VFW: The Last Shall Be First

As one of my high school teachers once told me, it's not the size of the fight in the dog, it's the size of the trivia players. Frank and Dave scored a major come from behind victory, leaping from ninth to first in the last round. In fact, all the early round leaders crashed and burned. The Young and the Listless, languishing in eighth, charged in the end to take third, while the Manolo wearing Nix Lix took second. We're Here for the Beer, who had been in second, plummeted to seventh. But at least they got to pick a theme: Howdy Dowdy. King Kirk declared that all Trashbag prizes should be able to be eaten at the VFW and demanded ice cream for his cones. Paul, meanwhile, demanded easy-to-read picture sheets.

VFW: Tonight's Theme

Oops! Forgot to mention that tonight's theme, as chosen by Nick of Nix Lix, is designer shoes!

Bube's: Bottom of the Bag

The Bad News Nutsacks ponder their victory in this post-show shot. They had a commanding 12-point victory, aided by the 10 point question in the last round. My Exploding Ovaries Put Owen Wilson in the Hospital could only look on in amazement. Back in seventh, with a little help from Matt, was Spider-Pig, who chose "Sex in the City" as their theme. The origami-making TDC and A Dirty Shame tied for sixth. Beating them by two points were the Toxic Olives, followed by the Pirate Ninja Robots from Hell. All of those teams were only one question away from second place!

Trashbag Prizes were going three at a time in a special clearance sale. It was all the little items that no one chooses (sort of like the Island of Misfit Toys). My favorite prize was the deodorant with the wondrous name "Lady Stick." Here we see Laura demonstrating how to use it:

The Tony Danza Slap made good use of the theme and had what I think is their highest placing yet, coming in second.

Since the other Wise Men were following a star somewhere, Brent joined the Pomagrams to become Poma-Wise. It was a good match, since they took the bronze (and a patriotic bat for bashing commies).

Presenting the Pirate Ninja Robot Unicorns FROM HELL!

Nathan's shirt says it all (courtesy of Manheim Twp's Quiz Bowl)

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Novelty Chickens has targeted Kumiko and Craig as prime offenders.

Chuckles: Girl Power!

Kim, Jen and Sue are a new team to be reckoned with at Chuckles. Actually, Sue was a regular a while back and Jen had a few games under her belt, so Kim was the only virgin. They were in the lead until the last round, when Out of the Vortex had a come-from behind victory. Ubersmack ended up in a tie with SJK, and Captain Jack bit Sue twice, so they had to settle for third. Skirtland was only one point behind, followed by KCC and We Got Your Special Guest Right Here. The Lethal Amoebas claimed that they were aiming for seventh, which they did, so next week's theme is "British Sports Cars." We Can Win This! (With Tickets) changed their name to We Didn't Win Any Tickets while Clueless in Lancaster were content to play with their dinosaurs in the back. The Spiffs, meanwhile, basked in their perfect first round score.

Plain and Fancy: The Class of 2011

Ken, Andreas, Jake, Tucker, Noah, Matt and Brian, AKA "Banana Fish" of the Class of 2011 cleaned up in the last round to claim the first ever Trivia Bowl for F&M's MBT house. As part of their orientation for first-year students, MBT bussed all 128 of them to the Plain and Fancy restaurant in Bird-In-Hand (heh, heh, he said "Bird In Hand") for their first taste of "Amish" cooking and brain-scratching trivia. There were 18 teams duking it out, with names like "The Power of No," "Dirty Little Secrets," "The Flying Diplomats," "Big Bird Is Lame and So Is Her Teddy Bear," and "Kim." Then, by a weird coincidence, we had three teams called "Awesome," so there was some creative re-naming going on. Trashbag prizes included Copper from the Fox and the Hound and an out-of-date box of Quisp. Banana Fish is still waiting for the grand prize, which, I am told, is "in the mail."

Thanks to Akhil Bery, Joanna DiPallo, Dean Godin, and Professor Heller for having me. Maybe it'll become an annual event.

VFW: We Are Number Nine!

The DaMitt team celebrate the fact that they didn't come in last at the end of the night. We welcomed the Scouters, who managed to multi-task as they balanced some books and played trivia at the same time. The Hackers were back, as were D and M, minus their +2, but with 2 new (what?). Annie 's team was doing well until the last round, when we ended up with a two-way for third between last weeks champs, the Foreplayers and The Original We're Here for the Beer team. Bobbie got bit twice, so Dave was the winner. In second was a super-sized Room Two. But the night belonged to the team with the unfortunate acronym, King Kirk and His Kourt.

Bube's: Flick Night

My limited activity week continued Tuesday night, when I asked Chris Ivey to sub for me. Chris went with an all-movie theme, which caused the Exploding Ovaries to run screaming from the room. The Tony Danza Slap! team took seventh, but Chris forgot to ask them for a theme, so I think I'm going to go with "Tony Danza" as their imaginary pick (unless I hear otherwise). The Flaming Moe-rons ran away with it, followed by Juggle My Nutsack and TDC.

Thanks again, Chris. We'll be back to our regular show next week.

Chuckles: Blue Ribbon Billy

First off, my apologies for my bizarre behavior Sunday night. I know that I caused a lot of concern and I thank everyone for their help. It was due to exhaustion and a bad reaction to alcohol (or, more specifically, alco-hophog). I'm well rested now and ready to return Sunday night.

Secondly, many, many thanks to Billy Warmth for filling in on such short notice. Billy is a fooly-trained trivia professional and was able to jump in and interpret my questions (although I guess an answer key for the picture round would have helped.) Bill will probably be helping me by setting up his sound system this week, by the way, since I have a late afternoon game for the first year students at F&M.

Here's Bill's reporting on the night's scoring:

"The following are the scores from Sunday night. KC (Karen and Carol) didn't show so Cori played with Clueless in Lancaster.

1st - 80 Points - Lethal Amoebas
2nd - 66 Points - Talent Scouts
3rd Place - 58 Points - Out of the Vortex (sleeps with substitute host)
4th Place - 57 Points - Like a Fox
5th Place - 56 points - Ubersmack (Tim and Deric really helped out)
6th Place - 52 Points - Clueless in Lancaster (wants to sleep with substitute host)
6th Place - 52 Points - Skirtland (Alan objects to the "Women's Artistic Gymnastics" answer) As long as 'Vortex beats them it is a great night.

Since the ineptness of the two 6th place teams prevented a true 7th place I picked the mini-category for Sunday and that would be: U.S. Rivers and Lakes"

VFW: 75 Years Young!

All week long the Lititz VFW has been celebrating its 75th anniversary, so we had a bunch of Post 1463 trivia to honor the occasion. The Foreplayers, who usually tank on the picture round, claimed the grand prize. Mixed Company was right ebhind. And we had an unprecedented four-way tie for third between Room Two, Shitz and Giggles, We're Here for the Beer and the B52s. After multiple Captain Jack-offs, Amy of Room two came through for her team.

When We're No Biscuits bring along their better halves, they become Mixed Company, tonight's second-place team.

The B52s traded John in for a teddy bear.

The Pretzel cats were a little premature in their V for victory signs.

Nick scored one of the sweeter prizes of the evening, much to Pat of the Foreplayers' dismay: a bag of powdered donuts.

The Ihnats and the LeFevers, AKA We're Here for the Beer, were involved with the historic four-way.

John and Sharon missed the first half, but stayed and played for the second.