That’s Why He’s Nicknamed “Lawyer”

Written by Lazers

names edited by Hilts

Runner-up candidates for the title of this week’s trivia summary include “Gypsies” and “Post Office Masturbator”. TC Pub didn’t seem particularly crowded, but the game managed to fill with 6 teams.

The competition: Bar, Morning Wood, Comfortably Dumb, Barflies, and Girls Four.

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

Each team allowed 5 tricks tonight- 3 throws, 1 Hangman, and 1 Lady’s Choice

First Half: Sports is Nice/80s Music (MTV Winners)/World Flags

Leads MLB in batting average and on-base percentage?
The 3 active managers in the top 7 all-time in victories?
1989- Best Metal Video- Guns N Roses- 4 words?
’08- only Chicago position player with more walks than strikeouts?

For the World Flags category, Benkowski (or one of his groupies) actually drew all of the flags used for the questions- nice creative touch. This category featured the worst guess of the night. For a flag with clues “European country that starts with the letter ‘E’”, Girls Four guess “Ukraine”.

Ladies Only “Drink Faster” contest- Gf defeats the Bar.

Ladies Only “Smallest (blank)” contest- Barflies select “feet” to fill in the blank and do battle with Theresa representing the Bar. Benkowski tells the girls to take off their shoes and put their feet next to each other’s, to which one of the Morning Wood guys added, “now kiss.”

Ladies Choice Challenge- Girls Four selects “biggest boobs” and defeats whichever team was next, unfortunately without a measurement.

Scores at the half: J&B 980 Wood 740 Dumb 530 Bar 490 Barflies 490 Girls 480

Second Half: Celebrity Year of Birth or Death/90s Music- Grammy/Entertainment

Mega-star recently signed to star in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming WWII movie (given the outstanding title “Inglorious Bastards”)?
1988 “Best New Artist”- MTV- Guns N Roses- which song (4 words)?
Year of birth: Kelsey Grammer?
(Afterwards- Hilts’s yell of, “Kelsey is a gypsy!” sends Benkowski into a fit of laughter.)

Ladies Choice Challenge- J&B selects “tallest”- Gf defeats Morning Wood chick.

Scores: J&B 1850 Wood 1410 Barflies 1280 Dumb 1140 Bar 1060 Girls 1030

Choice of Final Category: Recent TV or In The News

2 of 3 wins wager. 3000 bonus for all 3 correct.

J&B selects “News” and wagers the classic (971).

Hilts: “We’re all wagered up, Benks!”
Benkowski: “Okay, you want to listen now.”

Recent TV:
Chicagoan Ted Allen from “Queer Eye” now is on this TV show?
Kathy Griffin of the D-List is currently on what network?
“Home Improvement” was on how many times between 8 and midnight on Nickelodeon (I think it was Wednesday night)?

News:
What Hollywood couple may co-star in a comedy titled “Food Fight”?
Kanye West may open 10 of these in the Chicago area?
After Jack Baysinger committed suicide in Colorado, how many weeks did his dog stay by his side?

Gang?

PART II

J&B guesses Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes, Fatburger, and 6 weeks. J&B is uncertain about the last answer.

First half:
Chipper Jones
Bobby Cox, Joe Torre and Tony LaRussa
Sweet Child O Mine
Ryan Theriot

Second half:
Brad Pitt
Welcome To The Jungle
That gypsy Grammer was born in 1955

Final question:
Girls Four- 1030- News- guesses Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie (no), After School Programs (no), and 3 weeks (no)- wagered 1030- thanks for playing.

Bar- 1060- TV- guesses Food Detectives (correct), Bravo (correct), and 4 times (correct)- wagered 1060- with bonus, up to 5120.
Benkowski: “With their deep knowledge of a homosexual man…”

Comfortably Dumb- 1140- TV- guesses Wine Steward (no), Bravo (correct), and 0 times (no)- wagered 1130- down to 10.

Barflies- 1280- TV- guesses How To Look Good Naked (no), Bravo (correct), and 8 times (no)- wagered 1280- thanks for playing.
Barfly player, discussing the Home Improvement question as he is leaving the bar: “I can’t believe it was 4 times!”

Morning Wood- 1410- TV- guesses Project Runway (no), Bravo (correct), and 32 times (no)- wagered 1410- thanks for playing.
The main Wood guy threatens to kill Benkowski so that the game is never finished and Wood gets to keep its status as defending champion. However, Benkowski indicates the game would be finished by his cousin Nick, who is in the bar. Benkowski must have had a premonition.

J&B- 1850- News- guesses Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes (correct), Fatburger (correct), and 6 weeks (correct)- wagered 971- with bonus, up to 5821 and the victory.
J&B now threatens to kill Benkowski in order to remain defending champions forever. Benkowski seems a little rattled by being faced with his own mortality.

Afterwards, Lawyer comes over to the J&B table, where there is discussion of the suicide/dog question.
Lazesr: “Maybe the dog killed the guy and made it look like a suicide.”
Lawyer (heading towards Benkowski): “Pat…it wasn’t a suicide…they shouldn’t get the points…”

Stix, on facing the decision whether or not to buy some large cd collections for his inventory: “I’m trying to decide if I have cojones this week.”
Gf: “Who’s cojones?”

Champion J&B will be back to defend their title in two weeks- Thursday, August 28th. I expect to be “in”.