Category: Virtual Quizzo

Moving The Halloween Quizzo Fundraiser Online

Hey guys, we’ve decided to postpone tomorrow’s in person quizzo at Yards. There are just so many things going on in the city right now and doing an in-person quizzo in the midst of all of it…just doesn’t feel right. But we still want to celebrate Halloween and we still want to raise money for our friends at Beyond the Bars. As we emerge to whatever our city is after this 2020 insanity, we will more than ever need to support organizations like this who give our city’s young people such a positive outlet.

So here’s the plan: we’re going to do a virtual quiz. It will be $30 a team. 50% of all money raised will go towards Beyond the Bars. It’s basically the same thing we did over the summer.

If you already paid here’s what we can do: I’ll be reaching out on venmo, and will send you your money back, though we’d still love to have you join us tmrw night.

If you wanna play virtually on Friday night, you can do so by signing up here. Only change from the previous quiz other than moving it online is that we’re bumping it back a half hour to 7 PM. If we get to 10 teams we’ll do the quiz. Hope to see ya tmrw night!

Fundraiser for the Armenia Fund on Sunday Night!

Our good friend Steve O of Lambda is hosting a quizzo for Armenian relief this Sunday as part of our semi-regular Quizzo for the Cause series. It’ll be the same Sunday night quiz many of you played over the summer, just with a different host (J Michael will be helping out Steve). It’s $30 per team to play, and money goes towards the Armenia Fund.

No the questions will not be all about Armenia, but I’d expect a few. Wanna play? Just sign up here and send your $30 to @jgtquizzo on Venmo.

Virtual Music and Movie Quiz Saturday Night

Missing the music quiz Friday night at Yards? No problem, you can play it Saturday night online! We’ll be doing this one as a fundraiser for the Lansdowne Theatre, one of the last 1920s theatres in the area. The questions will be about music, with some movie questions sprinkled in. It’s just $30 a team to play, and it goes to a great cause. Action starts at 7 PM on Saturday, October 17th, and you can purchase tickets here. They’re just $30 a pop. Hope to see ya there!

Greenfest Quizzo on the 27th! (UPDATE!)

Philadelphia’s oldest environmental non-profit, the Clean Air Council, puts on the Philly Greenfest every year. This year it’s gone virtual, and that’s where quizzo comes in. Gonna be hosting a “Green” quiz on Sunday, September 27th at 7 PM (we moved it back a couple of days). It’s free to play, and 50% of the tips go to the Clean Air Council. If you want to join in the fun and help raise money for a terrific organization, just sign up here. On the morning of the 27th, I’ll send a Zoom invite to you which you can then share with your teammates and you’ll meet with Carl on Zoom at 7 pm.

Hope to see ya Sunday!

Sign Ups for This Week

Well the SUMMER SLAM is over but the Summer is not, and so we’ve got some more quizzing to do. Hope you’ll join us over the next three weeks. You can sign up here. We’ll keep track of our highest scores each week and we’ll have some new official rankings along the way. Sign ups are still $35, with $5 of each one going to the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. Hope to see ya again soon!

Our topic this week: True Crime. Famous crimes, crime podcasts, true crime on TV, you name it, we’ll have it. Hope to see you this week!

Professionals Week

In the lead up to our big Office quiz on Sunday, our theme this week is professionals. Because if there’s one thing we pride ourselves on here at JGT Quizzo, it’s professionalism. LOL, just kidding. So expect questions about various occupations: from teachers to bartenders to used car salesmen. We’ll see ya this week!

If you want to play this week and aren’t in the SUMMER SLAM! you can sign up here.

Sunday Night Quizzo for Broad Street Ministry

After taking off the 5th, we’ll be back this Sunday with a fundraiser the Broad Street Ministry, who do tremendous work with the city’s homeless. One of their many programs is the Clothing Closet, which last year distributed over 15,000 articles of clothing. It’s free to play, and 50% of all tips on Sunday night will go to BSM. Hope you’ll join us this Sunday at 8 PM.

YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE.

Sunday Night Quizzo

We are going to be raising money once again for the Young Fathers United. We raised $85 for them this past Sunday, let’s see if we can get over $100 this Sunday. As always the quiz is free, though we do encourage a donation, as it helps out our fellow Philadelphians in need.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far…Since we started in late March, Sunday Night Quizzo Lab has raised over $2000 for orgs such as PPEHRC, the Anderson Monarchs, and Nourished. Furthermore, with $20 of each teams buy in for SUMMER SLAM going to PPEHRC, we just raised another $1000 for them this week. If anyone wants to go beyond donating to the quiz, and instead wants to volunteer for any of the wonderful organizations that we’re fundraising for, shoot me a line (johnny at johnnygoodtimes.com) and I’ll get you in touch with the right people.

Wanna sign up for this Sunday? You can do so here.

Our theme this week: MOVIES.

Updated Top 20

Wanna see your team on the Top 20 list? Join the SUMMER SLAM! and see how you fare from week to week. Shout out to our six teams who make their first appearance on the Top 20 this week.

  1. Social Distance Warriors (same). Tied for the 5th highest score this past week. A finalist in both of our tourneys, they head into Summer Slam as our top seed.
  2. Underground Bard (same). Their win in the World Cup keeps them at #2 for now, but after a 13th place finish this past week, the #3 team is breathing down their necks.
  3. Cool Cats and Kittens (+3). They’ve dominated many Sunday nights, and now they’ve been #1 on back to back weeks of regular season games. They could be #1 within a week.
  4. Boys II Menehune (-1). Took the week off, but finished 3rd last week.
  5. Zodiac Killer (+1). Second highest score last week, 9th highest this week.
  6. Expired Walmart Meat (-2). Tied for 4th last week, tied for 10th this week.
  7. Lambda (+1). An impressive 2nd place performance this week.
  8. Yacht Rock (+2). Tied for 4th last week, 4th this week.
  9. Careless Fister (-2). Tied for 5th this past week.
  10. Au Bon Pandemic (Previously unranked). Tied for 4th last week, tied for 5th this week.
  11. Covid’s Metamorpheses (Previously unranked). Tied for 5th this week, and tied for 7th last week.
  12. Hot Bleach Injection (Previously unranked). These New Kids on the Block have a bunch of hits! 7th place last week, 3rd Place this week.
  13. Duane’s World (-1). Tied for 13th this past week.
  14. Super Spreaders (Previously unranked). Tied for 16th this past week, 10th last week.
  15. Sofa Kingdom (-4). Slip slidin’ away.
  16. Pop Fit Studio (previously unranked). 21st last week, 10th this week.
  17. Branch Covidians (-8). Didn’t play this week, 14th last week.
  18. L Ron Hubbard (-3). 15th last week, 29th this week.
  19. Babysitter’s Fight Club (-2). 16th last week, a complete train wreck this week.
  20. Stately Plump Buck Mulligans (Previously Unranked). 13th last week, 21st this week.

SUMMER SLAM! Sign-Ups!

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.

Play the Sunday Quiz, Promote Charity for Young Dads

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.)

Congrats to Cool Cats and Kittens!

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 Kittens50
2. Zodiac Killer$49
3. Backstreet Boys II Menehune48
4. Au Bon Pandemic47
T-4. Expired Walmart Meat47
T-4. Yacht Rock47
7. Covid’s Metamorphoses46
T-7. Hot Bleach Injection (aka Bologna Strong)46
9. Kings of Leon45
10. Super Spreaders43
T-10. The Quarantiners43
T-10. Hallmark Hot43
13. Stately Plump Buck Mulligans42
14. Branch Covidians41
15. L Ron Hubbard40
T-15. Lambda Lambda Lambda40
16. Missing Wuhan Scientists39
T-16. The Covidiots39
T-16. Sofa Kingdom39
T-16. Babysitters Fight Club39
20. FFSF38
21. Pop Fit Studio37
T-21. Core-entine37
23. Quiz on My Face36
T-23. Hydroxychloroquine Latifa36
T-23. Quick Question36
26. Below Basic35
T-26. Synchronized Trampoline35
T-26. The Missing Heads35
29. City Tap33
T-29. TNQQC33
31. Together Alone32
T-31. Meat Sweats32
T-31. Cark in a Whig32
34. Dobby’s Sock31
T-34. Not Last place31
T-34. Carole’s Husband31
37. Brandon Muthafuckin’ Grotesque29
38. Joshy Rich’s Close Touch Salon27
39. There’s no I25
40. What About Bob?24
T-40. Socially Distant24
T-40. 1team1dream24