Let’s Rock n Roll Tonight

The Locust Rendezvous is where we kick it off tonight. Great specials this week. $3 Leinenkugel Wheat Beer, $2 Lionshead bottles, and $2 Soco and Lime shots. Action starts at 6:15 p.m. On to Black Sheep at 8 p.m. Been an interesting month at Black Sheep, with two perfect scores. Is you team the next one to be immortalized with a perfect game?

Our wild card round will combine knowledge of a recent film with knowledge of 18th century Europe. Should be interesting. And yes, I am still accepting Halloween photos as bonus points on the facebook page. If your team wants to play in the funnest quizzo event of the winter, I highly suggest you take these bonus points where you can get ’em.

And mark your calendars: the week of November 15th is the one to bring along the new exchange student. It will be International Week. All questions will be about foreign lands, foreign people, and foreign objects.

Vote for Johnny Goodtimes for Quizmaster General!

Vote for Johnny Goodtimes on Big Money Tuesday!

There is only one quizmaster in this town worth voting for, and that’s the one offering not only the best questions in town but the best prizes. We start at O’Neals, where margaritas are $3.50, the first place prize is a $50 gift certificate, and the competition is wide slam open. Anybody could come away with a win at O’Neals tonight, as we have a new winner there literally every week.

On to the City Tap House at 10:15 p.m. Two weeks, two different winners. Expect a new winner this week, as the questions tonight are going to be quite interesting. And the prize there is insane. A free two hour Happy Hour for you and ten friends! Off the chain, folks. Spread the word to your peeps in West Philly. Also, $3 Sly Foxes and $10 buys you a personal pizza and a can of beer. A tough deal to beat.

Also, we’re taking the physical challenge to a whole new level tonight. The scoreboard is getting tense, and so now so will the bonus points. Hope to see you tonight!

Question of the Week

On November 2, 1959, Charles Van Doren admitted to a Congressional committee that he had been given the answers in advance on the game show Twenty One. Who was his opponent (above) who threw the game, later regretted it, and blew the whistle on the rampant cheating that was going on in TV game shows?

Autumn Invitational Scoreboard with Two Weeks to Go

Here’s the JGTAI Scoreboard after 6 weeks. The top 3 teams looked to be pretty locked in, but after that it’s wide open. Keep in mind, teams in blue will be eligible for the $100 bonus drawing. Teams in yellow or blue would be guaranteed slots if the season ended today. Teams in green are on the bubble. They could get in if a couple of teams ahead of them drop out or if there is an extra table or two. Which means that teams in the green would be well served to try to score a few points in the next two weeks. There is an extremely easy opportunity to earn points right now. Just post a pic of you in your Halloween outfit. Up to three members can post a photo for a point each and the best outfit will earn their team another 3 points. With 9 teams within 3 points of that last slot either way, 3 points could wind up being huge. Remember, winner walks with $300, and everybody gets to enjoy the sweet soulful sounds of Anthony Riley. The Summer Invitational was a ton of fun, and I don’t expect this to be any different.

Quick Notes

Scoreboard will be up Monday. Two weeks left to go in the JGTAI, and I will start handing out invites next week to teams who have qualified. Teams who have not qualified, here is a golden opportunity! I am giving bonus points for you posting photos of yourself in your Halloween costumes. Best Halloween outfit posted on the wall earns you a bonus 3 points!

In sports, here’s my latest podcast with Lee Russakoff…is Instant Replay hurting the NFL? This is a pretty funny one. In the “In case you missed it category”, I highly recommend the poem about Ryan Howard’s last at bat.

And finally, in the “Most interesting thing I’ve read lately on the 3 blogs I semi-regularly check” category, here is a highly entertaining piece from Joey Sweeney at Philebrity about his time spent working in the porn industry. Sort of.

Perfection, Inception, and Rejection: The Week That Was

A wild, wild, Spooktacular week. Steak Em Up finishes 3rd twice, Satan’s Minions (above) get a perfect score, I blow a tie breaker at O’Neals, and two new teams win for the first time ever.

We start at O’Neals, where I didn’t realize until I was announcing final scores that we had a tie. I ran over to Insert Topical Team Name Here and said “When was Dracula born?” Not knowing that it was the tiebreaker, one of them started looking it up on his phone. They were disqualified. Bad call by the ref: In a rush, I had neglected to tell them it was a tiebreaker. Savage Ear got the win. A tough loss, but the fact that they tied means they only lost one point on the JGTAI. Also getting a win on Tuesday night? The Tubular Two, whose City Tap House win was their first ever victory.

No tiebreakers needed at the Black Sheep the next night, as Satan’s Minions went 40 questions up, 40 questions down to record a perfect 120. Remarkably, after 7 years and over 350 quizzes without a single perfect game ever at the Black Sheep, we’ve had two in the month of October (Duane’s WOrld had one a few weeks ago.) It’s a funny sport.

Earlier in the night, 1022 kept their incredible hot streak going. Through September 10th, these Rendezvous regulars had won three times all season, and hadn’t won since early June. In the last 6 games, they’ve won 5 times.

Onto Thursday, where the serial killer wild card round was an instant classic (The Ghost Movie Speed Round, on the other hand, not so much. A fair amount of anger over what constitutes a ghost). And when the dust settled, the Exhausted Nihilists were the 2nd team this week that won their first ever quizzo.

Then to a packed Bards, where incredibly 4 teams finished within two points of each other. Eschaton escaped with the win. Lots of surprises in the Halloween Spooktacular. Going to be interesting to see how the standings shake down on Monday.