That was a fun quiz. I’m a little disappointed that there were still several teams with 70+ points – I thought I’d made it a little harder – but it was also refreshing that they weren’t all the usual suspects. (Every team got 40+ points, which may be my record.)
I mean, I’m happy when you guys win, but I hate to look like I’m just forking over money to you every time.
Really, I don’t mind getting forked.
Wait, that’s not what I meant.
Fork you very much.
Oh, and an early bump for next week:
Russ hosts, and while he’s a nice guy, his last two quizzes have been kind of torturous. We’ve done well, but they take forever.
Proposal: Monday night next week at Mulleady’s Irish Pub in stargazer’s living room, AKA Magnolia.
Any takers or alternate proposals?
I forgot that tomorrow, my wife will be staying at home with my daughter all day, since the two-year-old is the only one who automatically gets Veterans Day off. If I went to trivia tomorrow night, this means my wife would have pretty much one whole day solo parenting without a break – and this has been politely vetoed. Not that I blame her.
Alternate proposal:
Next week we do Mulleady’s on Monday night, since Naomi is hosting at the OP.
This week, we either do the OP and hope it’s not a slog, or go elsewhere either Tuesday or Wednesday. I’m open to suggestions.
Works for me – Tuesday is a better night for us this week, anyway.
Maybe we could bring a game of some sort to play in between rounds, in case it is a slog? I’m only half joking…
I have no suggestions for tonight, so maybe The Old Pequiliar wins by default.
However, I love the idea of Mulleady’s next week. I’ll be heading west on Wednesday, and having my Tuesday evening free will make things easier.
For tonight, I’m up for whatever’s decided by about 2:30 or so.
Not a bad idea, but it would work best if people could show up a little early (by 6:30 or 7:00) instead of motoring in at 7:45, so we can get everything taken care of well before trivia starts. If we start trying to play a game right before 8:00, there’ll be all the setup chitchat, not to mention having food on the table in addition to the game. If we can eat, and get into the rhythm of the game, for at least, say, half an hour before trivia starts, we’ll be in a lot better shape, I think. I’m up for it.
I can bring Kill Doctor Lucky.
I can get there by 7:30ish, and I’ll totally forgo the chitchat. May I suggest that we try to get a table away from the mic so that we don’t look horribly rude to the Host, who is already self criticising and might take it into full catatonia.
I thought Interrochild!? had eaten Dr Lucky already?
They don’t call him Dr. Lucky for nothing.
Whatever game we play, it’ll have to be as silent as possible, with little to no conversation, partly so we can do it quietly while trivia is in progress, and partly so we can continue when the rest of the bar is loud. So I’m thinking Mousetrap, Pictionary and Great Dalmuti are right out.
Is Kill Dr Lucky a quiet game?
So, no Catchphrase, then.
Or Boggle, dammit.
I can bring Scrutineyes, Farkle, Phase 10, or (and?) Millennium Edition Trivial Pursuit, if anyone’s interested in any of those.
Trivial Pursuit may actually be cheating in some weird way. Just sayin.
Kill Doctor Lucky is more or less a parody of Clue, and is similarly quiet. That is, there’s talking, but not as much as in Pictionary.
I was assuming we’d not be playing during the rounds themselves, and I think the overall noise level between rounds is manageable for this or other similar games.
Victory!
And not only did we manage to stay awake through that slog of a quiz, we also finished in first place.
As discussed last night, I say we do a game night at someone’s home (or a restaurant, I suppose) next time he hosts. The trivia itself isn’t so bad, but the commentary is really annoying! By the end of the night, I was just irritated that he kept interrupting our game with the quiz.
At least we won!
I got sucked into talking to him after the quiz last night, and he mentioned that the schedule’s currently full through April, and he’s not hosting any of those nights.
But I fully support your backup plan.
Notice for anyone who wasn’t there last night, next week, we’re doing the quiz at Mulleady’s in Magnolia on Monday night, mmmkay?
I moved to Seattle just a few months ago- I had no idea this was going on. I’d love to attend… but it’s going to be hard, since I live way out in Sammamish. Do they ever do any events out near the Redmond/Sammamish neck of the woods?