For those of you who have signed up and made a deposit for SUMMER SLAM! feel free to sign up for the first four weeks of SUMMER SLAM! You can pick your QM and your time for each week. No signing up for a slot until you’ve signed up and made your teams deposit. Sign ups are here.
Wanna know more about SUMMER SLAM!? You can find more info here.
Please note, I’m on vacation for Week 3, so teams can sign up for me for weeks 1, 2, and 4 but grab someone else for Week 3.
Carl’s gonna take the reins on Sunday night for this week’s quiz. Which, as several of you have rubbed in my face lately, is JUST FINE. If I hear one more time, “Carl would have given us credit for that” or “Carl’s quiz is so much more fun” I’m going to lose it. Jerks.
Anyways, if you want to sign up for a special Father’s Day edition of the quiz, you can do so here. I’m psyched about the charity we’re raising money for on Sunday as well. Young Fathers United works with young fathers in the Philadelphia area, some of whom have never had a father figure in their own lives but who want to be good dads. 50% of tips this Sunday night will go to YFU.
I spoke with the gentleman who runs the organization, Archye. They run three 13-week programs each year and he told me that due to COVID, funding was becoming an issue, and he was incredibly thankful that we were reaching out. If you’d like to donate and aren’t playing the quiz you can still donate by venmoing me at @jgtquizzo and posting YFU in the note, or you can go directly to their website and donate there.
Last week our baseball quiz raised over $600 for the Anderson Monarch baseball program, we raised $200 for the Nourished Nurse Program at Penn, and we have raised over $1000 for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights campaign in the past three months. I cannot thank you guys enough for your generosity! I’m pretty damn lucky to be surrounded by such an awesome group of people. (Except for those of you who heckle me about Carl. Come on, he’s not THAT good. Geez.)
Alright folks, time to move on to our next hare-brained scheme! It’s called SUMMER SLAM 2020 and the breakdown is as follows:
THE ESSENTIALS
THE BELLS & WHISTLES
And yes, all things SUMMER SLAM must be capitalized and said with enthusiasm. Otherwise, don’t say it at all. Hope to see you this summer!
Here ya go, gang, sign ups are live for this week’s quizzes! $35 to play, just your team with a quizmaster of their own, with $5 going to charity.
Shout out to Cool Cats and Kittens whose score of 50 was the highest of anyone last week. Here are our full final standings. We’ll see how this affects our top 20, coming out later this week!
| 1. Cool Cats and Kittens | 50 |
| 2. Zodiac Killer$ | 49 |
| 3. Backstreet Boys II Menehune | 48 |
| 4. Au Bon Pandemic | 47 |
| T-4. Expired Walmart Meat | 47 |
| T-4. Yacht Rock | 47 |
| 7. Covid’s Metamorphoses | 46 |
| T-7. Hot Bleach Injection (aka Bologna Strong) | 46 |
| 9. Kings of Leon | 45 |
| 10. Super Spreaders | 43 |
| T-10. The Quarantiners | 43 |
| T-10. Hallmark Hot | 43 |
| 13. Stately Plump Buck Mulligans | 42 |
| 14. Branch Covidians | 41 |
| 15. L Ron Hubbard | 40 |
| T-15. Lambda Lambda Lambda | 40 |
| 16. Missing Wuhan Scientists | 39 |
| T-16. The Covidiots | 39 |
| T-16. Sofa Kingdom | 39 |
| T-16. Babysitters Fight Club | 39 |
| 20. FFSF | 38 |
| 21. Pop Fit Studio | 37 |
| T-21. Core-entine | 37 |
| 23. Quiz on My Face | 36 |
| T-23. Hydroxychloroquine Latifa | 36 |
| T-23. Quick Question | 36 |
| 26. Below Basic | 35 |
| T-26. Synchronized Trampoline | 35 |
| T-26. The Missing Heads | 35 |
| 29. City Tap | 33 |
| T-29. TNQQC | 33 |
| 31. Together Alone | 32 |
| T-31. Meat Sweats | 32 |
| T-31. Cark in a Whig | 32 |
| 34. Dobby’s Sock | 31 |
| T-34. Not Last place | 31 |
| T-34. Carole’s Husband | 31 |
| 37. Brandon Muthafuckin’ Grotesque | 29 |
| 38. Joshy Rich’s Close Touch Salon | 27 |
| 39. There’s no I | 25 |
| 40. What About Bob? | 24 |
| T-40. Socially Distant | 24 |
| T-40. 1team1dream | 24 |
After putting all of the numbers of the past few months through our PATENTED Quiztron 2000 computer system, we now have a definitive Top 20 Quizzo list. We’ll see how our teams do in this week’s games and adjust them accordingly next week.
Also receiving votes: Missing Heads, There’s No I In Quizzo, FFSF, El Tigre, the Jawns, Missing Wuhan Scientists
As part of our weekly Sunday night charity fundraisers, this week we are fundraising for one I am particularly inspired by. The Anderson Monarch baseball program is, quite simply, the best of its kind in the nation. If you don’t know about it yet, I highly encourage you to read this.
The baseball quiz is free to play, we’ll have prizes from Shibe Sports, and 100% of tips go to the Monarchs. If you want to sign up, you can do so here. Quiz starts at 7 pm, teams are up to 8 players each, and quiz should take about an hour. Hope to see you on Sunday!
Sign ups are live for quizzo this week and for some damn reason Carl has more sign ups than I do. Come on, people. Sign up here. Let’s have some fun. Yes, we will be keeping track of high scores this week and yes there will be prizes for top scores.
We had a thriller on Monday night, as the Underground Bard and Social Distance Warriors went into OT tied at 48 apiece. (Amazing, in the pregame show Carl predicted a 49-49 tie and Underground Bard upset). The question in OT: how old is Herb Alpert? The Social Distance Warriors guessed 86, the Bard guessed 85, and the answer was 85. The upset was complete.
The Bard had gone on a hell of a run, stunning the Sofa Kingdom, edging the Zodiac Killer, and then winning both their Final Four game and their championship game in OT. The Social Distance Warriors, meanwhile, put on another clinic, going to the title game now in back to back tournaments, scoring a perfect 52 in two tourney games and 51 in another. It’s safe to assume that they’ll be the number #1 ranked team when our initial team rankings come out.
In the NIT, it was the Texas City Players Club shocking the Jawns in the finals, 52-39. The TCPC, who had finished 0-3 in the regular season, were considered an afterthought going into the tourney, but played inspired quiz once they got there, knocking off quizzo stalwarts like the Axis of Evil Knieval and the Synchronized Trampoline along the way.
We’ll see where the wins put the two teams on our top 20 rankings, out later today. We haven’t planned our next season yet, but will soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, feel free to play a game with us this week!
After a fun five weeks, we’re down to our last two games of the World Cup of Quizzo! Underground Bard faces off against the Social Distance Warriors in the Serie A finale while The Jawns take on Texas City Players Club in the Serie B final.
The Finals of the World Cup of Quizzo are tonight, and you are welcome to play along! Just go to playbigquiz.com, enter your team name and the Event Key june8 to sign in. You’ll be able to watch LIVE on the Johnny Goodtimes Facebook page at 8:30 tonight so that you can play along. See ya tonight!
