Wow! What a crazy night at the Lion & Crown in Allen last night! Kito, one of the bar keeps,
is on the same diet as Quizmaster Lou, so we commiserated over the absence of beer in our lives.
Beer is, after all, one of G-d's gifts to mankind. Well, you know the saying, "Misery loves
company"? This Quizmaster believes it should be "Misery loves beer"!
It was a terrific quiz. You know, quizzes can be like mirrors. You are what you know. Or,
what you don't know. You know? For example, Round Two's Identify the Supermodel could be
seen as an interesting Rorschach on how different people perceive beauty. Now, QM Lou makes
no judgements, casts no aspersions. All I'm saying is, there are those who really KNEW their
supermodels' names, and those who didn't. And those who didn't put down Twiggy for an answer!
But I digress...
The Find-the-Connection round was especially daunting to those who never watched the Soprano's.
The most fielded question was what did Pussy Cat have to do with it? Wiki-Soprano's provided
the answer. Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero. Look it up.
I think Round Seven provided the most mirth, though. A welcome change from the usual sports or
census statistics, this one focused on some basic science. Specifically, NASA's labelling of
the 6 main layers of the Earth's atmosphere. Boy, the combined struggling of minds trying to
come up with those spheres must have equaled the power of the gas company's annual output!
Here are the best wrong guesses:
Ozone - Missing.
Lithosphere - Layer where lithographs were once produced.
Hypersphere - Where the air is so thin, you have to hyperventilate.
Shakespeare - A lofty, literary realm.
Purgatory - Dante got the location wrong.
Pearly Gates - Really, really, really way up there...
Resident champs, the Ninja Turtles, got back into their groove by Double-or-Nothing their way
into first place ranking 20 points away from everyone else! Watch their dust. Stealth Texas
crept into second while Pickles on a Plate just barely beat out the Hilltoppers for third.
welcome to newbies Pooter Piddlers, Roger's R&R and Old Friends.
"Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night, til it be the morrow!"
Gosh, but it was rowdy last night at the Lion & Crown in Allen. The Bar Guy's team vacillated
constantly between apoplectic joy and giddy despair as they fell in and out of the winner's
circle all the way to Round 7. Excitement of excitements anticipated, processed and finally
purged, they ended up in a tie breaker for third place! Oh, the anguish. They lost. But, their
infectious enthusiasm and histrionic cheerleading always make them a joy to play with. Keep
on truckin', guys! Victory shall be yours once again, someday.
Stealth Texas snuck in for the gold, dramatically losing the lead at the halfway point, but
regaining it later in a furtive pass to the finish line. Matt, ST's founder, remarked early
in the evening that he and Tito had been going through past Recaps and noticed that they
hadn't won lately, therefore it was time to do so again. Darned if they didn't!
The return of the Bastard Barristers signaled their jurisprudent approach to a second place
victory. As rumored, lawyers never ask a witness a question they don't already know the answer to. Well,
in their case, they never answered a question THEY didn't know the answer to! And; with a
couple of strategically placed Double-or-Nothing's, plea bargained a win for 2nd!
Pickles on a Plate won the tie breaker from the aforementioned Bar Guy, thus eating the third
place marinated cucumber. Special mention to our resident champs, the Ninja Turtles. It was
Paul and his sister's birthday, for whom Quizmaster Lou led the pub in a chorus of Happy Birthday.
Unfortunately, QM Lou immediately forgot Paul's sister's name and ended up singing an awkwardly
long stanza expositing the dilemma. (My apologies once again.)
Also special mention to the Rockafellas, whose continual improvement is bringing them closer and
closer to a discount card! This week's parting shot commemorates self awareness... Surgeon
Joseph Henry Green was checking his own pulse as he lay dying. His last word: "Stopped."
Have a great weekend everybody!
* Won Tiebreaker
In honor of nothing in particular, this week's recap will be presented in the form of rhyming couplets.
Does the weather hot make you dour and down?
Then just bring yourself to the Lion and Crown!
The quenching of thirst and hunger is the biz,
More spirits provided by trivia quiz!
General merits of questions in Round One,
Are questionable with "Hooker in a Scrum".
And whilst a-swilling down rum amaretto,
Try to figure out Round Two Alter Ego.
Volcanoes and Valli, body parts connection,
Broadway Tony babes, Coca-Cola confection,
New teams, old teams, regular teams and solos,
In T-Shirts flip-flops, cowboy boots and bolos.
Come one, come all, and slowly sip a gin fizz,
Kill two hours, play King Trivia Pub Quiz!
Quizmaster Lou's amateurish prose now dispatched, here are three quick parting shots from that late,
great, master of science fiction literature, Robert A. Heinlein...
"Ignorance is curable. Stupid is forever."
"If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage, but not his judgement."
"How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in heaven."
Have a weekend, everybody. Just... Have one.
* Won Tiebreaker
