Big Quiz Thing

Tonight I went to the Big Quiz Thing, a quiz night at The Slipper Room (a bar in the LES). I met up with my cousin Sara before she headed off for Israel.

I have been wanting to go to a bar quiz night ever since arriving in the city. Now I know it was for good reason. The night was a fun time. We paired up with 5 other people and had our team named, "...And in the lead." Great name. Some teams had extremely clever names such as "Gerrard Depar-dousche", "Enola Gay Agenda", "Adam Smith's Invisible Handjob."

I did fairly well in holding my own in coming up with correct answers. Being the youngest in the room, I was the least knowledgeable on the 80's music trivia. While my team did not win, all was not lost. At the game's midpoint our team was in 10th place out of 21 teams and we won a free bag of Teddy Grahams, mixed flavors! (YES!!). Our prize was a little sketchy since they were given to your in a brown paper bag. It felt like those bags of candy you'd get from houses on Halloween where the candy was wrapperless and your mom would be afraid that you had poisoned candy.

Our team finished solidly in 8th place. Not bad for an ad hoc team of mostly first time quizzers, myself included. I must highly recommend a quiz night for anyone who has the chance.