All kinds of queeps in tha house tonight! Quizmaster Cup Sunday!

Just another reminder that Quizmaster Cup IX is this Sunday May 19th at Red Rock Saloon! Register online in advance to save money and save a table! Free bottle of premium booze for each team too...

It was Thursday, which meant another showdown for the Ale House's finest in Grafton this week. And in a change from the norm, we had a new winner on the night! The gang from And I though John McCain only came once a year! hadn't been to trivia for a while, but they brought their brains (and their Englishman) on the night, and showed no signs of rust, as they rolled up their sleeves and took the top prize....

Nice job guys! Stop in again next week!

In other news, Quizmaster Ryan welcomed back old-time Quizmaster veterans (tracing their roots to quiz at the former Britinn - our first venue ever!) from Dead Babies Will Save Michael J Fox, who were a little rusty themselves....

 

Great to see them back after a couple of years being absent!

And an honorable mention went to newbies from Future debt payers of America, who must've just graduated and we drowning their sorrows in quizzin' style...

We think they fun though!

A great mixture of newbies and veterans in the house on the night! Quizmaster Ryan will be back, as usual, next Thursday. See ya all then!

Until next time Grafton, drink while you think...

Thursday May 16th, 2013 scores:

1. 41 And I though John McCain only came once a year!
2. 40 All chaps are assless, jackass (Squad 666)
3. 37 Team Low Brow
4. 36 Dead Babies Will Save Michael J Fox
5. 34 Assless Chaps chap your ass Wickens!
6. 32 At least we're better than the cubs
7. 31 All chaps are assless... dumbass
8. 31 Phuket, we tried
9. 28 Future debt payers of America
10. 28 Just like dick's trickle our answer have dried up

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Article of the Week - The Trinity Test

Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. (The site is now the White Sands Missile Range.) The date of the test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age.

Trinity was a test of an implosion-design plutonium device. The weapon's informal nickname was "The Gadget". Using the same conceptual design, the Fat Man device was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The Trinity detonation produced the explosive power of about 20 kilotons of TNT (84 TJ).

The creation of atomic weapons arose out of political and scientific developments of the late 1930s. The rise of fascist governments in Europe, new discoveries about the nature of atoms and the fear that Nazi Germany was working on developing atomic bombs converged in the plans of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop powerful weapons using nuclear fission as their primary source of energy. The Manhattan Project, as the American nuclear physics effort was called, culminated in the test explosion of a nuclear device at what is now called the Trinity Site on July 16, 1945, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few weeks later.

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The clans reunite in Grafton! Sign up for Quizmaster Cup!

Just another reminder that Quizmaster Cup IX is next Sunday May 19th! Register online in advance to save money and save a table! Free bottle of premium booze for each team too...

It was kind of a quiet night upstairs at the Grafton Ale House this Thursday, as seven teams rolled in at 7pm to take on each other for four prizes. While some were home studying during exam week, the gang from Oh yeah?! Well my dick ALSO touches three oceans took top spot, much to their delight...

Apparently a bunch of them had just had their final exams that day, so they were in top gear for a good night of drinking, and a little thinking. Full time pharmacists now!

Best team name went to the usual suspects of Three girls, one kidnapper, who got the shock factor, and took home the $10 prize...

They're good people really, we swear!

And an honorable mention had to go to Your jorts are tickling my taint, who were on their Quizmaster debut this Thursday night....

A special mention for them as John (above right) was once a college freshman at Cardinal Stritch University with QM Ryan.

Let's just say the clans of the "2 center" college dorm were reunited for one night only.

They said they would be back, and everyone else should be too!

Until next time Grafton, drink while you think...

Thursday May 9th, 2013 scores:

1. 56 Oh yeah?! Well my dick ALSO touches three oceans
2. 53 The trigger happy sore losers (1.21 Gigawatts)
3. 52 "Orbed this shit" (Squad 666)
4. 47 Rolly Fingers mustache rides
5. 46 Three girls, one kidnapper
6. 45 Craig Ferguson wears a face mask when he gets Ludacris on Lil Jon
7. 39 Your jorts are tickling my taint

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Article of the Week - Executive Order 9066

United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.

The order authorized the Secretary of War and U.S. armed forces commanders to declare areas of the United States as military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded," although it did not name any nationality or ethnic group. It was eventually applied to one-third of the land area of the U.S. (mostly in the West) and was used against those with "Foreign Enemy Ancestry" — Japanese, and Korean, who were considered to have Japanese nationality (since Korea had been under Japanese rule since 1910).

The order led to the internment of the Japanese Americans, (often known as AJAs, Americans of Japanese Ancestry); some 120,000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war. Of the Japanese interned, 62% were Nisei (American-born children of immigrants from Japan, who were natural born American citizens) or Sansei (children of Nisei, also American citizens) and the rest were Issei (Japanese immigrants, resident aliens).

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