Gonna post pics of the teams that won last week with questions underneath about people whose birthday is on September 24th. One guess per person. No cheating!

A wild, wild week that included major upsets, history being made, and the return of one of the circuit’s most hated teams.

-We begin on Tuesday, where the Young, the Old, and the Restless came away with an 83-77 win over the Obscure Simpsons Reference. It was YOR’s 2nd win of the month.

-A blowout at the Bards, as the red hot Sofa Kingdom made it four straight, crushing the Chin Omelette, 103-83.

-What’s in a name? Plenty, if what happened at the Vous on Wednesday is any indication. A team calling themselves the Jams (aka Not the Jams) defeated the Jams (aka Shiver Me Tasers). In fact the real Jams, who had won 7 of the previous 8 quizzoes, finished an unheard of 4th. The pseudo Jams held off a late rally by 1022 to win 97-92.

-On to the Black Sheep, where a fully stacked Duane’s World was the heavy favorite in a somewhat light field. But in the end it was O’Neals castaways Philly Harcargh! cruising to a 103-86 win over Duane and company.

-Thursday marked the return of MAGMA to the Good Dog, and though they looked a little rusty, they were able to hold off Creepy Guy At the Bar (aka Steve-O, playing Hans Solo), 82-81.

-Finally, history was made at the Bards on Thursday night, as the Sofa Kingdom won their 100th game at the Bards. In case anyone is curious, The Jams are the 2nd most winningest franchise, with 86 wins, going back to the Frank Clements days (To be honest, they’ve won more than that, but that was before the website.) I haven’t added it up, but I think the Young, the Old and the Restless are probably 3rd. Anyways, the Kingdom were hardly handed a challenge in their 100th win, knocking off a team making it’s first ever appearance, the Origins of a Quizzo Crisis, 104-89. And so the circle of life continues. And since it was the Kingdom’s 5th straight win, there will be a bounty of $20 on Tuesday.

A slight mixup in communication led to the end of my Metro column not really making much sense, so I posted below the way it was supposed to read. Oh well, it wasn’t my finest piece anyway. I’ll do better next week, promise.

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The Sofa Kingdom will be aiming for their 100th win tonight at the Bards. They come into tonight’s match red-hot, having won 5 in a row. Can your team delay their gratification? Let’s hope so.

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Here we go. Finally. Pics of the winners, along with questions about “What the kids are listening to.” Post an answer under each pic. One guess per person.

Started the week on Monday, when I played quizzo at the Dark Horse with Chet Bumstead and D-Mac and finished, as my quizzo teams always do, in 2nd place. (Our team name: Andy Reid’s Sons Killed Pavarotti.) If we had jokered the right round, we would have won.

On Tuesday at O’Neals, it was the Pavarotti Pall Bearer Hernia Club winning a blowout, kicking the Young Old and Restless to the curb, 98-84.

On to the Bards, where the Sofa Kingdom aced the final round to edge Two Step Hustle and Flow, 111-106. Mr. Peanut did not enter the equation.

The Jams (AKA Wrinkled, Out of Time) put up the most impressive performance of the week, nailing 39 out of 40 questions on their way to a 113-95 win over This Questions Worth…Ten Points at a packed Locust Rendezvous.

From a packed Rendezvous to an eerily quiet Black Sheep. Perhaps falling victim to the old “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded” philosophy, the Sheep has been fairly quiet for the last couple of weeks, not the wall to wall madhouse it usually is. Anyways, it was Yes You Can’t pulling off a narrow 102-98 win over Duane’s World. Banana recorded the 2nd lowest score ever in quizzo history, a 10.

Steve, Take Us Back We’ll Change wiped out the Snap, Crackle, and Popped Collars, 112-101 at the Good Dog, missing only two questions the whole game.

The Sofa Kingdom continued the tear that started after last week’s debacle, winning their third straight match since the incident. This time it was a 111-101 win over Genetalia From Australia.

Alright, the Economist is calling for the demise of Belgium, saying that it is completely unnecessary. What? First Pluto, then Belgium? Is nothing sacred? Anyways, I am protesting this article the only way I know how, by using Belgian questions under the pics of last week’s winners.

-It was Dorksided at O’Neals with a blowout win, 106-83, over Soylent Green: Now With More Girls. The Young the Old and Restless never got on track, and finished with a 69.

-The Great Mr. Peanut Controversy marred a hard fought contest at the Bards on Tuesday. It was the Sofa Kingdom who got the short end of the stick when Goodtimes 2nd guessed himself, and took off an extra point for loafers, which took the match to overtime. In overtime, it was the Narks taking home the victory.

–The Jams won by a single year at the Rendezvous. The weekly double question was, “Toy Story, Apollo 13, and Seven were all released in what year?” The Jams guessed right (1995) and Why So Angry Bob guessed 1996, and so the Jams took home a 94-85 win.

-The exact same thing happened at the Black Sheep. The Phils Will Win Before We Do guessed 1995 on the weekly double, Duane’s World guessed 1996, and the Phils walked away with a 97-88 win.

-An extremely tough picture round (Name that album cover) kept scores low at the Good Dog, and we had our closest game all week. El Jorge Curioso edged It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Man Sings, 86-85 to record their first ever quizzo win.

-The Sofa Kingdom returned to the Bards angry on Thursday, and took out their anger on the questions, ending the Hurtin’ Bombs four game winning streak, cruising to a 106-94 win.

Gonna be interesting to see what you think about this one, one of the greatest quizzo controversies ever. A question at quizzo this past week was as follows: List four of Mr. Peanut’s accesories (he has five). The answers I was looking for were a monocle, top hat, white gloves, a cane, and spats. One team answered “black loafers”. At first, I accepted that answer, since he is wearing black shoes. But after further reflection, I realized that that answer was wrong: spats are never worn with loafers, so his shoes cannot be loafers. Had they simply answered “black shoes”, I would have accepted it, but I simply could not accept loafers. The team in question lost in overtime. So the million dollar question: should I have accepted black loafers? Leave your thoughts below.