QUIZ RECAP

It was packed tonight at Hops & Scotch, with team J-Roc having to stand at one of the beer barrels as all the sofas, chairs and tables were taken!

The match was very close among several of our returning teams tonight, but it was a bold 20-point double or nothing in round 5's "find the connection" that shot Preciate Cha into the lead, where they held on until the very end to take first place for the night.

The drinking round was inspired by this last weekend's Silicon Valley Comic-Con. Everyone was asked why they would have commanded lines around the block for their autographs, for more money than the hundreds of dollars that Arnold Schwarzenegger was getting for his autograph at the convention. Here are the winning entries:

• I'm Bigfoot.
• My D&D character is a world-famous masturbator.
• Because I am Arnold's son in law Chris Pratt.
• All this body.
• My who ha sings the William Tell Overture prior to spouting fireworks.

QUIZ RECAP

It was a nice summer night- though I'm sure everyone there was happy that Walnut Creek hadn't yet gotten into the triple digits that were promised for Wednesday and Thursday!

We had a nice mix of returning teams with some newcomers. I guess we had a lot of superhero fans as the "identify the superhero from the baby costume" picture round saw no less than four teams successfully go double or nothing! From there it was a tooth and nail scrap for the lead, alternating variously between Question Authority, Preciate Cha, Unstable Unicorns, and J-Roc, with VC Victory staying just one point shy of first.

But as they say in Highlander, "There can be only one!" And that one was settled with a tiebreaker, with Question Authority bringing home the gold.

For the drinking round, I reminded everyone of the very sad news that Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth had broken up, but said there was a silver lining: that meant they were both single! So I asked for everyone to give their best pickup lines to try to seduce Miley and/or Liam. There were a lot of fun lines, but these were the winners:

• Hey Liam, what's your sweater made of? Cuz I think it looks like boyfriend material to me.
• I may not be Thor, but do you want my lightning rod?
• Hey Liam, either you're happy to see me or you're thinking about your brother again.
• Is your daddy a thief? Because he must have stole all the stars out of the sky...and didn't put them in your singing career. I guess he put them in your eyes...

And here's the final one, whose author was blushing furiously when she came up to get her prize:

• Liam, I may not come in like a wrecking ball, but I'll wreck your balls tonight.

QUIZ RECAP

I'm sure everyone was happy this week for a very non-windy, temperate evening of trivia! Aside from regulars Unstable Unicorns, this week saw several smaller teams of 2-3. But proving size doesn't matter, newcomers The Quizzie Rascals pulled off a first place victory, sneaking past UU for the win.

For the drinking round, we played "Misremembered History," where everyone had to take an historical event of their choice and describe it wrong. Here were the top choices, who each won a $5 gift card to Hops & Scotch:

• The Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal: When Monica & Bill went on a foreign trip and got lost in the jungle, and had to survive for 7 years. They procreated 9 children in the jungle together.
• The death of Caesar by his comrade, Brutus: Brutus had wanted the salad named after him.
• A momentous event happened 50 years ago last month: Lance Armstrong was the first man on the moon. He not only was the first man to step on the moon, but also the first man to ride a bike on the moon. The residue of the "moon cheese" that we all know exists caused his ex-girlfriend Sheryl Crow to accuse him of farting, inspiring her Grammy-Winning hit, "The First Cut Is the Deepest," referring to Lance Armstrong "cutting the cheese."
• That time Miss O'Leary's cow crashed the Exxon Valdez.
• The period of history when Ray Bans were worn by the majority of the population was commonly known as The Dark Ages.