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Pub Quiz Recap (April 24th)

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!

Lush Rush / Pyromania

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Mar 102013

It’s that time again! Lush Rush – Spring Edition! Everything is just better in the spring, the days are longer which make people stay out longer, the temperatures are rising causing everybody to wear less clothes. It’s just a fantastic time of the year! The program we have lined up for you for the upcoming week is pretty awesome if I may say so myself. This will be my 8th Lush Rush and I am still super excited about it!

Achievement game: Every event provides you with an opportunity to gain points in the race to become the winner of Lush Rush Week Fall 2012. What does it take to win? Party skills! With something going on every day, it’s going to require commitment. Commitment to party. What does the winner get, you ask. 1000 rmb bar tab to spend anyway you want at Lush!! Yes, competition will be tough, but don’t despair. Even if you don’t win the tab, you can still get a prize. One of the famous I (heart) WU T-shirts will be yours if you just get 55 points or above. That’s worth fighting for, right? I’ll provide you with scorecard along with your first points. Don’t lose your card! If you do, you’ll have to start over. Your card is personal. No combining cards. That would be cheating – and nobody likes a cheater .

Program and points are as follows:

Monday is the City Weekend kickoff party at Lush. It’s our Martini night, even cheaper than normally. 15 rmb for a martini between 6pm and midnight. To get your points for this event you need to buy a martini during happy hour (8-10pm) and you have earned your first 5 points.

Tuesday at Pyro will be one of the nights you’ll keep talking about for a long time. It’s SNAP Adventures’ Power Hour. ONE shot of beer EVERY minute for an HOUR. Easy enough? That’s what they all say. Until they try it that is. We continue with Centurion, same deal but for another 40 minutes. So totally 1 shot every minute for 100 minutes! Good luck. This evening you have the chance to get 20 points.

Wednesday is our legendary Pub Quiz, yet again sponsored by Plastered 8. Meaning in addition to the normal prizes you can win some of those funny t-shirts. Last time people were so excited to get one, that shirts were flying around the room! You had to have been there. Since competition is bound to be fierce, we give you 5 points just for participation and both 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will earn additional 15 points each. After sitting down for the whole quiz, I think it’s fair to say we need to stretch those legs. DJ Juan will be playing at Pyro and I for one will be on the dancefloor. Hope some of you are joining me so I don’t look too silly out there.

Thursday is the only night with something happening at both Lush and Pyro. At Lush there will be delicious home brewed beer from Great Leap Brewery and discounted prices on our normal imported beer. At Pyro, the battle continues with Beer Pong. Again you get 5 points for joining and winners will get 15 points. No extra points for 2nd place, but there will be additional prizes this night. Mashup Sports and Social are official sponsors of Beer Pong this week and will be offering fantastic prizes to both 1st and 2nd place in each bracket! Trust me, it’s worth winning!

Friday night Lush comes alive with Tavey Lean and the Solid Gold Dream Machine on stage. These guys will make sure you start the weekend the right way. Come in early to make sure you and your friends can get a table! And of course, be ready to dance!

Saturday we celebrate my birthday the only way we know how! With an over the top crazy 555 party! That’s right. You will get 5rmb draft beer, 5rmb shots (whiskey, vodka or of course my favorite shot: tequila) and 5rmb mixed drinks! If that isn’t enough to get you to come make this a birthday I’ll remember, then Korey’s music should be! DJ Korey is prepped and ready to get you all moving on the dance floor!

Sunday ST. PATRICK’S DAY! What better way to round up this Lush Rush? 15rmb Guinness all day long! As well as Lucky Jello Shots! All of that in combination with our great Open Mic! Get on stage and get those final points, one performance will get you 15 points! It’s the perfect way to come down after battling all week. Who am I kidding? Calm down? We party on! Yen has provided us with some tickets for their White Party, and we are giving you the chance to win them during Open Mic! No, you don’t have to sign. This will be something else.

In addition to the points mentioned above you can get 5 points for somehow managing to get yourself one of the classic black I (heart) Wu wristbands. And wearing it! There is also 10 points if you can figure out the secret of Lush Rush. And don’t forget to grab/steal one of the orange wristbands made specifically for this Lush Rush!

Pub Quiz Recap (Feb. 20th)

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Feb 252013

Nerds, Geeks, whatever you choose to call us, we are awesome! We even have our own reality show now, King of the Nerds! Isn’t that all it takes to be cool?
Lots and lots of knowledge about cool stuff. What’s cool stuff? Well, that depends on who you ask. Anybody and everybody is a nerd/geek about something. We started out with a science/philosophy round, where you had to define various scientific/philosophical principals, then a picture round with different internet memes that had to identified. Round 3 was probably the hardest one of the all, and it was a guest round by DJ Korey aka Fresh Prince of Wudaokou: Theme songs from tv-shows. Sounds easy enough right? The catch, all the shows were black tv shows. Despite it being a hard round, it was pretty fun and enjoyable. It was the only guest round of the week, so Josh was back up with a round on fictional geography. The music round was themed around robots! Think we got through a good amount of nerdy topics. I’m sure we’ll get more next week.

Winners: Korey got the honour of picking the best team name of the night and he chose a crowd pleaser – My couch pulls out, but I don’t! It’s a great name, been used before, but not by these guys. They weren’t even here last time it was there. They got an epic AMF as a reward to their name. The quiz itself, after a drink off, was won by Stephen Calabria’s swollen Pendulow Meat Curtains (46 points). Those a little bit too slow at chugging beer was Jessica Vajmurder! And apparently it was one of those nights, because we had a tie for 3rd place as well. “My couch pulls out, but I don’t” were clearly not done drinking after their AMF, they won the drink off and got a round of beer! The sad fourth place went to “In Soviet Russia, stars wish on you”, but to help with the sadness we sent tequila their way.

Sample questions: Last week I asked you who played the good son in the movie “The Good Son”, it was of course Elijah Wood. Martin Bryant went on his shooting spree in Australia! For this week, so many good ones to choose from…. Okay, one from the fictional geography. The series starts and ends on Earth, with most of the action in the first novel taking place in a space station in orbit around Earth, and then later on Eros, an asteroid completely bereft of light. In the rest of the books, the majority of the action takes place on Lusitania, a planet under the threat of annihilation. What’s the name of the first book in that series? And a more scientific one, what is Euclid’s Theory? And just for fun: Rule 34?

Pub Quiz Recap (Jan. 23rd)

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Jan 252013

Classes are over, Chinese New Year is just around the corner so lots of people are travelling. That means fewer teams, but it does not mean we will party any less. The quiz must go on and it will – even during CNY. Anyway, this week Josh started with a round on things that happened in 2012. As you should all be aware of, this October Lush will turn 10! And as part of that celebration Josh is going over old quiz rounds and taking some of his best from over the years. This week he took the oldest one he has available as well as one from 5 years ago. The latter concerning sequels that came out in 2007. The oldest quiz was a numbers quiz, like what’s the largest prime number under 100? Ben did a guest round on China. Probably the hardest round that night. Music round was hits of 2003 – including hits by Eminem, Jason Mraz and Kelly Clarkson. I’ve already asked you one question, so let’s take another. Let’s take something from 2012: What were the top 3 Google search queries of 2012 (all names or events are associated with 2012)?

And now it’s time to give you the answers to last week’s questions: The pepper water is Mulligatawny! If you knew that, then you are way smarter than me. But that’s okay. The easier one was James Dean.

Winners: No surprise regarding first place, Kidney’s come and go took care of that. But it was closer than they would probably like, they only beat The Big Kahunas by 1 point. 45 against 44 points. Third place went to Mr. F with 42 points!

Pub Quiz Recap (Jan. 9th)

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Jan 132013

Considering pub quizzes are all about having knowledge, it was rather ironic that the first round this week was about Tabula Rasa. Don’t know what that means? Well it’s a term from Latin used in various tv-show such as Buffy, Criminal Minds, Heroes, Dollhouse, Lost and the list could continue. It translates as ‘Black Slate’. A state I hope none of you felt you were in yesterday. Round 2 was a guest round by the other Joshua, concerning donkeys. Yep you heard me. Donkeys. People are puzzled, but enjoyed a topic that was different from what they expected. Mr. Lally was back for round 3 with ‘More commonly known as’. Seems it was the week that Kidney’s come and go should provide guest hosts, as round 4 was done by Ben on International Sports. He covered a pretty good range of sport: soccer, baseball/basketball (the question concerned Michael Jordan’s baseball career), golf, tennis, badminton, cycling, hockey. In contrast to the previous weeks’ newer music Josh had this week chosen to play older rock songs.

Sample questions: Before I give you the new questions, I better provide you with the answers from last week. Chinese New Year is officially 15 days. (FYI: Fireworks will be around longer). And the famous musician that wasn’t too happy with neither Madonna’s look nor her tour was Elton John. Okay okay, questions from this week: I’ll take one from the Tabula Rasa round and one from the ‘better known as’ round. It seemed like people had a hard time with this question despite everybody knows the movie and the first rule. But Josh wanted to know what is the 8th and final rule of Fight Club? Second sample question: What is the Latin word that is commonly used in Criminal procedure that in English means “elsewhere” or “somewhere else”?

Winners: Peribusly Positioned Pachyderm was very convincing and won by 4 points, Trillion Dollar Coin took 2nd place with 2 points down to “Insert Generic Team Name Here” and Kidney’s come and go, who once again had to do a drink off. Same result as always. Kidney’s won that one and a bucket of beer.

Pub Quiz Recap (12-12-12)

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Dec 162012

Apart from Dec. 21st (the day the world supposedly ends), 12-12-12 is probably the most talked about date of this year. Is it strange that both dates only consist of 1s and 2s??

Anyway, because the date was all about 12, the 3 (3=1+2, another coincidence?) rounds done by Josh all had something to do with 12. First round was a movies round – the numbers 1-12 being represented in some way or other, round 2 was hosted by the super energetic Alex Max, in round 3 we were back in the merciful hands of Josh and the ‘Wonderful world of 12’. Probably one of the most random trivia rounds done in a long time, all the questions had in common was that they had something to do with 12. Then we had a great guest round from Will, before Josh took over again with a 12 song music round. It was a connections music round – and the commonality was that all the artists have 12 letters in their names. Other than that the songs varied from One of Us by Joan Osbourne to Somebody to Love by Justin Bieber!

Winners: With YOU CAN’T SIT WITH US not present it was time for a new winning team, ‘Rock, paper, scissor me’ went for it and succeeded. Nicely done guys!

Pub Quiz Recap (Dec. 5th)

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Dec 122012

There’s a new team in town. Not exactly new, but they have stepped up and are sending a message to the older teams saying, if you want that bottle you need to do better. Their team name might be rude, but YOU CAN’T SIT WITH US has taken the bottle two weeks in a row now. It will definitely be interesting to see if they can continue the streak.

Answers to last week’s questions: The quote was of course from Tyler Durden in Fight Club. And all those different amounts are the same as ‘a fifth’.

Winners: Already revealed first place, but second place was a drink off between Kidney’s come and go (again again) and Mike Hunt. And as usual, Kidney’s know how to do drink offs, so they grabbed second place. But Mike Hunt did a good try.

Now that leaderboard is over, it’s time for you guys to get creative with those team names again. You can pretty much call yourselves anything, either super hilarious so Josh will have problems keeping a straight face every time he has to call you out, super nerdy so only us nerds will understand it or you can do something completely different. The word is yours, do whatever you feel like.

On a side note – especially for those of you that think the quiz is too American, please help us out and do a guest round. Pick whatever topic you think is interesting, don’t make it too specific though, email the questions to Josh (josh@lushbeijing.com) he’ll review and let you know when you are up. If you don’t feel like going on stage, which I totally understand, send him suggestions for rounds. He is always open for ideas.

Pub Quiz Recap (Nov. 7th)

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Nov 092012

In contrast to last week’s 1 major theme, all the topics were different this week. Going from Entertainment round over Myths & Legends, 90’s TV shows (awesome guest round by Eve – well done!) finishing the regular trivia rounds with a History tour. Music round was inspired by the election. You should all know which election I’m referring to. Time to test your knowledge; think we’ll take a question from the Myth & Legends round “This man is a living legend. What is the nickname of Edson Arantes do Nascimento?” Ah, what the heck, for those of you not interested (or without knowledge) in this area, we’ll do another one. This is from the Entertainment round “What is Jason Bourne’s real name in the Bourne series?” If you don’t know either, it’s time to come to quiz and learn some new random trivia.

Winners: Kidney’s took another win and increased their lead on the board. The 3 people on ‘8 years of sweet ASS’ proved that you don’t need a massive team to do well at quiz, by taking 2nd place. 3. place was once again decided in a drink off – this week between Pachyderm on the Brink and ‘4 more beers’. Pachyderm won. That’s it for this week, see you all next week.

Yen Fetish Halloween

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Oct 222012

One of the biggest parties in all of Asia and this year it will be even bigger! This Friday, Oct. 26th. In order to fit all you awesome people we have moved the party to Tango where we will be partying on 2 floors! This is the party with some of the best and craziest outfits – it is a Fetish Halloween party after all. To see pictures from last year’s go to o2culture.com.

The Wu-krew is known for bringing the party. How do they know who we are? Well, we always come up with a common theme that you can participate in if you want. Not saying you have to dress like us if you don’t want to. We have room for all. But this year the Wu-theme is Doctors and Nurses! Who doesn’t love those outfits???

Tickets are on sale at Lush. Tickets are only 100rmb in presale, at the door they will be 150. So get your ticket before going. And get it now – we will sell out and it would be a shame to miss the party just because you forgot to buy a ticket.

Pub Quiz Recap. (Oct. 3rd)

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Oct 042012

That it’s the Holiday week was clear on the number of teams present, but those of you that were there proved it only takes a few to make a fun night. Josh had some fun rounds and some tough rounds with topics spreading from a picture round on computer games to a connection round regarding actors/actresses that went to Harvard. Alex did a guest round on movies from the 2000s, his first guest round. Hopefully we’ll see more rounds from him in the future.

Winners: Music round once again proved to be the decider of who would win the bottle of Fighting Cock. This week the guys at Thugnificent knew their music and beat Pachyderm on the Brink. Third place went to Kidney’s come and go.

Leaderboard: Two weeks into leaderboard we have Pink/Pachyderm on the Brink in the lead, closely followed by Thugnificent/Jazanthepus and then Kidney’s come and go. Not to worry though, still 8 more weeks to go and plenty of points to collect.

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