Team Shula victorious!

[sigma7]

Not 24 hours after I invoke library quiz night, I get informed that there is one -- Friday -- and I'm invited to meet up with the gang from my old workplace. Mind you, in our reign of terror I don't think we've ever done worse than third and, indeed, most of the time, we've won, versus ~20 other tables, each populated with eight of Topeka's citizenry. So we're no slouches.

The first time we went we formed a team with friends of one of beagle1971's friends, and he was...well, not subtle. The format is ten rounds of ten questions each, read aloud, and the team must quietly discuss amongst themselves an answer and write it on the official answer form. The friend-of-a-friend at one point blurted "DON SHULA!" in a voice that would make Leeroy Jenkins proud.

So, when meeting up with my old-school homies tonight -- including beagle1971 and rewil -- our default answer to everything was "Don Shula." The European principality jointly claimed by Spain and Europe? Don Shula. First African-American poet to win the Pulitzer in 1950, born in Topeka? Don Shula. He's like Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris combined.

Here's the bizarre part. One of the topics was, apparently, identifying old pictures of movie stars -- say, Mickey Rooney and Maurice Chevalier when they were young. (And yes, we identified both of them correctly.) But there were two pictures that had us stumped. So we guessed. The first one we guessed to be Reggie Jackson (actually, it was Bobby Sherman) and the second...yep, Don Shula (it was really Joseph Cotten). And somehow we only got one wrong. I'm guessing they confused Shula with Cotten. If they confused Bobby Sherman and Reggie Jackson, there's something really really wrong at the library.

End result: utter domination (note: most, virtually all of this was rewil -- especially the literature, at which I did abysmally). We missed four questions total...let's see...didn't identify Chicago as the city that produces the most Oreo cookies (guessed Cincy), missed the parallel on which Korea is divided (I guessed 37th, and was off by one stinkin' degree), and missed another so obscure I can't even remember it. So that's 96 points, and we got to take home autographed books and gift certificates to the used book store (I gave my gift certificate to another member of Team Shula, as I'm just not in town enough to use it).

Fantastic time, seeing the old gang and putting the smack down on the collective capital city area. It was worth the drive. Moo hoo haa haa. PWNED.

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Good times, man. Good times.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

We missed Carson McCullers as the author of "The Member of the Wedding" -- I don't know from Southern lit.

Hee, I didn't realize that the photo round was the one in which we picked up the mystery point. All hail the power of the Shula!

Re: Good times, man. Good times.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, the other mystery point was the Blue's Clues alarm clock name (and us missing missmiah aloud). I'm stunned that they gave us "tick tock," but hey, we'll take it. If we'd lost both of those mystery points, then it would've been down to the tiebreaker (which we'd have to have lost, predicting 83), but...we gotta take this win. w00t.

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

ICON!!!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Found by pummelling the recently-posted-pictures page repeatedly. That page will be the death of me.

Not as awesome as your "ass hat" icon, though.

[kitblonde.livejournal.com]

Man, you guys should make a trek to Philly and be on my pub quiz team. That way, maybe we'd win. And I'd have beck an' siggy goodness. But more importantly, we'd *win*.
(And also, well done.)

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Damn, I was gonna say tell everyone hi for me, but looks like it was the Friday just past, not next Friday...