Hold the door! I’m hosting a Game of Thrones quiz this Sunday! Make note that it will be at Logan Square Tap House, not Tap House in UCity. Brunch starts at 11 am. The quiz starts at 1 p.m. It will be primarily concerned with the show but a few books questions may find their way in. Gonna be a lot of fun. Spread the word to your fellow GoT fans.

Alright, after a couple of themed weeks, we’re back to some good old fashioned general trivia. (though I would expect a “summer” round or two this week.) Action starts tonight at Sidecar at 9:30 p.m. Two quizzes this week, so teams can play twice.

It’s week 3 of the JGTSI so scores after two weeks will be posted tomorrow. There is a new Facebook challenge posted today as well! You can earn up to 5 points in the JGTSI this week on Facebook.

Lots more excitement in store for the summer. Details coming soon.

 

Tonight is your last chance to play the medical quizzo, so make it happen. Very fun quiz. Action starts at Industry at 6:30 p.m. Missed you guys last week, so let’s get back together tonight and regale ourselves in laughter and cheer.

We wrap up our week at the Bards at 9:15 p.m.

As for the pic above, it’s of Samuel Mudd, an answer to a question earlier this week. When John Wilkes Booth leapt from the booth after shooting Lincoln, he broke his leg. Knowing Dr. Mudd from a meeting the two had had a few months earlier, he and his fellow conspirator David Herold made their way to Mudd’s Maryland farm. Mudd splinted the leg and had his neighbor make a crutch for it. Mudd then waited 24 hours before contacting the authorities, enough time to allow Booth and Herold to get far away.

He was tried as a conspirator, but unlike the others, was not hung. He instead was sentenced to life in prison. But because he had a connected lawyer, he was released four years later. His family tried to have his record expunged in the 20th century, but was denied by Presidents Carter and Reagan, though Reagan did saw that he thought Mudd was innocent of any wrongdoing. There is a myth that the phrase “Your name is mud” comes from Dr. Mudd, but that is not the case; the term has been in circulation since at least 1823.

We’re dropping an all new medical quiz tonight. Action starts at Lo Spiedo at 5:30 PM, as Carl B Sure hosts. Going to be an absolutely beautiful evening to quiz outdoors.

I’ll be hosting at the Vous at 6:15 p.m. Tiny crowd last week (It was a pretty slow week all around, I think in part due to Beer Week). This is a great opportunity to get a win.

And we wrap it up at Founding Fathers at 8:30. Hope to see ya tonight!

As for the video above, we had a question last week about “What beer mascot had the real name Honey Tree Evil Eye?” The answer was Spuds McKenzie, and after watching a couple of those old Spuds commercials for the first time in 28 years, I gotta say: they were really freaking stupid. Maybe we’ve just gotten so used to people talking to animals or something, but man, there is just nothing funny or even slightly interesting about those commercials. It seems like the ad guy just had no clue what he was gonna say when he went into the meeting.

“OK, so it’s gonna be like a regular Bud Lite commercial, except instead of a good looking guy that girls like, it’s going to be a, um, a…oh I know! A dog!”

“OK, and then what happens?”

“He, uh, wears an Aloha shirt! And sunglasses! On a dog! Get it?”

“No I don’t. But go on.”

“And, um, he rides on a skateboard. And, like, there’s pretty women saying that he’s a party animal.”

“So what’s the point?”

“Well. That’s a good question. I guess it’s that, you know, if you want to be a dog, you should drink Bud Lite.”

“That doesn’t make any sense.”

“No sir, no it doesn’t.”

“But let’s do it anyway.”

“What, are you serious?”

Lots of action on the agenda tonight. We start at the Markets at Comcast at 5:30 p.m. Always a fun BYO quiz. Everyone who plays gets $5 at the market, and there a lot of great food choices.

On to Alla Spina at 8 p.m. with Carl B. Sure. Had a great turnout last week. Let’s do it again. $2 off drafts and deep dish pizza.

I’ll be at O’Neals at 8 p.m. $3.50 margaritas. $50 gift cert for the winners, $100 if they can top 120 points.

And we wrap it up at City Tap House. Been having a great time with these outdoor quizzes, and looks like another great night tonight. See ya outside!

Oh, and I included the commercial from last week’s question of the week. Because it truly is amazing.

This week, our questions are all going to be about the medical field…well, loosely. Songs about surgeons, questions about quacks, and general trivia about General Hospital. Don’t worry, you won’t need a PhD to get through this quiz…though it couldn’t hurt. Gonna be a lot of fun, and now that Beer Week is over, I’ll have two different quizzes this week. Action starts tonight at Sidecar at 9:30. Great opportunity to get a win and score some valuable JGTSI points. Hope to see ya tonight!

Tonight is the last quiz of the week. Keep in mind, there is no quiz at Industry tonight. They’re having a Beer Week event. But I will be in business tonight at Bards, our last quiz of week 1 of the JGTSI. Action starts at 9:15 p.m. An all beer quiz that’s a lot of fun. Hope to see ya tonight!

Action starts at Lo Spiedo with Carl B Sure at 5:30. On to Locust Rendezvous at 6:15 p.m. We wrap it up at Founding Fathers at 8:30 p.m. where we’re gonna have a Dark Horse Brewing Tap Takeover. An all-beer quiz. The JGTSI has begun, so points start accumulating this week. Hope to see you tonight!

We did the all-beer quiz last night, written by Carl B Sure, and it was a lot of fun. Songs about drinking, beer commercials, beer brands, plenty of good stuff in there. Tonight we kick off the beer quiz at O’Neals at 8 p.m. $50 gift cert for the winners, $100 if they can crack 120 points.

Carl B Sure will be at Alla Spina, where there’s gonna be a Beer Week event, so it should be a great time. Action starts at 8 p.m.

On to Tap House at 10:15, which will be OUTDOORS. We’ve done the past two weeks outside, and it’s been downright awesome. Gonna be another beautiful night tonight, so look forward to seeing you there.

And one programming note: Industry quiz is OFF for this Thursday, as they have a Beer Week event instead. We’ll be back in action next week.

Only one quiz tonight, at Sidecar at 9:30 p.m. The theme for this week’s quiz is beer, since it’s Beer Week, so I’ll give you a heads up now: there’s only one quiz this week. It’s also the first week of the JGTSI, so points start counting this week. More details coming tomorrow. Question of the week coming soon.

Today’s video is of some intense monster truck action. My son is really into Monster Trucks (his favorite is Grave Digger), and so now I’m totally into it. The terrible Nu-metal just makes it even more awesome.