Recap of the quiz/Soda pop, telephones, and/Baseball stadiums

Maybe I should write the whole recap in haiku… No, it's late, I'm tired (we did yet another quiz tonight), and that's annoying.

Monday was another successful night at Crash Mansion: big crowd, big prizes, big trivia. "Soda Pop Haiku" turned out great; memories of the early BQT days, when "Breakfast Cereal Haiku" convinced me that I might have a facility for this business. Thanks for laughing along at the appropriate moments (and for confirming that I was not hallucinating when I remembered OK Soda).

I took some flak for this question: "This spring, here in New York, it will be the first time ever that two BLANKs have opened in the same city on the same year." Writing "baseball stadiums" (or "stadia," for you prescriptivists) garnered only a half point; I don't know if that phrase makes the statement above a true one. The full point went to "Major League baseball stadiums." A-ha! I will not be argued with. We ended the game on a question about people dying ("What happened at both a March Madness game in Miami last week, and during a 1971 taping of Dick Cavett’s talk show?"). In between, we had April's Fools hoaxes, Wang Chung, Larry the Cable Guy, chicken tikka masala, and Laughing Cow cheese (not "processed cheese food"). That's the formula for a successful evening, in my book.

And the "We're Trying to Use the Phone!" audio round was fun, though yes, in hindsight we should've used "Chantilly Lace," or "911's a Joke," or "What's the 411?," or "I'm Going to Bomb Verizon for Being the Most Annoying Company on Earth." Maybe not all of those.

The standings!

1. Gerard Depardouche -- A long-awaited return to victory! But can they bi-peat?
2. Incontinental Congress -- Still has never won. That's Congress for you.
3. Fantastic Fournicators -- Who?
4. Sugah Titz/Strippers for Stephen Hawking (tie)

Returning champs Cash Cab 4 Cutie only made it to eighth place. But now that Cutie member Jen has a Ph.D. in organizational theory (or something like that), they really don't need the prize money.

April 13, it's on again!

"Some guy" has been Farked

So yesterday marked the highest-traffic day ever for Time Out New York's website, which is nice. Particularly since part of the reason is that the tech-tweaking site Fark picked up my Breakfast Cereal Haiku quiz that I adapted for TONY. Yippee.

You can take the quiz here, but it might be old hat to you BQT regulars. Meanwhile, check out some of the comments the Fark nerds made about the quiz. Weird that they question the pop-culture currency of Cracklin' Oat Bran; am I the only one who remembers those annoying ads? Perhaps—none exist on YouTube, although there is this very bad parody. Enjoy, then get the hell back to work.