Pound that Quiz! Quiz Bowl Sunday!

A final reminder that Quiz Bowl II, Milwaukee's sports and pop culture trivia tournament is this upcoming Sunday January 29th! Register your team now!

It was a ram-a-lammed at the Grafton Ale House last night, as the bar experienced it's busiest quiz night since 2009! Ninety (yes, 90) queeps were in the house, vying to get their hands on one of the three official prizes up for grabs.

Ultimately, it was the trivia stalwarts of Squad 666, that prevailed, as they topped the standings with 49 out of 51 points...

Shout out to @MadelineR21 and @Notorious_PLD.

Although they have the best overall score after four weeks of league play, they actually sit second in the standings after each team has had it's two "bye weeks" subtracted. Still a long way to go though!

Second on the night went to the outspoken To those who watched 'Touch' last night, who wanted Jack, I mean Kiefer Sutherland, to start calling for Chloe?, who may have some 24 fans on their team...

24: The Movie. You heard it here first.

Elsewhere, the Quizmaster had a little sing-song with Forever Blowing Bubbles, cause there's bubbles in the air. United, United! who were paying homage to the world's toughest football firm (that's a British word for gang, America)...

Anyone fancy a Chelsea smile?! We don't recommend it!

:-p

The coveted "people's prize" for best team name was, as ever, hotly contested. We'd like to give some honorable mentions to Fucking Tennis, Rush Limbaugh with the plastic bag in Cambodia. Clue bitch, Hugh Janus and I don't know how to put this but I'm kinda a big deal, who all had decent names.

But their were two finalists from among the bunch on the night...

Ultimately, the official team name prize ($10 y'all!) went to So Easy Even a Quizmaster Can Do It...

If by "easy" you mean rocket science, then fuck yes, you are correct.

That prize was determined after some back and forth chanting between them and team Why do people say "grow some balls?" Because balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna get tough grow a vagina! Those things take a pounding!, who had also put forth a valiant team name effort.

And because the Quizmaster is such a lovely bloke, he bought the lovely ladies of the aforementioned team a pitcher of beer (front right) out of the kindness of his own heart...

Yes, by the time we got round to taken their photo, the pitcher was already empty!

Our type of ladies! ;)

And snap, that's @Nalissa (bottom left!)

Quizness as usual next Thursday! Quiz Bowl is Sunday!

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

Thursday January 26th, 2012

1. 49 Squad 666
2. 47 To those who watched 'Touch' last night, who wanted Jack, I mean Kiefer Sutherland, to start calling for Chloe?
3. 45 Rush Limbaugh with the plastic bag in Cambodia. Clue bitch
4. 42 So easy even a Quizmaster can do it
5. 42 I smoked blunts in Istanbul and my beauty turned into Baxter
6. 41 I don't know how to put this but I'm kinda a big deal
7. 41 Forever Blowing Bubbles, cause there's bubbles in the air. United, United!
8. 40 Crazy Liquor Cheeseburger Party
9. 40 A Sphincter Say "what"?!!
10. 40 24-40
11. 39 Hugh Janus
12. 38 Daddy D's heart the Quizmaster
13. 37 The told me to just write down anything and turn it in
14. 35 Are we the only ones who don't use our cell phones to get answers!
15. 35 Fucking tennis...
16. 34 Random Answers
17. 32 Why do people say "grow some balls?" Because balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna get tough grow a vagina! Those things take a pounding!

Article of the Week - Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly
Set a record by traveling around the
world in just 72 days back in 1890

Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. In addition to her writing, she was also an industrialist and charity worker. Her name was meant to be Nelly Bly, but her editor wrote Nellie Bly and it stuck.

In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and began her 24,899-mile journey.

She brought with her the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials. She carried most of her money (£200 in English bank notes and gold in total as well as some American currency) in a bag tied around her neck.

The New York newspaper Cosmopolitan sponsored its own reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both Phileas Fogg and Bly. Bisland would travel the opposite way around the world.

"Seventy-two days, six hours, eleven minutes and fourteen seconds after her Hoboken departure" Bly was back in New York. She had circumnavigated the globe almost unchaperoned. At the time, Bisland was still going around the world. Like Bly, she had missed a connection and had to board a slow, old ship (the Bothina) in the place of a fast ship (Etruria). Bly's journey, at the time, was a world record, though it was bettered a few months later by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67 days.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nellie Bly"

FREE cupcakes and cheap beers.... yes please!! (Quiz Bowl Next Sunday)!

Just a brief reminder that Quiz Bowl II, Milwaukee's sports and pop culture trivia tournament is next Sunday January 29th! Register your team now!

It was the busiest quiz in many, many moons at the Ale House, Grafton division, this Thursday as 13 teams and about 80 quizzers were involved for the evening's trivial festivities!

And the Ale House re-introduced it's ALL NIGHT HAPPY HOUR on the night, meaning all pints were just $3 all night long!

So that meant for a fairly lively quiz, and there were even free Quizmaster-colored-green cupcakes in the house...

They were a gift to Quizmaster Ryan on his twenty-something birthday, and he cordially shared them with the whole Ale House...

Made fresh by regular quizzers Squad 666! Thanks team!

As well as the $3 pints, the Ale House also welcomed back those mischievous Concordia kids, with the group known as Wolf Blitzer takes Faith Hill to O-Town sealing top spot in the end...

Poor Melissa, front and center, was nursing a rather sever injury, courtesy of a recent car wreck...

YIKES!!

That didn't stop her from coming out for quiz though! Don't text and drive next time, people!

:p

The best team name prize was as hotly contested as ever, as two teams battled it out for the $10, but officially it was I call my Dick Cheney b/c it shoots people in the face that took the money...

But because QM Ryan is such a good sport (and partly because the previous team stole their name from elsewhere!?!), team Is it strange that my doctor had both hands on my shoulders during my last prostate exam???.... got a free pitcher of beer, bought for them straight outta the Quizmaster's pocket...

The festivities continue next Thursday! Perhaps free cookies next time?!

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

Thursday 19th January 2012, Scores:

1. 58 Wolf Blitzer takes Faith Hill to O-Town
2. 55 Random Answers: Victoria Beckham is such a slut we were going to go with "Yellow Cab Company" Beckham
3. 52 BEER
4. 51 The Real Housewives of Man U
5. 50 Zac Efron can take me to O-Town
6. 49 I call my Dick Cheney b/c it shoots people in the face
7. 49 Squad 666
8. 48 Is it strange that my doctor had both hands on my shoulders during my last prostate exam???....
9. 48 The King Sharted
10. 43 There hasn't been any more "shootings" in L.A. since they mandated condoms in porn
11. 42 Burgernomics: 7c Today
12. 39 The queen gave me a diamond jubilee!
13. 34 "I don't eat my own dandruff"

Article of the Week - Big Mac Index

Le Big Mac Index
Or would you prefer a Royale with Cheese...
motherfucker!!

The Big Mac Index is published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. It "seeks to make exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible".

The index takes its name from the Big Mac, a hamburger sold at McDonald's restaurants.

The Big Mac index was introduced in The Economist in September 1986 by Pam Woodall as a semi-humorous illustration and has been published by that paper annually since then. The index also gave rise to the word burgernomics.

UBS Wealth Management Research has expanded the idea of the Big Mac index to include the amount of time that an average worker in a given country must work to earn enough to buy a Big Mac. The working-time based Big Mac index might give a more realistic view of the purchasing power of the average worker, as it takes into account more factors, such as local wages.

For example, using figures in July 2008:

1. the price of a Big Mac was $3.57 in the United States (Varies by store)
2. the price of a Big Mac was £2.29 in the United Kingdom (Britain) (Varies by region)
3. the implied purchasing power parity was $1.56 to £1, that is $3.57/£2.29 = 1.56
4. this compares with an actual exchange rate of $2.00 to £1 at the time
5. [(2.00-1.56)/1.56]*100= +28%
6. the pound was thus overvalued against the dollar by 28%

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