Curtis Earth Presents: The First Trivia Olympics

Saturday night at Alois' Ballroom in Bube's Brewery marked the first ever Trivia Olympics in Pennsylvania History. Eleven teams from my shows, Billy Warmth's shows and trivia old-timers combatted for cash (and bragging rights). It was a fun night of trivia, jumbles and tune-naming. Thanks to the original master trivia host, Curtis Earth and his able assistant. Mr. Shifferstein, for an evening of merriment and laughter. (Stay tuned to this blog for an exclusive photo-expose of Mr. Shifferstein's after show activities). Also, thanks to Luke and K.T. for all their hard work, Billy Warmth for emceeing and taking all these pictures, and J for handling the sound system. Great job, one and all!

Marge, with ten + years of trivia playing under her belt, has assembled the crack team known as Out of the Vortex. They won the $100 prize for first place.

One Banana, two Banana...

...three Banana, four!

Kim and Justin sport their vintage Electric Yellow Brain Banana Polo Shirts from back in the day. Their team morphed into the Electric Learning Brain and Friends and took fifth place.

The Bananas were hoping for an Art on Wood trifecta, since they won the Billy Warmth paperweight and the Curtis Earth self-portrait (pictured). They failed to get the elusive Mike Horn spatula, however.

Jay explains the Lethal Amoebas' game-winning strategy to Lorraine. They placed third.

I believe this was Lisa's first taste of the Curtis Earth Experience.

Senor PP claimed 50 bucks by capturing second place.

Members of Nobody Expects the Spanglish Inquisition (Ben and Autumn), Dust (Sue and Lisa) and Nothing But Babaganoosh (Chris and Smiller) joined forces to become Up Past 10. They placed sixth.

I can name that tune in one note!

"Hi! We're K.T. and Luke. We'll be your servers for the evening." And a fine job they did, too!

The Unit Two Meltdown Crew is deeeeeeeep in thought, on their way from second to seventh.

Raise your hand if you're sure.

Laura (on the right) was one of the original trivia players from Curtis' Holiday Inn days of the early nineties. Her current team, the Toxic Olives, placed fourth.

Representing the Lititz VFW, Steve, Don Sheila and Marla (AKA We're Here for the Beer (and Cookies)) were treated to their first taste of trivia, Curtis-style.

John sports a vintage Earth shirt while Mark tries to explain trivia to newcomers Anthony and Nikki.

Kathy and her daughter Kelly do a Vulcan mindmeld to come up with the correct answer.

VFW Tournament Final Results

Going into the final night, it was a dead heat between the Chicks and Dicks and the Posse. The "heat" part of that sentence caught on for the Chicks, but "dead" described the Posse's chance as they spectacularly crashed. That allowed Room 2 to move up in the ranks to take second, while Dennis and Melanie's team's momentum from last week continued and they took third. Woo-hoo! The Beer and Posse teams, tied for fourth, wants to know if they get to pick the food przes for the next tourney.

1. Chicks and Dicks 278 pts.
2. Room 2 262 pts.
3. D&M 252 pts.
4. The Posse 247 pts.
4. We're Here for the Beer 247 pts.
5. The B52s 229 pts.
6. Nix Lix 210 pts.

Cal and Ted are at a loss to explain their team's spontaneous combustion.