Author: Johnny Goodtimes

Overtime, Trash Talk, and a Shirtless Team On a Wild Tuesday Night

Things started pretty mellow on Monday, but got wild on Tuesday night. A member of Careless Fister closed out their victory over the Super Spreaders by hollering “Spread em for the Fister!” and a rivalry was born. The Fister will take on the winner of Pop Fit Studio and DelCoOVID 19.

Things got interesting in the Sweet Hats vs Boyz II Menehune matchup, as the Boyz II Menehune returned from their first breakout room imitating the Sweet Hats trademark of wearing sweet hats. The Sweet Hats then returned from the second breakout room wearing no shirts. The psychological chess game was a draw, but the Menehunes won the quiz, 49-45. B2M will face off against the winner of Duane’s World and In the Lead.

B2M showed up with hats…
The Sweet Hats responded by taking off their shirts.

In a matchup of the wily veterans of the Missing Heads and millenials of FFSF, the Heads struggled with clock management and fell in OT to the spry young FFSF crew. FFSF will play the winner of Cool Cats & Kittens vs Queso Regionale.

The L Ron Hubbard vs Mad Princes matchup came down to the very last question, as the two teams were tied through 23. But L Ron was able to get all 6 points on the double and squeak out a 44-42 win. They’ll go up against the winner of Lambda and I Shaved My Legs.

There’s No I, who only made the tourney by virtue of a coin toss, came away with a 49-47 win over hard luck El Tigre, who they had also narrowly defeated in group play. They’ll move on to play the winner of Social Distance Warriors vs Pearls of Wisdom.

To see the full bracket, click here.

A Tie Atop the Leaderboard in Our Regular Quizzes Last Week

Congrats to Chasing Olive and Hydroxychloroquine Latifah (great team name, btw), who tied atop the regular quiz leaderboard with 42. Here are the rest of the scores from last week:

1. Hydroxychloroquine Latifa42
T-1. Chasing Olive42
3. Clizby’s Chocolate room39
4. The Quarantiners38
5. The Covidiots36
6. Self-Contained Hootenanny35
7. Dobby’s Sock34
8. Jawn of the dead33
9. Quick Question33
10. Carole’s Husband33
11. Core-entine29
12. What About Bob?29
13. Team Marren27
14. Socially Distant26
15. Covid Baskin and the Quarantiger Kings14

Results of Monday Night Matchups

SERIE A RESULTS

The Zodiac Killer$ defeated Internet Explorer to move on to play the winner of Cracked Eggheads vs Yacht Rock, while the Underground Bard surprised Au Bon Pandemic and could face off with old City Tap House rivals the Sofa Kingdom, if the SK gets past CoVideo Killed the Radio Quiz.

NIT RESULTS

In the NIT, it was the Texas City Players Club knocking off the Divine Order of the Grease Pole, earning themselves a second round matchup with Axis of Evil Knieval. In our other NIT matchup, Below Basic pulled away late to come away with a 42-37 win over the Tuesday Night Quarantine Quizzo Club. They’ll take on the Stately Plump Buck Mulligans in Round Two.

Everything You Need to Know About The World Cup of Quizzo

Carl and I unveiled the brackets last night and discussed our picks in both brackets. We also broke the tie between Queefer Sutherland and There’s No in Quizzo, talked with Boys II Menehune team member Taryn Kutish, and chatted a bit with Chip Chantry.

So here are the all important brackets, both for Serie A and the NIT. Also click the tab at the bottom for the schedule, so you can see what time your team plays. We’ll start sending out invites today. We’re counting on the games lasting slightly longer than a regular season game, so the times might be slightly different than what you’re used to, but within 20 minutes of what .

I’ve made my picks below, going pretty heavy on the chalk.

Carl isn’t playing it so close to the vest, he picked some major upsets.

This week will be all of the first round games, then next week we’ll do the Sweet 16, then we’re thinking of doing something interesting for the Final Eight. We’ll keep ya updated.

We’ll also be doing sign ups for our next league starting this week. We’ll keep ya updated.

Quizzo Questions…and Gamecast

Thanks to quizzo regular Craig, we’re going to have some fun with some of our previous quizzes. You can play this quiz from last month, then you can check out below what percentage of teams got each individual question correct. Feel free to play along at home for fun if you didn’t play the quiz. Questions in Round 1 are worth 1, Round 2 are worth 2, and Round 3 are worth 3. Questions with stars beside them are worth double.

ROUND ONE: THE EASY ROUND

1. Often seen on TV, Mike Lindell is the inventor of what product?
2. Remember going to the movies? The top-grossing one of 2020, which has the subtitle “for Life“, is the third installment of what franchise?
3. In what city was the fashion house Armani founded?
4. According to Google, the most common internet “how-to” search has to do with this article of clothing.
5. What car part is often stolen for the precious metals it contains, such as platinum, palladium, and rhodium?
***6. Who was the first person born in the 21st century to have a #1 Billboard hit?
7. What primetime TV drama set a record last fall when it entered its 21st season?
8. What women’s wrestling league debuted in 1986?

ROUND TWO: The Picture Round. Flags: Name the Country.

ROUND THREE

1. Stevie Wonder’s best-selling single was released in 1984. What was it called?
2. What historic river will you find in Northern Italy, just south of the city Ravenna?
3. Cindy Lauper wrote the lyrics for what musical that debuted on Broadway in 2013?
4. It’s a fabric made from silk, often found in ball gowns and wedding dresses, and starts with the letter “T”. What is it?
5. Sculling and the eggbeater are moves found in what Olympics sport?
6. In what state do the three most populous cities all begin with the same letter?
7. Music in 3/4 time is known by what 5-letter term?
***8. In the continental US, what’s the largest state by land area entirely east of the Mississippi River, and the smallest state entirely west of it?

ANSWERS BELOW, CLICK 2.

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Going to the Circus…in 1968

Last week, Frank Fitzpatrick posted on twitter a news story from 50 years previous about a fight breaking out at a Clyde Beatty Circus.

I had never heard of the Clyde Beatty Circus so I looked it up and soon found myself down a strange wormhole of old circuses. A guy named Dennis Furbush used to take his 16 mm camera to circuses back in the day and had some footage of one that took place in Philly, apparently where the Franklin Mills mall is now. The footage was disorganized but spellbinding…it felt like traveling through time back to 1968. Just so much great behind the scenes footage.

I showed the story to a good buddy of mine, and he sent me a text that summed it up perfectly:

It’s funny, even though I understand and mostly agree with all the very good reasons that circuses–or at least that type of circus–don’t exist any more, I know the images and iconography have always stirred something very deep in me.  Something that touches on human beings’ capacity for play and appreciation for the absurd and the strange.  Things that have long felt under threat by the encroaching and suffocating same-ness of a mass-produced culture.  Add to that the communal aspect of it and how far away that now seems, and it makes me deeply sad for something lost forever.  Even if they were really shitty to the animals.

Well sometimes I get a crazy notion in my head and have to create something bizarre, so I decided to make a music video out of it, coupled with music from one of my favorite Philly groups, TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb. I spent way too much damn time on such a crazy project, but I think it came out kind of cool. If you enjoy it, feel free to share.

Sunday Night Signups for May 24

Sign ups for the Sunday Night Lab is now live. Each week we try out new types of rounds, scoring systems, etc. It’s free to play, and we donate 50% of tips to charity. The charity we’re donating to this week is Nourished, who provide healthy meals to over 1300 memebers of frontline hospital workers while also supplying business to local restaurants. It’s a great way to show our support for true Philly essentials while also helping our friends in the restaurant biz, so I was excited to partner with them. (If you’d like to donate without playing, contact Ryan at ryanschu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) Hope to see you Sunday night!

Sign Ups for Week of May 25

Starting a little early this week with sign ups for next week for our general quiz. If you haven’t played before, it’s pretty simple: you pay $30 and pick your time and put your captains email address. You can have up to 8 players on your team. You’ll get an email from your quizmaster with your zoom address the day of the quiz and forward it to your teammates. Then you’ll meet your quizmaster at the allotted time, your team will work together to answer questions, and the QM will keep your score. At the end of the week, we’ll add up the scores and post them. Hope to see ya next week!

WANNA PLAY THIS WEEK? We’ve still got a few openings here for Thursday and Friday night.