Wednesday, December 12, 2007
A lawyer, two MBAs and three journalists walk into a bar...
This may sound like the setup for a bad joke, but it's actually a setup for the announcement that our new and improved quiz team WON the Stetson's Pub Quiz last night! This was due in large part to me calling in a couple of ringers, in the form of my old college chum Jason (whom I didn't even know lived in DC until last week, and had no idea was such a trivia whiz until last night) and his roommate, Anik, the two aforementioned MBAs. Because while Kirsten, Daimon, Autumn and I are pretty well-versed in things like sports, literature, pop culture and geography, we tend to not be so great at subjects like math, science and technology. Such was the beauty of the expanded team: By the time the quizmaster had said, "What's the name of a verb that acts...", I had already written down "gerund" (Anik: "Is that even a real word?"), whereas I couldn't help but be wowed by Jason's lightning-fast, Jessie-Spano-on-caffeine-pills reflexes in using the Pythagorean theorem. We started out tied for first place and slowly rose in the standings until we dominated with a commanding 4-to-5-point lead for the last few rounds. This definitely beats our previous pub-quiz highs of getting a perfect 10 on the TV theme songs round (thanks to Autumn's and my love for 21 Jump Street and Punky Brewster, respectively) and a tenuous first-round hold on the lead. The only downside? When we used to tie for fourth-to-last, the prize was a $75 bar tab. Now that we're actually winning, they've split the prize so that it's a $50 bar tab for first place and a $25 bar tab for second place. Sure, winning is its own reward and everything, but come on. That extra $25 would have gone a long way in paying for all beer we ordered as soon as it started to look like we might actually have a shot.
This may sound like the setup for a bad joke, but it's actually a setup for the announcement that our new and improved quiz team WON the Stetson's Pub Quiz last night! This was due in large part to me calling in a couple of ringers, in the form of my old college chum Jason (whom I didn't even know lived in DC until last week, and had no idea was such a trivia whiz until last night) and his roommate, Anik, the two aforementioned MBAs. Because while Kirsten, Daimon, Autumn and I are pretty well-versed in things like sports, literature, pop culture and geography, we tend to not be so great at subjects like math, science and technology. Such was the beauty of the expanded team: By the time the quizmaster had said, "What's the name of a verb that acts...", I had already written down "gerund" (Anik: "Is that even a real word?"), whereas I couldn't help but be wowed by Jason's lightning-fast, Jessie-Spano-on-caffeine-pills reflexes in using the Pythagorean theorem. We started out tied for first place and slowly rose in the standings until we dominated with a commanding 4-to-5-point lead for the last few rounds. This definitely beats our previous pub-quiz highs of getting a perfect 10 on the TV theme songs round (thanks to Autumn's and my love for 21 Jump Street and Punky Brewster, respectively) and a tenuous first-round hold on the lead. The only downside? When we used to tie for fourth-to-last, the prize was a $75 bar tab. Now that we're actually winning, they've split the prize so that it's a $50 bar tab for first place and a $25 bar tab for second place. Sure, winning is its own reward and everything, but come on. That extra $25 would have gone a long way in paying for all beer we ordered as soon as it started to look like we might actually have a shot.
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