Well, it turns out, to quote someone famous only in the sporting realm, they were who we thought they were. The United States Men’s National Soccer Team, ranked 14th in the world going into the world cup, made it to the round of 16 before losing to the Ghanaians. It happens, and it may be [...]
In which we dwell slightly on the musical talents of one Shaquille Diesel O’Neal, namecheck Mythbusters, Big Daddy Don Garlits and the dissident Andrei Sakharov, and I lose the ability to talk about anything but skorts for a moment, which I’ll totally pretend was intentional on my part. The Queen song that ends the podcast, [...]
Did you see Dempsey’s Pub all over the teevee this week? You’d think they were showing all the World Cup Games there over the next few weeks or something. It turns out that we Yanks care about what the rest of the world thinks after all. The London Mirror’s headline in their World Cup Preview [...]
TriviaNYC Podcast #37: World Quiz Championships Edition Right off the top, congratulations to everyone who participated in the World Quiz Championships, both here in New York and in the 28 countries around the world It was as difficult as expected, but we represented as a city, and as a continent against those Euro-polyglot-polymath know-it-alls. One [...]
