No Sister Kissing!

We have a five point lead after 322 questions. In other words, we got one more answer than Trivia Pirates - Aargh! over the entire weekend. No tie. We will either win or lose with the Garrudas!

It's the final countdown

Waiting for the final scores before the Garrudas. It looks like it's going to be too close to call between us and Trivia Pirates - Aargh!

That being said the fried chicken is awesome!

What is google thinking???

How the heck did this happen. More proof the internet is about porn. You'll need to click the image to actually see it.

Yes we can!

Black people hour!

Thanks guy that sounds like Cleveland Brown!

http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/index.html

Julia Child Hour Rocked!

No bones about it!

Nailed it!

HAHA! I just nailed the Rule 34 question.

Standings

Latest Scores

01.	Food Bank of Kaukauna: Put your buns ...	1240
02.	Trivia Pirates Argh	1225
03.	The Lawrence Undead: Alumni with Noth...	1096
04.	Six Feet Under	1090
05.	Karen Carr Presents Bucky's Banastitu...	1040
06.	Synchronized Chaos	975
07.	Morgan Freeman and the north side pla...	972
08.	Silver Anniversary Teabagging Iowans	970
09.	Super Mega Soviet Gang Bang Dream Tea...	969
10.	Hobgoblin of Little Minds	94

The sweet sweet feel

of a Thinkpad keyboard. I can't believe how much I miss my old IBM T41 Thinkpad.

Now this is gross

Richard Hall's Poop Flute.

Because nothing is better!

Best question of the year:

Q: According to Fredrick Jemeson's translation of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold what is Albrerish dragging as the 3rd scene opens?

A: The shrieking mime


My Trivia Question:

Q: What's better than a shrieking mime?
A: Absolutely Nothing!

Viking Hour!

Kittens!

Too Bad Fiona Is Sleeping

She should be on the horn with her mom for Opera hour.

Controversy

Holland's Scroat or Hall & Scroats? We don't know?

Also, what's up with the Bank of Nerds jam team? Bastards!


Scroatie Foster is also pretty good.

Fun

In the pantheon of fun things in my life, Trombone Hour doesn't even make the bottom of the list.

The Wife is on the Interwebs

Teams lock in heated battle to win Lawrence University's Midwest Trivia Contest

Stick to the plan!

Leroy Jenkins - Never stops being funny.

Dirty Deeds

done with sheep

Nothing to report

Fiona and I are still going strong. Nothing exciting to report, but we are getting a run for our money from Trivia Pirates - Aargh!

AWESOME

Billy Scroat Scruff!

Wombatman!

I'm the only one

who doesn't give a rip about Batman hour. I'll admit, I enjoy the music and the chance to make a "Two Robins, One Batcup" joke is always appealing.

Morgan Freeman and Tom Selleck Are Dead

Let's see if that gets picked up on Twitter!

Play More Bjork. Loudly.

I love the you suck response to that.

BANK OF DEATH

WARM AND FUZZY DEATH

Run for your life

Run to the hills

Even though I don't get many of the answers

and I can't understand half of what they say. I LOVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION HOUR!

It Never Gets Old

Snap Flowchart

Strage

It appears The Wife has been posting as me for the last few hours. I was radio silence because I was on phone duty (haha I said duty) for a few hours then took a 90 minute nap to gear me up for the overnight. Good Times.

Great Jam Team Name

The Burlington Scroat Factory. BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Remember

The rules are: "You can clown anything. Oh. Wait, correction - don't clown anything with fire." Property services thanks you.

We love Jessica Hagy

Drag Queens and Clowns

A crying on the inside type

Can't play trivia, clowns will eat me. Yes, that's right we have an entire hour devoted to clown trivia.

Transcript

Brogan is known for his pre-trivia motivational speeches, but he's never prepared one before. Below is a first for us in Trivia. Here is the Transcript of the speech:

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Let me start off, as I usually do, by thanking everyone for coming. I know it’s not an easy trip to get to the middle of bumble-cuss Wisconsin in the middle of cussing winter. And that becomes more and more true every year as our geographic center starts to wobble increasingly toward the east coast and the west coast, straying far from our midwestern roots. But for whatever crazy reason, you’re all here and I’m here and we’re getting ready to do this thing again.

Now, for those of you who have been at this for a while, you’ll probably think its odd that I have gone to the trouble to prepare these remarks, as my tradition is to hop up and spout a few rousing remarks; a cuss this or that and send us barreling into this 50 hour slog. And while I have certainly always fallen back on that approach in times of desperation, I have to admit to you all that every year I think to myself that this is going to be the year when I actually take the time to really think through what this weekend, this contest, and—most of all—what all of you really mean to me.

Most years, I just can’t get up enough enthusiasm to pull that off.

But this year is different. This is 2010. A chance for a record tenth win in a row. And I figured if that’s not sufficient motivation, then I just don’t have it in me.

I have to stop here for some facts to set this up right. By my count, we have 28 people playing trivia this year. Those 28 people represent 12 states (Wisconsin, Florida, Minnesota, Iowa, Washington, Illinois, Massachussetts, Tennessee, Texas, California, New York, New Jersey) and the district of Columbia. Using my, admittedly rough math skills, that’s better than 20% of the country’s states represented. We have won 9 in a row. 11 of the last 13, with 2 second place finishes sprinkled in there. By my count, this is the 14^th consecutive year that the Bank of Kaukauna has fielded a trivia team. It’s our fifteenth consecutive year if you count Sam, Jason, Shannon and I playing the contest out of my bedroom, and it’s my 17^th total year if you count the year I played with some folks at Lawrence and the sophomore debacle whereby Jason Maxham was introduced to my sister whilst dancing on my dad’s sub-woofer. This from the man who styles himself an audiophile.

Seventeen years. Holy cuss. I just turned 34 years old. I have been playing this game half my life. Let me put that in perspective. I did not know—but just looked up—the average length of first marriages in this country. It’s 7.8 years. And we’ve all been together twice that long. Which I think is definitive proof that married people should only be allowed to spend 50 hours together once a year. Preferably playing trivia.

When you think about it, it’s pretty remarkable that we all get together to do this thing. As we get older, our lives are increasingly full of stress and commitments. Vacation time is at a premium, and in the midst of the Great Recession, spending limited resources to go play a stupid game is crazy. Another fun fact: there are 8,765 and change hours in a year. We bill about 1800 of those to clients, which leaves 6,965 hours to do with as we please. Factor out an optimistic 8 hours of sleep a night (or, in Maxham’s case, 12 hours a night) and you have a little over 4,000 hours left. You’re about to devote 1.25% of your non-work, non-sleep life to trivia. The good news is that you’re going to make it up by not sleeping.

But it is remarkable that we keep doing this, and I am always surprised that we manage to convince as many folks as we do to play. Because contrary to popular opinion, this whole playing trivia all night thing actually sucks when you have jobs and kids and other cuss to deal with. I spend 8,715 hours a year dreading trivia. But I spend 50 hours a year loving it. Unfortunately, it’s the first 50 hours after it’s over. In all seriousness, though, you don’t play trivia for 50 hours of sheer fun. You play it for those handful of moments throughout the contest where you happen to know the answer to a question off the top of your head, or where you find a website that makes you lose it, or when you’re singing Africa at the top of your lungs.

I am at the point in my life where I now forget more things than I remember, but I can recall with vivid clarity the moments when I knew that some of you would be trivia lifers –

Joel – Chuck Norris

Mark – the top score on Pac Man

Kyle – smashed to pieces in the still of the night

Patty – the moment you said, “I do.”

And whether this is your first trivia contest or your 14^th, that’s what this contest is all about. The little moments where we forget ourselves, our lives, our jobs and focus on something so small, so minute, so trivial that we change profoundly, if imperceptibly. The next 50 hours are a free pass to slow down, answer a question every 5 minutes, meet some new people, bathe a little less, sleep a lot less and forget about Monday morning.

Now, if I’ve lured you all in with this quasi-new-age-love-thy-trivia-team cuss, snap out of it. Because I don’t want a single person in this room to forget this next bit. As much as we all love the kumbayas, it’s no accident that we’ve won this thing 9 times in a row. We don’t win through sheer force of goodness. We win by working harder, faster, smarter than every other team. Some years, that has translated into a hundred point or more advantage over the second place team. But last year we won by three questions.

Make no mistake. Three questions is not a victory. It’s a margin of error. If you aim for a three question advantage, you risk losing nine years of hard work not because somebody managed to find an answer to a Garuda, but because you were talking through a question. Or because nobody listened for our name and they won’t give us credit. With a margin that small, there is no error for mistake. We have to be 50 hours of perfect. We have to treat each and every question like a Garuda, like it is the question that will make the difference between winning and losing.

And that is my challenge to you this year. Can you answer every question as though it’s the one that makes the difference? Can each of you commit to answering, somehow, some way, the impossible question? Because if you can find a way to do that, we are going to win this thing. And better than that, we’re going to make it look like it wasn’t even close.

They are going to come at us hard. There is nothing they want more in the whole world than to end our streak right here. There is nothing they want more than to have me walk up for that second place trophy. And they think they have us figured out because all they need to do is answer three more questions right. Don’t give them that satisfaction. Don’t give them that satisfaction.

You are my friends, and you are my team, and for the next 50 hours we will live and eat and breathe and play as one unit. If you do that, we will make history. Now, let’s go do it.
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Shut Out

All teams were shut out on question 114. Last time we missed a question was #85. That was quite a streak.

The answer had something to do with a bad Jersey accent and registering for the Selective Service.

In other news, I am now fired up! Thanks Trivia!

Semicolons and Illusions

Semicolons

Illusions

Pigs Are Awesome!

Pigs, Bitches! You just aren't as cool.

I'm Back

I managed to get about 4 hours of bad sleep. Fiona's out right now and I really hope she's getting better sleep than me. I am very sad that I missed bear hour!

Things Bears Love

Girl scouts. Boomboxes. Slip and Slides. Trust Exercises. The list goes on. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself: www.thingsbearslove.com

What Bear is Best?

I guess we're going to find out now that it's "Bear Hour!"

Joel has gone to bed

I'm getting a second wind now that the sun has come up. We seem to be a little light on people, so I'm going to try to brute through until we get reinforcements.

Having a hoot reading "finds" at href="http://www.foundmagazine.com".

24 Hours

I've now been up for 24 straight hours... 2 more until I can get some sleep (hopefully).

Question

What do we want?

Braaaaaiiiiiiins!

When do we want them?

Braaaaaiiiiiiiiiiinss!

It is Zombie hour!

Why Yes

One did get fat! In Hell!

Bad Monkeys!

FYI

Nobody can understand the WELSH INQUSITION!

Great Jam Team Name!!!

That's not rain, that's god crying for NBC.

S-L-O-W

It's going so slowly right now, and while it's fun to hear descriptions of inanimate objects having sex, it's killing us not having questions!

Not Quite Sure How This Is Going To Work

I am already beat, but we are looking at another 6 hours or so before Fiona and I can crash out. At least we have unicorn hour to entertain us. On another note, the Trivia Master really sounds like Cleveland Brown. I'd love to hear him say, "Awwwww Peter."

Scapple Jacks FTW.

Kyle just called someone on redial that wasn't a trivia phone person. Good Comedy!

!acirfa

Special still not is it. It's like Yoda speak.

Still not getting this one.

Maybe I am tired, but this question still doesn't make sense:

20. On Gremlin's movie list what two films feature the actor who is the self-proclaimed nephew of the host of a japanese cooking show?

Cradle to the Grave. Brotherhood of the Wolf

Before I play the piano, I like to feed a goat

My name is Denis Matsuev. God bless Dana's ability to click on random Russian Youtube links.

Africa!!!

In addition to listening to the magical musical stylings of Toto on the way to Kaukauna, we just had our first Africa 'sighting.' I guess that should be listening, but you get what I mean.

Hurry Boy! They're Waiting There For You!

If you go to the Toto "Africa" well too much, it stops being special.

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Impressive

They managed to get out team name wrong on the very first question. Food Bank of Kaukanua: Put Your Brains in Our Hands instead of Put Your Buns In Our Hands. It's a fine distinction, I know. Will be great for Zombie hour if we are so lucky.

Braaaaaiiiiiiiiinnns!

Soooo close

They are reading the rules. We don't need no stinkin' rules.

Geek Test

So let's see how annoying it is to type with the iPod Touch. Yes it is annoying but it works! So we have that going for us.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Links of Interest

If you want to listen to the contest you can at WLFM's website

I got to write about the contest on my work blog this week.

Some of the other teams:
Trivia Pirates
Skull Squadron
Too Much Trivia In The Pants
Iowans
We Need More Cowbell, Martha!

2010 - Two Angry Tivia Bears

Raarrw! It is really hard to believe that Fiona and
trekked out to Sunny Kaukauna for another year of the Great Midwest Trivia Contest. Another 50 hours of sleeping on the floor or drinking massively dehydrating volumes of coffee. Our second littlest trivia guru is also a dangerous bear. She's also the second coolest bear next to our good friend Lily up in Ely, Minnesota. I'll start with some updates soon since we are still looking at nearly 2 hours before Trivia starts. I am about the have my third cup of coffee and am looking forward to the joys of caffeine shakes. W00T. Since I have nothing better to do right now than harass the wife. Note the early 90's called and want my clothes back. I did trade my red chucks for my disintegrating MONKEY SLIPPERS. More on that later....