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."
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