QUIZ RECAP

"Oh what a wonderful feeeeeeling!  Oh what a beautiful daaaaay!  I'm
just a quiz master who's happeeeee!  'Cause I got my gig back okaaaay!"
The song is from Oklahoma but my heart's in Texas, along with the fine
establishment of Shakertin's in Allen, where the drinks are generous
and the management superb! 

It was quite a reunion with regular teams Pickles on a Plate, Deadly
Alliance, Here for the Beer and One Left in the Chamber all converging
for their favorite, weekly pastime.  Welcome to newbies Tom Cheats,
although they didn't (they sat in the booth right next to the DJ station
so I had my eye on 'em the whole time!). 

It was quite the horse race.  Pickles took the lead with a Double-or-
Nothing in round one while DA and Here/Beer maintained steady second
and third positions for the next few rounds.  (BTW, Here for the Beer
was formerly Seal Team 3 when they used to play over at Killarney's
in what seems a millennia ago.  Having loyal teams is a testament to
King Trivia.  Long live his qualitative majesty!!!) One Left in the
Chamber was quite literally a one man team but held his own keeping
pace with Tom Cheats.  Then a wild thing happened.  Tom ties for
second place in round four!  They got the ten point clue in Guess
Who.  (Somebody on that team is stalking Salma Hayek!)  Tom then
doubles down on round six and ties for first!  Only Pickles' doubling
on the final round puts them back on top and Tom Cheats walks away
with second place even though they played without a two point bonus! 
Whew!  The only thing that could have made anymore exciting would have
been a tie breaker!  Oh, the humanity! 

Round seven's challenge of naming the seven country's ending in 'stan'
generated the most mirth.  Misspellings aside, you get style points for
Turkey-stan, Turgid-stan and United-we-stan.  In the end, Quiz Master
Lou pondred that the UN Council would call a special session to rename
each country to end with 'stan-the-man'.  Somewhere in there is a
sketch with Afghanistantheman is on first! 

QM Lou signing off and I'll see you at Shakertin's next Tuesday at the
regular time of 7pm! 

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