Your humble quizmaster may have missed his true calling. After last night's exciting and revealing trivia quiz at The Famous in Glendale, I have come to believe that I should have been a sports coach or motivational speaker of some sort of inspirational leader.
What other explanation could there be for the resurgent performance of Because Jeopardy Won't Let Us Drink, who absolutely crushed it last night on their way to the first place win? Yes, after giving the Jeopardy crew what for in last week's recap, the team dug deep, rallied their intellectual forces and performed at the peak of their powers.
Yer a Quizzard, Harry certainly gave 'em a run for their winning gift certificate, finishing just three points behind with an excellent 95, and Team Vitamin D demonstrated the potential benefits of nutritional supplements with a strong third-place finish at 90 points.
We Thought This Was Karaoke wasn't singing such a happy tune after a strong but ultimately disappointing fourth place finish, and we're confident that King Trivia stalwarts Bad News Barristers and The Blanches will return to the winner's circle again very soon!
See! There I go again offering encouragement and inspiration! Let's see if it pays off next week!! (I'm tawkin' to you, Blanches!)
We had a near photo-finish at the end of this week's quiz at The Famous in Glendale. This venue always features some top-drawer competition. But this week's stairstep scores of 67/66/65 at the finish was especially tense and delightful.
When the dust settled, Mitch McGonagall was at the top of the heap, followed oh-so-closely by The Bad News Barristers and Yer a Quizzard Harry.
Our top team for the last two weeks in a row - The Blanches - had a rare off night to finish in the middle of the pack, while frequent winners Because Jeopardy Won't Let Us Drink had trouble shaking off the jet lag from a recent trip to Africa and performed so poorly that they asked this quizmaster to leave them off the scoreboard entirely!
Being the compassionate and accommodating person that I am, I readily agreed to that request and assured them that I would not mention the failed double-or-nothing attempts or their historically low score of 37 points.
"You can count on me, Mike! You too, Doug! You can sleep soundly tonight knowing that your secret is safe with me!" I said.
Yup, that's what I said. See y'all next week.
It was a wild and crazy night of trivia fun at The Famous in Glendale this week! The Blanches (photo #1 above) finished in first place for the second week in a row with a one point edge over Bad News Barristers (photo #2).
"You SUCK! Ya got lucky and you suck!" yelled one of the Barristers to the trio of Blanches after learning that they'd fallen one point short of trivia glory. To their credit, the Blanches just sat there stoically and ignored the Barrister outburst.
Some minutes later, in what may have been an unrelated incident, a very wet (beer soaked) paper towel hit the offending Barrister in the back of the head. This quizmaster did not see who launched the moist beer bomb, but it did not appear to come from the area where the Blanches were sitting.
No, indeed! Rather, the angle-of-attack suggested that the attack came from the vicinity of our third place team, Yer A Quizzard Harry. Indeed, one of the Quizzards had a very satisfied look on her face, and one of the Blanches came over a minute later and high-fived her! *
Yes, we do have a great time at the weekly trivia quiz at The Famous. You should join us. We guarantee a good time!
*some events described above may be entirely fictional. In fact, they almost certainly are.
