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Pub Quiz Recap (June 12th)

Jun 162013

Think a lot of people took advantage of the holiday and were out either spending time on boats or searching for real Dragon Boats! Hope you all had a great time no matter what you were doing. Those of us that did come to quiz – 8 teams present, bore witness to probably one of the fastest quizzes we have ever done. This was mainly due to the fact that Josh and I wrote Josh’s three rounds in the car coming back from a two day meeting at the Great Wall! So we created a “Who killed the following people/character?”, a random movie trivia round and then Josh found an old Summer trivia round. Korey helped us out by doing a scientist round as well as the music round which was themed around birthdays!

Sample questions: The bromance guys from Scrubs were of course JD and Turk! The Gatling Gun was first used in the US Civil War. Two fairly easy questions. Now, questions from this week: I’ll do one of the harder ones from the “Who killed this character” round: Who killed Cedric Diggory? Easy you say, well, we’ll find out next week. Lots of people got the wrong one on that one. Next question: In Hitch, what comedian/actor hires Will Smith to get the girl of his dreams?

Winners: Martin once again proved that he has way too much knowledge in his head when he and Dave aka Pachyderm on the Brink won the whole thing. Girl, you got Floppy Udders scored second place. Third place went to Kidney’s come and go! 1 point between each team – close game!

Beer Olympics!

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Jun 072013

We know you love to play beer pong, Thursday nights are proof of that. But how good are you actually at various beer games? We are putting that to the test! Beer Olympics! We have put together a program of 10 different games. Individuals as well as partner and team games. A team should consist of 5 players; at least 2 of our games will need you to have a whole team together. You can of course just register / join on your own or with a partner, but why not get a whole team together and delegate the games between you? Make it like the “real” Olympics. And yes, we will be keeping a ‘medal count’. The events/games are:

Shooting aka Civil War: 3 person beer pong style game. No waiting for the other team to finish their turn, when you have your ball your shoot. First team to get rid of all cups wins, no rebuttal.

Hockey aka Quarters: This is individual, bounce a coin into cups to make your opponent drink.

Baseball aka Baseball: Minimum 3 person game, it’s a mixture of beer pong and flip cup. It involves aiming, running and flipping! It’s perhaps the most physical beer pong style game.

Weight lifting aka Stack it: Individual. Simple enough, you just have to create a triangle with 6 cups. The catch, you have to drink the content first. Fastest stack wins.

Track and Field aka Relay Race: Team sport. First team to finish their beer one by one wins.

Table Tennis aka Beer Pong: 2 person. Standard 6 cup beer pong, just like we do every Thursday!

Fencing aka Liar’s Dice: Individual. How good are you at bluffing? The dice game where you are either good at guessing or bluffing.

Gymnastics aka Twister: 2 person twister game. Yes we add alcohol to the game.

Rowing aka Flip Cup: 5 person team flip cup race! Drink and Flip faster than the rest.

Taekwondo aka Rock, Paper, Scissor: Individual. Can you read the other person and choose the right hand move?

The opening ceremony will be at 7pm, games will start 7:30pm and then we go from there!
To participate, send an email to me at kate@lushbeijing.com, call/text at 18610867499 or show up Monday night. It’s only 10rmb per person per event and that covers the beers needed for the event. We will naturally have awesome specials on while we play. 10rmb Tsingdao, 10rmb for 2 tequila shots, 10rmb mixed drinks!

See you Monday!!!

Pub Quiz Recap (June 5th)

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Jun 062013

For the third week in a row we had a goodbye party, Stephen Calabria who has been part of the Wu scene for the last 2 years has left the city. Gone back to New York to do some fancy grown up job, well, you can’t do that without a proper Wu send-off! It involves lots of tequila and whiskey. No, not mixed together! As delicious as those two are, I’m not sure how great they are mixed. Anyway, best of luck to you Stephen, now that you actually made your flight.
Back to the quiz, Stephen hosted a guest round on music trivia, Korey one on Super Hero Teams and Josh did rounds on bromances, war history and a music connections round. The connection for the music round was “ridiculously difficult” to quote quizmaster Josh! And he was right about that, don’t think a single team figured it out. But it was all songs that had been banned/restricted for radio play.
As the quiz finished, all the extra questions had been asked and answered everybody went to Pyro for some more drinking and dancing. Yes MORE dancing. Although the connection in the music round might have been difficult, the songs were good enough for large groups of girls especially to get their dance on. At Pyro we were joined by the Aardvarks boys who were having a crazy hat party! So messy – so good!

Sample questions: So the character portrayed by all those lovely guys is Hannibal – a not so lovely guy. The non-Spanish player that managed to defeat Nadal only to lose the final to Federer was Robin Soderling (from Sweden). From the bromance round: Revitalizing the “too close” version of the bromance, the actors Zach Braff and Donald Faison took their almost marriage like relationship for nearly 10 years on the television show scrubs. What were their character names? And now a war question: The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. What war saw its first deployment in battle?

Winners: “The Helen Keller audio quizzical experience” got the prize for best team name. Well done! In the quiz department “Hot Tamales I’m sweatin’” took first place with 54 points, “la du zi” followed closely with 51 points and “Kidney’s come and go” rounded up the winners with 49 points.

Pub Quiz Recap (May 29th)

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Jun 052013

It was another week with a longtime quizzer leaving, Alex. So he was of course doing two guest rounds, one on sports and one on science & math. The three rounds from Josh were “Same character, different actor”, “Bedtime” and music round about winning. That round was naturally due to our massive wins at The Beijinger Award Show! Thanks guys! Again. I will not stop saying it: You are the reason we do this and the reason we win, so thank you!

Sample question: The perhaps very difficult question regarding the scientist who first used vaccination to prevent smallpox was Edward Jenner. The only two actors to have received an Academy Award posthumously are of course Heath Ledger and Peter Finch. Okay, new questions: What character has been played by all the following people? Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Gaspard Ulliel, and MadsMikkelsen? And a sports questions: Tennis, ) After 3 consecutive losses to Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer finally completed the tennis career slam in 2009, perhaps because he was able to avoid Nadal in the final and was able to play this other non-Spanish European player, who had taken out Nadal already. Who was this player?

Winners: I must apologize, I seem to have lost my list of last week’s ranking, so I can’t inform you of the points winning teams earned. I can tell you however that it was super close. Kidney’s ended up beating the Hot Tamales team by just half a point!
Very sorry I don’t have any more winner info.

Pub Quiz Recap (May 22nd)

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May 262013

A first and a last. The first week after leader board, and Will’s last pub quiz! Not that many teams were out, but that just means more tequila for everybody else. As the leader board was over, we were of course handing out an Epic Long Island to the best team name; Josh decided that was “Last Will and Testament”. Might have had more to do with Will leaving, than the actual name, but with 8 average names to choose from it was alright… Yes, that was a hint to all of you about putting some creative thinking into your team names!
Because it was Will’s last week, he was allowed to do 2 guest rounds. He did a round on the body and one on religion. But to start the quiz right Josh had created a Video Game Theme song round – the kicker: The songs were performed by the London Philharmonic! It was way harder than people thought it would be. Between Will’s rounds Josh did a “Best of the Best” round. It was a round in honor of Lush’s many victories at The Beijinger Bar and Club Awards! Again, thank you so much for all the votes!! The music round was half country songs and half rock and rock and roll songs.

Sample questions: I’ll give you the hard question first; it’s from Will’s Body round. “The science of vaccination started off with smallpox. Who was the scientist who first used vaccination to prevent people getting smallpox?” And now to the easier question, well half of it should be easy: “Only 2 actors have ever been awarded posthumous Academy Awards in competitive contests in acting, one for Best Actor in the 49th Academy Awards, the other for Best Supporting Actor in the 81st Academy Awards. Who were they?”

Winners: With the leader board being over, we got some new team names – and some who refuses to change their name (props to them). Yet again it was a fierce battle, but “Shawty, wat dat mouf about?” came out victorious with 44 points. “Last Will and Testament” did a good showing for Will and got 2nd place with 43 points. Third place however had to be decided by a three-way drink off between “Kidney’s come and go”, “3rd base” and “Good Fists are hard to come by”. Kidney’s have the experience and they got won it easily. After quiz almost everybody was made winners as we did random questions for tequila shots!

Pub Quiz Recap (May 15th)

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May 202013

This week’s Pub Quiz was the last week for the leaderboard, making it a very interesting night! In addition there was not one, but two guest rounds! Annaliese hosted “Books to Movies”, and Will hosted “History”. Even without Kate running around passing out Tequila shots, it was a great night for Pub Quiz. In between one round we even gave away three tickets to the Beijinger Awards Party! After Pub Quiz, Josh kept the night alive with our new post quiz random trivia, in other words, the chance to win free shots.

Sample Questions:We all know Dr. Suess, but what was his real name? Theodore Geisel, who would have guessed? Here’s a joke, how often does Lush tell element jokes, periodically! Though who created the modern Periodic table of elements as we now know it, with individual elements arranged into groups and periods?Dmitri Mendeleev. Don’t feel bad if those were too hard, we threw some easy questions in the mix too. What was the first state to become so in the United States?

Winners: Kidney’s Come and Go won with an astounding 50 points, followed by Norfolk and Joy, and Hot Tamales I’m Sweating (Woo!). Kidney’s took home the number one spot on the leaderboard. The real battle was between Norfolk and Hot Tamales. Although it was close Norfolk took 2nd, leaving Hot Tamales in 3rd on the leaderboard. It has been a long ten weeks, but through it all we had fun. Join us next week for more Pub Quiz!

Written by Cairo King

Pub Quiz Recap (May 1st)

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May 052013

A week where I suddenly had to go on stage to host a round, something that doesn’t happen that often. Thankfully. As most of you know I prefer running around chit chatting and handing out tequila shots! The reason I had to get on stage was that Josh wasn’t exactly happy with one of his rounds, so we adapted a round I wrote a couple of years ago but had never done. Before we got to my round though, we had Josh’s “Misguided naming or how racial/ethnic lines are blurred in Hollywood”, a round regarding vegetables, guest round by Annaliese and Miguel in honor of Cinco de Mayo! Difficult, but interesting round. Think most people just focus on tequila and coronas when they think about Cinco de Mayo. My round was TV-shows from the 2000s, most of them were only on for a season or two. The music round was another tough guest round, guitar solos.

Sample questions: The name of Ted’s band in Scrubs is The Worthless Peons! How many of you knew that? Next one was probably the easiest one I have ever given you, but just in case: The Gestapo was from Germany! From this week, there will naturally be from the Cinco de Mayo round: Cinco de Mayo is a holiday all about tequila, so what are the three most traditional types of tequila? On to vegetables, if a dish is cooked a la Florentine, what vegetable should you expect it to include?

Winners: While Kidney’s come and go have almost secured first place on the leaderboard, it’s a tough game for 2nd and Hot Tamales I’m sweatin’ are not giving up. This week they scored 38 points, enough for 1st place and crawled back up on the leaderboard. Second place went to Wembley Calling with 36 points. And Norfolk and Matt fought and got 3rd! With two weeks left of the leaderboard, it’s gonna be close!

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO

Pub Quiz Recap (April 24th)

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Apr 282013

12 teams competing, a team with a name that Josh found slightly gross (who farted in my mouth?), no drink off, but plenty of drinks. Once again it was back to everybody’s favorite decade, the 90’s! First round was pure nostalgia, theme songs from the (great) TV-show we all deny watching back in the day (Beverly Hills 90210, E.R., X-files, Dawson’s Creek to name a few). We continued in the world of TV with a guest round from Will, half American shows and half British shows. Some questions were definitely hard on the American crowd, to the pleasure of all non-Americans. Third round took us to a completely different place. Geography. More or less a straight up country knowledge round, however, you needed to know where the different secret police/freedom fighters etc belong. Korey returned to the stage for a “Films of 1999” round, so many awesome films that year. For the music round, Josh had picked some pretty amazing artists – we got to listen to Metallica, AC/DC, Linkin Park, Muse and Foo Fighters.

Sample question: The person who has been nominated for an Academy Award the most times is Walt Disney. Not really that surprising when you think of it right? The pet that got boiled by crazy Glen Close in Fatal Attraction was a rabbit! First question from this week, might be easy, might be hard: In Scrubs, what is the name of Ted’s band? And just in case that one was too hard (which it seemed to be for most people), next one should be really easy: Which country was home to the Secret State Police, under the administration of the country’s Protection Squadron, known famously as the Gestapo?

Winners: Norfolk and Adam are refusing to give up their spot on the leaderboard, and after a not-top placement last week, they were back with a vengeance. 56 points and 7 points in the leaderboard race. Kidney’s were also giving it all, they scored a solid 54 points securing them 2nd place. Third place went to ‘3peat All Up in Yo’Grill’. With only 3 weeks left of leaderboard now is the time to get rush for those points!

This was the last week with Figting Cock as the grand prize, from next week we are giving out a bottle of Jameson!! Hope you don’t mind the change!

Pub Quiz Recap (April 17th)

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Apr 192013

“The quiz that started on time”. Almost on time, there were some issues with the picture round that needed to be dealt with, but apart from that. Problem got fixed and Josh was ready to rock the quiz as usual. This week we had 2 guest rounds, Korey’s crazy love and Adrienne’s super nerdy cartoon round. The previously mentioned troublesome picture round was characters from video games, and then we had a round called “Mosts”. Music round was a mix of songs from the last 5-10 years. The guest rounds were probably the most exciting ones of the evening – sorry Josh. Crazy love covered a lot of weirdoes, starting with Van Gogh and the prostitute that received his cut off ear. Then we went through astronauts, an erotic thriller, various movies and of course the Oedipus Complex. The super nerdy cartoon round was indeed very nerdy, with the worst/best one of them all being “The video game characters Mario and Donkey Kong have their origins in a 1981 arcade game, also named Donkey Kong. But Nintendo only created them after failing to get the license to use characters from an existing cartoon. Which one?” Boom! Not sure if anybody actually got that one, but it was Popeye!
When quiz was over, Josh was in the mood to give out a lot of free alcohol! So we did perhaps 20 random questions, some more nerdy than others. And I do apologize for my very nerdy Lord of the Rings questions, but in my defense several people claimed to be LoTR nerds like me. Lesson learned.

Sample questions: The medical term stemming from the French verb is Triage. And the (lovely) teletubbies are of course: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po. From this week, I’ll give you one of the bonus questions from Josh’s Mosts round: With 60 nominations and 22 wins, who was the most nominated and winningest person in Academy Award history? Moving on to crazy love, in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, Glen Close’s character (Alexandra) does some crazy things to win the affection of Dan, played by Michael Douglas. However one of the most notable scenes from that movie was when she boils Dan’s daughter’s pet. What animal was that pet?

Winners: 48 points for both Hot Tamales I’m sweatin’ and The Undiagnostable Rash resulting in Paul and Zach taking the stage for the drink off. After a double drink off, due to arguments over foam, Hot Tamales I’m sweatin’ claimed the bottle of Fighting Cock. The Undiagnostable Rash decided to get the epic Singapore Sling for their efforts. Kidney’s come and go were only 1 point behind the others, but it was enough to leave them in 3rd place.

Pub Quiz Recap (April 10th)

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Apr 142013

As part of the massive 10 year anniversary celebrations, we threw some extra specials your way this Wednesday. As we will on the 10th of every month! 10 years, wow, it’s an important milestone and we really hope you guys will continue to help us celebrate! Stay alert, you never know when we throw in a flashback event. The only thing you can know for sure that May 10th is a Friday and it’s gonna get messy.

Back to the quiz, Josh was having some problems with his best friend, Apple, so Korey had to quickly put together a music round. Nicely done with samples, so for once listening to the voice couldn’t help you. You needed the original artist.
The four rounds Josh did do were: Four the win, On Trial, Medical Exam and an illustrated movie picture round! “Four the win” took us through the Fab Four, Little women, the noble truths, teletubbies as well as mitosis. “On Trial” pretty much explains itself, but Josh still managed to get a good variety of trials covered. We had murder cases, the Black Sox Scandal, Socrates and Boston Legal! “Medical Exam” was probably the hardest round of the week. Or was I the only one to think so? I’ll give you a sample question from this round later, so judge for yourself. The picture round was simple enough as far as naming the movie. But here’s the twist. You didn’t get any points for the movie itself, but if you didn’t get the right movie, then you couldn’t get any points. The point awarding questions were the characters and actors that you see in the illustration.

Sample questions: The children’s stories about Snipp, Snapp and Snurre were from Sweden! Hope you all got that one. The musician turned politician was Sonny Bono! Promised you a question from the medical round, so let’s start with that one, and yes it will be one of the hard ones. What medical emergency term stems from the French verb meaning ‘to separate’? To not leave you all frustrated, I’ll give you an easy question from the Four the win round. Name the four teletubbies!

Winners: Two weeks, two wins continue with their confidence and so far they have every right to do so. They took their second win with 49 points. That was 6 points more than 2nd place, Fister Act 2. It was much closer for 3rd place. Norfolk and Idea beat Kidney’s by just half a point! We are halfway through the leaderboard. Now is the time to step up, so your team can enjoy some of those awesome prizes we’ll give out in the end.

10! 10! 10!

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