What a fun fun night!
As Game 1 of the World Series kicked off AND the Lakers game was happening simultaneously, the loudest cheers emanated from the moment the microphone volume got turnt up so EVERYONE could hear, from my back table to my outside table 🙂
Giant shout-out to my MVP team of the night, Regal Beagle, for stepping in and helping out! And of course Lucas, Justin, and Eugene from Butcher's Dog who welcomed me with open arms as QM Sub for the second week in a row!
Well, I had most fun DJ'ing all night as per your requests -- bc hey, listening to Bastille's "Happier" definitely did raise everyone's spirits and maybe, just maybe, helped with Q1 of Round 5 as you tried to figure out who was on that collab!
And then how bout dat handout round tho? Def kickstarted my One Direction playlist that I'd been waiting to blast out. And a night like tonight had to call for some Spice Girls bc of not only Round Six but bc of that spicy spicy saucey Round 3.
Me: If anyone was going to make a bechamel sauce this weekend, now you know -- you can't forget that most important ingredient of all -- nutmeg!
Congrats to You Up? and Jessica's Team for coming so head to head with tennis savvy for the Drinking Round.
Jessica's Team had a repeat double win, just like last week, swooping in with both the Drinking Round and the Grand Prize, ending the night on a whopping 95 points, which this QM has definitely never even seen before in all her three months of hosting! And Jessica's Team rocked an amazing Puffins shirt so more invisible points right there!
You Up? nabbed third place while A Message from Pierre DeLeoto came in Second.
Congrats to all! I will miss you dearly. It was great getting to know you!
Thank you so much to wonderful Lucas, Priscilla, and Chris at Butcher's Dog for helping me get set up and making me feel so welcome subbing in for Brad!
And of course a humongous THANK YOU to all of the lovely teams who came out to play tonight and did the same for me!
I discovered two things tonight -- you guys are very very good at your literary canon just roaring through those Banned Books and also just as well-versed in your fictional food and dranks!
And what a good laugh we had at the Find the Connection tonight.
Keanu Reeves. Napoleon (the v. delicious dessert q that I simply loved and did not mind saying "three layers of puff pastry dusted with powdered sugar" four times Bc yum). Beethoven. Death. Logan from X-men.
Why what do these all have in common?
You guys guessed Matrix, Superman, and my personal favorite -- white people.
Me: hmm but is Death a white person? Or is he race-less? Well that's a philosophical question for another day.
And the laughs just kept on coming.
Bc hey -- gotta ensure a good time is had by all and that y'all are taken care of when Brad's away!
First, we agreed we would go visit Indonesia before more of it sinks into the ocean.
Then, how bout that Drinking Round?
I had y'all guessing what the biggest point deficit in a World Series Game 7 was and the two years this point deficit happened.
Because it's MLB season and ya girl Sanyee keeps bringing the MLB to venue drinking rounds year-round and NOT JUST during the best time of the season -- baseball postseason 🙂
Jessica's Team won the Drinking Round, guessing a 10-run deficit and the years 1924 and 1987.
The right answer for all my baseball trivia aficionados and also for all my non-baseball trivia aficionados, is 11 runs.
And it happened to the St. Louis Cards beating the Detroit Tigers in 1934.
And then the Kansas City Royals beat the Cards 11-0 in 1985.
In true baseball fashion, what goes around comes around.
And in true trivia fashion, that hot streak for Jessica's team kept on going past the Drinking Round as they captured the lead from Dilly Dilly.
Petrified Forster also charged ahead with the successful double down in Round 5 and ended up nabbing Second Place with 80 points.
Dilly Dilly won third for tonight ending the night at 71 and Jessica's Team won First Place with 82.
Can't wait to see y'all next week!
I know your amazing literary skillzzz and you guys now know my sense of humor.
See -- we're so close now!
