Congratulations to the Underground Bard, Winners of the World Cup of Quizzo!

We had a thriller on Monday night, as the Underground Bard and Social Distance Warriors went into OT tied at 48 apiece. (Amazing, in the pregame show Carl predicted a 49-49 tie and Underground Bard upset). The question in OT: how old is Herb Alpert? The Social Distance Warriors guessed 86, the Bard guessed 85, and the answer was 85. The upset was complete.

The Bard had gone on a hell of a run, stunning the Sofa Kingdom, edging the Zodiac Killer, and then winning both their Final Four game and their championship game in OT. The Social Distance Warriors, meanwhile, put on another clinic, going to the title game now in back to back tournaments, scoring a perfect 52 in two tourney games and 51 in another. It’s safe to assume that they’ll be the number #1 ranked team when our initial team rankings come out.

In the NIT, it was the Texas City Players Club shocking the Jawns in the finals, 52-39. The TCPC, who had finished 0-3 in the regular season, were considered an afterthought going into the tourney, but played inspired quiz once they got there, knocking off quizzo stalwarts like the Axis of Evil Knieval and the Synchronized Trampoline along the way.

We’ll see where the wins put the two teams on our top 20 rankings, out later today. We haven’t planned our next season yet, but will soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, feel free to play a game with us this week!

The World Cup of Quizzo Championship TONIGHT!

After a fun five weeks, we’re down to our last two games of the World Cup of Quizzo! Underground Bard faces off against the Social Distance Warriors in the Serie A finale while The Jawns take on Texas City Players Club in the Serie B final.

The Finals of the World Cup of Quizzo are tonight, and you are welcome to play along! Just go to playbigquiz.com, enter your team name and the Event Key june8 to sign in. You’ll be able to watch LIVE on the Johnny Goodtimes Facebook page at 8:30 tonight so that you can play along. See ya tonight!

Sign Ups for Week of June 8

OK, I think we could all use a deep breath here. The seasons and tournaments and so forth have been a lot of fun but also kind of insane and the last thing any of us needs right now is more insanity. So this week let’s take it easy: one quizmaster, one quiz, one team. Cost is $35, with $5 of each sign up going straight to the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. To sign up, just put your team name, captain’s name and email into our Google signup sheet.

Sunday Night Quiz

We’re pushing Sunday night’s quiz back a half an hour to 8 pm. I know we have a lot of 7 and 7:30 bedtimes, so hoping to help the parents of youngsters. You can sign up for it here. It is free to play but we do accept tips, and 100% of tips this week will go to the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. Hope to see you on Sunday night!

Quizzo Update

Hey guys, hope everyone is hanging in there. Wanted to send out a note about upcoming quizzes: we’ll be continuing our tournament for the rest of this week. Anyone who lost last week is welcome to play the regular quiz.

Next week, we’re going back to what we started with: one host, one team, and anyone can play. No tourneys, no season, let’s just get back together and hang out a bit and play some quizzo. For teams that already signed up, we’ll probably still do it in a few weeks, so we’ll hold on to your info for now. (If you paid already, I’ll pay you back.) I’ll have that sign up sheet ready in a few days. Thank you!

Wednesday Night Results, Serie A

We’ve got 11 of our Sweet 16 teams settled, as the Social Distance Warriors held off an upset bid by Pearls of Wisdom, Yacht Rock cracked the Eggheads, the Branch Covidians fought off the Babysitters Fight Club, and the Expired Walmart Meat edged the Missing Wuhan Scientists.

Sign Ups for Sunday Night

Hey gang, we’re doing sign ups now for Sunday night quizzo. Free to play, and 50% of all tips go to Nourished, a program to get food to front line workers while also helping our friends at local restaurants. Hope to see ya on Sunday!

Overtime, Trash Talk, and a Shirtless Team On a Wild Tuesday Night

Things started pretty mellow on Monday, but got wild on Tuesday night. A member of Careless Fister closed out their victory over the Super Spreaders by hollering “Spread em for the Fister!” and a rivalry was born. The Fister will take on the winner of Pop Fit Studio and DelCoOVID 19.

Things got interesting in the Sweet Hats vs Boyz II Menehune matchup, as the Boyz II Menehune returned from their first breakout room imitating the Sweet Hats trademark of wearing sweet hats. The Sweet Hats then returned from the second breakout room wearing no shirts. The psychological chess game was a draw, but the Menehunes won the quiz, 49-45. B2M will face off against the winner of Duane’s World and In the Lead.

*The Sweet Hats responded by taking off their shirts.*

In a matchup of the wily veterans of the Missing Heads and millenials of FFSF, the Heads struggled with clock management and fell in OT to the spry young FFSF crew. FFSF will play the winner of Cool Cats & Kittens vs Queso Regionale.

The L Ron Hubbard vs Mad Princes matchup came down to the very last question, as the two teams were tied through 23. But L Ron was able to get all 6 points on the double and squeak out a 44-42 win. They’ll go up against the winner of Lambda and I Shaved My Legs.

There’s No I, who only made the tourney by virtue of a coin toss, came away with a 49-47 win over hard luck El Tigre, who they had also narrowly defeated in group play. They’ll move on to play the winner of Social Distance Warriors vs Pearls of Wisdom.

To see the full bracket, click here.

A Tie Atop the Leaderboard in Our Regular Quizzes Last Week

Congrats to Chasing Olive and Hydroxychloroquine Latifah (great team name, btw), who tied atop the regular quiz leaderboard with 42. Here are the rest of the scores from last week:

1. Hydroxychloroquine Latifa	42
T-1. Chasing Olive	42
3. Clizby’s Chocolate room	39
4. The Quarantiners	38
5. The Covidiots	36
6. Self-Contained Hootenanny	35
7. Dobby’s Sock	34
8. Jawn of the dead	33
9. Quick Question	33
10. Carole’s Husband	33
11. Core-entine	29
12. What About Bob?	29
13. Team Marren	27
14. Socially Distant	26
15. Covid Baskin and the Quarantiger Kings	14

Results of Monday Night Matchups

SERIE A RESULTS

The Zodiac Killer$ defeated Internet Explorer to move on to play the winner of Cracked Eggheads vs Yacht Rock, while the Underground Bard surprised Au Bon Pandemic and could face off with old City Tap House rivals the Sofa Kingdom, if the SK gets past CoVideo Killed the Radio Quiz.

NIT RESULTS

In the NIT, it was the Texas City Players Club knocking off the Divine Order of the Grease Pole, earning themselves a second round matchup with Axis of Evil Knieval. In our other NIT matchup, Below Basic pulled away late to come away with a 42-37 win over the Tuesday Night Quarantine Quizzo Club. They’ll take on the Stately Plump Buck Mulligans in Round Two.