Trivia Updates Supreme

We did it gang, we finally won ourselves a pitcher of beer! We didn't even care that the bar didn't win a round of shots, who wants to drink watered downed apple pie shots anyways? Drew and Grill tried to claim the don't give out a pitcher of beer for the last round, despite it happening every other week, and countless times for us last semester, but luckily Alexis stepped in with a "WTF, chill" and all became right in the world. With one week of trivia left, we are going to have a brutally hard battle ahead of us to win ourselves a guaranteed keg party. The rankings sit as follows:

1. Hitler with 402 points, but if you subtract the point they should have lost every round this semester for having extra players, 342 points. And if you subtract all the rounds they use cell phones in, that leaves is with only 42 points. That is a little horrible.
2. Team Travis with 389, which, last I checked, was much higher than 42.
3. The Broad Street Brawlers with 387.5, but I honestly think Rob just adds points on Grill's computer
4. Wes and the Sexies with 367, but if you subtract the week that they wrote the questions and magically got them all right, that leaves us with 307.
5. Two Tall Broads with 358, obviously also cheaters, since they are also film students, but they have never actually been caught cheating, so I will let them slide for now.
6. Finally, us, with a staggeringly low 353.5. Since it took us until week 10 to actually win a pitcher of beer, this isn't actually that bad.
   

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Hey team, I just want to wish you all a happy St. Patrick's Day! Be sure to come to my home, a.k.a the Owl, for a green beer and maybe some Irish stew!


Your Coach and Intermin-Team Captain "Hollywood" Joel Yeomans

Trivia Rant

Alright, I've got a few things to get off my chest.

First, PHDTS. Like fuck. You know everyone watches you like a hawk. Why do you insist on having nine players? Either you can't count, or in Winnipeg, eight and nine are the same thing.

Secondly, in regards to PHDTS once again, come up with a new joke. Crusty vagina's? Really? At least try and be smart. I guess cell phones can't help you with comebacks.

Thirdly, everyone needs to stop complaining about how late it gets. Drew and Grill do their best. I mean, it's six rounds of trivia, and it doesn't start until ten. Yet, for some reason, everyone expects things to be wrapped up by midnight.

Lets do some math here. (PHDTS is excused from reading this part)

For that to work, each round would need to be roughly 20 minutes. That includes asking/answering the questions, handing them in, marking them, tallying up the scores, and doing the occasional tiebreaker. It's just not possible.

We're usually done around one, so the fact that it takes them only half an hour for each round is pretty good, especially considering they like to have a couple drinks while they run trivia.

Hell, if you've got stuff to do in the morning, account for the fact you'll be up a little late. If possible, take a nap after supper, before trivia. If that's not possible, drink a pot of coffee in the morning, then do the nap thing Thursday afternoon. We've all got shit to do the next day, so get over it. I'm sure your sociology class won't notice if you're yawning a bit more, they probably aren't listening to you anyways.

New Nicknames

The most important part of any team is each member having multiple nicknames, so I have assigned everyone some new ones.

• "Hollywood" Joel Yeomans
• Aaron "The Ace of Base" Grandgulliot
• "The Alpha Male" Jeremy Putz
• "Flyin'" Samantha Maciag
• "The Mouth from the South" Gena Sheperd
• Chelsea "Lost in Translation" Kitsch
• "The Blue Blood" Erin Sifert
• Phil "The Grey Ghost" Smith
  

Brent Butt's Nephew

Warren Butt has a blog. He made an entry about trivia. And his last name is Butt. Haha, Butt.....
http://milehighpixel.com/archives/75/trivia-night/

Did You Know?

Once a week (probably on a weekend) I'm going to post 10 random "did you know?" facts from around the Web.

Did you know ...

1.
Alligator Alley (also known as Everglades Parkway[2]) is a section of Interstate 75 (State Road 93) and State Road 84 extending from Naples on the west coast of Florida to Weston on the east. First opened in 1969,[3] most of the highway traverses the Everglades.
The name was given by the American Automobile Association during planning; they believed it would be a useless road, an "alley for alligators." However, since alligators often frequent the waterways beside the road, the nickname has a somewhat literal meaning.

2.
The Simpsons is now the longest running television series ever (now that it's been extended for another two seasons).

3.
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), almost universally known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Wallsend in North Tyneside. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police. As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has sold over 100 million records, and received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, and receiving an Oscar nomination for best song.

4.
"Malibu" is the second single by Hole from the Celebrity Skin LP and was written about Kurt Cobain's stay at a rehabilitation clinic in Malibu, California. It also includes "Drag," an outtake from Celebrity Skin which was replaced by "Malibu." The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal field, losing to "Put Your Lights On" by Santana.

5.
The McDonald's business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California. Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 established the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant. The original mascot of McDonald's was a man with a chef's hat on top of a hamburger shaped head whose name was "Speedee." Speedee was eventually replaced with Ronald McDonald in 1963.

6.
HTML is an initialism of HyperText Markup Language.

7.
Boxing fun fact: Although fighting with fists comes naturally to people, evidence of fist-fighting contests first appear on ancient Sumerian, Egyptian and Minoan reliefs. The ancient Greeks provide us our first historical records of boxing as a formal sport; they codified a set of rules and staged tournaments with professionals. The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC. Modern boxing evolved in Europe, particularly Great Britain.

8.
Annie Leibovitz, the renowned New York photographer who has taken portraits of the Queen, John Lennon, Tom Cruise, Miley Cyrus and more, has pawned the rights to her life's work in order to raise nearly $16 million to pay off her debts.

9.
Reading University researchers claim "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the most ancient, dating back tens of thousands of years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7911645.stm

10.
Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader, an embedded system for reading electronic books (e-books), launched in the United States by prominent online bookseller Amazon.com in November 2007. The Kindle was developed by Amazon's Lab126. It uses an electronic paper display and downloads content over Amazon Whispernet using the Sprint EVDO network. Retail cost started at $399 and was dropped down to $359. It only works in the US.