We got last night’s game in before today’s monsoon, and it went pretty well. I set a new record for cussing up a blue streak in the questions, on the same night my father came down from Toronto to watch me do my thing. (I don’t believe he got the question about GG Allin, but I could be wrong.)
1. On This Day
2. Audio Round: I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts - Songs about Parts: It's My Party, Junco Partner, Particle Man, that sort of thing. In brainstorming versions of this round out, there was a Sam Cooke song in the mix, so even when that song didn't make the final ten, I decided to put a mess of his songs on the end of the disc, just because.
3. This was a guess-the-theme round, but the answers included GG Allin, Alcoholics Anonymous, LL Cool J, AA Milne, Bebe Neuwirth, and the top-level domain for Estonia. I threw out the question about BB King's nightclub, because I lost the ability to tell my East from my West. D'oh.
4. Pluto & Other Planets: The two teams that chose this round as their daily double rocked the round like crazy.
5. Name Threes: intended as an occasional rapid-fire substitute for the True/False round, it seemed to go over pretty well. I gave three items, and you gave me the one thing they had in common (Examples: "Formidable Opponent, Better Know A District, The Threat Down" or "Jackie Robinson, Henry Hudson, the Korean War Veterans"). We'll test-drive this baby for a month or two and see how it works out.
Team names this week included:
- 1st Place: The Dusseldorf Overcompensators (Don't Mention The War!)
- 2nd Place: Frites and Geeks
- 3rd place: Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz: The Savage Jews Who Will Tear You Limb From Limb
Followed by, in no particular order: - Three's Company, formerly Take Two
- Road Head On The BQE
- We Impregnated Neil Toomey's Mom, formerly We Piss On Neil Toomey
- Sherman Helmsley's Revenge
- The Yael Gottlieb Fan Club (Be careful out there)
- The Humpalots
- The Unnecessaries
- Snakes on Joey Buttafuoco, formerly Snakes on Valerie Plame
- The A Levels
- Snap & Crackle (Pop Died)
