Category: Wellingtonista

WQL Results: Round Three

So, a lot of stu­pid deci­sions were made last night. Over a pre-quiz din­ner at Tul­si, the Welling­ton­ista thought that as well as drink­ing the wine they’d won at the Bris­tol last week, it was a good idea to drink two cans each of King­fish­er Strong, and then build a tow­er out of the cans. We’re pay­ing the price for that today. Then, decid­ing to do the quiz at JJ Mur­phy’s was also a stu­pid idea, because it took for­ev­er. And most stu­pid­ly at all, we for­got that when you do any­thing with hubris, there’s that whole pride goes before a fall thing, and so Xero beat us. By one point! Oh god, the human­i­ty. Sil­ver­stripe, the Alo­has and the M team all get 69 points since they weren’t there (why oh why do you hate us so, Sil­ver­stripe?). So the scores look like this:

Alo­has: 209
Click Suite: 213.5
M Team: 201
Sil­ver­stripe: 205
Welling­ton­ista: 264
Xero: 227

Wellingtonista Quiz League results: Round two

Last night the WQL hit the Bris­tol, where the quiz had the advan­tage of ever-so high tech com­put­er graph­ics on screen, and the oppor­tu­ni­ty to win an ice machine and waf­fle-mak­er in the jack­pot draw, but the dis­ad­van­tage of a quiz mas­ter who refused to pro­nounce ‘Quiz­ing­ton­ista’ prop­er­ly. Because we could­n’t book, the bar was stu­pid­ly full, but luck­i­ly Click­Suite are bol­shy enough to ask peo­ple to leave to give them tables. The Alo­has were wear­ing their leis again, but did­n’t get extra points for them this time. The M team almost lost points for try­ing to steal one of our play­ers (we swear that most of them were pure­ly orna­men­tal!) but escaped because it was love­ly to meet the Amer­i­cans for the first time. But you know, if I was­n’t so damn hubris­tic and full of myself, I’d be start­ing to wor­ry that I smell bad or some­thing because nei­ther Sil­ver­stripe nor Xero showed up for quiz last night. So we’ll award them 72 points each, and I will com­fort myself with the bar tabs that we keep win­ning.

Points so far:

• Alo­has: 140
• Click Suite: 144.5
• M: 132
• Sil­ver­stripe: 136
• Quiz­ing­ton­ista: 179
• Xero: 141

So it’s look­ing like a pret­ty close game right now, and any­one could take out sec­ond and third places…

Wellingtonista Quiz League results: Round one

So, tonight was the inau­gur­al round of the WQL, and I reck­on it went quite well, real­ly. Quiztron and the M‑Team were no-shows (I under­stand why the M‑Team weren’t there, but I real­ly missed Quiztron), so if they can make it next week they’ll start out with the same points as the low­est-scor­ing team tonight. Which hap­pened to be the Alo­has, even though they got a bonus point for their cos­tumes (dude, they all total­ly got lei’ed). Sil­ver­stripe almost lost a point because Matt tried to make me cry (I can’t remem­ber the con­text, except that they kept try­ing to sit at our table), but ulti­mate­ly they earned a bonus point for their can-can.

Points so far:

• Alo­has: 61
• Click Suite: 71.5
• Sil­ver­stripe: 64
• Quiz­ing­ton­ista: 85
• Xero: 69

Woo haa! Stayed tuned for the announce­ment of next week’s venue. If you want to join us, let me know, you’ll be start­ing out on 60.

Announcing the Wellingtonista Quiz League

It’s oooooooooooooon! We are very hap­py to present you with a start­ing date for the Welling­ton­ista Quiz League — Tues­day July 24. We’d love you to par­tic­i­pate. Not only will you get to flex your brain mus­cles and check out the quiz nights at four dif­fer­ent pubs, but you’ll also get to net­work with like­mind­ed peo­ple and have a lot of fun. So now you need to find your­self three friends, send us an email to welling­ton­ista @ gmail.com or leave us a com­ment here with your team name, and sign up to the mail­ing list for Quiz League announce­ments which may look sus­pi­cious­ly like the Bowl­ing League mail­ing list. We’ll let you know which inner-city pub we’re start­ing at clos­er to the time.

After the break, the rules. Any ques­tions?

Early warning: The Wellingtonista Quiz League

I’ve been rather qui­et on the Welling­ton­ista front (well, for me any­way) because I’ve been busy fin­ish­ing up my con­tract and look­ing for a new job (any­one who knows of a new home for a per­son with tremen­dous writ­ing, edit­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills who knows the inter­nets like the back of her hand should get in touch), but when I come back from a trop­i­cal hol­i­day, the Welling­ton­ista will be very very excit­ed to announce the start of the Welling­ton­ista Quiz League.

This will be held a dif­fer­ent inner-city pub each week on Tues­day night for four weeks, and point totals is what you’re after. So start assem­bling your team of four now, and look out for more details in the sec­ond week of July.

You will want to enter this, no one who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Bowl­ing League regret­ted it, and I’m sure they would hap­pi­ly fur­nish you with test­mo­ni­als about the awe­some­ness that is par­tic­i­pat­ing in a Welling­ton­ista event!