it all started one cold winter’s day.  or at least that’s how i’m choosing to remember it. 
in some manner of typical barroom banter, the following question was posed . . . “Could Skrully hit a baseball out of the Anthracite?”  and at that moment, a line had been drawn.  and skrully is a man who […]

apparently that’s a line from Back To The Future.  it also happens to be the name of this week’s team trivia champions . . .

they managed to make the most of the final bonus question “name the movies playing at the bloom cinema center” to come from behind at the end.  it pays to look in […]

this past wednesday we gathered for tacos, and a round of Sports-Only trivia. 
 
the sports trivia differs from our regular Monday Night trivia in several ways, the most obvious being that all of the questions are sports-oriented.  the other difference is that each team is limited to three players.
the following three players proved to be better […]

last night was the closest trivia contest ever!!  With 7 different teams competing, every team finished within two points of the top.  and THREE different teams tied for the top spot!!
that means everyone sent their best man to the mike, trying to come away from the tie breaker question with a victory . . .

before […]

the penguins came back from a 0 - 2 series deficit to defeat the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings in Game 7 tonight.

stolen from the Penguins website! (see: http://penguins.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NHLPage&id=7184 )
the series went:
Det 3 - Pit 1
Det 3 - Pit 1
Pit 4 - Det 2
Pit 4 - Det 2
Det 5 - Pit 0
Pit 2 - Det […]

 
Once again, Monday Night was Team Trivia with the usual suspects showing up to vie for the title of Triva Champs. the trophy from last week rested on the bar next to team “Multiple Scoregasms”, but was destined to find its way into the back room at the end of the night. 
The final results […]

from the email box of Rich Persing . . .  
Two blonde girls were working for the city council public works department.
One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind her and fill the hole in.
They worked up one side of the street, then down the other, then moved on to the next […]

some links from the email box of Rich Persing:
http://cinevolvestudios.com/trailers/TRTheTownThatWas.html
Here’s the movie’s website:
http://www.thetownthatwas.com/
 
The “The Town That Was” will be available @ Netflix on June 9th. - (F. Pet.)

this week we had a new winner at the Trivia conTEST.  and what a trivia contest it was!
we started the evening with a running math problem:

“A block of wood in the form of a shoebox 4″ × 9″ × 14″ has all its six faces painted pink. If the wooden block is cut into 504 cubes […]