topics for 2/2/11

Congrats to Alana is Satan for their win this week. They took down a good pot in a close game.

Here are your potential round-two topics provided by Fresnocity for next week's Pub Quiz, back to 5 chips in and no rolled-over jackpot! Hope to see you all next week. Let's juice up this jackpot same as you did this past time!


1. Fresno History
2. Downtown Fresno Buildings
3. Central Valley Towns (CA)
4. L.A. Law TV Series
5. Mathematics
6. Willie Nelson
7. Elliot Smith
8. Corey Haim/Corey Feldman movies
9. Linguistics
10. DC Comics Characters
11. New Kids on the Block
12. National Parks (U.S.)
13. Star Trek
14. Octavia Butler

Round 2 Topics for 12/8

Full Frontal Double Rainbow won round 4, which pulled them into a tie with the Work of Bavmorta, and then they were closer to knowing the tie breaker answer about the number of pages in GW Bush's book, Decision Points. Here are the topics they selected for next week's Round 2:

1) The symphonies of Gustav Mahler

2) Episodes of Star Trek (the original series)

3) The voyage of the Beagle

4) Gods & godesses of India

5) Darker than Black (anime)

6) Books by Ilona Andrews

7) UFC

8) Tower District bartenders

9) Pai Gow Poker

10) Home loans

11) Black Flag (the band)

12) The Allman Brothers Band

13) preacher (comic books)

14) freaks & geeks (tv show)

Round 2 topics 9/22

Congratulations to first time (I think?) round four winners The Snicklefits. Below are the categories they hope to pound out an easy round 2 victory with, so study up quizzers. There are four chips in the pot - 25% chance of overall winner taking the jackpot.



1. Sex and the City (TV Series)

2. Adam Corolla

3. SF Giants

4. Healthcare Regulations

5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight Novel)

6. Ultimate Frisbee Terms

7. Surfing Terms

8. 311 (the band)

9. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV series)

10. The Real World (first 8 seasons)

11. The Ghostbusters (original movie)

12. Top Chef (TV series)

13. Sacramento Kings

14. Formation of the Solar System

also, congrats go out to F.T.W. (take it how you want it) on their, well, win. We hope to see you all next week.

round 2 topics 8/11

Congrats to Blogocide for winning the 4th round last week, and the night as a whole. Here are the topics they picked for next week's round 2:

1 Wiz Khalifa
2 80s WWF (wrestling)
3 Spaced (TV)
4 Angel (TV)
5 Wes Anderson Films
6 Bay Area Hip Hop
7 Garbage Pail Kids (1-5 series)
8 American Currency
9 Magic Tricks
10 Fresno Grafitti
11 Colorguard (flag spinning not military)
12 Hip Hop Producers
13 Fresno Blogs
14 Boer Wars

round 2 topics for 7/28

Here are next Wednesday's topics:
Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV show)
Philadelphia Eagles
US Civil War
Akira
Kirosawa films
Boy Scouts of America
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
Nikola Tesla
Vlad Taltos novels
Musical Notation
Railroads
Futurama
French New-Wave Directors
Flight of the Conchords
Penny-Arcade (web comic)