A Perfect Night For A Quiz...

Both indoors and outdoors were in play on Monday night's quiz at Camp Bar.  The forecasted thunderstorms did not materialize, but the 80 degree temperatures did.  Queeps were treated to a few new picture questions like famous singers yearbook photos and guess the dog breed.

It was no doubt a challenging quiz, but Remember When Colin Quinn Took Over For Norm McDonald on SNL? That's How We Feel Right Now was able to rise to the top with a very comfortable win despite testing karma (those that needle the QM in their team name tend to have bad things happen to them)...

Nice win though guys, two weeks in a row!

Nobody Wants To Be Panhandled in Utah Anyway ran into a buzzsaw, but still performed well enough to finish 2nd place... 

The team had a perfect Film & Tele round.  Perhaps more impressive, the team pulled off a quiz rarity by also providing the night's best team name.  It is QM Matt's loose policy not to give best team name to teams that finish "in the money," however, the two top teams clearly distanced themselves from the field in that category as well.  Congrats to both teams for taking home $30.

Until next time Milwaukee, drink while you think...

Monday May 20th, 2013 scores:

1. 40 Remember When Colin Quinn Took Over For Norm McDonald on SNL?  That's How We Feel Right Now.
2. 34 Nobody Wants To Be Panhandled in Utah Anyway
3. 31 EM
4. 28 Currolla
5. 26 Mosquito Bites
6. 25 Team Axels
7. 23 Susan
8. 19 Sec. of Internet

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Article of the Week - The Wise Little Hen

The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies cartoon, based on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. This cartoon marked the debut of Donald Duck. This cartoon was released on June 9, 1934. It was animated by Art Babbitt, Dick Huemer, Dick Lundy, and Ward Kimball and directed by Wilfred Jackson. It was also adapted as a Sunday comic strip by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro.

The Wise Little Hen of the title is looking for someone to help her plant her corn. Peter Pig and Donald Duck both feign belly aches to get out of the chore. So, with help from her chicks, she plants it herself. Harvest time comes; again, Peter and Donald claim belly aches, but the hen sees through this. She cooks up a variety of corn dishes, and heads over to Peter and Donald, but before she can open her mouth, they already fake their belly aches. Once she asks, they are miraculously "cured" but all she gives them is castor oil, to teach them a lesson.

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Quizmaster Curtis' deepest, darkest secret... (Quizmaster Cup Sunday!)

Just another reminder that Quizmaster Cup IX is this Sunday May 19th at Red Rock Saloon! Register online in advance to save money and save a table! Free bottle of premium booze for each team too...

For the third week straight a sudden death was needed to separate two teams in competition at Camp's trivia night. The action was intense again as 7 teams battled it out for the top spot. Eventually the win would go to I know the Easter Bunny but not in the Biblical sense who got the sudden death question spot on and took the $30 gift card home...

Fighting all the way to the end were Hello my name is Curtis and I didnt make the first cut for One Direction...

Ouch. They have revealed QM Curtis' deepest secret!

There would be a hands down winner for best team name going to If storks bring white babies and blackbirds bring black babies what birds bring no babies....SWALLOWS...

They are a lovely bunch really, we promise!

Again a great night at Camp. Hope to see you all back soon.

Until next time Milwaukee, drink while you think...

Monday May 13th, 2013 scores:

1. 40 I know the Easter Bunny but not in the Biblical sense
2. 40 Hello my name is Curtis and I didn't make the first cut for One Direction
3. 37 If storks bring white babies and blackbirds bring black babies what birds bring no babies.... SWALLOWS
4. 33 50 Shades of awesome
5. 30 Two guys, a girl and a pizza place
6. 29 Beef Curtains
7. 22 This one time at band camp? I mean this one time at Camp bar

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Article of the Week - Ellen Church

Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 – August 22, 1965) was the first female flight attendant.

Church was born in Cresco, Iowa. After graduating from Cresco High School, Church studied nursing and worked in a San Francisco hospital. She was a pilot and a registered nurse. Steve Stimpson, the manager of the San Francisco office of Boeing Air Transport (BAT), would not hire her as a pilot, but did pass along her suggestion to put nurses on board airplanes to calm the public's fear of flying. In 1930, BAT hired Church as head stewardess, and she recruited seven others for a three-month trial period.

The stewardesses, or "sky girls" as BAT called them, had to be registered nurses, "single, younger than 25 years old; weigh less than 115 pounds [52 kg]; and stand less than 5 feet, 4 inches tall [1.63 m]". In addition to attending to the passengers, they were expected to, when necessary, help with hauling luggage, fueling and assisting pilots to push the aircraft into hangars. However, the salary was good: $125 a month.

Church became the first stewardess to fly (though not the first flight attendant, as German Heinrich Kubis had preceded her in 1912). On May 15, 1930, she embarked on a Boeing 80A for a 20-hour flight from Oakland/San Francisco to Chicago with 13 stops and 14 passengers. According to one source, the pilot was another aviation pioneer, Elrey Borge Jeppesen.

The innovation was a resounding success - the other airlines followed BAT's example over the next few years - but an injury from an automobile accident ended her career after 18 months.

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