written by Lazers (NOT written by Hilts)names edited by Hilts
It was a tremendous pleasure to return home after trivia last night and not smell like a smokestack. The Illinois smoking ban has begun, and its direct effect on trivia night at TC Pub is that each quarter of play ends with a mass exodus for a nicotine break.
To a reaction of boos: Benkowski announced that he is temporarily retiring the Hangman option.
The competition: Bar, Rednecks, Beerz and Lawlors (wow- 5 teams tonight!)
J&B represented by: Chemical Man, Stix, Hilts, Dragon, GF and Lazers
TC Pub represented by: Earth Mother
First Half: Sports/TV/Celebrity Death Years
Who plays Izzie on “Grey’s Anatomy”?
Number of hits for Paul Konerko in 2005 season (within 5)?
Scottie Pippen is first in Bulls playoff history in what two statistical categories? (note: one of them is two words)
Year “60 Minutes” started?
Year of death for Fred Astaire (within 2)?
Inventor/Creator of basketball? (Beerz girl: “The name?”)
During the “end of first quarter” smoking exodus, one of the girls from Beerz stops by the J&B table. She tells us that we already know they are the loud team (who is she crappin’? Hilts would crush them into nothing). She also tells us that they like to taunt the Bar and roots either for us or them to beat the Bar. I really don’t recall Beerz being at trivia night before. This scenario is akin to a player from the Kansas City A’s stopping in the Yankee dugout on Opening Day 1956 and saying the A’s like to taunt the Indians and are rooting for either the Yankees or A’s to beat the Tribe, then Yogi Berra turns to Mickey Mantle and asks “are the A’s in the league?”
Despite the Beerz girl on record saying they root against the Bar, one of their players was a fat guy who openly pandered to the Bar and their anti-J&B propaganda. This guy kept referencing a whistle, and I have no idea what he was talking about. Figures he’d be on the KC A’s.First “Drink Faster” contest of the season: Bar defeats J&B. Record on the year: 0-1
Scores after one half: Bar 1840 J&B 1130 Rednecks 770 Beerz 270 Lawlors 0 (nice score for what I assume is a traveling team)
Second Half: Locations/Celebrity Birth Years/SI Sportsman of the Year Issue
Where is Mammoth Cave? (Lawlor guess: “My ex-wife.”)
Who is the 2007 SI Sportsman of the Year? (Lawlor guess: “Sidney Crosby.”)
Either of the two famous former Boston Bruins depicted nude in oil paintings in an exhibit at the Deitch Projects gallery in New York?
From SI: “Is he the next Allan Iverson?” (Rednecks guess: “Sidney Crosby.”)
Scores into Final: Bar 2650 J&B 2220 Rednecks 1410 Lawlors 770 Beerz 530
Choice of Final Category: Chicago Locations or Bears.
Every team selects Locations except the Rednecks. For each category, 2 of 3 wins wager while all 3 wins 3000 bonus points. As an added treat, the second place team will win a coupon for Huck Finn’s.
J&B wagers 601.
Locations:
At 135th and Harlem, what bar?
At 149th and LaGrange, in the mall parking lot, what bar (2 words)?
At Garfield and Oakley- how far south and how far west?
Bears:
In Saints game: which player scored the first touchdown?
In Saints game: Bears’ only field goal set up by interception by whom?
In Saints game: final Bears’ points were scored how?
Online players?
Part II
J&B thinks it should have picked the Bears category instead of the “name some bars that Benkowski recently passed” category. J&B guesses: John’s, Hitlerslaughters (any guesses to which J&Ber came up with that guess?), and 5500 south/2300 west.
First Half Answers:
Katherine Heigl
163 hits
Rebounds and Blocked Shots
1968
1987
James Naismith
Second Half Answers:
Kentucky
Brett Favre
Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson
Andre Iguodala
Final Question:Beerz- 530- Locations- guess Jordan’s (correct), Sam McGuire’s (correct), and 5500 south/2300 west (correct)- wagered 530- with bonus up to 4060.
Lawlors- 770- Locations- guess Double Overtime (no), Sam McGuire’s (correct), and 5500 south/2300 west (correct)- wagered 770- up to 1560. Lawlors claims that the current Jordan’s used to be Double Overtime, but their lobbying falls upon deaf ears.
Rednecks- 1410- Bears- guess Mark Bradley (correct), Brain Urlacher (correct), and safety (correct)- wagered 1410- with bonus up to 5820.
This is just getting uglier and uglier, isn’t it?
J&B- 2220- Locations- guesses John’s (no), Hitlerslaughters (no- Benkowski: “This one defies logic.”), and 5500 south/2300 west (correct)- wagered 601- down to 1619.
Bar- 2650- Locations- guesses Jordan’s (correct), Sam McGuire’s (correct), and 5500 south/2200 west (no)- wagered 1791- up to 4441.
And it’s the Rednecks who win the first trivia battle of the 2008 season. Stix is furious. The Beerz girl stops at our table on the way out and says, “J&B, we’re disappointed in you tonight.” Yeah, thanks, Stix Ditmar.
Next trivia night in two weeks: Thursday, January 17th. Also, a reminder that St Bede’s trivia is set for Saturday, February 23rd.
7 comments:
It's only been 99 years, 3 months since the Cubs won the World Series, so it can't be the 101st year. (Make sure Dragon doesn't calculate the Final Jeorpardy wager).
Reference to: "iz de trivia tonight? first one of the year. 101st year since cubs won ws."
Beerz girl was okay. Good hair, but probably not pretty enough to be a smoker (prettier girls can get away with that stuff).
1. Might have wanted hangman for this: Izzie - Katherine Heigl
2. Pippen - games played and assists (or steals)
3. Fred Astaire - 1985
4. b-ball - Naismith
5. Mammoth Cave (another good hangman) Missouri, maybe Kentucky
6. Who is Sidney Crosby? (Sidney Sheldon and Cathy Lee Crosby's lovechild)?
7. 135th: somewhere Benky used to have trivia - Overtime?
Bears:
8. TD - Berrian
9. Int - Urlacher
10. Safety (holding in the endzone)
The media always talks about the Giants and Dodgers moving west, but never seem to mention the Braves and A's did it first. So even in the 50's: if it didn't happen in New York, it didn't happen.
Even when I'm at the game and see the nightly highlights, I still mix up Bradley and Berrian.
Did I miss the description of the Beerz girl? Or was it omitted for a reason?
If Stix is furious already, then he hit the ground running in 2008. No spring training for him, ala Clemens. Or is Stix's's rage really 'roid-induced...
My only guess will be on last question - safety.
The story about the Beerz girl reminds me of a stofy from Sparky Lyle's The Bronx Zoo. The teams was having problems with none of the catchers wanting to be a bullpen catcher, so the Yanks call up some kid from the minors. Sparky describes how the kid comes up and says "Hi. I'm Dominick." Sparky either said this or thought it: "What do you want me to do, kiss your ring?"
Any stories about Salerno's "Championship"? When Lazers and I discussed the snub of J&B I compared it to the BCS Bowl Series without Ohio State or the NCAA Tourney without NC or Duke.
Benkowski referenced the championship- I think he said a northside team won. I think the Bar then booed us, assuming that meant J&B lost.
hilts, Nightnurse and I would be in. Her Catholic educations and relatively high morals should pay off handsomely with religiously slanted trivia.
After what was a decent night of questions, to have the final come down to "stuff I saw on the way overhere" and "stuff I saw while watching the bears game"was pretty bullshit.
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