QUIZ RECAP

If may not have been Friends night, but it was a night of friends including an unexpected reunion for me and a friend on the Voodoo Teddy Bears!

It ended up being the night of the great Team Hemorrhage since we started with 11 teams, a new record, until the night whittled it down to six teams that made it through the entire night. But as I reminded them, that just means better odds for everyone that stayed: a good incentive!

We learned many things tonight, chief among them to wait for later clues in the Guess Who? round, particularly since many teams jumped the gun and guessed Sarah Michelle Gellar due to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer red herring...the movie came first, people, then the TV show!

The Voodoo Teddy Bears learned that they should've Doubled on a few rounds since they missed out on a lot more points!

And we all learned that the Freedom of Petition is part of our unalienable rights since most teams got the first four First Amendment rights, but no one knew this final one.

Once the smoke cleared, we were left with our Top 3 for the night: OBJ to Cleveland took home the top prize after edging out the competition with their Double or Nothing after identifying religious origins; Team Cool Kids who chose not to risk it with religion and ended up losing out; and Voodoo Teddy Bears, who were surprised after thinking that tonight was Friends night...but they ended up having a great time anyway!

Special shout outs to:
- If You Can Hear My Voice, Clap Once since every time I read out their name, more and more people participated until everyone was in on it at the end...even people who weren't playing!
- Robko because, despite not sticking around until the end, we essentially had a celebrity player with this team! In a true Slumdog Millionaire moment, one of their team members was a judge who scored the gymnastics routine for Ms. Katelyn Ohashi at UCLA, which made that question a cinch for her.

Thanks for playing, everyone! See you all next week!

FRIENDS EVENT RECAP

No one told me life was gonna be this way, AND I'M SO GLAD!!! Our FRIENDS event at Slater's 50/50 in Huntington Beach was hoppin'! Many thanks to all the teams that came out. Our winners, Central Perky Nipples graced the top with a 1-point difference from the second place team, Ahh...Salmon Skin Roll. Both teams definitely deserved a prize just based off those team names alone 😉 Thank you to all for joining me in the YMCA and also the Spice Girl's hit, "Wannabe." Props also to the team who won the spirit prize. One costume in particular was modeled after the FRIENDS episode, "The One With All Trivia." It was wonderfully ironic and that deserved the huge round of applause it got! Thank you all again for making my night, and I hope I was able to make yours 🙂

Sincerely,

Quizmaster Chandler (Viv)

QUIZ RECAP

Tonight's game was awesome. We had such great questions, and it was just fun learning these new facts! On some questions, no one knew the answer to, but overall the questions in the rounds weren't too hard!

From the start, we didn't have anyone double down or get all 6 questions correct, but starting from round 2, Mike Tyson's Speech School doubled down and was in the lead with a total of 16 points. Throughout the entire game, Mike Tyson's Speech School was in the lead, almost dominating the game. First place was almost certain them. 2nd place looked promising for Here For the Beer up until round 7! Right at round seven, due to a Lord of the Rings question, Foxy Ladies doubled down and snatched the 2nd place title.

Great game, great people, and great food!