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.
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