So on tonight’s broadcast of Fox 6 News at 10 (which airs locally at 9:30—another great job, Fox 6 News Team!), Peter Linton-Smith was finally granted a few minutes of airtime to present his report on the weekly Brit Inn Pub Quiz. Here are the highlights:
Members of “Pull/Put Your Hoods Up Lads” and some team called the “Van Buran Boys” were briefly interviewed.
Linton-Smith did not mention the Qu?zmaster’s week six fascination with Soviet Urine (which he obviously shares with everybody’s favorite psychotic, General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove) but did reveal that it takes the Qu?zmaster three hours a week to compose the quiz. No mention of his note-taking or revision strategies.
The cameraman seemed focused on the “action shots”: drinking, “thinking,” and answer-writing. This just in—Fox 6 News reports epidemic of poor penmanship allegedly perpetrated by drunken “trivia buffs.” More at 11 (10:30).
Three HGS members were featured prominently in various shots (lemur catta, GTA Feghoot, and someone we’ll call Mr. ARO). Fox 6 News will be hearing from their respective attorneys.
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Week Seven of the Brit Inn Summer Quiz League can best be compared to those days (way) back in high school when the substitute teacher came to your class: you and your classmates could always get away with creating much more classroom pandemonium when your regular teacher wasn’t there to be recognized as the symbol of authority. Well, folks, that’s exactly what happened Wednesday night during Ryan’s absence—a substitute quizmaster (little q, no question mark) came in, and all hell broke loose. The crowd was rowdier, the music lamer, and enunciation completely irrelevant.
In fact, the last characteristic definitely had adverse effects on the participating members of HGS last night: parenthesis (girl), neurotic wonderboy, GTA Feghoot, violet, someone we’ll call Mr. ARO, and, a last minute addition, Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner. The team incorrectly answered some questions due to an inability to interpret what Ludaquiz was saying, even upon his repeating the questions. Even Demosthenes took the pebbles out of his mouth sometimes. Was that really the Queen’s English? (Maybe the Queen Latifah’s.) It didn’t help that there was an overall reluctance to quiet down while questions were being read.
A chaotic spirit was not only instigated but seemed to be encouraged by the sub-quizzer, as often he would interrupt reading a question to make some indecipherable remarks or insults to various teams or individual participants who were being naughty, noisy, or nuisances. Of course, it was extremely difficult to distinguish these interruptions in the questions from the questions themselves. This practice slowed down the whole quiz (it took well over two hours), and perhaps reached its lowest low when Quizzy Elliott allowed someone to use the microphone in order to witness to all the patrons. That’s right, there was a Bible reading. What’s next—questions in French?!? Cauchemar fromage!
Despite the difficult circumstances (I know the three people who are reading this are saying right about now “Oh boo-hoo Hot Mad Students, poor babies,” but it’s all in jest) HGS finished a very close third. On the whole, it was a fairly challenging quiz, and also great to see that the Qu?zmaster didn’t phone it in and took three hours out of his pilgrimage to write a fine quiz. How long is three hours in metric? Here are the highlights:
Violet came up huge with answers concerning the Falkland Islands, the Temptations, and the cinematic masterpiece Wild Hogs.
Mr. ARO mastered the questions dealing with Thundercats (Ho!) and Apu’s progeny (Oc-Ho!)
GTA Feghoot’s ass gets an honorable mention for retaining these three words: “Cyrus the Virus.”
Parenthesis (girl) swept the bonus round and so knew Macau.
MVP: neurotic wonderboy for his knowledge concerning Kurt Cobain’s middle name and Travis (and, no, Kurt Cobain’s middle name is not Travis).
There was also a trick question about James Bond. The question was: Which actor has portrayed James Bond the most times? Roger Moore, as blogged about last week, appeared as 007 double-o seven times (and Moore was accepted as the correct answer) yet Sean Connery also portrayed the debonair secret agent double-o seven times, yet only six of those appearances were in “official” UA/Eon Productions. This was not mentioned. Of course, only the Hot Grad Students are probably interested in how Ryan Wickens conceptualizes the James Bond canon. Return to us safely, Milwaukee Qu?zmaster.
7.20.2007
Quiz League, Week Six: Hot Grad Students Live and Totally News-ed
So Week Six of the Brit Inn Summer Quiz League was, apparently, not to be missed: the Fox 6 News team actually showed up this time, no doubt parched after their coverage of last week's northside inferno as well as their controversial expose on the Brewers magnetic schedule curse (both stories turned out to be connected--whodathunk?), as well as the 7 representatives of HGS (all of whom have nifty Simpsonian avatars now): neurotic wonderboy, parenthesis (girl), GTA Feghoot, Violet, lemur catta, Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner, and someone we'll call Mr. ARO (I know, I know--we can call him whatever the hell we want since he hasn't signed up for the blog yet--for this week, let's call him "Prince Adam, son of Randor, ruler of Eternia, of the Kingdom of Eternos," and instead of that aforementioned avatar, we'll substitute this one:
It turned out to be a rather festive night, beginning with the solution to "The Mystery of the Missing Waitress," who, despite GTA Feghoot's extremely persuasive and logically plausible explanation concerning the Brit Inn waitress's involvement with both the fire and the magnetic schedule curse (I told you it was all connected!) and her subsequent run from local authorities, it turned out, was only in Las Vegas last week, partying it up with neurotic wonderboy at the Palms Casino. What a duo that would make: Beer AND Loathing.
Our beloved Milwaukee Qu?zmaster, or, as I like to call him, Don Quizote de la Milwaukee, began the evening with everybody's favorite Arctic Monkeys songs and then proceeded to offer a quiz with a massive, MASSIVE amount of points up for grabs, so it was, in Buffyese, a "good" that we were all there. Also, we were able to provide much eye candy for the Fox 6 News cameras. It all turned out very well, as the HGS garnered 50 points to finish a close second to the very resourceful and very, very loud Team-o Surprem-o (damn--why don't we have punctuation in our team name? Yo, P. (G.): you know what to do!).
Questions of Great Significance: the Countries o' Nine-I's (as in name them all for 9 points), the Countries with partial territory claims to the continent of Antarctica for various research (imperialist) pursuits (because we all know the Million Penguin March of '05 was way too successful for the well-being of the world--who do you think is behind global warming?), and our totally random guess of 1903 for the inaugural year of Le Tour de France, or, as we Americans like to call it, the bike race Lance Armstrong used to win all the time.
Miscellany: The HGS was shocked, shocked that the Knight of the Trivial Countenance (countenance in this context meaning "support" or "approval") stated, stated (twice, that is) that Roger Moore had only appeared as James Bond 007 five times instead of seven times (of course, if Ryan is suggesting that the outrageously bad "Moonraker" and "The Man With the Golden Gun" should NOT be included in the official Bond cinematic canon, then that's an oversight I'm willing to comply with, 'cause, damn, those movies aren't very good. NOTE: May substitute "A View to a Kill" for "Golden Gun."). Also, HGS answers questions dealing with sports about as well as we actually play those sports, but we did alright. Still got a bottle.
The quiz ended with song clips, and thankfully the rest of the team knows popular music because that GTA Feghoot don't know shit about it. If the Qu?zmaster ever plays excerpts from conservative talk radio programs, this feg will definitely hoot. So next week the mystery to be solved is: now that she's back, what is our waitress's name?
On a Sad Note: the Qu?zmaster has informed us he'll be gone for week seven due to a London pilgrimage. Team: be prepared for anything and everything. While GTA Feghoot constructs yet another crackpot theory about the connection between the fire and the magnetic schedule curse, and, certainly, Ryan's involvement with it, I'll remind us all of how Nabokov describes quizmaster substitution at the end of his novel Pale Fire: "But whatever happens, wherever the scene is laid, somebody, somewhere, will quietly set out--somebody has already set out, somebody still rather far away is buying a ticket, is boarding a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walking toward a million photographers [or the Fox 6 News team; editor's note], and presently he will stop in at the Brit Inn--a smaller, less respectable, less competent Qu?zmaster."
It turned out to be a rather festive night, beginning with the solution to "The Mystery of the Missing Waitress," who, despite GTA Feghoot's extremely persuasive and logically plausible explanation concerning the Brit Inn waitress's involvement with both the fire and the magnetic schedule curse (I told you it was all connected!) and her subsequent run from local authorities, it turned out, was only in Las Vegas last week, partying it up with neurotic wonderboy at the Palms Casino. What a duo that would make: Beer AND Loathing.
Our beloved Milwaukee Qu?zmaster, or, as I like to call him, Don Quizote de la Milwaukee, began the evening with everybody's favorite Arctic Monkeys songs and then proceeded to offer a quiz with a massive, MASSIVE amount of points up for grabs, so it was, in Buffyese, a "good" that we were all there. Also, we were able to provide much eye candy for the Fox 6 News cameras. It all turned out very well, as the HGS garnered 50 points to finish a close second to the very resourceful and very, very loud Team-o Surprem-o (damn--why don't we have punctuation in our team name? Yo, P. (G.): you know what to do!).
Questions of Great Significance: the Countries o' Nine-I's (as in name them all for 9 points), the Countries with partial territory claims to the continent of Antarctica for various research (imperialist) pursuits (because we all know the Million Penguin March of '05 was way too successful for the well-being of the world--who do you think is behind global warming?), and our totally random guess of 1903 for the inaugural year of Le Tour de France, or, as we Americans like to call it, the bike race Lance Armstrong used to win all the time.
Miscellany: The HGS was shocked, shocked that the Knight of the Trivial Countenance (countenance in this context meaning "support" or "approval") stated, stated (twice, that is) that Roger Moore had only appeared as James Bond 007 five times instead of seven times (of course, if Ryan is suggesting that the outrageously bad "Moonraker" and "The Man With the Golden Gun" should NOT be included in the official Bond cinematic canon, then that's an oversight I'm willing to comply with, 'cause, damn, those movies aren't very good. NOTE: May substitute "A View to a Kill" for "Golden Gun."). Also, HGS answers questions dealing with sports about as well as we actually play those sports, but we did alright. Still got a bottle.
The quiz ended with song clips, and thankfully the rest of the team knows popular music because that GTA Feghoot don't know shit about it. If the Qu?zmaster ever plays excerpts from conservative talk radio programs, this feg will definitely hoot. So next week the mystery to be solved is: now that she's back, what is our waitress's name?
On a Sad Note: the Qu?zmaster has informed us he'll be gone for week seven due to a London pilgrimage. Team: be prepared for anything and everything. While GTA Feghoot constructs yet another crackpot theory about the connection between the fire and the magnetic schedule curse, and, certainly, Ryan's involvement with it, I'll remind us all of how Nabokov describes quizmaster substitution at the end of his novel Pale Fire: "But whatever happens, wherever the scene is laid, somebody, somewhere, will quietly set out--somebody has already set out, somebody still rather far away is buying a ticket, is boarding a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walking toward a million photographers [or the Fox 6 News team; editor's note], and presently he will stop in at the Brit Inn--a smaller, less respectable, less competent Qu?zmaster."
7.18.2007
unsolicted, unofficial, HGS Trivia team Player Profiles
Since I am superficial, judgemental, selfish, hyper-critical and otherwise full of crap, I thought that I'd take it upon myself to write some unsolicited player profiles of the Hot Grad Student Trivia Team. Please do not post comments or edit these profiles in anyway, since you will obviously be wrong.
GTA Fegfoot: He IS the Internet Movie Database. Aside from that, he also reads wikipedia for fun. For serious.
Parenthesis (Girl): Also a lifetime subscriber to the wikipedia, which just goes to show that it can be used critically as a valid academic research source. Take note all English 102 students. Using Wiki will payoff...in spades (great phrase, no idea what it means. I can only guess that "spades" are awesome).
Neurotic Wonder Boy: That's me. And like the bible, you can and should read my name literally. I am nervous and wonderful. I can't come through in the clutch, but I can be counted on to know something or other about one or two things each time we play. I'm down with sugary pop music and for some reason I can answer questions about Africa, though only superficially. More often than not, though, I just play footsie with the other grad students under the table.
Mr. ARO: He's a tall drink of water, but prefers beer and gin (separately). Has intermediate knowledge of pop music and is from a midwestern state which means he probably knows a thing or two about American presidents. Sometime pronounces "insurance" with emphasis on the "in" rather than the "sur" (like I do, which is the right way). Is a Cardinals fan, but hey, nobody's perfect. Can beat me at Tekken 5.
Lemur Catta: Perhaps a team unto himself with an extensive knowledge of both Freddy Mercury and Africa. But, not all this "cat" has to offer. While he's prone to violent "rage" blackouts, he will often surprise you by being available to play darts late night at the Landmark Lanes. That's southern hospitality for you.
Lonestar Writer: I'm guessing is from Texas, which you don't mess with.
Violet: While we share a common friendship with the Associate Dean of Letters and Sciences, Violet often rises above the petty departmental politics that comes with a job in academia. Her penchant for hot british actors and bad RnB music takes her far at the trivia table.
Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner: A long name for a short girl. He taste in clothing is impeccable, and I know this because she has the same taste as me - impeccable. Her critical eye misses nothing as she turns trivia answers over in her head, eventually rendering both answer and question utterly meaningless. As the answers implode, the points for her team add up exponentially. She can also time travel. And though she's only successfully done it once, she is looking for a time travel companion for the next journey.
*Also, I just got back from Las Vegas and Arizona where I experienced earthly temperatures unheard of in the northeast. I have a pretty sweet farmer's tan to prove it. Tune in shortly and often because someday I will eventually, maybe, update my own blog with stories of that trip, plus some kind of bullshit red sox and/or patriots analysis.
GTA Fegfoot: He IS the Internet Movie Database. Aside from that, he also reads wikipedia for fun. For serious.
Parenthesis (Girl): Also a lifetime subscriber to the wikipedia, which just goes to show that it can be used critically as a valid academic research source. Take note all English 102 students. Using Wiki will payoff...in spades (great phrase, no idea what it means. I can only guess that "spades" are awesome).
Neurotic Wonder Boy: That's me. And like the bible, you can and should read my name literally. I am nervous and wonderful. I can't come through in the clutch, but I can be counted on to know something or other about one or two things each time we play. I'm down with sugary pop music and for some reason I can answer questions about Africa, though only superficially. More often than not, though, I just play footsie with the other grad students under the table.
Mr. ARO: He's a tall drink of water, but prefers beer and gin (separately). Has intermediate knowledge of pop music and is from a midwestern state which means he probably knows a thing or two about American presidents. Sometime pronounces "insurance" with emphasis on the "in" rather than the "sur" (like I do, which is the right way). Is a Cardinals fan, but hey, nobody's perfect. Can beat me at Tekken 5.
Lemur Catta: Perhaps a team unto himself with an extensive knowledge of both Freddy Mercury and Africa. But, not all this "cat" has to offer. While he's prone to violent "rage" blackouts, he will often surprise you by being available to play darts late night at the Landmark Lanes. That's southern hospitality for you.
Lonestar Writer: I'm guessing is from Texas, which you don't mess with.
Violet: While we share a common friendship with the Associate Dean of Letters and Sciences, Violet often rises above the petty departmental politics that comes with a job in academia. Her penchant for hot british actors and bad RnB music takes her far at the trivia table.
Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner: A long name for a short girl. He taste in clothing is impeccable, and I know this because she has the same taste as me - impeccable. Her critical eye misses nothing as she turns trivia answers over in her head, eventually rendering both answer and question utterly meaningless. As the answers implode, the points for her team add up exponentially. She can also time travel. And though she's only successfully done it once, she is looking for a time travel companion for the next journey.
*Also, I just got back from Las Vegas and Arizona where I experienced earthly temperatures unheard of in the northeast. I have a pretty sweet farmer's tan to prove it. Tune in shortly and often because someday I will eventually, maybe, update my own blog with stories of that trip, plus some kind of bullshit red sox and/or patriots analysis.
7.17.2007
That Hot Promethean Fire
The last few weeks have been interesting, to say the least. As GTA Feghoot has noted, last week's HGS line up included le pere de lemur catta - my own father. This made for an enjoyable family occasion, but it also meant a duplication of the regular trivia night division in the lemur catta household: joining my wife on the opposing Team-o Supreme-o sat my own mother, a trivia-mongering barfly and church handbell director with enough interest in British monarchial history, sports, and television to put HGS in the hot spot. Luckily for us, from my intelligence reports, it appears that a few of the right answers she suggested weren't included on T.S.'s answer sheet, likely sparing HGS from a much narrower victory. Plus, as has been noted, the hot spot is not new to us. We invented it.
Still, Team-o Supreme-o may have become HGS's true opponent in these last few weeks. They are worthy advesaries. It will be a pleasure to defeat them.
My parents have now returned to the Gulf Coast, back to the humid and humble submetropolis of Baton Rouge, where the trivia is not quite so British, nor so stocked with the many ales of the Empire. I hope that since their visit, when they're back home sipping an Abita at The Caterie, the ringing of the Arctic Monkeys long dissolved from memory, they'll have a clearer picture of how a few grad students and friends drank that Milwaukee summer under the table.
Still, Team-o Supreme-o may have become HGS's true opponent in these last few weeks. They are worthy advesaries. It will be a pleasure to defeat them.
My parents have now returned to the Gulf Coast, back to the humid and humble submetropolis of Baton Rouge, where the trivia is not quite so British, nor so stocked with the many ales of the Empire. I hope that since their visit, when they're back home sipping an Abita at The Caterie, the ringing of the Arctic Monkeys long dissolved from memory, they'll have a clearer picture of how a few grad students and friends drank that Milwaukee summer under the table.
7.16.2007
7.13.2007
Boston Massacre
I would like to take this opportunity to officially nominate neurotic wonderboy for President of Red Sox Nation. If his name were to appear on the ballot it would be a landslide victory. He's already devised a great campaign slogan: "Drink More Cranberry Juice!"
Quiz League, Week Five: Backdraft, or Too Hot to Handle
The theme this week: fire.
So Wednesday night, the HGS was represented particularly well, only missing one veteran member (neurotic wonderboy was out of town, experiencing a heat all his own in Arizona): parenthesis (girl), GTA Feghoot, lemur catta (both pere and fils, a delightful surprise), Violet, Mr. 'Birthday Boy' ARO, and Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner. The hard-hitting Fox 6 News team was a no-show, attempting to salvage some respectability by deciding to cover a four-alarm fire that had erupted on Milwaukee's north side earlier that evening instead of week five of the Brit Inn Summer Quiz League. However, while flames engulfed three businesses on N. Green Bay Ave., the reporters missed a fire that broke out inside the Brit Inn at a little past 8p.m.--that's right: the Hot Grad Students returned to full form, and they were en fuego.
Much to the dismay of the other teams, who, really, I thought were liking us more and more, the HGS garnered 43 out of a possible 50 points. Our prize this week? A bottle of vodka to help "cool us down." While it may do that, one bottle won't be enough to douse the "towering inferno" of the HGS: it's going to take many more to extinguish our thirst for alcohol; after all, we are grad students, not to mention hot. On the HGS label, it states: "WARNING: CONTENTS (IN)FLAMMABLE!" No wait, we don't like labels. Lapels maybe.
Hyperbole aside (no, GTA Feghoot, say it ain't so!), we definitely had some nice moments this week. We were able to pull the answer of "Freedom Tower" out of our ass (just like the person who named it did from his), and we were successful on the "massive" (the Qu?zmaster's favorite word, yeh-yeh) questions that dealt with the various James Bonds and the 10 countries that start with the letters MA. But fellow Hot Grad Students, there is still work to be done! Fox 6 News might be back next week! We still have to solve the mystery of our waitress who seems to have disappeared! We need more bottles! And it's only week five--AND there's no All-Star Break!!!
P.S. Thanks to the Milwaukee Qu?zmaster for bringing the Arctic Monkeys songs back to the top of the program. Long live the MQ and the Flourescent Adolescent!
So Wednesday night, the HGS was represented particularly well, only missing one veteran member (neurotic wonderboy was out of town, experiencing a heat all his own in Arizona): parenthesis (girl), GTA Feghoot, lemur catta (both pere and fils, a delightful surprise), Violet, Mr. 'Birthday Boy' ARO, and Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner. The hard-hitting Fox 6 News team was a no-show, attempting to salvage some respectability by deciding to cover a four-alarm fire that had erupted on Milwaukee's north side earlier that evening instead of week five of the Brit Inn Summer Quiz League. However, while flames engulfed three businesses on N. Green Bay Ave., the reporters missed a fire that broke out inside the Brit Inn at a little past 8p.m.--that's right: the Hot Grad Students returned to full form, and they were en fuego.
Much to the dismay of the other teams, who, really, I thought were liking us more and more, the HGS garnered 43 out of a possible 50 points. Our prize this week? A bottle of vodka to help "cool us down." While it may do that, one bottle won't be enough to douse the "towering inferno" of the HGS: it's going to take many more to extinguish our thirst for alcohol; after all, we are grad students, not to mention hot. On the HGS label, it states: "WARNING: CONTENTS (IN)FLAMMABLE!" No wait, we don't like labels. Lapels maybe.
Hyperbole aside (no, GTA Feghoot, say it ain't so!), we definitely had some nice moments this week. We were able to pull the answer of "Freedom Tower" out of our ass (just like the person who named it did from his), and we were successful on the "massive" (the Qu?zmaster's favorite word, yeh-yeh) questions that dealt with the various James Bonds and the 10 countries that start with the letters MA. But fellow Hot Grad Students, there is still work to be done! Fox 6 News might be back next week! We still have to solve the mystery of our waitress who seems to have disappeared! We need more bottles! And it's only week five--AND there's no All-Star Break!!!
P.S. Thanks to the Milwaukee Qu?zmaster for bringing the Arctic Monkeys songs back to the top of the program. Long live the MQ and the Flourescent Adolescent!
7.10.2007
Too Much Publicity a Bad Thing?
So our beloved Milwaukee Qu?zmaster recently announced on his blog that the Fox 6 News Team will be attending the weekly festivities tomorrow to report on the phenomenon that has become the Brit Inn Summer Quiz League. The story goes, with most of the details re-imagined, that one of the local Fox reporters got lost and wandered into the Brit Inn a few weeks ago. The Qu?zmaster subsequently got this reporter drunk and coerced him into doing the story. The MQ will now have to have a new blog motto: "He's the Man with All the Answers--As Seen On TV." The HGS certainly hopes that all this new-found fame does not go to the Qu?zmaster's head. We fear the day that Ryan Wickens becomes an answer to one of his own trivia questions, much less the topic of the whole Bonus Round. If this turns out to be the case, I say we all blame the hard-hitting Fox 6 News team, who, let's be honest, can make mountains out of molehills. After all, this is the same station that led off its late-night newscast tonight with a story about the curse of the Milwaukee Brewers magnetic schedule.
The reporters will most likely be able to witness the triumphant return of both GTA Feghoot and Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner, but will unfortunately miss the chance to interview neurotic wonderboy about the distinction he shares with Alyssa Milano: they both have blogs about baseball.
P.S. Although we are to be on our best behavior tomorrow, this potential television appearance will be quite the opportunity to promote the forthcoming Hot Grad Students: The Movie, an action-packed animated extravaganza soon to be opening at the Marcus Prospect Mall Cinema. Senor Spielbergo directs.
The reporters will most likely be able to witness the triumphant return of both GTA Feghoot and Alistair LaQuisha Spiritrunner, but will unfortunately miss the chance to interview neurotic wonderboy about the distinction he shares with Alyssa Milano: they both have blogs about baseball.
P.S. Although we are to be on our best behavior tomorrow, this potential television appearance will be quite the opportunity to promote the forthcoming Hot Grad Students: The Movie, an action-packed animated extravaganza soon to be opening at the Marcus Prospect Mall Cinema. Senor Spielbergo directs.
7.05.2007
Quiz League, Week 4: Insert Witty Subtitle Here
Following the return of the pre-quiz theme song (woohoo) and the standard "Good Evening Shorewood!" salutation, this week's quiz opened with a declaration (npi) that any and all celebrations of independence were forbidden. Luckily for us, we know not of this independence concept. Freedom? From others? Does that include my dissertation advisor? No? Ok.
This week the HGS were severely limited, missing GTA Feghoot who is really in charge of all things Oscar-related, James Bond and NFL. Hence we finished in an as-yet-unheard-of fourth place, albeit only four points out of first place. This week was a fast-paced and low-scoring week (out of 40 points as compared to recent weeks' totals well over 50). Hopefully it will just be dropped from our score as one of our "three lowest." Despite this blow, we remain in first place in the quiz-league standings, much to the disappointment of the other teams, I'm sure ::waves at Van Buren Boys::
We were also, it seems, undernourished, as there was no food service yesterday evening and at least three of us wanted potato skins to pair with our quaffables. Oh well. Next week.
What was good? We (like most teams, I'm sure) swept the lightning rounds handily. I attribute this in part to our many years as students (an average of 20 years per team member; and, yes, that does mean some of us have *more* than that) and having taken many multiple choice and matching tests in those years.
Our illustrious Quizmaster provides a link to this blog in his recap of last night's goings-on. However, there appears to be a typo in the link, leading the reader, hilariously I might add, to this lovely site. I hope it's a typo. Or a joke. Because, goodness.
In any case, if it gets fixed, welcome to new readers, friendly or foe-ish.
I won't dare close with an altered quotation from some Henry Adams or whoallever. Instead I leave you with this tidbit of an intarweb find:
There has already been a "team" calling themselves "hot grad students". Hopefully we won't suffer their fate, with someone (probably me) injuring their knee mid-quiz and having to drop out entirely.
yup. that's all.
This week the HGS were severely limited, missing GTA Feghoot who is really in charge of all things Oscar-related, James Bond and NFL. Hence we finished in an as-yet-unheard-of fourth place, albeit only four points out of first place. This week was a fast-paced and low-scoring week (out of 40 points as compared to recent weeks' totals well over 50). Hopefully it will just be dropped from our score as one of our "three lowest." Despite this blow, we remain in first place in the quiz-league standings, much to the disappointment of the other teams, I'm sure ::waves at Van Buren Boys::
We were also, it seems, undernourished, as there was no food service yesterday evening and at least three of us wanted potato skins to pair with our quaffables. Oh well. Next week.
What was good? We (like most teams, I'm sure) swept the lightning rounds handily. I attribute this in part to our many years as students (an average of 20 years per team member; and, yes, that does mean some of us have *more* than that) and having taken many multiple choice and matching tests in those years.
Our illustrious Quizmaster provides a link to this blog in his recap of last night's goings-on. However, there appears to be a typo in the link, leading the reader, hilariously I might add, to this lovely site. I hope it's a typo. Or a joke. Because, goodness.
In any case, if it gets fixed, welcome to new readers, friendly or foe-ish.
I won't dare close with an altered quotation from some Henry Adams or whoallever. Instead I leave you with this tidbit of an intarweb find:
There has already been a "team" calling themselves "hot grad students". Hopefully we won't suffer their fate, with someone (probably me) injuring their knee mid-quiz and having to drop out entirely.
yup. that's all.
7.02.2007
Quiz League, Week Three: Why Am I The Only One Blogging About This?
So the Summer Brit Inn Quiz League continued last Wednesday evening, and only parenthesis (girl), GTA Feghoot, lemur catta, and violet (formerly known as "The Power") of the HGS were in attendance (neurotic wonderboy and someone we'll call Mr. ARO decided to ditch us for some lame party). While in weeks past 47 points would have cemented a victory for the HGS, this particular week it was only good for a tie for 2nd, as HGS finished two points behind the Brit Inn veterans, the Van Buren Boys.
The HGS received much more applause than usual when our score was called, which can only mean that the other trivia teams are finally coming around and warming up to us.
There was some controversy concerning one of the questions that dealt with American cities that have hosted both the Super Bowl and the World Series, but ultimately that was not what did the HGS in. Rather it was poor attendance again by our teammates. Perhaps if all six of us had been there, we would have deduced what state Britney Spears was born in, or how many times Seve Ballesteros actually did win the British Open. The only way we're going to be able to win this thing is for consistent participation by ALL six HGS members. I know it sounds like I'm calling people out, but it has to be done. Attendance is imperative.
By the way, GTA Feghoot won't be able to make it to this week's Independence Day lightning round. Sorry guys.
The HGS received much more applause than usual when our score was called, which can only mean that the other trivia teams are finally coming around and warming up to us.
There was some controversy concerning one of the questions that dealt with American cities that have hosted both the Super Bowl and the World Series, but ultimately that was not what did the HGS in. Rather it was poor attendance again by our teammates. Perhaps if all six of us had been there, we would have deduced what state Britney Spears was born in, or how many times Seve Ballesteros actually did win the British Open. The only way we're going to be able to win this thing is for consistent participation by ALL six HGS members. I know it sounds like I'm calling people out, but it has to be done. Attendance is imperative.
By the way, GTA Feghoot won't be able to make it to this week's Independence Day lightning round. Sorry guys.
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