PUB QUIZ Blog

If a Quiz Happens in a Pub. . .

And nobody is there to hear it does it actually happen? We almost got to find out last week. But for the few and proud that actually were in attendance, we were treated to a very competitive and high scoring night. Team #11 Tomorrow Night Old Kings Road is Doin' It DAWGy-Style won the overall score in a tie-breaker over Team #4 Measure B Fails, 45ft. Jake & Chris Relieved, but failed to pick the correct token. Only four of them remain in the Purple Bag of Goodness and the jackpot is growing (slowly).

Team #2 Hey, Can't a Guy Take a Quiz in Peace? outscored the field in round 4 and have graced us with the following categories for round 3 of next week:

• John Cusack
• Tiger Woods
• Jay-Z
• Microsoft
• Chicago (The Band)
• Breakdancing Films
• Lost (TV Show)
• Freaks & Geeks (TV Show)
• Steven Spielberg Films
• AFC West Football
• Pac-10 Basketball
• German Shepherds
• The Office (American Version)

Results
Tomorrow Night Old Kings Road is Doin' It DAWGy-Style - 32
Measure B Fails, 45ft. Jake & Chris Relieved - 32
Purple Before Swine - 31
How Much For A Free & Fair Election - 29.5
Hey, Can't a Guy Take a Quiz in Peace? - 28.5

Monthly Drawing FTW, Again

Last night we had our second ever monthly bonus drawing and it was a bit of a thrill to randomly reward a team just for playing. This time it was Week 4's Team #5 Green Bud Packers who were blessed with a bottle of Marsannay Rouge and $20 per player. Since they were a team of 3, there were a few more bottles left over and they went to Teams 9, 14, &18, respectively. Yay for free stuff!

As far the Quiz part of the night was concerned, it was deja vu all over again. Team #17 Northwest Purple Baggage Claim won a narrow victory, but failed to win the big jackpot and Team #16 Underdog Overachievers muddled through the first three rounds before winning round 4 for the second week in a row. Here are their new categories for round 3 of next week:

• Nietzsche
• Neolithic Revolution
• Office (TV Show - US Version)
• Werner Herzog
• The Kids in the Hall
• Jimmy Carter
• David Bowie
• Alice in Chains
• William Faulkner
• Nextel
• Six Feet Under
• European Soccer (UEFA)
• US Senators
• Alternative Energy

Also...

Remember, Remember, the fifth of November…..

 

a Pub Quiz at Old Kings Road to benefit

 

TEAM D.A.W.G

(Dog Adoption and Welfare Group)

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

(Guy Fawkes Day)

7pm-9pm

Old Kings Road Pub,

532 State Street, SB

Entry Fee: $5/person,

maximum 6 people/team

 

Four rounds of 10 trivia questions, with prizes for the winning team each round, as well as an overall prize for the highest scoring team.

 

All proceeds from entry fees go to support DAWG, a no-kill shelter in SB County.

I hope to see you all there!

Results:
Northwest Purple Baggage Claim - 33
Cold Spring Human Powered Flight Clubs - 31
For Halloween, Jake Costume Sell Out, Nobody Wants to Go as Chris - 30.5
The Governator Named Head of Newest UC: The Fuck U - 30
Slutty Kim Jong Il - 28

Computer Love

Last week's Pub Quiz was rip-roaring with a dash of spice due to the presence of many new players. Although many of them got a cold dose of reality when they were faced with the vast variety in the musical selections and the peripatetic drift to the trivia questions, I think that if they hang in there and perhaps bring a few friends to round out their teams, then they will do just fine in coming weeks.

Even with all of the new faces, however, it is obvious that experience counts for something as veteran Team #10 Half Purple, Half in the Bag edged out regulars Team #3 Thank You Balloon Boy Saga For Providing the Cheapest, Easier Halloween Costume Idea This Year by .5 points to win the overall total. The big jackpot rolls over to next week when we will also have our monthly bonus drawing.

On the other hand, Team #5 Falcon's Day Off needed hardly any experience at all to win round 4 and provide us with the following categories for next week's round 3:

• The Wire (TV Show)
• Boulder, CO
• Music Synthesizers
• Oscar Wilde
• Minnesota Vikings
• German Grammar
• Cocktails
• Bertrand Russell
• Physics
• Logic
• Friends (TV Show)
• Halo
• Greek Literature

Results:
Half Purple, Half in the Bag - 30.5
Thank You Balloon Boy Saga For Providing the Cheapest, Easier Halloween Costume Idea This Year - 30
Surprisingly, New Biggest Loser Spin-Off Feature Neither Jake Nor Chris - 28.5
Do Dodger Dogs Cause Choking? - 27.5
Moist Coaster - 27.5
Balloon Jihad - 27.5

Ebb and Flow

Good to know that rain does not keep people away as much as fire. Last night saw a pretty sassy crowd in the house. I know it was my kind of night when I was accosted by someone who used words like 'modernity' and 'interiority' to explain why I would like the book they were reading/class they were taking. I love that stuff.

We had a very competitive quiz with a tie for first in overall score, with another team perhaps actually having the highest score that was overlooked due to an accounting error. (Don't worry, they were compensated.). In any case, Team #19 Barely Purple, Dave's Not Here emerged from the tiebreaker, but failed to win the big jackpot. It will rollover to next week.

Team #2 St. Louis Rams Win Biggest Loser Competition After Losing 300lbs. of Ugly Fat won round 4 and have provided these categories for round 3 of next week:

• Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
• James Frey Novels
• Intervention (A&E)
• Detroit Lions
• X-Planes
• Assault Rifles
• Mad Men (TV Show)
• Sade
• Neil Diamond
• Schutzhund
• Hitchcock Films
• Hydromulch
• 1980's Funk
• Spiderman Villians
• Garfield (comic strip)

Results:
Barely Purple, Dave's Not Here - 30.5
Our Creative Juices Contain Pulp - 30.5
St. Louis Rams Win Biggest Loser Competition After Losing 300lbs. of Ugly Fat - 29.83
Jake Sweeps Chris in Three - 29.5
Mark Yudof Can Kiss Our Shapely Asses - 28

Somewhat Sober October

The quality of last week's quiz far surpassed the total interest in it. Those teams that were in attendance were treated to some good questions and a quick evening. It was a very competitive night with the top team scoring only 8 points more than the bottom team. Parity at last. In the end Team #12 UN Sanctioned Groping and Grinding aka Reese & The Kicks @ SoHo tomorrow at 10pm parlayed wins in the last two rounds to win a narrow victory. The jackpot, however, was not claimed and will rollover. But all 11 teams now have a chance to win in the end of month bonus drawing. Here are the categories for next week's round 3:

• Celebrity Hermaphrodites
• Korean Food
• The X-Factor
• Spice Girls
• Bell X1
• Filipino Food
• Entertainmentweekly.com
• The 818
• thekicksreggae.com
• Hollister Beer
• Worst Ways to Get a Hangover
• The Guild
• German Family Board Games
• Cock
• The Hills
• Harlem Renaissance
• Aztecs
• The Kicks

UN Sanctioned Groping and Grinding aka Reese & The Kicks @ SoHo tomorrow at 10pm - 29.5
Instant Pirate Booty: Just Add Water - 28.5
Bags Your Uncle - 28
Jake & Chris Successfully Lobby IOC for Rio in 2016; They Hate America - 27.5
Tall Dark & Still Horny - 26

Monthly Drawing FTW

Although it kinda seemed like nobody was paying attention, and we missed the drama of having an absent team win, this idea of a monthly drawing for which all teams that have attended over the course of the month are eligible, is a good one. It will continue. To reiterate:

1. Every team that plays in a month gets a chance to win on the last Wednesday of the month.
2. At least one person from that team must be present and playing for that team to be allowed to win.
3. The winning team gets $20 per person and 6 bottles of wine.
4. Any questions?

The winning team in September was Team #2 from Wednesday #5 - Quiz on My Tits - Congrats!

Now onto regular business. Lot's of high scores this last week, but in the end Team #3 Jake Says, "I Thought Chris Was Going to Pay the San Ysidro Ranch Bill." won both the overall score and round 4. The left the jackpot for someone to win another day, but did leave these fine categories for next week's round 4:

• WWII in the Pacific
• Jane Austen
• Battlestar Gallactica
• Big Lebowski
• Beer
• Julie Andrews
• Knitting Terms
• Magic the Gathering
• Venture Brothers
• I Love Lucy
• The I.T. Crowd
• Guybrush Threepwood
• Dixie Chicks
• Project Runway

Results:
Jake Says, "I Thought Chris Was Going to Pay the San Ysidro Ranch Bill." - 33.5
Tall, Dark, & Horny - 32
Purple Asphault - 31
Bollocks, The - 31
In Honor of International Blasphemy Day - Jesus Was a Gay Stripper - 30.5

All Fall Down

Super close Pub Quiz contest last night. Despite having a sore tooth and nearly loosing my voice trying to shout over the inexplicable 20 or so noisy nonparticipants, I think that every thing went well. In a last round show of force, Team #7 Keep Bagging That Chicken pulled off the clean sweep of winning round 4, the overall score, and drawing the correct token for the big jackpot. The out-pointed 3 teams by a total of 4 points for a narrow and lucrative win. Here are their categories for next week's round 3:

• Neil Gaiman's Sandman
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Gossip Girl
• Clive Cussler
• The World Series
• 70's Rock & Roll
• 60's LA Dodgers
• DWTS
• Dark Comedies (Movies)
• US Geography
• Chico, CA
• Black Sabbath
• Darts
• Santa Barbara Dining

Results:
Keep Bagging That Chicken - 32.5
Dancing With Jake's & Chris's - 31.5
From Now on Were Commuting by Helicopter - 31.5
24 Hour Pub Quiz People - 30.5
Six Beers Short of a Six Pack - 26.5

After the Boys of Summer...

It's getting dark earlier and the baseball playoffs are days away. Oscar-caliber movies are starting to get released. And Pub Quiz continues. Last week was capital fun with lots of better performances than I expected. Team #9 We Are Witnessing the Birth of A Psycho-Sexual Killer used all of the karma they must have earned by avoiding the obvious Kanye West team name to earn a well-deserved overall score victory. They do need some help in the token drawing department and the jackpot will rollover.

Team #10 Yo Tim, I'll Let You Finish, I Just Wanna Say This is One of the Best Team Names Ever did not manage to avoid invoking Kanye's most recent moment of high jackass-ery, but did win round 4 and have given us these categories for round 3 of next week:

• Celebrity Real Names
• Ben's Vagina
• Sealand (Micronations)
• Southeastern Utah
• Law & Order SVU
• The Rolling Stones
• William Henty Dana
• The Ivy League
• Grunge Music
• Bruges, Belgium
• Bruce Campbell
• American Distance Runners
• Portland, Oregon
• Ridley Scott
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Jim Carroll

Results:
We Are Witnessing the Birth of A Psycho-Sexual Killer - 33
Jake Grabs the Mic from Taylor Swift, Says Chris Had One of the Best Video's of All Time - 30.5
The Purplest Bags of All Time - 30
Yo Tim, I'll Let You Finish, I Just Wanna Say This is One of the Best Team Names Ever - 27.5
Yo Tim, I Know You're the Quizmaster and All and Imma Let You Finish,But the Pub Quiz in Goleta is the Best In Town - 27.5
Death Don't Hurt - 26.5

Not with a bang but a whimper

So I guess the full and wild Pub Quiz that appeared out of nowhere was a bit of an aberration, because last week was mellow and quiet with a paltry 15 teams. In the feast or famine world of Pub Quiz, maybe that's just the way it goes. So I am starting a once a month drawing for $120 and six bottles of wine that will occur on the last wednesday of each month. All teams for the month will be eligible to win if at least 1 member is present and participating at the quiz on the last day of the month. You could conceivable have 5 entries in the drawing if you came on all five wednesdays in a month. Maybe that will give added incentive to teams that finish just out of the money but still enjoy attending Pub Quiz for sheer enjoyment. And people will know that on the last wednesday of each month the crowd might be a little bigger because of the drawing. So congrats to all 15 teams from last week - you each have one entry in the drawing. This also means that you need to fill out the names of your players each week on your signup sheets.

As far as play went last week, Team #12 Inglourious Bagsters put a whuppin' on the field, but failed to win the jackpot. Team #9 Lunchilla won round 4 and have provided the following categories for next week's round 3:

• Max Von Sydow
• Coen Brothers Movies
• David Cook
• Ben Folds
• Chuck Bass
• IKEA
• Spices
• Food Anagrams
• True Blood
• Bourbon
• Basqueland/Pais Vasco
• traditional spanish tapas
• Guiding Light
• Medieval Weaponry
• Central Mesoamerican Pre-Hispanic Pictorial Documents
• Diego Velazquez
• 90's Rap Music

Results
Inglourious Bagsters - 34
Burrito-Boosted Butthole Blowtorch - 29
Jake & Chris are Indoctrinating Our Children - 28
My Urologist is Pissed Off at Healthcare Reform - 28
Our Necrophiliacs are in the Bahamas - 27.25
Smells Like Horse - 27
Lunchilla - 27

Pub Quiz Flash Mob?

Does anybody have a reasonable theory about why there were twice as many teams at Pub Quiz immediately after the giveaway of a big jackpot? The bar was nearly full at 6:30. I know that Allan Breed's Birthday Extravaganza accounted for an extra two teams worth of people, but I saw at least 3 teams leave when they saw the crowd and realized that competition would be fierce and the bar would be hot. In any case despite the crowd and the climate, I'd like to point out that Pub Quiz is much more exciting and fun when there is a big group vying for trivia dominance.

And although winning the overall score without winning any one round is not really anything like dominance, I think that Team #22 Puppy Surprise for Breakfast should be commended for outsmarting, outplaying, or outlasting the other 25 teams to win. Thy do need to work on their jackpot token selecting, though, and a pretty big total will rollover to next week.

Also Team #7 Cracking Open Cold Ones Like A Necrophiliac began their Bahamanian vacation a night early and pulled off a round 4 win and have left these categories for you while they frolic in the sun next week:

• Dead Kennedys
• Jersey Island
• SB Soccer
• Hold Steady
• NCLEX
• Yoga
• Harry Potter
• CA Fire Names/Codes
• SCUBA
• Latin Plant Names
• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
• Gatwick Airport
• Remote Sensing
• Fantasy NFL Draft

Results:
Puppy Surprise for Breakfast - 31.75
Junior Likes Ice Cream - 30.5
Cracking Open Cold Ones Like A Necrophiliac - 30
Steam Rollers - 29.5
Allan Breed Got His Shoes Stolen in Jail - 29
I Left My Purple Bag In Your Car, Can I Borrow the Keys - 29
Radicals - 28.5
Beat Jake & Chris (It's Too Hot to Be Clever) - 28
Firefighters Can Only Hope to Contain Us - 27.75
And God Smote LA - 27.75