"Do You Believe in Miracles? YES!!!"
It's the end of an era. Check out the standings list below and you'll see "Hüsker Don't," as you might expect -- but you'll see them in third place. Ever-renamed team State of the Onion played Nancy Zerg to HD's Ken Jennings, as did comeback kids Thaiku Hookers, who took second place.
Of course, Tiger Woods doesn't win every golf tournament; just because Hüsker Don't is mortal doesn't mean they're pushovers.
It was a raucous evening, with 22 teams crammed into the poor little Old Pequliar. Many thanks to Courtney, who helped us with data entry and ensured we finished at a reasonable hour, and also made a damn fine swag model.
"James = pussy" wrote one team on their photo round answer sheet, and we have to cop to that. We caved in and gave credit to people who identified the sword-wielding Uma Thurman as "the Bride," as well as "Beatrix Kiddo." Giving two points to the Kiddo camp struck even us as unadulterated wishy-washiness, but so it goes. Between that and yesterday's incisive critique of our hosting style, we tossed and turned until 4:30 last night, questioning our place in the universe.
We still stand by not giving credit to people who identified Jackie Bouvier Kennedy in a photo cutting a wedding cake with JFK as Jackie Onassis, though. You were about a decade off, people.
Finally, yes, we fucked up a question. The scores below award a point to everyone who answered "Niagara" as a river that forms part of the border between New York and Ontario, as well as my intended answer, "St. Lawrence." We left out a crucial "longest" in the question; totally our fault. Happily, only a few final standings changed, none of them prizewinners.
Updated: The quiz itself is on QuizNight. And fourth-place team Faust requested a round on The Big Lebowski for next week, so you might want to swing by Scarecrow on your way home. (They gave us a choice of 3 categories, actually: BL, ancient Greece, or Shakespeare's plays. We opted for door #1.)
1) State of the Onion, 68 -- $135!
2) Thaiku Hookers, 65 -- $60!
3) Husker Don't, 63 -- $25!
4) Faust, 61 -- picked a round topic!
5) Play-Dough Fun Factory, 60
6) (tie) Burning Sensation and Second Prize, 59
8) Forrest Whitaker Is the Last King of Portland, 55
9) Don Quiz-ote, 54
10) (tie) Paper Beats Rock and PBR, 53
12) Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Beverage, 49
13) NAMBLA Knows Michael Jackson Is Innocent, But If He Did It, This Is How It Happened, 48
14) (tie) Dinosaur Jet Pilots and Whackers, 47
16) Rossbucks, 46
17) Law and Order: DPU, 45
18) Tremendous Slouch, 44
19) (tie) Skibbiejaw and Star-Spangled Wonder, 42
21) Happy Salt Shakers, 40
22) How the Hell Should I Know?, 39 -- swag!
