So tonight we announced the winner of the spring tournament at Shanahan’s, and boy oh boy was everyone surprised to find that the Stumbling Drunks took home the glory and a fine trophy. Then we had a quiz about beaches while it rained. Team God got second to last place despite a TERRIBLE job during the second round by killing it on the handouts. I tried a Campari and soda. Fun times were had by most and we’re gonna have even more next week at Shanahan’s as we start the new tournament and possibly immolate ourselves YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO COME AND FIND OUT.

Team Pocket Rocks totally pulled that one out of nowhere.  Nice job, Angela!  Of course, they cheered loudly, super happy when I read the answer back, then confided later everyone probably got that answer right too, but they enjoyed it most, dammit.

Congratulations to team Gothic Castle for their first place win last night!

She trivia’d so hard to win she dislocated her shoulder.

In second place, team Pocket Rocks!  And in third, The Bullet Ants!

Until next week peeps!  Trivia hard, and enjoy the weather while it lasts.  There’s a storm a comin’!  Well okay, probably just rain, but that sounded more dramatic.

So I looked up the final challenge question about Respect Yourself by Bruce Willis.  The Youtube video of it wasn’t really bad in the classical sense.  It was just… barely anything at all.  It was probably the low resolution of the video (shot with a potato camera) but it was just boring and hard to understand.

And maybe it wasn’t the resolution but more that it was crap.  I was going to link it, but I just can’t do that to you.  Instead, for your Willis song fix, I present some Hudson Hawk for your viewing pleasure.  That link is very close to the beginning of the film.  Which is good.  Because it gets weird about 3 1/2 minutes later and doesn’t stop being weird until it’s over.  The movie has some funny parts, but I’m not going to call it a good movie, if you know what I mean.

But on to the quiz!  Congratulations to team Curbstomp Your Enthusiasm for their first place win!

Just two people took first!  Ignore the evidence that there were more people that left before I could snap the picture (pencils, coasters, amount of scratch paper).  Just two people, like they told me to write.

Although I’ve seen them take first with two people before.

In second place, team Sobchak Security!  Followed by Ramblin’ Rod’s Bad Touch Bunch in third.

Until next week peeps!  Sunshine is outside, time to play!

I have to echo the sentiment from the Space Room: Crappy weather=Great Pub Quiz. It was a little bit sunny yesterday afternoon, but cool and gloomy enough to pack 21st Ave Bar & Grill for a good quiz. It was tough across the board this week, with some very hard questions and obscure One Hit Wonders, but hey, isn’t the challenge all a part of the fun? It is for me at least, cause I can feel superior to all of the teams.

Is it weird I never considered Blind Melon a one-hit wonder? Maybe it’s cause I like the song, but as I think of it, I don’t know another Blind Melon song. Tragic.

Show Us In the Top 40 Where He Touched you took this week’s prize with a strong showing in the later rounds. They also continued to climb the monthly standings and sit just three points behind the Immortal Jellyfish. It should be an intense final two weeks. As you will notice in the team picture, they brought an actual father this week, so that probably helped them out.

Yes, as last week proved that the Sun hates Pub Quiz Attendance, today proves that Rain, on the other hand, is the God of Pub Quiz Attendance. We had a full crowd at the Spaceroom, and what a rowdy bunch it was. Lots of newcomers added a great and cheery demeanor to the interior of the bar, even if the exterior was a wet and depressing June evening.

Hey, as long as we have OUR fun.

Tourette’s O’Saurus Rex edged out Bourne Colonoscopy by one point in the first round to land $10 off their bill (for being first in the first round). But don’t worry about poor, poor Colonoscopy, they came back with a vengeance and were able to scrape up the win after naming the correct lyrics to Achy Breaky Heart.

They almost lost to all-female newcomers Put a Moustache on It, who had the correct chorus of the song written down on their answer sheet, but unfortunately scratched out the correct part we were looking for, the “blow up and kill this man” line. Well, lesson learned, and Bourne Colonoscopy took advantage.

Schadenfruede took second, and made a nice Album Cover Pose for their victory pic of the week.

We had some Thomas Jefferson quotes tonight as well, my favorite:

“We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none.”

Man, if there is a better way to say, “America, fuck ya!” more eloquently than Thomas Jefferson, I have yet to hear it.

Also wanted to attach this little video from Rolf Harris (of “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” fame), as suggested by the Bourne Colonoscopy, making him a TWO-hit wonder:

Jake the Peg

And check out those Standings, we passed the half way mark and soon will be making it to the finish, but before we do, as they say in the movies, “See you next, Wednesday.”

Maybe at Belmont?  Maybe that fad has finally gone away!  We can only hope.

But on to the quiz!  Congratulations to The Bullet Ants for their first place win!

Aww, happy father’s day, says the ants (Kaw! Kaw!)

In second place, The Kazoo Solo took home some cash money as well.

Until next week, peeps!  The rain is interspersed between sunny days — brace yourselves!

The last quiz of this season’s tournament proved to be quite interesting. That’s What She Said won with Coconut Pickle Deluxe taking second even through stiff competition from the other teams. The taste of victory was on many tongues lavishly waving in the cool summer breeze as we went into our final round, but as those tongues entwined around the loaf of glory, they found to their dismay that it contained but one plum, whose juice belonged to only the victorious team. May the sweet nectar of this final conquest sustain TWSS and buoy their hopes through the announcement of the season’s final victor and into the next tourney. Ha’badishu’i.

I just hope we won’t have a music clip of Macarena.  That’s all I ask.

There are a ton of good one hit wonders to choose from, so the chances are low (I hope):

- Tainted Love by Soft Cell
- Come on Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners
- Take on Me by a-ha
- 99 Luftballons by Nena – probably my favorite

Also, Safety Dance.  Yesssss.

But on to the quiz!  Congratulations to team My Five Dads for their first place win!

Bamf!

In second place, team Hangin’ Brain (by one point!)!  Third place, the Pocket Rocks.

Until next week, peeps!

Botulinum is fun for you and me!  I don’t get rich people.  They put weird stuff in their face and lips.  They eat things that seem to be more expensive the more disgusting they get.  Snails?  Expensive.  Fish eggs?  Expensive.  Sweetbreads means pieces of brain.  Tripe means stomach.  Lamb fries means testicles.  It’s like they are lying to themselves, call it something that sounds appetizing, and then have to eat it with a smile or they aren’t “cultured” by having an acquired taste for “delicacies”.  Eww.  I’ll take a sandwich any day over that.

But on to the quiz!  Congratulations to team Sobchak Security for their first place win last night!

Bam!

Congratulations to Curbstomp Your Enthusiasm for their second place finish as well.

Until next week peeps!  Enjoy the gorgeous weather.  Might even run into you at a garage sale tomorrow.  It’s that time of year, and I’m lovin’ it.

R.I.P.

Anyways, on to the quiz. Some dedicated teams found their way into 21st Ave on Thursday, including Cattle Prodigy, who ventured north from the overcrowded Belmont Inn to find new opportunities in the Northwest. We welcome all in our little corner of NW. The sun was shining on us at 21st Ave, with a tougher quiz this week and some lower scores than usual.

Cattle Prodigy won it all at the end, much to the chagrin of our longtime players. Now they just have some more competition for the 21st Ave crown each week.