Mirth and merriment were had in abundance last night at the Lion
& Crown's weekly Thursday night King Trivia Pub Quiz as nine
teams gathered to test their trivia tactics in tumultuous tournament!
(Hey, it's a format, but I dig it!)
Newbies King Henry the ? and Garlic Bread Mafia (great name!)
hoisted their banners and jousted with old and new regulars alike.
So Much Pressure returned, but cut out early. (Because, you know...
Pressure.) Sanitize or Die not only reapperaed but registered
their team for that all important two point bonus! (Now, if they
could just control that urge to Double-or-Nothing!) Ship It! and
Pickles on a Plate (last week's champs) added their familiar gravitas
to the proceedings while Binge Thinking made a comeback with a
third palce win! We had a metaphoric knife fight betwixt the
Dallas Boolers Club and Velvet Hammered win they tied for first!
VH won the day by getting closest to guessing the average cost
per mile for fuel and maintenance for a medium sedan. (Hah! What
a world!)
L & C had a small reunion of sorts by the appearance of former
bar tender and vivacious brunette, Marissa. She used to work hard
at getting Quiz Master Lou sloshed on his favorite tipple, Lounge
Lizards (dark rum, amaretto, coca-cola and lime juice... In case
anyone's taking notes...) Now relocated to New Mexico, Marissa
came back to town for her father's funeral (our condolences, my
dear) and dropped in to say hello. She remarked to me that her
dad was a trivia nut! This quiz was dedicated to him.
There's more but that's all the bytes I got for now. A cyber
attack depleted my stores. Uh, the I-Cloud had a rain storm.
Uh, there was a traffic jam on the information highway! Oh...
Don't you know technology is here for our convenience?!? Have
a great weekend before they run out!
Business was industrious yet mellow at the old Lion & Crown last
night as our usual Thursday night trysts of toasts and trivia
tangoed triumphantly.
Newbies Team Davidson and Kings of the Jungle joined in the fray
with the latter acquitting themseles well by actually taking second
place lead for a while. If they had registered their team for
that ever important two point bonus, there would have been a three
way tie at game's end! As it stood, a tie breaker for third place
happened between the FNG's and Ship It! with the latter winning
the draw by coming closest to guessing the length of time for the
longest recorded Thailand kiss. Pickles on a Plate brought home
the bacon with a way out in front first palce win while one man
army Velvet Hammered scored a second place victory. The Dallas
Boolers Club, though undermanned, still commanded with sheer presence even though they finished near the bottom.
A fairly fine quiz from our trivia overlords tickled the gray matter
of our players, though a bit heavy on the Hollywood side of pop
culture. Holly Hunter was the mystery girl of our Guess Who Round
while full on celebrity worship dominated Round Six's match up of
famous wives with their famous spouses. (Obvously, many of the
faithful were present since a couple of Double-or-Nothings went
off successfully!) Our single moment of desperation guesses delighted as one team ventured that the other half of the 80's Pop Duo Wham! was The Guy That Wasn't George Michael!
Quiz Master Lou is signing off. Hope to see you next week! Watch
the skies for a warning!
Busy pub, people packed and trivia stoked, the Lion & Crown in
Allen (aka Watter's Creek) looked deceptively quiet from the
outside, but when show time arrived the pace picked up and the
quiz questions flew!
Regs Ship It!, Binge Thinking, Bumble Bees, Dallas Boolers Club,
Velvet Hammered and now the FNG's assembled pat and welcomed newbies Chardie McDennis and Sanitize or Die! Oh, and it was great seeing Karen and Steve come out of hibernation to play again. Welcome back you guys!
Ship It! tumbled from their third straight week of wins to the
Bumble Bees who pulled a stunning leap into the lead in Round
Five with a Doulbe-or-Nothing and stayed there to win first place
by evening's end. Real drama with a tie breaker between the
Boolers and Sanitize or Die for third and second place respectively
with the latter shouldering out the former.
Some more, great question sets from KTPQ Corp HQ with a lovely
smattering of assorted minutia ranging from Doctor Who to Earth
Day to Ancient History to science! Our Round Three Theme Round
centered on all things Hawaii. Best wrong answer came from the
wag who got his islands mixed up and went with the old standby
of Kamanawannalea.
That's the way it happened and Quiz Master Lou's stickin' to
his story. Have a good weekend while they last! Later!
