Oh my fellow Belmontians… how you heckle my French annunciation, how you defy my repeated requests to bring up your handouts, how you pay to play Pub Quiz with a pocketful of nickels and dimes… you’d think that I’d hate you by now (and maybe when I ask particularly hard questions, you become certain that I do), but I gotta say, you also know how to make a guy feel pretty great. I had a no good, rotten day yesterday, and you guys served as my own personal little pick-me-up bouquet by enjoying the hell out of last night’s quiz. Thank you all for coming out and turning my crappy Thursday into a heck of a Thursday night.
The “Wildcatters” also had a heck of a night, surging ahead in the Jeopardy Round to beat back the rest of the pack for the night’s top prize. And they beat a throng of hardcore Pub Quiz stalwarts, such as second place “Beige Food Gets Me Wet,” third place “This Was No Boating Accident,” fourth place “No Mouth Monkey Punches,” and fifth place “Silver Snakes.” Lookit dem badass Wildcatters:
And now for the BELMONT STEAK STANDINGS! There are just FIVE WEEKS left in the season! Better drink that brain juice and grab all the valedictorians you can for the upcoming quizzes…
1 No Mouth Monkeys 16
2 Beige Food 15
3 Team YMBP 11
- The Wildcatters 11
5 This was no boating accident 10
6 Can You Smell the Stank… ? 8
7 Sirens of titan 5
8 We’re Awesome! 4
- Silver Snakes 4
10 We Both Know you’re sleeping with Jamal 3
- NOT-YMBP 3
- TX Flight 815 3
Be sure to hit up QUIZMASTER JPP’S FACEBOOK PAGE, where you can talk smack to your Belmont Steak opponents throughout the week. And until next week, be well, play hard, and try to remember everything you can.
We used to have a roomate with this tiny little dog. Sweetest little thing…until you gave her a toy. Then the little creature would become a single minded destructive entity. “Play” was certainly not the description. That dog could barely be persuaded to go out to potty, much less eat, until that toy was a pile of shreds. One day, one week..didn’t matter. She’d tear at that thing until the deed was done.
I was reminded of Stormy watching Beige Food play with their trophy. Losing the steak wasn’t enough. They had to have pieces strewn all over the floor before they were done.
Hey, Quizmaster JPP — I am planning on bringing a crew to Belmont this Thursday to play the quiz and was wondering what time you’d recommend showing up in order to get a decent table for 4 (possibly 6) people? I usually play at Bridgeport and have to get there 2 hours early…;P
Thanks and see you Thursday!
@Sharon: JPP would know better than me, but here’s my two cents. I went to Belmont for the first time this week about 1.25 hours early, but there were decent tables around 45 minutes before the start. Though I’m not sure if it’s like that every week, I’d say showing up at 6 is probably safe.
The staff also cover up some pool tables to use as regular tables about 30 minutes before quiz time, so you can grab those if you can’t find a good seat. It’s a big quiz crowd, but there seems to be fewer non-quiz folks taking up tables than Bridgeport.
@JPP: “Kim Jong Illin” vows to turn in handouts more promptly this week! Most of us are still kind of new.
Sharon: I tend to get there around 6:15 and there are already folks hunkered down at tables then. But that said, I haven’t seen anyone have any problems scoring a table there in the last few months anyway. With a six person team, you’d be best to get there at 6:15, you’d probably still land a table at 6:30, and after that, you’ll be pushing it (but will likely still land a pool table spot — they aren’t quite so comfortable, but they fit a big team well).
Sho: Ah, don’t worry, I’m an equal opportunity heckler. I give both old and new teams hell for making me wait for handouts. You guys were fine.
Debra: That is an incredible description of how they defiled the mighty Steak! But don’t worry, it will be back next week — with new meat!