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We never claimed to be good at math.
Last night our magical tallying gnomes screwed up some addition. Happily, double-checking the stats this morning revealed that while the final scores were, um, creative, the actual 1-2-3 standings are the same.
To be fair to the calculation wizards, it was a madhouse at the Old Pequliar last night. 16 teams played trivia -- a record since Seattlest's been hosting.
Random stuff we found out: No one knows what the Presidential Medal of Freedom looks like. More people than we realized have heard of roshambo. And even when people know what venules are, they probably don't know how to spell it.
Husker Don't won by a jaw-dropping 17 points. Congratulations to that truly fearful trivia machine, and to everyone else who played -- we had fun last night, and we hope you did, too. Wanna bitch, quibble, correct us, or toot your own horn? That's what the comments are for.
Final standings, in the cold light of day, using a newfangled calculation machine:
1) Husker Don't: 62 points -- won $110
2) Loose Change: 45 points -- won $35
3) Track Pants Lap Dance: 43 points -- won $15
4) Regal Beagle: 40.5 points
5) Monkey Scholars: 39 points
6) Dicken's Cider, Cincinnati Bowties, and Smell My Finger (tied): 37.5 points
9) Fourth Place: 37 points
10) Obzeus: 36 points
11) Whiskey Dick Cheney: 31 points
12) Millennium Falcon: 30 points
13) Splint Chest Hair: 29.5 points
14) It's Soda, Not Pop: 26.5 points
15) Chili Dogs: 24 points
16) Stupid Sexy Flanders!: 23.5 points
Answers to the quiz are after the jump.
Bold answers mean everyone was stumped. Italicized answers means everyone got it right.
Round 1: Geography
1) London Heathrow
2) the Vashon glacier
3) Australia
4) South America
5) Illinois
6) Lake Champlain
7) Mongolia
8) Spain
9) Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake
10) Johannesburg International (aka Jan Smuts Airport)
Round 2: Failed Presidential Candidates
1) Al Gore
2) the Socialist Party of America
3) John Anderson
4) Dr. Benjamin Spock (1972, People’s Party)
5) the Chicago Daily Tribune
6) Wisconsin
7) Gary Bauer
8) Barry Goldwater
9) Magna Carta
10) Taxi Driver
Round 3: Better Known As...
1) Prince Charles
2) Prozac
3) Mother Teresa
4) The Battle of Shiloh
5) Boston, MA
6) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
7) Rock, Paper, Scissors
8) The Devil's Dictionary
9) Underdog
10) The Black Dahlia
Round 4: Awards (picture)
1) Nobel Prize
2) Presidential Medal of Freedom
3) National Design Award
4) Olympic Gold Medal
5) Tony Award
6) Pritzker Prize
7) Cy Young Award
8) Pulitzer Prize
9) RIAA Gold Record
10) MTV Video Music Award
Round 5: Blood
1) hemoglobin
2) transubstantiation
3) Los Angeles
4) 3-2-1 Contact
5) air
6) Macbeth
7) (red) anemone
8) chocolate syrup
9) lamb
10) venules
Round 6: Mars
1) Mariner 4
2) Ares
3) the Milky Way
4) Hunky Dory
5) A Princess of Mars
6) Spike Lee
7) Mars, the Bringer of War
8) The Gilmore Girls
9) it blocks his view of Venus
10) Spirit and Opportunity
Round 7: Movies
1) The Cat in the Hat
2) From Dusk Till Dawn
3) SpaceCamp
4) Twins
5) Battlefield Earth
6) What a Girl Wants
7) Christine
8) Mischief
9) Jerry Maguire
10) Kelly Preston
Round 8:Album covers (picture)
(Half point for the artist, half for the album name)
1) Elvis Presley, 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong
2) Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP
3) Paul Simon, Graceland
4) Prince, Sign O The Times
5) Motley Crue, Dr. Feelgood
6) Cheap Trick, At Budokan
7) William Shatner, The Transformed Man
8) Blondie, Parallel Lines
9) Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
10) Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Whipped Cream and Other Delights
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When you post the answers, it would be very helpful if you could include the questions as well, so we don't have to flip back and forth. Although, this would eliminate the "found poetry" quality of the list of answers:
Mars, the Bringer of War, "The Gilmore Girls"; it blocks his view of Venus.
Lord, I did math for you people and you're still not satisfied!?
Actually, that's a good suggestion. Noted.