Lush Rush!

Posted by Josh on Sep 15, 2011 in Editorial, Events, Food, Live Music, Lush, Open Mic, Pub Quiz, Pyro, Specials | 0 comments

Lush Rush – Fall 2011

Boom goes the dynamite!  Ladies and Gentlemen, Pirates and Ninjas, Pimps and Hoes, Jocks, Cheerios and Glee geeks, the fall semester has officially kicked off!

Lush Rush and Pyromania begin Monday baby, and you’re invited to the best week you’ll ever partially remember!  Awesome parties, dirt-cheap specials, and awesome food and drinks to keep your newly Beijing acclimated bodies pumped and partying all week long!

Lush Specials:

• Selected Lush Cocktails (30rmb) – half off during happy hour!
• 40rmb buckets of Tsingdao (7 bottles)!
• 20rmb burgers, chicken burgers, teriyaki chicken burgers, and tofu burgers, 2-4pm and 2-5am!

Pyro Specials:

• 20rmb pitchers during happy hour!
• 30rmb trays of shots (6 shots) during happy hour!
• All day long get a large pizza at the medium price! (delivery/carry out only)
• All day long get a free pitcher of coke, sprite, or beer with any pizza purchase (in-store only)

check out the highlights and daily specials in the full article…

Pub Quiz Recap (April 20th, 2011)

Posted by Josh on Apr 25, 2011 in Editorial, Events, Lush, Pub Quiz, Specials | 0 comments

Categories – Famous Characters, Fictional Geography, Sports Movies, Connections, and Music!

Winners – Boobies on the Brink lock in first place and enjoys a delicious bottle of Jack Daniels for their effort. Southbound, not to be denied, takes second place, and Fahrenheit 420 (Pleasant Goat) lands solidly in third to enjoy a bucket of ice-cold Tsingdaos.

Sample Question – The 2002 movie Crossroads featured two actual sisters who played the main character at different ages. Who were those actual sisters?

Last Week’s Answer – John Lennon

Leaderboard – With this week’s round, we’re halfway through the 10 week leaderboard.  As of today, Southbound Pachyderm leads the charge with 29 points. Following closely behind with 27 is Boobies on the Brink. Quiz in my Pants, at 20 points, rounds out the top 3 teams.  After them, The Dove Brothers 15, Kidneys Come & Go 12, and Tongzhimen 12, for all the teams that are currently rocking double digit point values.

Next week rocks the 5th Birthday of the Lush Pub Quiz!  Come out for 50rmb buckets, 50 rmb shot trays, and 50rmb 500ml Hoegaardens!  Hope to see you there!

Pub Quiz Recap! (April 13th, 2011)

Posted by Josh on Apr 25, 2011 in Editorial, Events, Lush, Pub Quiz | 0 comments

Categories – Famous Mothers, The British Empire, Jason’s Geek round, From the Bloc’, and Music.

Winners – Southbound Pachyderm grab first place for the first time this leaderboard, followd by The Dove Brothers, and Quiz in my Pants to round out the top three.

Sample Question – Which Beatles member lead the way across the zebra crossing / crosswalk on the cover of the Abbey Road album?

Last Week’s Answer – Heliotropism.

Leaderboard – Southbound Pachyderm takes the lead this week from Boobies on the Brink, and Quiz in my Pants holds strong to third place.  Still anyone’s game as the leaderboard approaches midstream, every team still has the chance to take first (or lose it) in the coming weeks!

Side note: Schneider Weisse is way too strong to drink while hosting a pub quiz!   I think I’ll stick to Coors Lite from now on…

Pub Quiz Recap! (April 6th, 2011)

Posted by Josh on Apr 11, 2011 in Editorial, Events, Lush, Pub Quiz | 0 comments

Categories – Cop Films, Science, Famous Firsts, Geographical Name Changes, and Music!

Winners – Boobies on the Brink takes Number 1 with a bullet, edging out Tongzhimen by 2 points and feasting on the fruits of their labor in the form of one bottle of Mr. Jack Daniels. Tongzhimen, in their mighty return showing, crush second place, beating out Southbound by 4.5 points. A tough quiz by most standards, but good scores from all our teams last Wednesday.

Sample Question – What is the scientific term for the tendency of plants to orient themselves toward the sun? Which with some flowers, results in the flower moving in relation to the sun’s progress from East to West, each day.

Last Week’s Answer – February 3rd, 1959

Leaderboard – With this week’s win, we’re starting to see some fluctuation in the rankings.. Boobies on the Brink jump from 3rd to 1st place, Southbound Pachyderm stays strong in 2nd, and Quiz in my Pants falls to 3rd. The Dove Bros stay strong at 4th place, Tongzhimen breaks into the leaderboard, and Kidneys Come and Go heads the rest of the teams on the Leaderboard.

Pub Quiz Recap (March 30th, 2011)

Posted by Josh on Mar 31, 2011 in Editorial, Events, Lush, Pub Quiz | 1 comment

Categories – Entertainment, Wasted Youth, Charlotte’s Geography round, Accidents, and Music

Winners – After drinkoffs for both 1st and 2nd place, and again to decide 3rd and 4th place, Quiz in my Pants rocked first place after Valerie beat out Alyssa after they both nearly turned the drink off into a wet T-shirt contest. (20/20 hindsight, that’s a great idea for the next time we find ourselves in a girl on girl drink off, provided the girls are down to get messy in public). Boobies on the Brink stuck second with a solid showing from Alyssa in the drink off. Finally, after a testosterone fueled man vs. wild drinkoff, Francisco sealed third place for Southbound Pachyderm, leaving Pleasant Goat (I’m on a Goat) to wallow in 4th place.

Sample Question – Don Mclean wrote about the day the music died in his classic 1971 song American Pie. On what day did the music die, referring to the date where a plane crash took the lives of Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and pilot, Roger Peterson?

Previous Question’s Answer – William Congreave

Leaderboard – Quiz in my Pants takes over the top spot in the leaderboard, followed closely behind by Southbound Pachyderm, followed again closely by Boobies on the Brink to round out the top three teams. Fourth place brings in The Dove Bros (& Sisters), and a few points behind them, Kidneys Come and Go and Nuns with Guns (& VCU Hoop Dreams).