Ok, let me just be up front. The TV quiz earlier this week was kind of “Meh.” They can’t all be champions. But this later in the week quiz is a hell of a lot of fun. A picture round, and audio round, and a few surprises in between. You’re gonna dig it. We kick it off at Industry at 6:30 p.m. If you want to earn points and an invite to the JGTSpI, I highly encourage you to play here tonight. Your best shot to get a win. Furthermore, they have an AWESOME hamburger that is a mere $8 and that includes fries.

On to the Bards at 9 p.m. Things were a little crazy last week with all of those loud  tools in there. If they come back again this week, we resort to physical violence! we’ll just see if they want to join in the fun! And I’m starting to itch for a return to free beer face-off. We may just do that again tonight.

We kick it off at the Locust Rendezvous with an all new TV quiz. Action starts at 6:15 p.m. On to the Black Sheep at 8 p.m. Hope to see ya tonight! And start getting your childhood photos up on facebook for JGTSpI points!

Here they are. Teams in yellow would be eligible for bonus prize drawing if season ended today. Teams in green would get an invite. And teams in blue, well you’ve got some work to do (These scores do not include Monday night’s results at North Star). We’re down to our last two weeks before Wild Card week, so if you’re hoping to earn an invite and not have to go all or nothing on Wild Card Week you should probably get your butt out to quizzo this week. Best places to get a win? O’Neals and Industry.

If you’re looking move up the rankings, there is also a new physical challenge on facebook. Great way to help yourself towards earning an invite to the Spring Invitational, which will be held on March 19th at the City Tap House, outdoors, with live music.

Here’s one from Civil Engineer John Watkins in 1900.

“Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.”

This next one is really cool. Facetime, anyone? A report in the Indianapolis Star April 9, 1927:

“Spectacles may be staged in distant cities and be transmitted for the entertainment of individuals hundreds of miles away. Conversations may be held across the sea and the parties see each other as clearly as though they were gathered in the same room. Distance will be annihilated for sound and sight and the world made immeasurably smaller for the purposes of communication.”

Radio pioneer Lee DeForest was a bit off. He said in 1926:

“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it to be an impossibility…a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.”

We’ve been dreaming about smellyvision since the 20s. Why isn’t this a reality yet? A report in the “Radio Mirror” of the Daily News reported Dec. 30, 1926:

“There may come a time when we shall have ‘smellyvision’ and ‘tastyvision’. When we are able to broadcast so that all the senses are catered for, we shall live in a world which no one has yet dreamt about.”

At a special event unveiling the new AT&T experimental television April 7, 1927, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said:

“Human genius has now destroyed the impediment of distance in a new respect, and in a manner hitherto unknown.”

British television pioneer John Logie Baird – whose experiments were with mechanical television – said during a visit to the U.S. in September 1931:

“There is no hope for television by means of cathode ray tubes.”(And in 1940, Baird said: “Cathode ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.”)
A 1939 New York Times review of a demonstration of television at the 1939 World’s Fair:

“The problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.”

George Boar, a farmhand from Suffolk, was quoted in the Feb. 1939 issue of Radio Times in an interview just after he had “invested his whole fortune” to buy a television receiver:

“Television’s far more entertaining and much less trouble than a wife would be.”

Film mogul Darryl F. Zanuck of 20th Century Fox said in 1946:

“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

Roger Ebert pretty much predicted the future in 1987. Keep in mind, none of what he spoke of existed then.

“We will have high-definition, wide-screen television sets and a push-button dialing system to order the movie you want at the time you want it. You’ll not go to a video store but instead order a movie on demand and then pay for it. …With this revolution in delivery and distribution, anyone, in any size town or hamlet, will see the movies he or she wants to see.”

Hat tip: I got several of these from here.

We kick it off at O’Neals at 8 p.m. $5 burritos, $5 quesadillas, and $3.50 Mexican beers. Great chance to get a win (JGTSpI Standings coming soon). This TV quiz is kind of all over the map. A little heavier on contemporary stuff, but not too much, I don’t think. Just enough to screw up the Jesters of Tortuga tonight at City Tap House, unless Garbo shows up, in which case you’re all screwed. City Tap quiz starts at 10:15 and I expect the joint to be jumping.

And while the big crowds are kind of exciting, this summer at CTH is gonna be exciting too…once things quiet down a little bit, we’ll start quizzing outdoors again. So be sure to keep coming out this summer if you’re not heading out of town. It’s gonna be a lot of fun.