We run this Show...

As officially & more or less publicly announced last week, I'm on holidays from 14th till 20th...

Under the influence of alcohol, Pinky, The Brain & Hélène (if memory serves me right) have volunteered to run the show on Thursday 18th ... details here when I have them, basic rules (i.e. prizes, starting time, location) apply, rest is up to the guest quiz masters & mistresses...

Better start making up your questions, and someone should bring a camcorder, I want pictures & videos!!!

Note to Guest QMs: You have until Thursday to make up your minds - if you want to back out, no problem, it's UEFA Cup night anyway. I just have to know what to put on the pub's website and what to prepare if you do run the show...

CrazyCaption #254

so far only one line.. from the combined team of
Pinkies & Brain in Paris: Iggy Pop "...oh putain, qu'est-ce que je me fais chier!!"

you are aware of the fact that - should you not send in another one - you'll have to share that one point ...

as usual, Thursday noon deadline... be funny, for f***'s sake!!!!

Quiky 253 - Rankings

CrazyCaption #253

quite a few answers last week (and each team got 1 point, for "attendance" .. )
Already some in for week 253, remember - you can always change them. Deadline is Thursday noon..so, if you want to start with a point on 28 Augsut - keep 'em comin'!!

So far we have

• High 5 "Hey man, I need a bigger office!"
• Leninskij "Of course I'm not playing the race card - the telephone IS white! And stop yelling in my mouth!"
  
• Pinkies "Eine Pizza bitte, aber nicht so scharf! Ja Mutti, ich wechsle meine Unterhosen täglich! Mann Dmitri, ich kann nichts für die Raketen!"
  
• FINTRA "Michael, wie heißt noch mal dein Hautarzt? What about bleaching?"

da geht doch sicher noch was ... :)

Quiky 252 - Rankings

massive attendance that, tho quite unexpectedly so... and the gap between the first and the fifth wasn't all that big..

Remy... Rémi.... it's not the end yet...

was that him you were talking about?
or that?
..so far, he's utterly, totally, completely part of LES INCONNUS pour moi :)

have to check him out when I'm sober again and have a bit of time :)

WTF is Remy Martin?

here's some (useless??) knowledge in case this alcohol-related question turns up one night... on sais jamais...

Virtue is not knowing but doing

or so says an old Japanese proverb...

Even tho last week's quiz is history - here are two links for nitpickers, one in English and one in Deutsch .. and now goeth forth and leaveth me in peath oder gehet hin und mir nicht länger auf die Nerven...

and while we're on the subject - here are the Cardinal Quiky Virtues

Sense of humour / Sinn für Humor
Ability to hold one's drink / Trinkfestigkeit
Politeness / Höflichkeit
Diplomacy / Diplomatie
Good memory / gutes Gedächtnis
Belief / Glaube
Punctuality / Pünktlichkeit (not too sure about that tho :)

CrazyCaption #252

..for those of you who missed it (I'm actually beginning to doubt the "fun part" - maybe we should go back to Prediction of the Week or bin the idea of starting points altogether. I guess it's not easy being funny "on command" :)

extended deadline - Thursday noon...

so far so good (?):

• Leninskij "..that's the last time I trained with an octopus!"
• ParisParis "Teenas Versuch den "spot the ball" contest nach ein Paar Bier zu erstellen war weniger erfolgreich..."
• Tee-hee "Irgendwie hatte ich das mit der Punktewertung anders verstanden.."
• Hi5 "That Chinese doctor said I'd be as fast as a lady bug! ---hey, wait a minute...!!!"
• NGTS Stammtisch "Olympia 2008: außerorgiastischer Kontakt! Ist dies die Erklärung für die Flut an Weltrekorden?"

Quiky 251 - Rankings

sorry for being a bit tardy but here's last week's points (had other fings to do, like, ...)

A River Runs Through It....

just to put that one to rest before I get mine..

Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade.. Bucharest kriegt nur den Rest…

“Bucharest, Romania's capital city, is only 40 miles north of the cities of Giurgiu (Romania) and Ruse (Bulgaria), both situated on the banks of the Danube…“

Alreet then, a few miles off… that was the “Teena normally makes one mistake per week..” - apologies to those who inquired nicely.. and FO to those who thought they had to yell ...

Cryptic Clues - 251

Shaft has lost his voice.

EurHomer.
Nobel Prize 1970
Shoe size 14
Graduation
President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania

more to follow.. maybe..
not saying they'll all be in but not saying they won't either :)

Quiky Two-Five-Oh - Rankings

some 40-odd heads and a few prominent ones missing (can't have 'em all, can ya?!?)
Pity that the whole thingie has become so popular (I KNOW I shouldn't be complaining and I'm not, really, like.. but..) there's always too many teams for games rounds (I've already folded up tons of little envelopes for Spice World (aka Heiteres Gewürzeraten or Guess The Spice :)
What with the summer & holidays over soon and pub season starting again that's not likely to change so maybe we could do a round just for fun after one of the next quizzes.. outside, in the rain... if you're interested a) let me know and b) turn up early so that we'll have some time left after..

CrazyCaption #251

For those of you who - once more - were not in the mood to leave a funny caption last night - here's your chance for a point on 14 August..


As usual, the deadline for your Einsendungen is Wednesday, 13 August (midnight).. and now go and be funny!!

We did it!!!!

Twofiveoooohhh is history, and something that might be a question in round one of one of the next 250...
Befittingly it was a great night, with lots of laughs, assorted BS, old friends & new ones, nuts & nutters, copious amounts of alcohol and even a cake!!!
The usual roundup and stuff will appear here soon, as well as pictures (Rita die Fleißige has sent some already!!!) and leftovers..
and at 5pm on Friday there was still some cake left.. if you get down to the Kilkenny real quiky... :)
Anyroad - loads of all that later, for now just this

THANK YOU, DANKE, MERCI, HVALA!!! for your presence, presents (hey, where were the flowers?!? :) and sticking with this quiz malarkey for so long :) Here's looking forward to the next 250 or at least 25 .. or 2 ...

Oh, and I had some prezzies planned as well, alas, ran out of time.. you'll get them eventually, I promise.. and then there's "Quiky - The Book" .. in the works...

Wanted - Paparazzi

I'd be grateful and quite chuffed if anyone could bring a camera on Thursday.. we need pictures of the BIG ONE, seeing that we'll have an eclectic bunch of regulars old and new... and what better time to start a Wall of Fame..

And for ze Dshermans - ich wäre wirklich dankbar und erfreut wenn irgend jemand am Donnerstag 'ne Kamera mitbringen würde. Wir werden eine erlesen Schar von alten & neuen Stammteams haben und es gibt wohl kaum eine bessere Gelegenheit eine "Wall of Fame" (für Ossis: Straße der Besten :) zu beginnen...

Howay Two-Five-Oh!!!

The Big One is just around the corner.. The motto is "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" and I'm beginning to check old files for questions that might fit in there..
Obvioulsy there will be some of the best/wickedest/funniest from 5 years of Quikys, as well as some I might "borrow" from fellow quizmasters round the globe.. and certainly new ones for the picture round.. and the music might be blue...
Should anyone have suggestions or ideas as to what other features we should include - do let us know. The expected number of teams rules out games rounds tho...

Details on what you might be up against on Thursday here later this weekend.. or on facebook, for those of yis who are :)

Remember to a) leave your funny captions, b) turn up early and c) bring a remote sense of discipline so that I won't have to shout all night :)

CrazyCaption #250 - ze ansers

that was the picture in question..
...and a staggering 2 (TWO) teams left their comments..

Elfie Ömmel: Ich bin nett zu Vögeln!

Grünkohl: 'Trude Hahn, die neue Praktikantin im Weißen Haus, macht sich mit Präsident Bush bekannt...'

That's a point each for funny (enough) ... guess no one else wanted any..

Quiky 249 - Rankings

Quite a few heads in last night - 63 was my count.. not too shabby for the summer.. and nicely nicked 2nd place for Team 42 (apparently the answer to almost everything :).. and you wanted to leave.. have you got no faith?!?!?

New fun feature revealed

The successor to our (too) long-running Prediction of the Week is.... (drum roll)

Crazy Caption of the Week!!! (ta-daaaa!!!!)

Simple and goes like this.. every week you'll get a picture that - in itself - might not be all that hilarious and you have to come up with a funny caption. You can give me your lines on the night or else leave a comment on the blog or mail them to quiz_miz@hotmail.com. The deadline is always the Wednesday afore the next quiz, at midnight..
I thought it'd be more fun (as the answers are going to be read out on Thursdays and also published here). Additionally it gives non- or semi-regular teams a chance to get a valuable point...
Obviously I'm judge and jury on that but make me laugh (or at least grin) and you'll get your point :)

Und der Fairness und des guten Verständnisses halber das Ganze in Deutsch. Unsere langgediente Vorhersage der Woche zur Erlangung von Bonuspunkten wurde abgeschaftt.. Dafür gibt's jetzt die Crazy Caption of the Week - lustige Bildunterschriften die gleichfalls Bonuspunkte bringen können. Jede Woche gibt's ein neues Bild das an sich nicht notwendigerweise zum Brüllen ist. Wenn euch eine lustige Bildunterschrift / Anmerkung dazu einfällt könnt ihr diese entweder am Quizabend abgeben oder aber hier im blog oder per mail hinterlassen. Einsendeschluß ist jeweils der Mittwoch vor dem nächsten Quiz um Mitternacht. Die Punktevergabe liegt in meinem Ermessen - bringt mich zum Lachen (oder wenigstens zum Grinsen) und ihr könntet mit einem Bonus ins nächste Quiz starten..
Oh, und die Antworten werden am Abend verlesen und hier veröffentlicht..

And here, ladies & gentlemen, is the Crazy Caption of the Week for the big #250!! Keep them coming...

Noch Fragen?

For those of you who missed last night's fun- and people-packed event..here are some of the questions... more & pics later..

1. The novel “Lord of the Rings” opens with Bilbo Baggins celebrating his birthday. How old is he turning?
2. What does a notaphilist study and collect?
3. How many individual muscles are there in an elephant’s trunk? (+/- 1,000)
4. The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt, UK & Ireland switch to decimal currency, Jim Morrison dies in Paris, Prince Juan Carlos succeeds Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco and the world's four billionth baby is born. What was the year?
5. In which country was Jonestown, site of the 1978 mass suicide/murder by the Peoples Temple cult led by Jim Jones?
6. On 31 July of what year did the German national assembly adopt the Weimar constitution?
7. How many voyages to the Americas did Columbus make between 1492 and 1504?
8. In which city would you find the world’s oldest zoo still in existence? In what year did it open (+/- 100 years)
9. In what year did the first (officially sanctioned) rock music festival in the Soviet Union take place?
10. Name the five countries that have sent teams to every single Summer Olympic Games.
11. From what opera is the song “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” (Die Moritat von Mackie Messer)? Who was the composer?