All questions this week will have to do with the holiday season, Christmas movies, songs, etc. Only one quiz this week, so you can only play once.

Gotta do a week in review this week. I can’t remember a single week in quizzo history where this much went down.
First, Philly rocked the nation at the City vs. City Smackdown. Speaking of Smackdown, her team almost pulled off the biggest upset ever.

The new online quizzo went up on Fox. This is the episode where I almost get captured by the giant lobster.

The Bombs implode in Round Four at the Bards on Tuesday.

A wild Wednesday, as the Jams lose for the 2nd week in a row, and Duane’s World doesn’t even crack the top 5. HIghest score of the week is at Black Sheep and is a 3 man team that included the Black Sheep chef.

Axis of Evil Knieval blows a lead going into the final round at the Good Dog, and a stacked Sofa Kingdom team falls to the Western Omelette in overtime.

In addition to that, a wild political discussion on the comments section under Bob T.’s latest piece, including the first time I think I’ve ever seen Steve O get mad, and Chip’s interview with Bob Thompson doesn’t work out the way he hoped.

What a week!

I’ve been slacking on my photos of teams lately. The problem is that I lost the thingie that hooks pics into the laptop, then I bought another one and it didn’t work. So I tried to upload the photos onto my Mac but it erased a few of them. Anyways, so now I gotta buy yet another picture connector thingie*, which hopefully I can do manana and get the photos up asap. Thanks for your patience.

*sorry to get all technical on you guys.

I don’t remember a lot of it. I do remember that it involved cognac, Albuquerque, and Ezra Pound. Anyways, I’m just getting up. Another meltdown from a high profile team at the Good Dog and a thriller at the Bards last night. Socreboard and a new one from the Donspiracist coming soon.

The Hurtin Bombs took a 14 point lead over the Sofa Kingdom into the final round of last night’s quizzo. I was then able to capture some video of the Bombs 4th round performance!

Philly took home the gold on Monday night at the Urban Saloon, proving once again that while clueless tourists may think we’re dumb when they fill out useless polls, there is still not a single city out there that can hang with us in IQ when it is fairly measured. The Sofa Kingdom led the way, taking home the win with a 119. A team from Seattle, Marguaret Thatcher is the Dairy Queen, took home the silver with a 117. The story of the night in Philly, however, was the play of 3rd place overall (2nd place in Philly), Ron Paul UFO (below, right), who had no reason to hang their heads after finishing with a 115. Consisting of D-Mac, Smackdown, Trivia Art, Monie Love, and Fidge, this five person team gave the 8 person Kingdom (who had added Kenny and Renee from the Hurtin Bombs and Parsa from Omelette to an already star-studded lineup) all they could handle before falling by a single question. Overall, the city of Philly stood head and shoulders above the rest of the crowd. To determine city winners, we took the top five scores from each city and averaged them. The results were interesting, considering that in that recent Travel and Leisure poll, Seattle was supposedly the smartest city in the nation, Denver was 10th, and we were 14th. But what’s actual head to head competition when you have couples in matching pleated jean shorts and aloha shirts judging how smart you are while looking at the Liberty Bell? Here were the results:

1. PHILLY 109
2. SEATTLE 99
3. ALBUQUERQUE 93
4. DENVER 77
5. COLORADO SPRINGS 66

After the jump, the top 20 teams overall. No head count on teams, but between us and Seattle there were over 50, so I suspect there were about 100 total.

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Yo, $20 extra to any team that can knock off the Kingdom tonight at the Bards. They’ve won 10 straight Tuesday night contests, and must be stopped.

The new MyFoxPhilly quizzo is up! We were on hiatus for a while because we were hoping to install a scoreboard, but it hasn’t happened because it would cost a ridiculous amount of money. But this one is definitely worth playing. We’ve added a few new features and I think you’ll enjoy question number 4 and the outfit I have on.

Fun night. Still waiting to hear from Denver and Seattle, and then will do a full writeup. In the meantime, I gotta get my Metro column done by noon and I still don’t know what the hell I’m gonna write about. Then I have another dental procedure at 2 p.m. (Phase 2 of the 3 phase process). So if you guys wanna help me find some fun stuff on the intranets to post today, please send me an email.

Gonna be hard at work today tying together loose ends of the City vs. City Smackdown (for more info click here) but in the meantime, enjoy Bob T.’s latest piece, this one on Clinton ally Sandy Berger.

In my last column, I discussed the Valerie Plame affair — a non-crime that the Democrats, assisted by the mainstream media (MSM), hysterically elevated to the status of a major scandal. In this column, I’m going to address a scandal that involved real criminal acts that the MSM chose to almost totally ignore. I’m referring to Sandy Berger and his theft of classified documents from the National Archives.

Now I’m willing to bet that a large majority of the people reading this column know little or nothing about the Berger scandal. I have brought the subject up on a number of occasions with friends and barroom colleagues, and they have always drawn a blank in these discussions. No one I’ve spoken with has ever known anything about the scandal. And why should they? They have made the mistake of relying on the MSM for information. They therefore know what the MSM wants them to know, and they have little or no knowledge on those subjects of which the MSM would prefer that they remain blissfully ignorant. And the outrageous conduct of Sandy Berger in the National Archives is a subject on which the MSM seems to have decided that people should remain uninformed.

Samuel R. (Sandy) Berger, aka Sandy “Socks and Shorts” Berger, is a long-time soldier in the Clinton crime family, who served as Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor during the period 1997 to 2001. Called to testify before the 9/11 Commission and acting on a letter of delegation from Clinton, Berger made four trips to the National Archives in 2003 to review various highly classified documents in preparation for his testimony. Security requirements on such documents mandate that they not be copied and that they are not to be removed from the archives. Security is so tight that any handwritten notes made by a person reviewing these documents have to pass a separate security review prior to removal from the archives. The reviewer is under constant observation by the archival staff.

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