QUIZ RECAP

We had us a big, BIG night of trivia fun this week at The Famous on Brand in Glendale! A raucous crowd - and I do mean crowd - filled the Famous to near capacity with the biggest assortment of enthusiastic trivia competitors we've ever seen at this venue. And they came ready to do battle.

It's easy to focus on the winners. Heck, you can see the formidable list of top scorers right there in the scoreboard. But this quizmaster wants to take a moment to applaud the plucky underdog who simply WILL NOT GIVE UP despite long odds and the unlikelihood of success.

Plucky underdogs like MARIO. Yes, Mario, who fell behind early in the game and set his sights on a late-game comeback. Yes, Mario, who opted for the risky double-on-nothing attempt in Round 5, which was bold - to be sure - but was ultimately, alas, unsuccessful.

That turn of events put Team Mario even further back in the pack. And so they figured that the only way to overcome such a large deficit would be yet another bold, risky double-or-nothing attempt in Round 6! But egad! That attempt also failed, and now Mario was playing not to win, but simply for scoreboard respectability. At least they could still post a respectable score, right? Right! That's RIGHT. Mario!

And so, in Round 7. Mario once again opted for the badly needed double-or-nothing 20-point score...

We don't have to tell you how this played out, do we? I mean, DO WE!? Mario...beloved, respected, desperate Mario, crashed and burned with their third consecutive double-or-nothing failure. But man, it was a glorious, disastrous run! We salute you Team Mario! You went down in a blaze of trivia glory!

See y'all next week.

QUIZ RECAP

We all know that King Trivia offers the hottest games in town, right!? From our myriad weekly trivia contests throughout Southern California (and now popping up in several other states) to our new Survey Slam games that are already attracting lots of enthusiastic attention, King Trivia is definitely the leading source of the hottest entertainment options around.

And when I say hot, I mean HOT! But last night's contest at The Famous on Brand in Glendale almost got a little too hot, as the evening's festivities began with flashing lights, alarm bells and a visit from the fine men and women of the Glendale fire department! Okay, it was a false alarm, triggered by a faulty switch in a control panel. But it nonetheless provided a striking moment of perspective that illustrated the overall hotness of all things King Trivia.

If you multiple that hottest by a factor of three, you might get close to the red-hot, iridescent quality evinced by the trio of pulchritudinous brilliance who call themselves The Blanches. Yup, that's them there in photo number one, looking all smug and self-assured, as only a team capable of racking up 101 points can look while trouncing the competition to win the night!

We all bow down in deference to your trivia dominance, Blanches! Thank you for not burning the building down around us. See ya next week.

QUIZ RECAP

There's nuthin' this quizmaster likes better than a truly competitive, go-for-the-jugular, knockdown drag-out fight. And that's exactly what we got this week at The Famous on Brand in Glendale, when our top four teams finished within 2 points oe each other.

Caribbean Heat edges out the competition (barely) to take the top spot, while a nail-biter tie-breaker put Yer a Quizard Harry in head-to-head battle with Electric Moustache for second place! The Quizards wont that fight, while the Bad News Barristers had to look on wistfully, thinking of what might ahve been, when they came up one point shy of the winner's circle!

Phew! What a night! What a fight! What a great way to spend a Thursday evening! See ya next week.