Alright people. I’ve been running Pub Quizzes for round about a year now, and those of you who play with me know that I don’t go for this kind of pandering for points. “Can I get Bonus Points for getting my friend named Oscar to play the quiz?” NO. “Can I get Bonus Points for batting my eyelashes and asking nicely for them?” NO. “Can I get Bonus Points for threatening to key your car in the parking lot?” NO, NO, NO. So when “Freak Mutha” brought the above Oscar for bonus points asking for 18 POINTS, my answer was a kind and courteous, “Oh HELL no.” (I did give them 3 points though.)

I will make a side note and say that I do periodically throw out Bonus Point opportunities on the fly — maybe a spontaneous dance contest or a contest on QUIZMASTER JPP’S FACEBOOK PAGE. In fact, I DID ask a bonus question on Facebook this week, and only TWO TEAMS answered it (and only one was correct). Now don’t act like you don’t use the Facebook. I see you throwing around sheep all the time on there. So be sure to stop in and see what’s happening at QUIZMASTER JPP’S FACEBOOK PAGE every now and again, or you’re missing out!

Anywho, it was another great night in Vancouver: we quizzed, we laughed, we cried. Also, the pot had rolled over from last week, because the bar team took the top prize in our hair-themed quiz and because they’re good eggs, they refuse to partake in the winnings. (They do own the place, after all.)

So the pot was bigger than ever, and the crowd was nearly as large as it had ever been, too. Five teams made the Final Round, lining up as “They Fucking Rock,” “The Bumping Uglies,” “Burning Betties,” the birthday bunch of “Freak Mutha” and “Business Time” after four rounds. But get THIS: Only one team got the Challenge Round question right, and it was “FREAK MUTHA!” What a great birthday, indeed! Look at ‘em with their loot:

Teams also heeded my call and brought in their Oscars for the EPIC battle for “Best Homemade Oscar” that I’m having with Quizmaster Polly. Check out some of the contenders:

I’ll point out the one in the back left is a Best Actor award for quizzer Adam Smith. It’s a baseball trophy with the player wearing a glittery skirt. Which I can only assume to mean that Adam was in “A League of Their Own.”

Then there was this bad boy brought in by “TFR,” which is meant to be an Avatar Oscar. You can tell from the tail or the hair braid… whatever. Either way it’s about to make sahela with that paper bag next to it. And speaking of sahela, if you’ve seen Avatar and thought it was just moronic, you really need to see this movie making its rounds on the interwebs.

There was also this one from TFR, which I don’t really understand, but I’ll give a shout out to because of the effort put in. Those white dots — those are LIGHTS, my friends. THAT’S a commitment to bonus points!

But my FAVORITE Oscar of the night, the one I’m nominating for my Quizmaster Oscar-Off, was an impromptu one, when Team Shanahan’s Nate donned a extra-small women’s green tanktop, just for the hell of it. I think he looks like Oscar the grouch. And hey, the rules of the contest didn’t say it had to be an Academy Award Oscar. Either way, for stepping up and shimmying into that tiny tube top, I think we all agree that Nate is golden: