Chemical Man's Birthday Bash

Written by Lazers

names edited by Hilts

addendum by Hilts

There were some large groups at TC Pub last night, one that had the gall to occupy the usual J&B table. That scenario would be akin to the Yankees showing up at Yankee Stadium only to find it being used for an MTV celebrity softball game. Nonetheless, J&B was able to celebrate Bill’s birthday with some of Sue’s baking (but they weren’t brownies, as they lacked the brownie thing across the top). Despite the festivities, it was a quick and overall quiet trivia night.

J&B represented by: Chemical Man, Hilts, Stix, Dragon, Gf and Lazers

J&B talisman: the J&B desktop holder, plus Hilts was carting a small, empty wooden box

Competition: Bar, Nells, and Partridge Family

TC Pub: no waitress tonight, even though the crowd likely required one, and even though Glasses and Earth Mother were hanging around.

First Half: In the News/US Stuff/The Other Guy in Sports

1980 NL batting champ = Bill Buckner, AL batting champ = ?
1972 NL batting champ = Billy Williams, AL batting champ = ?
1993 AL Cy Young award = Jack McDowell, NL Cy Young = ?
1993 AL MVP = Frank Thomas, NL MVP = ?
1984 NL Cy Young award = Rick Sutcliffe, AL Cy Young = ?
1972 AL homer champ = Dick Allen, NL homer champ = ?
1983 AL Cy Young award = Lamar Hoyt, NL Cy Young = ?
1994 AL MVP = Frank Thomas, NL MVP = ?
1998 NL MVP = Sammy Sosa, AL MVP = ?
1943 AL batting champ = Luke Appling, NL batting champ = ?

2000 census: in US population, Chicago is followed by which city?

Scores at the half: Bar 1310 J&B 1000 Partridge Family 940 Nells 800

Second Half: Sports/Measurements/Celebrity Birth Years & Facts

Bulls’ top two scorers for 2006-2007 season?
Last year the Cleveland Browns won NFL championship?
Move action star whose real name is Carlos Ray (last name remained the same)?

Scores into final question: Bar 2660 Partridge Family 1880 J&B 1640 Nells 1420

Choice of final category: Languages of the world, or Cities of the world

All teams select “cities of the world”

Need 4 of 7 to win wager. All 7 correct wins 3000 bonus points.

J&B wagers 241 (enough to pass Partridge Family should they bet 0, and enough to beat the Bar if they bet to protect against Partridge Family and lose).

From 2000: 7 World Cities had 9,000,000 or more people (5 in Asia, 1 in South America).

Gentlemen?

Part II

J&B guesses Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bombay, New Delhi, Mexico City and Sao Paulo

First half answers:
’80 AL batting champ = George Brett
’72 AL batting champ = Rod Carew
’93 NL Cy Young = Greg Maddux
’93 NL MVP = Barry Bonds
’84 AL Cy Young = Willie Hernandez
’72 NL homer champ = Johnny Bench
’83 NL Cy Young = John Denny
’94 NL MVP = Jeff Bagwell
’98 AL MVP = Juan Gonzalez
’43 NL batting champ = Stan Musial

Census city behind Chicago: Houston

Second half answers:
Ben Gordon and Luol Deng
1964
Chuck Norris

Final Question:

Nells- 1420- guess Tokyo (no), Mexico City (yes), Beijing (no), New Delhi (yes), Buenos Aires (no), Calcutta (no), New York (no), Kuala Lumpur (no)- only 2 correct even though they made 8 guesses instead of 7- wagered it all- thanks for playing.

J&B- 1640- guesses Seoul (yes), Shanghai (yes), Tokyo (no), Bombay (no), New Delhi (yes), Mexico City (yes), Sao Paulo (yes)- 5 correct- wagered 241- up to 1881.

Partridge Family- 1880- guesses Tokyo (no), Rio (no), New Delhi (yes), Moscow (no), Bombay (no)- at least one other “no” guess that I missed- only 1 correct- wagered 1878- down to 2.

Bar- 2660- guesses Manila (no), Shanghai (yes), Sao Paulo (yes), Tokyo (no), New Delhi (yes), Beijing (no), New York (no)- only 3 correct- wagered 1111- down to 1549.

J&B’s stellar wager leads to a second victory in a row!

The answers (and narrator comments):
Seoul
Shanghai
New Delhi
Sao Paulo
Mexico City (note: when researching this morning, lists I saw do not have Mexico City with over 9 million in population while Moscow does have more than that).
Mumbai (note: formerly known as Bombay- I do not know if credit was not given for Bombay answers because of the name change, or because Benkowski isn’t aware that they are one and the same).
Karachi

A handful of potential errors, but they don’t change the final result.

Next trivia night in two weeks (September 27th). Gf has promised tollhouse cookies….

Hilts addendum

Very strange that there were no waitresses, especially that Glasses was there. Lots of people, but only four teams. It was also the day of the advent of Dragon making throws instead of me. He went up on a 'drink faster' challenge, and they called it a tie. He had to "throw the ball" in the tie breaker, and I was gonna take the throw. However, Dragon was saying "I beat the guy" , so I figured he had the confidence to beat the guy in the tiebreaker. He did. next time there was a throw, we tried to get Dragen up, but instead it was Hilts- both were winners. I has also brought a box to trivia this week. I'd found it the day before on the sidewalk and immed. took its best use to be a hat. So, I walked around the Belmont area with a wooden box on my head- and yes, they all loved it. Honk honk "HEY NICE HAT" , "dude, kool!!", "Hey, the best hat EVER", etc..... Gf was embarresed, but I loved it. This box/hat needed to be brought to trivia, so I did: I christened it "The J & B " box. I'd forgotten that Stix had brought up a similar themed box the last week, and felt like a fool for duplicating the effort. lately a lot of historical J & B items have been brought to games: the F-16, the Spiderman -v- the Mindworm comic book, etc...