It was magical tonight at The Heritage Pub, and for once I’m not just talking about my snappy outfit. ‘Magic’ was the theme of the night, and there wasn’t even a question about crappy NBA team names.

We sorted out a number of things, such as great David Bowie movies in which he wore incredibly revealing pants, how to spell ’41′ and ‘Geithner,’ and the lyrics to this. What a great song.

Team Moops (pictured below) led all the way through, if precariously. Other teams inched closer here and there, and the final round got very interesting, but the Moops held on and left victorious and richer.

Come down and join us at The Heritage Pub here in Clackamas. You’ll be happy you did.

QUESTION: 1. A “one” followed by 18 zeroes is known as a WHAT? A. Quadrillion; B. Quintillion; C. Septillion; D. Octillion.

ANSWER: That’s how many people we packed into Belmont last night. (also, B. Quintillion) That image, by the way, is 1 quintillion pennies. See the little flecks at the bottom right? That’s The Empire State Building (and some other structures).

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Wow, what an incredible night of quiz last night at Portland’s wildest bar trivia night. 71 people packed the house, all hungry for hoppy beers, hamburgers to die for, and the most competitive, pulse-pounding quiz night around. With all those players, the pot was ridiculous, and even the third place team walked out with more than $40. (At other quizzes around town, you don’t even win that much for first!) AND we had some great prizes from New Belgium, so I bought a couple pitchers for a pair of lucky teams as well. So let’s break that down again. What do lucky quizzers win at Belmont EVERY Thursday?

1. First place gets a ENORMOUSLY HUGE cash prize.
2. Second place gets another GIANT cash prize.
3. Third place gets yet another BIG cash prize.
4. I buy the team that does best in Round One a pitcher of New Belgium.
5. I buy the team that does second-to-worst in Round Two another pitcher of New Belgium.
6. New Belgium kicks in all sorts of great gear for the winning team — hats, t-shirts and more!

Find me another bar that does this. I want to go there, and I want to bask (like a crocodile) in the glow of its awesomeness.

Speaking of Awesomeness, it was an incredible night of quiz talent. Team C Average got every question and bonus question in round one correct — EXCEPT FOR ONE! The Wildcatters got every handout question right The No Mouth Monkeys got every Name That Tune question right! ! And in the end — after some masterful wagering in the Challenge Round by C Average — that was the final results: C Average came in first, The Monkeys in second, and The Wildcatters in third. Also making an appearance in the finals was “Bueller… Bueller… Anyone?” and “Baby, I’m going to trickle down your economics so hard.”

Come back next week, nerdos, it was a blast!

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Each season, on the Solstices and the Equinoxes, Quizmaster JPP’s venues (Shanahan’s Pub and Grill in Vancouver, The Space Room Lounge on Hawthorne, and at The Belmont Inn on Belmont) break into their own in-house competitions, augmenting the weekly Pub Quiz fare with quarterly standings competitions to prove who is the best of the bunch.

The spoils are a mix of gift certificates, treats, and an entire season of tributes paid to you by your peers. The rules are quite simple, and can be found here.

The trash talking is a bit more complex, and can be found here.

And the updated standings, which can be viewed in detail here, are below.

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So, without further ado, here is the current Top Ten:

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Team C Average, this season’s Belmont Steak champions flashing the geeky gang symbols that got them kicked out of South Compton Prep Academy.

NO SCORES YET — BUT SOON… I’m missing the tallies from when I was out…

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The only way to win is to quiz it up at The Belmont Inn on Belmont! And to catch up with me outside the Thursday Throwdown, hit me up at my FACEBOOK PAGE.

In the meantime, be well, play hard and try to remember everything you can!

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So my camera broke.  I fixed it, so that it would then take pictures.  Then it broke today in a DIFFERENT way, and long story short, don’t buy $60 cameras, unless you expect them to die every year or so.  It’s like they are built that way or something.

Anyway, what it means is that I get to post pictures like this!:

Is it a photobomb when it’s your own teammate?

Bamf!  That’s right, another super successful 80′s night o’ trivia – over 70 people showed to The Thirsty Lion last night!  Crazy-sauce!

We had a perfect score on Name That Tune as well.  I thought I could throw people off with the ridiculous hair in the videos, but NO! Mick Hucknall wasn’t enough of a distraction:

At the end of the day, first place prize went to team Hangin’ Brain:

In second place, team Anagram This, some of which are in the first picture up there.  In third, team I’m With Stupid!  Just missing the money, Cattle Prodigy and The Pinball Wizards.

Until next week peeps!  Here it is, your Thirsty Lion Standings for the month of January:

Everybody have fun tonight! Everybody Wang Chung tonight!

Tonight was an up close and personal, intimate quiz. We had 2 regular teams and 2 newbies. They were all ready to take on the 80s!

Yahtzee! shouted out and claimed the Bingo bonus points. They rocked that round and took an early lead. To Be Determined was in 2^nd with Gang Green in 3^rd and Slowly Evolving in last.

Name That Tune was a challenge for the teams. Yahtzee! did pretty well. It was nice to reminisce through the songs, feeling like I was back in high school…standing on the wall, waiting for the preppy boys to ask me to dance (never happened, by the way). Anyhoo…Yahtzee! now had a gaping lead with everyone staying in the same order behind them.

The Princess handout was aced by Yahtzee! and TBD. Gang Green only missed one. TBD and Yahtzee! also owned the 80s movie anagrams. After round 2, everyone was in the same order. So we moved into the final question round.

We moved on and I collected the wagers for the final question. Yahtzee! was the only one to know who the first lady inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame was so they took the win! TBD came in 2nd and Slowly Evolving came in 3^rd. It was a totally way tubular night!

A Force to Be Reckoned with

Thank you, 21^st Avenue Bar and Grill!!

The 1^st Quarter standings:

18 points: To Be Determined

11 points: Yahtzee!

10 points: Precious Blood

3 points: My Wife Can’t Wrestle, But You Should See Her Box

Wendy =)

So that’s a strange Phil Collins picture. And if it was an isolated incident, I probably wouldn’t even bring it up except for the fact that we (okay I) made fun of Phil a lot in our 80s Themed quiz last night. But then I found this:

We’ve got two now! It’s an epidemic! Phil Collins is multiplying by mitosis!

ARGHHH…

Well, let’s set aside the panic for a bit and talk about last night’s awesome quiz at Space Room. The hottest quiz on Hawthorne was hoppin’ with a full house of hungry quizzers and a rollicking Name That Tune Round 2. Lots of new teams and irregular veterans filling the seats here, and last night’s top prize went on to Thistle Und Shamrock, who’s feisty wagering beat out Cowboy Banana and Those Meddling Kids.

That makes Thistle a contender in the Space Room Saucer — just check out how high they’ve climbed in the standings!

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Each season, on the Solstices and the Equinoxes, Quizmaster JPP’s venues (Shanahan’s Pub and Grill in Vancouver, The Space Room Lounge on Hawthorne, and at The Belmont Inn on Belmont) break into their own in-house competitions, augmenting the weekly Pub Quiz fare with quarterly standings competitions to prove who is the best of the bunch.

The spoils are a mix of gift certificates, treats, and an entire season of tributes paid to you by your peers. The rules are quite simple, and can be found here.

The trash talking is a bit more complex, and can be found here.

And the updated standings, which can be viewed in detail here, are below.

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So, without further ado, here are the current Top Tens:

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House of No Future celebrates their first Space Room Saucer victory with $100 of gift certificates!

THE CURRENT SAUCER STANDINGS:

1 The Cupcakes 10
2 Those Meddling Kids 8
3 Thistle Und Shamrock 6
4 House of No Future 5
5 Cowboy Banana 4
6 Sparging the Mash 4
7 Schadenfreude 4
8 The Wheat Brenz 3
9 PantiChrist 2
10 Many, many teams 1

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The only way to win is to quiz it up at The Space Room on Hawthorne! And to catch up with me outside that intergalactic outpost, hit me up at my FACEBOOK PAGE.

In the meantime, be well, play hard and try to remember everything you can!

We had a totally retro Wednesday night at the Big Time Brewing Co. this week, as teams packed the house to compete in a 1980′s themed quiz. Though a few players got decked out in their favorite garb from the decade, more simply donned a favorite T-shirt from the era, which was also fun to see.

This week’s dozen teams did great on the bingo round, and scores were pretty high… at least for until the Name That Tune round. Whenever we have a Name That Tune game, the round seems to separate the wheat from the chafe so to speak. Last night’s round, which focused on all songs from the 80s, was pretty tough for everybody. Everybody but the The Unthinkables, who dominated the round, correctly identifying nearly every song as well as nailing the bonus points.

And The Unkthinkables were able to hold on to that lead all the way to finals, where they were also the only team to correctly answer the final question, giving them the win and this week’s sizable cash prize. Here they are, mostly in the dark and out of focus thanks to my phone’s flash not going off.

And here are the top teams in our standings game so far:

The Old Fashioneds: 10
Not a Banana Baton: 8
Unthinkables: 5
Golden Snitch: 4
High Five City: 3

See you all next week!

I’lllll beeeee gooooone

In a day or

[high-pitched] twoooooooooo

80′s pop is so great. Maybe better than 90′s, and definitely better than the 00′s

We had a grand celebration of 80′s tunes, tv, and more at the Horse and Hound last night. Quizzers brought their band shirts, leather jackets, fingerless gloves, and swatch watches to bat for bonus points and cred.

Not to be left out of the loop by the older crowd, Get Bent took round 1′s bingo bonus points, but dropped out of the running during round 2′s Name That Tune- which stumped even veteran 80′s music listeners with on-the-tip-of-your-tongue song titles and memorable choruses. (Someone missed Elton John’s ‘I’m still standing’? No way!)

Chocula took the lead with their extreme knowledge of 80′s tunes, 80′s sitcoms, and female authors after round 2 and handouts.

In the final round it came to Chocula, My Precious, and Sandbar devs but no one could quite remember the album ‘Video killed the Radio Star’ is from so the lowest wager took the majority of the night’s $75 pot.

And that lowest wager came frooom…The Sandbar Developers!

Congrats on the win, and kudos for the 80′s spirit Sandbar Developers.

STANDINGS

Symbi-1
British Bulldogs-1
On the rocks-1
Slackers- 1
Bullshitters-1
Freud’s Friends-2
George-2
Boom/Diva Cups- 3
Leprechaun’s Christmas Gold-3
Get Bent-4
My Precious- 6
Cerealists-5
At least we’re not last- 9
Count Chocula’s Dirty Black Jock Strap-14
Sandbar Developers- 17

THE FINAL MONTH APPROACHES!
Our most intrepid quiz-going/winning team will attain glory February 29th for the first quarter of the Horse & Hound Trivia Derby!

Fight on, quizzers!
See you next week

Wow! We had our best night ever at Billy’s bar in Beaverton last night. Everyone was juiced up for an 80′s themed quiz. Round 1 was won by Four ponies and a cowboy (Beer Whores). Round 2 was a name that tune round which brought back many memories of a time when  bad haircuts, parachute pants, and rubik’s cubes were all the rage. Oh, and don’t forget Cabbage patch kids. Aw but I digress. This round was owned by Five Clown Punchers. The final round consisted of Four Ponies, Unforgettable Fire, & Five Clown Punchers. If you knew that Kristen Shepard shot JR  then you would have been in the winners circle. Great job Unforgettable Fire!

Until next time!

Oh man, did we have a rocking’ 80′s-themed quiz in Vancouver, or what!? It really shouldn’t be all that surprising — the dream of the 80′s is still alive in Vancouvria, anyway… right comrades?

We had a PACKED house full of new teams and veteran quizzers alike. It wasn’t just the 80s theme that pulled them in, but rather an unquenchable passion for pub quizzery in general. I think we’ve got some new regulars up north, which should make Vancouvers ONLY quiz the place to be on Tuesday nights.

Five teams fought their way into the Challenge Round, with The Stumbling Drunks breaking into an early lead, but fading late. As usual, they had Off Nightly and the Lollipop Guild to contend with, but a smaller-than-usual Mno team turned out, and Team Shanahan’s brought in some ringers to make it interesting.

And it was INDEED interesting, since they managed to score second place (which means their $52 prize will get rolled into next week’s quiz!), the Mnos came up with second place, and OFF NIGHTLY WON IT! That’s right, contractually I’m required to say this: No one can beat Off Nightly!

That makes the standings interesting — they are below. And it makes next week all the more exciting. You better be there to believe it. See you then, nerdos!

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Each season, on the Solstices and the Equinoxes, Quizmaster JPP’s venues (Shanahan’s Pub and Grill in Vancouver, The Space Room Lounge on Hawthorne, and at The Belmont Inn on Belmont) break into their own in-house competitions, augmenting the weekly Pub Quiz fare with quarterly standings competitions to prove who is the best of the bunch.

The spoils are a mix of gift certificates, treats, and an entire season of tributes paid to you by your peers. The rules are quite simple, and can be found here.

The trash talking is a bit more complex, and can be found here.

And the updated standings, which can be viewed in detail here, are below.

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So, without further ado, here are the current Top Tens:

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The Stumbling Drunks, posing with the Shanahan's Harp *AND* the New Belgium Fat Fire bike that they won this past season!

THE CURRENT HARP STANDINGS:

1 Stumbling Drunks 10
2 Lollipop Guild 8
3 Off nightly 7
4 Shanahans 5
5 That’s what she said 4
6 Lemon Party 3
7 The Mnos 3
8 Last Place Sucks 2
9 Many, many teams… 1

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The only way to win is to quiz it up at Shanahan’s Pub and Grill in Vancouver! And to catch up with me outside the ‘Couve, hit me up at my FACEBOOK PAGE.

In the meantime, be well, play hard and try to remember everything you can!

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Check it out:

It’s hard to see, but the Side-Ponytail and the Big Puffy really sell it!

It’s Rick Astley!  /scream

What an awesome night!  I really do have this hankering to do an all-80′s movie marathon now.  Goonies, Raiders, Blade Runner, Empire, Full Metal Jacket, Terminator, Die Hard, Princess Bride, Fast Times, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s, Big, ummmmm alright that’s all I can think of.

But back to the quiz!  Congratulations to team Vince Neil’s Windshield for their first place win!

I told Mark he looked like he was giving me an offer I couldn’t refuse.

See what happens when you guys come back and play?  :D  I’d like to say that’s why you won, but it was all you guys.

In second place, team Bullet Ants took home 2nd place money prize, with team Ped Heads in third place.  Special mention to our two 1-person teams, who did quite well actually: The Beardyman & The Sisters of Merdre.

Until next week peeps!  Hopefully you were as inspired as I was by all the 80′s music!  Can’t wait for more tonight at The Thirsty Lion quiz =)

Here it is, your Schmizza Standings for Q1 2012:

13 Points – The Bullet Ants
10 Points – Ped Heads
5 Point – The Wrong Kind of Tacky
4 Points – Vince Neil’s Windshield (AAA team)
4 Points – We Heart Brains
4 Points – The Beardymen
3 Points – Unregistered Sex Offenders (Misanthrophy Girls/Sisters of Merdre)
1 Point –  The Brandy Bucks
1 Point – Seal the Deal
1 Point – My couch pulls out but I don’t