7/20/2009 -- new faces in old places

Last night, we had a category about the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.  It could have been a lot tougher, but I took pity on all of you.  We also introduced a new quizmaster to the fold, and I'll be posting a picture of her later.  Let's face it, Clare and I could use the help -- someone who knows about recent pop culture is nice, too!

First, allow me to introduce our scorekeeper, Sonja.  As long as she hosts on Monday nights, she'll be grading and scoring, so be nice to her!

I love contrived poses, don't you?

Here's our newest member to our writing reading team, Caylia!  (The "a" is silent)

She's proudly holding her first contribution, last night's picture round.  She's really pumped about getting on board and we're equally as pumped to have her lending a hand.  Rest assured, I'll be instructing her in the ways of trivia misdirection and obfuscation in the future.

Here are your weekly winners.  In third place, after winning a tiebreaker, with 98 points, here's Suck it Apollo 10!

They won the tiebreaker by being closer with a guess about how far it is from the earth to the moon -- it's about 238,000 miles and they guessed 270,000.  They were solid all the way around last night.  It's always good to see this group do well as they have been long-time supporters of the quiz.

In second, with 100 points, are the newcomers, Exit, Pursued by a Bear.

I cannot express how awesome that team name is.  Huge props to these guys for that.  They should go out and herd awesome with Nick Swisher.  Not coincidentially, I'm sure, they were perfect on their literary murder victims, but movie soundtracks kept them in second place.

In first place, with 102 points, it's Connect Four!

After finishing in second for the last couple of weeks, they were elated to take down the first prize.  They look kind of relieved as well, don't you think?  If it wasn't for their lack of knowledge of all things Apollo 11, they would have cruised to victory, instead of keeping it so close.

Thanks to all for playing and we'll see you next week!