QUIZ RECAP

Happy New Year all you trivia buffs!  And especially to our stalwart players who came out in thirty degree weather to "chill out" at Dunn Brothers and test their knowledge.  Always Late was actually on time and even registered their team!  It must have had some kind of effect on their accumen because they walkeed away with first place!  The Bowtie Alpacas changed their residency from the Heritage Pizza & Taproom to bunk in with Quiz Master Lou here at Dunn Bros and they won second place!  The Sun Kings may have missed the sun but they won the tie breaker and came in third against the Dunn Bros Counter Staff team who just played for fun while the lovely Evelyn kept everyone's glass filled, plate full and rallied the counter help to stay in the game! 

Kudos to our quiz writers at corp, who also kept our wits keen and our fits mean with some outstanding puzzlers.  As you know, this often leads to unintentional mirth when wild guesses produce absurd results.  For example, if one has no idea who Dorothy Dandrige was, then Betty White is a funny guess.  (We mourn the old gal's passing but are amazed that she keeps us laughing even after she's gone.  Must've been her super power...) A tip of the hat as well, for the Picture Round's pictures of words and letters as brain teasers.  Very clever.  And finally, Round Five's Find-the-Connection was so in-your-face that nobody got it.  The groan factor was palpable on that one!  

Well, here we are in 2022.  According to the movie poster, this is the year of Soylent Green.  While the manufacturers assure us Soylent Green is not people, I ain't comsumin' it!  Of course, Blade Runner took place in 2019 and we still don't have flying cars...  What?  What's that? The Jetson?  I thought that was a cartoon... 

QUIZ RECAP

WHEREAS being the self appointed Mayor of King Trivia Pub 

Quiz Mastery in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area... 

WHEREAS this Thursday December 30th in the year of our Lord Two 

Thousand and Twenty-One being the last King Trivia Pub Quiz 

of the year (unless Stan's Blue Note runs a game on New Year's 

Eve...) 

WHEREAS particular mental, physical and spiritual energies 

exert themselves during the chronological terminus of the 

solar cycle...  

I HEREBY PROCLAIM that this day (or the last day of the calendar 

year that a King Trivia Pub Quiz falls upon) to be: 

      KING TRIVIA PUB QUIZ LAST DAY OF THE YEAR!!!  

And so it came to pass that the Bumble Bees out buzzed and 

out stung their competitors into first place with a nearly 

twenty point lead!  The Rockerfellers got second and the JFFC 

took third.  Meanwhile, we welcome the Bow Tie Alpacas (who 

wandered down from the Heritage Pizza & Taproom - Welcome y'all!) to play and got fourth position and of course, stalwart regulars 

Deadly Alliance!  

Our quiz writing overlords provided their usual excellent selection 

of minutia to ponder.  The Picture Round's Identify The Famous Liz, 

Elizabeth or Elisabeth prompted some amusing guesses.  Yes, it was 

too bad that Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched's Samantha) didn't 

make the cut.  Neither did Elizabeth Holmes, which was one team's 

guess for every other answer hoping to get at least one extra 

point.  It's a good strategy when that choice is present, 

but not when it ain't there!  Style Points were awarded for 

the substitution of Rosie the Riveter for Susan B. Anthony on Round 

Three.  Who knows?  Maybe Rosie'll get her own coinage someday.  

That's dependent on whether they'll be any money in the future.  

Quiz Master Lou wishes you all a Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas all!  A great time was had at Dunn Brothers 

last night with a pretty sizeable turnout that nearly filled 

the joint!  

We had six teams in attendance, including Wossa Matta-U, a 

gang from Quiz Master Lou's old days over at Killarney's before 

they became defunct.  Referred to as the "Old School", they 

commanded a first place lead in the first half of the game 

before slipping to second.  The Bumble Bees (and their 

fifty pound brains) Double-or-Nothing'd their way into the 

top spot in round five and came out the winners!  Absent for 

a while, Pickles on a Plate made a remarkable appearance and 

comeback for third place honors, blowing past JFFC after a 

grueling neck-a-neck run.  JFFC toppled out of the winner's 

circle after a three week straight, first place streak proving 

that all things are transitory.  A Christmas lesson?  Deadly 

Alliance tied JFFC for fourth place (but no tie breaker was 

necessary) while rookie team Dukes came in last.  Thanks for 

coming back, guys.  Youngbloods are much appreciated.  

Our question sets were naturally posed for Christmasy lore and 

esoterica.  Our Find-the-Connection Round was also a combination 

of Hangman as the commonality theme was spelled out by the 

first letter of each of the previous nine answers!  Clever 

stuff, Quiz Overlords!  

Thanks for playing!  This is QM Lou saying, "Merry Christmas 

to all and to all, a good night!"