St. Bede's

J & B was in heavy action this nite. Normally DL does the updates, but not this nite. I don’t quite have the energy to do the heavy review of the nite, but sufficite it say, we didn’t do too bad. This was a special competition that had nothing to do with our fortnightly fights @ T.C.’s Pub. The competition was @ a south side church basement (St. Bede’s). It was packed. Our normal games take place against 4-6 teams. The questions tend to revolve around the same categories: music, Sox/Cubs in season, etc… Each team takes turns until they get a wrong answer (or hit a ‘lose yr turn’), and since we know some of the other teams over the years, there’s a lot of “FUCK YOU!!!” just for fun.

This competition was different. It was 12 rounds of ten questions each, and all were written down and handed in before the next set of ten. It was nice to get fresh categories, such as cartoons, women in history, solar system, music (a fave in all triv. comps, I guess), movies, Bears, the Bible, and ’do you know me?’(10 h.s. yearbook pictures of famous adults). Also, the place was packed. I think the total was 45 teams of ten or so each.

J & B roster included Lazers, Max, Chemical Man, his buddy Mike, Stix, Moho, Tim, gf and I. This game was characterized by the total team effort. Everybody had some answers that only they knew. Gf came up with the founder of the girl scouts and correctly got Avril Lavign's 'cornrows yearbook picture' (see above). Tim actually got the ‘eighth station of the cross’ correct (Jesus meets the women) after the judge gave the wrong answer twice. I was proud of my effort in the womans history category (7/10, team effort).

We started off terribly, but progressed nicely through the game. We were keeping score and realized that we were near the top after the third quarter. We think that it came down to our first ten for ten category that brought us into the money. We didn’t win, but we placed and were happy with the $250 we won. Split up amongst us , it was only a $14 profit each of us, but it was a fun nite. We will compete again next year, but the consensus was “We all have to be there on time”. We think that if we’d all been on time, we mite have done better in the opening rounds and won it all.

Again, next year.