QUIZ RECAP

Thank you to all who came out for our sophomore quiz. And a special thanks to my fave team of the night, Tits and Crass. This team of MILQs (Moms I’d Like to Quiz) read about how much fun people had from last week’s blog and came out for a good time…and from what I could hear from them as I was on stage, I was definitely showing them a good time (then again, it could have been the wine - whatever, as long as they were enjoying themselves and I was there to be a part of it, it was all good). And of course my fave part of the night was when the MILQs invited me over to sit with them after the quiz. They were so cute that they even brought glasses in order to appear smarter and intimidate their opponents. I hope they come back again to be quizzed (because who doesn’t love a good MILQ 😉 ).

As far as the quiz itself goes, it must have been tougher that normal as no one even attempted to double up their points (which was a good thing as no team got all the questions right in any one round). Frankly, that’s how I think it should be - given that teams can double-or-nothing as many times as they want, there should always be at least one question that would be in the realm of a $1800 or $2000 question on “Jeopardy!”

Speaking of J!…

SPOILER ALERT - Pat Sajak is still very much alive!!! So when we are asking about a RECENTLY departed game show host [whose children accepted his very last Daytime Emmy Award), Mr. “I’m still hosting Wheel of Fortune” is not the right answer.

Speaking of wrong answers that make no sense…

I can’t believe there are people out there who still haven’t see the movie “A League of Their Own” in the last 30 years…okay, I guess it’s not that unreasonable for there to be people who haven’t seen that movie since it hasn’t been on TNT or TBS in the last two weeks. Then again, it is on Amazon Prime and Hulu and Apple+ and pretty much every other streaming service…so while it may be reasonable people have not seen this rather well made movie with a really good story based on real events and real people, it is not reasonable for people to not know that this really good story was about the one time there was a women’s professional baseball league (the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) during World War 2 while there while many Major League Baseball players were fighting the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). Now to be fair all but one team got the right answer of Rosie O’Donnell…but to be unfair, the lone team that go it wrong guessed Jimmy Kimmel. Okay, fine, perhaps Jimmy Kimmel in drag looks like Rosie….but still, not cool to not at least guess some random female comedian who became a talk show host and has acted as well…yanno, like Ellen.

And lastly, while we learned which sad NBA teams have never won an NBA Championship, we also learned that there are few teams who won championships in the 1950s but no one remembers because they have moved since then. Teams like the Rochester Kings (who later became the Kansas City Kings and who we know today as the Sacramento Kings) and the St. Louis Hawks (who moved to Atlanta Hawks the year I was born). #TheMoreYouKnow

There were basically two competitions last night: two times vying for first and two teams vying for last. Queen Trivia & Mr.Poopybutthole kept it tight throughout the night, even trading spots a couple of times (as did Tits and Crass vs The Donkeys for last). In the end, QT & Mr.PBH tied and the 3-person team of Mr.PBH beat out the 6-person team of Queen Trivia - proving once again that it’s the quality of the players, not the quantity that matters.

Oh, before I forget…

There is some really cool art hanging up around The End. But the best thing about this art is that it’s for sale by the artists. The End makes zero money off the sale. The End is doing this as a way to help artists who have really struggled this past year due to the pandemic. And the artists have agreed to kick back 10% of the sale to the member of the wait staff who makes the sale. It’s a really awesome way to help two communities that had a harder 2020, financially speaking, than a lot of us.

I’ll share more pictures and info in future blogs.

I look forward to seeing everyone next Wednesday, 18 August, at 8pm.

Stay curious, my friends!

~shadan “the long-winded Persian”