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!