Archive for April, 2011

Tuesday Trivia Wrapup: Oh Cancer, Up Yours!

(I was mulling using this image instead, but I was told people wouldn’t get it. I wonder what there was to get, but it’s getting late, and this bourbon won’t drink itself, so I let it go.) It was a night where frankly I didn’t mind splitting the bar with hockey fans. Actually, if we’re [...]

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Drunken Smartass Trivia Podcast: The “Can You Hear My One-Armed Robot Now?” Edition

Man, has this been overdue. Today, we launch our newest project, a brand-new weekly trivia podcast featuring the bantering talents of Sam Meyer, Scott Lydon and myself. This week, we fish-tail across the icy road that is popular culture, discussing the future of Ghostbusters 3, who put the crack in the Liberty Bell (and other [...]

 
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Monday, April 25th, 2011

Wednesday Trivia Recap: Everyone Shares A Birthday With Hitler

Was there scandal last night at Dempsey’s? Is it at all possible that last night’s winner’s, “Happy Birthday Marge Simpson,” got almost everything right, but got the basic facts of their team name wrong?[1] Was Marge really born on March 18, or possibly sometime in February, instead of on Hitler’s birthday like Homer mentioned once[2]? [...]

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Tuesday Trivia Recap: They Didn’t Even Do Us The Favor Of Winning

Tonight was a slightly odd evening. The Knicks’ playoff run has been underwhelming so far this year, and given that they basically sneaked into the first round, and they’re basically a two-person team at this point, and they’re playing the Celtics (who all grew up during the Mesozoic Era, but can still go a few [...]

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Wednesday Trivia Wrapup: Kill De Wabbit!

As a host, it’s quite satisfying when you try a question a little out of the usual areas, just to see if you guys are paying attention or if you can lateral-think something out, and enough of you twig to the answer that it’s worth it. Such was the case with the following Name Three [...]

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Tuesday Trivia Wrapup: Earth Below Us, Drifting, Falling

Last night was pretty massive. Lots of noisy teams, some great scores… if they were all that nice, I’d put together a trivia night every night of the week. It didn’t hurt that last night had two major anniversaries off which to base some questions: It was the 150th anniversary of the start of the [...]

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011