QUIZ RECAP

ANOTHER great night at Collision, 8 teams with 52 players and 1 folding table dragged in to accommodate the crowd size! All teams scored between 4 & 6 in Round 1; Satan's Little Helpers, back for a 2nd time (and so large a contingent that they had to split into 2 teams), were top scorers with 6 of a possible 6. 4-Way Stop were high scorers in the Picture Round with 7 of a possible 8 to move into first place; no one correctly identified Josephine Baker. Trebek's Rejects 6 points (of a possible 6) in the Theme Round moved them into first; Satan's offshoot Goobersnots went for a double-or-nothing and only got 5 right, with the resulting zero dropping them into last (they would be heard from again). At this stage 7 teams were bunched within 4 points of each other.

Satan's Little Helpers correctly identified Sigmund Freud for 10 points in the Guess Who round; Goobersnots, 4-Way Stop, #momjeans and Tequila Is Not A Patronus all answered correctly for 8 points; at this point all 8 teams were within 8 points of one another. Erstwhile stalwarts Brown Chicken Brown Cow, back after a long absence, went for a double-or-nothing in the Find The Connection round; their 9 of a possible 10 (and the resulting zero) dropped them out of the running for the night. Quite rightly they pointed out that the Gnarls Barkley video for "Crazy" is a virtual video Rorschach test; unfortunately that video does not feature Dennis Hopper ("Smiley Faces" does). Goobersnots were high scorers in that round, their 8 points brought them to within 3 points of leaders 4-Way Stop. In both rounds 6 & 7, Limoncello handed in sheets with 1 answer on them as they are "not the demographic" for those topics; to their credit, each answer was correct! Round 6 (the handout round) was where Goobersnots made their move, hitting a successful double to vault into 1st place by 6 points over Satan's Little Helpers and 8 over Trebek's Rejects. Goobersnots sealed the deal by scoring 10 of a possible 10 in Round 7 to claim the glory, the gift cards and a six-pak of Collision Red Rambler; Trebek's Rejects' 9 points secured them 2nd place by 3 points in front of Satan's Little Helpers.

It was a good game and, more importantly, a fun night at Collision. Let's do it again next week!