Back from the dead! Quiz Bowl Sunday!

A final reminder that Quiz Bowl II, Milwaukee's sports and pop culture trivia tournament is this upcoming Sunday January 29th! Register your team now!

Quite a few nyctophobiacs were playing the Fanatics quiz last night, with the regular selection of funny team names as always.

Titty Sprinkles were a team back from the dead, returning and smashing out an impressive 37 points...

Top three spots were separated by just three points, I'm A Shark, I'm A Shark, Suck My Dick, I'm A Shark just missing out.

Second place went to Urethra Franklins Hidden Pickle who scored 43 points...

With Jonny Bravo And His Sexy Busty Wenches...Oh Yeah, Whoop Whoop, Can I Get A Witness? winning on the evening with 44 points...

Kevin will host the geography round next week via Skype.

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

Wednesday January 25th, 2012 scores:

1. 44 Jonny bravo
2. 43 Urethra Franklin
3. 42 I'm a shark!
4. 37 Newt Gingrich would like Lady Gaga to play his skin flute
5. 37 Titty Sprinkles
6. 36 Achilles real heel is his closeted sexuality

Article of the Week - Annie Edson Taylor

Annie Edson Taylor
In 1903, the 63-year-old was the first person
to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive!

Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American adventurer who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

In October 1829, Sam Patch, who called himself "the Yankee Leapster", jumped from a high tower into the gorge below the falls and survived; this began a long tradition of daredevils trying to go over the falls. On October 24, 1901, 63-year-old Michigan school teacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go over the falls in a barrel as a publicity stunt; she survived, bleeding, but virtually unharmed. Soon after exiting the barrel, she said, "No one ought ever do that again."

Previous to Taylor's own attempt, on October 19 a domestic cat named Iagara was sent over the Horseshoe Falls in her barrel to test its strength. Contrary to rumours at the time, the cat survived the plunge unharmed and later was posed with Taylor in photographs. Since Taylor's historic ride, 14 other people have intentionally gone over the falls in or on a device, despite her advice. Some have survived unharmed, but others have drowned or been severely injured. Survivors of such stunts face charges and stiff fines, as it is illegal, on both sides of the border, to attempt to go over the falls.

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Box Robots, Box!! (Quiz Bowl Sunday Jan 29th!)

Just a brief reminder that Quiz Bowl II, Milwaukee's sports and pop culture triva tournament is next Sunday January 29th! Register your team now!

Fanatics playas got a little quizzing and some robot boxing for their money on Wednesday night....now that is entertainment value!

Apparently this is an inside joke that Quizmaster HQ doesn't quite get! Fanatics finest understand, or so we're told!

Kevin B. was also back in the fray to quiz on the Third Ward's finest!

Two new teams got their Quiz on as Team Schlinke and The Magician's Alliance finished 6th and 5th respectively.

There were impressively high scores all round with first and second split by just one point.

Chomp My Gobstopper appeared from nowhere and finished with 57 points to take second.

Absolutely smashing top spot with 58 points was Will You SOPA My PIPA? who took home the big prize!

Nice work on the team photo! Quizmaster's thinking of introducing a "photo of the month" contest in the near future?! Watch this space!

Next week Kevin will host the quiz while wearing women's jeans.

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

Wednesday January 18th, 2011 scores:

1. 58 Will You SOPA My PIPA?
2. 57 Chomp My Gobstopper
3. 52 Rob Greens Hand of Clod
4. 51 Jenny Spies Can't Make Change
5. 47 The Magician's Alliance
6. 46 Team Schlinke
7. 44 Humpcore Hump Day
8. 37 FTS

Article of the Week - George Kelley Barnes

George Kelley Barnes
Best known by his nickname "Machine Gun Kelly,"
he spent 17 years as an inmate at Alcatraz

George Kelley Barnes (July 18, 1895 – July 18, 1954), better known as "Machine Gun Kelly", was an American gangster during the prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun. His most famous crime was the kidnapping of oil tycoon & businessman Charles Urschel in July 1933 for which he, and his gang, earned $200,000 ransom. The FBI investigation eventually led to Kelly's arrest in Memphis, Tennessee on September 26, 1933. His crimes also included bootlegging and armed robbery.

Machine Gun Kelly spent his remaining 21 years in prison. During his time at Alcatraz he got the nickname "Pop Gun Kelly." This was in reference, according to a former prisoner, to the fact that Kelly was a model prisoner and was nowhere near the tough, brutal gangster his wife made him out to be. He spent 17 years on Alcatraz, working in the prison industries, and was quietly transferred back to Leavenworth in 1951. He died of a heart attack at Leavenworth Federal Prison, Kansas on July 18, 1954, his 59th birthday. He is buried at Cottondale Texas Cemetery with a small headstone marked "George B. Kelley 1954".

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Machine Gun Kelly"