New Scaratings

1 Buffalo Bar and Grill II. 66837 62177 129014
2 Mezzanine Lounge 64392 63017 127409
3 86 Street Pub 60032 65249 125281
4 Shenanigans 67200 57416 124616
5 Heroes Wichita 68088 55329 123417
6 Break Time sports Grill 62910 57511 120421
7 Blue Goose Sports café 66431 48909 115340
8 Pacific Beach Bar and Grill 52638 58084 110722
9 Adams Mill Restaurant 51825 57414 109239
10 Stewart's Brewing 57950 51131 109081
11 Jake's 58903 47281 106184
12 Hard Times Café 55853 48382 104235
13 Highlands Grill 59770 42791 102561
14 Sandbar and Grill 52280 46370 98650
15 Jumpin Joe's 52276 42535 94811
16 The Arena 44945 43949 88894
17 Else's Cantina 53139 35572 88711
18 Dan McGuinness Pub 31521 42965 74486
19 BWW Onalaska Wisconsin 38796 28469 67265
20 SRO OT 55036 0 55036
21 Old Chicago Springhurst 36725 16542 53267
22 Hooters of McKinney 12558 28444 41002
23 Rochester Mills 0 35474 35474
24 Sherby's Pub 0 31056 31056
25 BWW Kenwood Ohio 27736 3278 31014
26 Teasers 17366 10634 28000
27 Main Street sports Grill 23672 584 24256
28 BWW Hattiesburg 3005 17168 20173
29 Old Chicago Okemos 0 14116 14116
30 Bargos 878 10414 11292
31 Pounders Bar and Grill 0 9402 9402
32 BWW Canton Michigan 5634 2286 7920
33 TJ Mulligans 0 4130 4130
34 BWW Creve Coeur 4029 0 4029
38 Broadway Station 0 0 0
38 BWW Canton Ohio 0 0 0
38 George Wellington Esquire Club. 0 0 0
38 BWW Parmer Ln., Austin, TX. 0 0 0

This is my UNOFFICIAL talley. If anyone shows a different total, let me know. Looks like most places did worse this week than last week score-wise. Those that did improve moved up considerably in the standings. We only dropped two spaces even though we were 10,000 points below last week.

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I could think of worse places as a fallback option, I guess.
I'm curious why last week's game appears to have been so much easier across the board. I didn't know Gemini Man and The Pretender had such big followings...

We had a good outing this time moved up to 9th from 24th , hope to narrow the gap next Wed.

When in doubt, once you get past book 2, just pick the one with the most rishathra.

HTH

Well, I am hoping SAC shows up or it will just be me and the BIGDOG, and she doesn't multibox and I can't really play four and drink Fireball shots at the same time (sort of a sideways toast to Firefly).

Good luck to all.

After tonight's results, a troubling thought has occurred to me.
We could finish first four out of five weeks and still not win this thing.
Hey Brooke, be sure to let Coogs know that I said "nice try, slappy" about his score for this week's game.
There was the Blade Runner question that referenced the title of the book in the question and the "which of these is not an sf author."
Other than those, once again, there were only two real book questions.
I hope everyone realizes that we could be witnessing the greatest trend in the history of geeky trivia...

we would have had a perfect (or about 14970+) if I hadn't have been a spastic dolt on Q#1 and twitched to charlie's angels before getting beat down by spotes. I still think I saw 'movie spinoff' in the question .

gavv

There was also who wrote "Man in a High Castle," as well as the Lovecraft/Cthulu one. But we all agreed that the literature questions were slow pitches, meaning that for the first time ever, a team I was on landed all the literature questions and averaged over 14K, but still didn't get No. 1.

Congrats, SPOTES, on your perfect, and to your team for the victory. The questions we lost points on were the comic strip/Jungle Jim (ironic, because that's what one of our karaoke jockeys has nicknamed COOGS) and the James Bond/"Man from U.N.C.L.E."

We look forward to the next two weeks--and to getting hopefully harder lit questions in the mix.

Brooke/AARDVK

Those were the "two real book questions" I was referring to. And they were definitely about as slow pitch as one could ask for. Heck, I just finished re-reading Man in the High Castle about a month ago. Good timing is everything.



Booooooo.....

1 Mezzanine 64392 63017 74036 201445
2 86th Street Pub 60032 65249 74162 199443
3 Shenanigans 67200 57416 69857 194473
4 Buffaloes Bar and Grill II 66837 62177 62436 191450
5 Heroes Wichita 68088 55329 64039 187456
6 Break time Sports Grill 62910 57511 67018 187439
7 Blue Goose Sports Café 66431 48909 55834 171174
8 Stewart's Brewing 57950 51131 56992 166073
9 Pacific Beach Bar and Grill 52638 58084 51895 162617
10 Adams Mill restaurant 51825 57414 48916 158155
11 Hard Times Café and Cue 55853 48382 51801 156036
12 Sandbar and Grill 52280 46370 56317 154967
13 Jake's 58903 47281 48188 154372
14 Highlands Grill 59770 42791 29584 132145
15 Jumpin Joe's 52276 42535 33287 128098
16 Dan McGuinness Pub 31521 42965 41011 115497
17 BWW Onalaska 38796 28469 42866 110131
18 The Arena 44945 43949 20173 109067
19 Elsas Cantina 53139 36572 14295 104006
20 BWW Kenwood 27736 3278 45559 76573
21 Sherbys Pub 0 31056 44396 75452
22 Hooters McKinney 12558 28444 17051 58053
23 SRO OT 55036 0 0 55036
24 Old Chicago Springhurst 36725 16542 0 53267
25 Main Street Sports Grill 23672 584 24182 48438
26 Teasers 17366 10634 14331 42331
27 Rochester Mills 0 35474 0 35474
28 Old Chicago Okemos 0 14116 18532 32648
29 Bargos 878 10414 18691 29983
30 BWW Hattiesburg 3005 17168 8454 28627
31 BWW Canton MI 5634 2286 7248 15168
32 Pounders 0 9402 933 10335
34 TJ Mulligans 0 4130 3910 8040
35 BWW Parmer Lane 0 0 6451 6451
36 BWW Creve Coeur 4027 0 2234 6261
38 George Wellington Esquire Club 0 0 0 0
38 BWW Canton OH 0 0 0 0
38 Broadway Station 0 0 0 0

My UNOFFICIAL scores. Seems to have been a much easier game this week. Even had a couple of perfect individual games, WTG, Spotes.

We lost points on the first question trying to figure out movie spinoffs. Our best player, RICH, missed the first two weeks, but joined us for last night's game.

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At Highlands Grill was just 2 of us, so we played 2 guest handles which aren't showing up now. Should have around 17K more points or so.

My list is unofficial. Buzztime has the official scores that include guest scores. Unfortunately, they are only posting the top ten scores on the players site.

At Highlands, I show last night's scores as:

MUADIB 10898
BIGDOG 9521
SCAR. 9165

total. 29584

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^^^^^^ see spotes, *movie spinoffs*. I wasn't crazy, I wasn't crazy!!

gavv

Yeah, I caught BOD's statement about that.
Congratulations, GAVV.
You just moved up from meaningless panicked flailing to meaningful panicked flailing on that question.
I looked it up and apparently there were 8 movies cobbled together from episodes in the series with a few additional shots added occasionally to spice things up for the big screen.
I don't necessarily interpret movies from a television source as "spin-offs".
Perhaps that's why I didn't perceive the question as such.

BTW, thanks for the kudos Aardy. Glad COOGS gets a chance to come out and play.
It will make our second place finish that much more meaningful.

Damn, dropped a spot from 9th to 10th trying to hang in there

Well, my little team of two won't make it out to Highlands Grill tonight. My grandsons are in town and I am taking them to Foge de Chao for all the steak that care to consume instead.

Y'all have fun.

You'll have to let us know how your round of MeatFiles goes

gavv

I am sure it will go very well. The grandsons are 12 and 10 and love steak and their eyes get huge as different cuts of beef (& chicken, pork, etc) keep arriving at our table.

Hmmmm...

We missed:
the Bingo answer for Quantum Leap;
got about half onThe War Game about the nuclear attack documentary on England (Is this the shortest doc in history? One nuke hits London and in a tenth of a second England is done. Period. History. I also contend that this is not sf. People giving their opinions about the possible outcomes of actions is called guessing, not fiction.);
the Wayland Drew Erthring Cycle question;
and I missed the DW Smith question but GAVV went with it and reaped the rewards.

The only thing I liked about that game was pre-calling Robot Monster simply from the given year of 1953. I thought the answer options on that question blew. Real movie distractors of dubious quality would have been much more of a challenge. Besides, we need the points...

We were similar,no clue on the Bingo ? in Quantum leap, and I used to watch that show alot too. We also blew the war game as one of our team mistakingly read the ? as war games with Mathew Broderick and went right for Las Vegas. And Robot Monster was the obvious pick, though most of my team didn't go with me on that. But we blew a couple of more book questions along the way, but did move up 1 spot back to 9th

1 Mezzanine 64392 63017 74036 62172 263617
2 86th Street Pub 60032 65249 74162 62848 262291
3 Shenanigans 67200 57416 69857 58816 253289
4 Buffaloes Bar and Grill II 66837 62177 62436 60291 251741
5 Heroes Wichita 68088 55329 64039 59157 246613
6 Break Time Sports Grill 62910 57511 67018 59102 246541
7 Pacific Beach Bar and Grill 52638 58084 51895 56017 218634
8 Stewart's Brewing 57950 51131 56992 50862 216935
9 Adams Mill Restaurant 51825 57414 48916 48123 206278
10 Hard Times Café and Cue 55853 48382 51801 46428 202464
11 Sandbar and Grill 52280 46370 56317 43213 198180
12 Jake's 58903 47281 48188 43806 198178
13 Blue Goose Sports Café 66431 48909 55834 0 171174
14 Jumpin Joe's 52276 42535 33287 28781 156879
15 BWW Onalaska 38796 28469 42866 40350 150481
16 Highlands Grill 59770 42791 29584 7380 139525
17 Dan McGuinness Pub 31521 42965 41011 22219 137716
18 The Arena 44945 43949 20173 25849 134916
19 BWW Kenwood 27736 3278 45559 39967 116540
20 Elsas Cantina 53139 36572 14295 0 104006
21 Sherbys Pub 0 31056 44396 20354 95806
22 Rochester Mills 0 35474 0 54166 89640
23 Old Chicago Springhurst 36725 16542 0 13358 66625
24 Hooters McKinney 12558 28444 17051 0 58053
25 Main Street Sports Grill 23672 584 24182 9468 57906
26 SRO OT 55036 0 0 0 55036
27 Teasers 17366 10634 14331 9765 52096
28 Old Chicago Okemos 0 14116 18532 6235 38883
29 Bargos 878 10414 18691 8472 38455
30 BWW Hattiesburg 3005 17168 8454 9131 37758
31 BWW Creve Coeur 4027 0 2234 24505 30766
32 BWW Parmer Lane 0 0 6451 12030 18481
33 BWW Canton MI 5634 2286 7248 0 15168
34 TJ Mulligans 0 4130 3910 5585 13625
35 Pounders 0 9402 933 0 10335


Seems to have been a much harder game than last week -- most teams were down score- wise. We have a red hot race for the number one spot with Mezzanine holding a razor-thin lead over 86th Street Pub.

We have the dubious distinction of having the number one player score, but finishing sixth as a team. Congratulations to SLS (Clint). Too bad the rest of us were of little help. I personally cost him a few points on a miss-call.

Well, good luck to all on Halloween Night!

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Might be a prophetic statement after all!

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I don't know if this makes anyone feel better or worse, but had it not been for an unfortunate combination of circumstances, COOGS at No. 2 would have been able to play the full 15 questions, and because we aced No. 1 (Asimov/I, Robot), both he and Mezzanine would have been No. 1.

Here's what happened: Mezzanine is a two-story establishment, with a long winding stairway to the second floor where everyone plays. It has an elevator, but the elevator was out-of-service, so COOGS had to confront the longest stairway ever he's gone up on his artificial foot (a slow process). I went on ahead and asked for boxes, but it was not until he made it up and tried to sign on that anyone realized the server had given us a "not authorized at this location" one. By the time it could be replaced we were on question 2.

Next week we'll go early just in case the elevator is still not operating, and I'll start the signon for each box to make sure they're all working.

We missed "War Games" until the final clue and had to guess on Ethring cycle after eliminating Gaiman and a couple of others (that's where COOGS jumped ahead). I got distracted thinking of Hugo Gernsback as being more of an editor than an author, so we dropped points on that as well. Fortunately COOGS had watched a lot of Quantum Leap recently and remembered Bingo.

Brooke/AARDVK

So, you're saying that Coogs missed an I, Robot question because of an artificial foot.
Of all the wonderfully ironic reasons I've heard over the years for missing a question, that may be a slight second place finisher behind the time I missed a question about the Rijksmuseum because Rik Smits was seated in the booth in front of me and I was having trouble seeing around him. But that's a true story for another time.
I had just seen a reference to the Gernsback story in a book I was reading at the library last week. Yay, timing!
At any rate, thanks for the pity points.

I suppose that could be considered a "lame" excuse.

I, too, am disabled so I can relate to that kind of problem. Don't have any "robotic" parts, though.

Again, good luck to everyone.

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