While completing my routine, the pilot came over the PA and mumbled something I couldn’t really understand. In my mind of course, he was telling us that the wings had fallen off and that we were uncontrollably hurtling towards Earth, though in reality he was probably telling everyone about the Sky Mall or the weather. But when I opened the bathroom door and saw the passengers looking at each other with panic, I knew my fantasies about falling out of the sky were finally coming true.

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Bowling Party This Saturday

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Just a quick reminder that we’re having a bowling fundraiser for the Marian Anderson Rec Center where I volunteer as a basketball coach and where numerous folks from the quizzo community act as instructors in a weekly tutoring program, called the Rising Stars Program. I will have tickets to the event on me all week. They cost $20 and include all you can bowl and all you can drink. We’ll have snacks available as well. The party is this Saturday at 7 p.m. at St. Monica’s Lanes in South Philadelphia. 100% of the proceeds will go toward supplies, repairs, and field trips. Hope you can make it! TO RSVP, click here.