Barney's Beanery - Westwood

1037 Broxton St.
Westwood CA 90024
(310) 443-7777

QUIZ RECAP

Wed Mar 21 2018
| by Quizmaster Scott Schwartz
|

Rain, Blown-out speakers, and a delayed start due to audio difficulties proved to be mere speed bumps, not obstacles, to the trivia chaos at Barney's Westwood for King Trivia last night... 26 teams, the difference between 2nd and 8th, proving to be 10 points... and a team that took command of the game with a pair of successful 2x or nothing rounds early, and some strong Q&A playing late ...

Music round for drinks & apps were rewarded to those who have jumped on the Greta Van Fleet train (since everyone is well versed in their Kendrick Lamar-ology on the UCLA campus).  And, oh, yeah -- everyone loved taking a trip to the Land of Make Believe with the Mr. Rogers Guess Who? round...

See you next Wednesday...

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 Uber Take The Wheel 65 25 1.000
2 The Hawking Dead 52 24 0.960
3 Judge Judy & Executioner 50 23 0.920
4 Cambridge Analytica 49 22 0.880
5 Where's Matt? 46 21 0.840
6 Cat & Frog 42 19 0.780
6 104 42 19 0.780
8 We Thought This Was Speed Dating 37 18 0.720
9 Couple -uh- Idiots 34 16 0.660
9 USA Men's Curling 34 16 0.660
11 Galic's Goons 33 15 0.600
12 10472 I failed all my finals, and my parents disowned, but hey, $5.00 beer! 31 14 0.560
13 The Drunken Place 26 12 0.500
13 Bigger Upset: UMBC or Putin? 26 12 0.500
15 Team Mikey 25 11 0.440
16 Ribalet Surprise 24 9 0.380
16 Anal Beatz 24 9 0.380
18 We're Not Good At This 22 8 0.320
19 Don't Congratulate Us 19 7 0.280
20 Phil's Cowgirls 18 6 0.240
21 459 Ecosystem 14 5 0.200
22 Beer Energy 9 4 0.160
23 Seriously 8 3 0.120
24 Surprise Wedding 7 1 0.060
24 My Couch Pulls Out, But I Don't 7 1 0.060
26 Sparkle Tree 6 0 0.000

QUIZ RECAP

Wed Mar 14 2018
| by Quizmaster Scott Schwartz
|

Pi Day, NCAA tournament eve, the looming St. Patrick's Day weekend all combined for a festive evening a Barney's Beanery in Westwood.  An intensely close competition that lead to having to break a 3rd place tie, and a first round successful versus successful double or nothing proved the difference between 1st and 2nd.

Green hair won the "wearing the most green" free appetizer contest, and an insanely level of music knowledge brought in the free drinks.

Good time, per usual, on Wednesdays with King Trivia!

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 Tequila Mockingbird 56 12 1.000
2 Coach Lavar 52 11 0.917
3* 11658 U.S./North Korea Party Planning Committee 51 9 0.792
3 10879 Survivors 51 9 0.792
5 Quizzly Bears 47 8 0.667
6 Pi Dolla $ign 28 6 0.542
6 Trump's Space Force Cadet Academy 28 6 0.542
8 10423 Bring Back $3.50 Dos Equis 27 5 0.417
9 Pro Boner 26 3 0.292
9 Ryan Donahue's Ghost 26 3 0.292
11 Team KJ 25 2 0.167
12 Week 10 Blues 3 1 0.083
13 Your Mom 0 0 0.000
* Won Tiebreaker

QUIZ RECAP

Wed Mar 7 2018
| by Quizmaster Milo Shearer
|

What a night! On International Women's day eve, 21 teams showed out to Barney's Beanery Westwood. It was a fabulous night of fun, frivolity, and a few crazy hard questions. Starting off the game with a wide point spread, those behind wasted no time closing the gap. Playing conservatively was the key to this game as round 3 rolled in with each of the initial heavy hitters getting Goose Eggs for unsuccessful double-downs! We all seemed to know a little about Justice League, but the lesser-known team of outcasts Justice League Dark hastily unseated our leaders, hitting a few so hard, they couldn't recover, leaving the game to the rest of us.

A harrowing drinking round with every team shooting so high above, the low flying of "Bring Back Dos Equis" won a round on Barney's.

After a surprisingly gruesome round 5, we all paused to lick our wounds and representatives from each team faced off in a grisly mini-tourney of Rock, Paper, and/or Scissors, ending with a final showdown between "Team of 3" and, fittingly, "Just the 3 of us now", but Team of 3 took the Appetizer prize with a Scissors that shocked us all.

Put off from Double-Downs, but undeterred by late arrivals "Champs" and "Mohlers",  it was a race to the finish as each team trusted only their surest bets, but by Round 7, only one Team Reigned Supreme, Redeeming themselves from a harshly missed Double-Down early in the game, "Meat Barn" took home the $100 first-place prize, although with their number of Players, the Player-To-Winnings ratio prize goes to our second place team with $50, "Team of 2".

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 Meat Barn 70 20 1.000
2 Team of 2 62 19 0.950
3 Proboner 54 18 0.900
4 8 ball 48 17 0.850
5 Degeneracy 46 16 0.800
6 Magical Mushroom 44 14 0.725
6 Just the 3 of us Now 44 14 0.725
8 4 North 5 Ever 40 13 0.650
9 Team Steady State 39 12 0.600
10 The No Shows 35 11 0.550
11 Bring Back Dos Equis 34 10 0.500
12 That's What I'm Tolkien about 23 9 0.450
13 Fighting Cardinal 21 8 0.400
14 Team of 3 20 7 0.350
15 Dis Bitch alone 13 6 0.300
16 O'Trivia Newton Jon 12 5 0.250
17 Dump Him 10 3 0.175
17 Mohlers 10 3 0.175
19 The Israelis! 6 2 0.100
20 Fifa boizz 5 1 0.050
21 Champs 3 0 0.000
* Won Tiebreaker