Bar Quiz
Apr 28 2010, 23:04 EDT [updated Apr 28 2010, 23:24 EDT]
had some hours to kill before he picked up his special lady friend at Logan airport so we hit the local tappy on a night that just happened to be "quiz night." Over the course of two hours we slowly increased our lead from 64-60 to 114-107 over the 2nd place team. It seemed like the game was rigged in our favor: we were the only team to correctly answer "Drudge Report" to an internet question and the the only team to go 10/10 on the bonus round of "translate British slang into US English" (I lived in AUS for a year, so this was a freebie).
The final two questions had a 30 point swing. We were up by 6 points with 114 so we couldn't not bid the highest per-question points (10 each) in the final round. We boffed both of em and another team got em both right [the cheaters]. The questions were: 1) where are MLB baseballs made? answer: Costa Rica, and 2) [I don't recall, will edit]
We did have a little help affirming some shaky answers from the very drunk guy sitting next to us, the bartender, and the gal grading the quiz (: did you want the character name or the movie for the 1998 Matt Lablanc movie? Quiz gal: Lost in .. shit, the movie).
I also played a losing hand at haggling over the bar tab (we had 5+ beers between us):
Bartender: That'll be 12 bucks.Cheap at twice the price.
Me: *raised eyebrow*
Bartender: 15 bucks.
Me: *plunks down a twenty*