Crush! Crush!

[randy_byers]

Our pub quiz team, Still Scared of the Yellow Ball in the Sky, cruised to a crushing victory at the Elephant and Castle last night. This was the second victory in a row, although I wasn't there for the win last week. It must be said that the common denominator in the two victories was carl, although they only won by one point last week. We won by ten or so last night, and we increased our lead in every round. First prize was a gift certificate of $50, which was quickly swallowed by our tab. (I drank dry-hopped Rogue Red all evening, yum.) Coming up is "league play," which apparently involves more money and probably more teams.

Go, Still Scared of the Yellow Ball in the Sky!

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That's a great team name. I'd join.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Geez, we'd really be scary-good with you on the team. Although you'll scoff at the only classical bit from last night, which was to identify the composer of a passage played from Carmen. More difficult was identifying a drawing of one author and a photo of another. I guessed (correctly) that the drawing was Lord Byron, and carl guessed (correctly) that the photo was Victor Hugo. Perhaps carl's finest achievement was correctly identifying the president assassinated in 1881. That probably would have been a no-brainer for you.

I'm blanking at the moment on some of the stuff we got wrong.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah, it is. Can you name the czar who was also assassinated in 1881?

Which passage of Carmen? "Toreador, don't spit on the floor / Use the cuspidor / Whaddaya think it's for"?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

It was an instrumental passage, and I'm pretty sure it was March of the Toreador. And no, I can't name the czar assassinated in 1881. Was it a Peter or an Ivan? (I couldn't have named the president either.)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Without the date, it could be Peter or Ivan. (A lot of czar-assassination going on, mostly in coups.) But this one was Alexander II, Emancipator of the Serfs, and look what he got for his trouble.

[johnnyeponymous.livejournal.com]

I've been doing well on my Pub Quiz as well. I've attended 8 times: 6 firsts, 2 seconds. Usually we're teams of 3, but one night, it was me alone and I managed to take the night!

You've got a great name. We're simply Teem Awesum!
Chris

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Geez, winning it by yourself is occasion to get up an tapdance or something! That pretty Awesum in itself.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Get your other co-editor on that team and you'd be unstoppable. UNSTOPPABLE I tell you.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

True, but then they'd have to kill us.