Hey there fam. We’ve got several openings still available for quizzes this week. You can sign up here. And heads up…we’re actually doing two different quizzes this week, so if you want to play once on Mon/Tuesday you CAN play again on Wed/Thur/Fri. Here are the ones available as of 12:30 Tuesday afternoon:
And then there were eight. The first and most notable fact is that four of them are Locust Rendezvous regulars: Zodiac Killer, The Jams, Synchronized Trampoline, and Babysitters Fight Club. The Social Distance Warriors rep O’Neals and Duane’s World reps Founding Fathers. Careless Fister is a crew from my old North Star days, and Lamination Station reps Birra. It’s been a hell of a run, and we’ll wrap the tourney up next week. Sign ups start tmrw. Thank you, everyone, and look forward to more hijinks next week!
Hey there folks, we’ve got some openings for tonight’s quiz. If anyone wants to forget about the pandemic for a half hour and instead laugh with their friends, go ahead and sign up here.
Alright gang, you can now sign up for this week’s virtual quizzo here. Almost everyone who plays it once plays it again. If you haven’t played it yet, it’s fairly simple: you and your team meet with a quizmaster in Zoom. He goes through the questions, you guys discuss and your captain gives the QM the final answer. It’s kind of like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire except that there’s like 5 or 6 of you. Oh, and there’s no millions. But there is a lot of fun. Hope to see ya this week!
The tourney isn’t the only game in town, as we’ve also got our regular season matchups. Shout outs to Yacht Rock and Not Last Place for top scores this past week.
Wow! What a Round Two! This is what #Aprilmadness is all about. The #1 overall seed falls to the legendary Jams team that critics said was past its prime. Duane’s World and Sofa Kingdom, the two winningest teams in JGT quizzo history, in a 51-50 battle for the ages, determined on the final question. Tiger Queens, the 46th seed out of 48, advancing to the Sweet 16. The Zodiac Killer missing one question in Round One and then not missing another one. You want narratives? We got narratives. On to the Sweet 16 this week!
As I told several teams this week, I stumbled down a wormhole of awesomeness this past week. The TV was on on this past Sunday with nobody really watching it. Some awful rerun was on called “Lottery Changed My Life”. Mostly just morons talking about how they spent their lottery winnings on a car or some dull shit. Then suddenly and unexpectedly, it took a turn. A 19 year old named Jonathan Vargas won $35 million in a Powerball lottery in 2008. But unlike the other bozos who all bought cars and McMansions and other boring shit, Jonathan decided to blow his cash on something entirely different: a female wrestling league. It was a terrible investment, and an even worse product. The rap promo above was almost certainly the worst rap song ever recorded (other than pretty everything that Post Malone has ever done.) The production quality made GLOW look like Les Miserables. Vargas became a “character” in his own production: JV Rich, who in various skits regularly had the Wrestlicious girls hanging out with him at his mansion. In other words: HE DID EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WITH THE MONEY IF I HAD WON THE LOTTERY AT AGE 19. The league lasted one year, and after that and a couple of other bad investments, JV Rich was flat broke. But who cares. In 100 years, nobody will care about a car or a mansion, but Wrestlicious is FOREVER. Shout out to JV Rich! If you want a more complete history of the league, this video is well worth 10 minutes.
We’re back at it for another week, and we’ve got some openings for new teams to get involved. For those of you who haven’t played, this is a great way for you and your friends to hang out, have a few laughs, and play some trivia. About 80%-85% of teams that play one week come back again to play the next. Just a lot of fun, and the thing that separates this from the regular quiz is that people can play from ANYWHERE. Last week, we had players in Virginia Beach, Pittsburgh, Oregon, and even Japan. So if you want to do something fun with friends, family, or old college roommates, this is a great opportunity to do so. Hope to see ya this week!
