Friday, March 30, 2012

Head Khan Tread wins jackpot

It's been 5 weeks since someone won the jackpot, so it had to happen.  Head Khan Tread won the game and automatically pulled the jackpot.  Congrats to them.

Dirty Rotten Rikers won round 4, and here's what they would like for you to studio this week:
- Josephine Baker
- Novelty Candy
- Endangered Species of the San Joaquin Valley
- Platypus
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show)
- Chihuahuas (dog)
- The Beatles
- Monty Python
- How I Met Your Mother (tv show)
- Bodies of Water in the San Joaquin Valley
- Yoga Poses
- Meditation (vipassana)
- Major Australian Cities
- Locally owned, Tower District Businesses

Some interesting stuff. We hope you dig in, study and enjoy. See you next Wednesday.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Who Needs to win Pub Quiz?

We Need To Win Pub Quiz, Liz Lemon did just that. Unfortunately, for them, they didn't win the jackpot.  You know what that means? Next week, guaranteed jackpot.  They did pull off round 4 and have selected some tough topics for you to study.  Studying these may help you win that jackpot:
The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
Yom Kippur War
Geography of Turkmenistan
Evolutionary Biology
Episodes of Star Trek the original series
Gomez (band)
Call of the Wild (book)
The Grateful Dead lyrics
Jack the Ripper
Russian Language
Artemis (Greek goddess)
The Flash (comic book)
Black Flag (band)
Darker than Black (anime)

Enjoy, and we'll see you next Wednesday.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Inconceivable!

Yes, the team name Inconceivable won round 4 and strung together a good night and won the game.  However, they didn't win the jackpot, so next week will be a 50/50 shot of winning.  Here are the topics they chose for next week's round 2:
- Plate Tectonics
- Queer studies
- Pink Floyd
- Exeter, Ca.
- Linux Terminal Commands
- Community (tv show)
- Nottingham Forest Football Club
- Casablanca (film)
- US Men's National Soccer Team
- Peter Gabriel
- Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Works of T.S. Eliot
- films of Sam Peckinpah
- Payroll Taxes

Enjoy your studies and we'll see you next Wednesday.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Alana is a Decent Person would lke you to study this

Another week of pub quiz with many twists and turns.  When it was all said and done, no one managed to leap ahead of What's in the Box.  They won the game, but failed to pull the jackpot chip.

Round 4 was won by Alana is a Decent Person, and here are the topics they choose for you to study next week:
Warcraft 2
Electronic Medical Records
Beethoven (composer)
Ranma 1/2 (anime)
General William T. Sherman
George Carlin
They Might Be Giants
Works of Quentin Tarantino
Princess Bride (book or movie)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Madera Superior Court
Payroll Taxes
Sanger Boats
Queer Theory/ LGBTQ studies

enjoy your study time and we'll see you on Wednesday.

Friday, March 2, 2012

'Wreck' wins round 4, 'Satan' wins game

Another game came down to the wire on Wednesday, and although it wasn't a Leap Day miracle from Leap Year William, Alana is Satan did manage to jump ahead and win the night's game.  They didn't win the jackpot, or round 4. Round 4 went to the Wreck of Edmund Bavmorta, who chose these topics for you to study:

- NRBQ
- Richard Nixon
- Music Theory
- Berserk (Manga/Anime)
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Yom Kippur War
- American Splendor (Comic book & Movie)
- Ani DiFranco's musical career
- Stanley Kubrick
- The Fleshtones
- Red Cinema
- Robert Moses
- Lincoln Mk Series III - VIII (auto)
- Cracked.com

Enjoy your study time and we'll see you on Wednesday.