Donnybrook Writing Academy takes home first at Geeks Who Drink music quiz
Posted by guyincognito on June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Think you know music? Think again.
Yesterday the good folks at Geeks Who Drink held its first ever Music Knowcase quiz at the Irish Snug pitting some of the city’s most passionate music aficionados against each other.
Quizmasters Dicker and the Jza took to the task of hosting the all-music quiz with a bunch of newcomers to the Geeks Who Drink scene.
Teams representing institutions including Westword, The Denver Post, Twist and Shout and the Slump Busters (half of the Geek Bowl IV winning team) ventured to the music terrordome to match their mad musical knowledge against each other.
But the team that rose to the top was the Donnybrook Writing Academy and took home the $300 purse.
The Donnybrook Writing Academy overtook Denver Post peeps, We All Banged Pat Calhoun, by one point in round eight, while the Slump Busters Sing the Blues rallied into third place.
While Donnybrook took home the money and glory the other 20 teams took home nada, nothing, bruised egos and a small dose posttraumatic stress disorder from the local music snobbery round.
I have to admit I was out of my element in the music department. People are passionate about the music they love but being able to float in an all-music themed quiz is quite the task.
I heard the rounds in local music were quite difficult. The JZA said on GWD’s official blog that geeks had to have been knowledgeable about the local scene at least two decades and was the difference maker for many of the teams vying for the prize.
I was tempted to do a mock quiz but dropped the idea altogether after getting three out of eight correct in round one. And Jza might as well have been speaking Chinese during the local music snobbery round. Word on the street is that the best team scored four of eight on that round.
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Dicker and JZA manning their quizmaster battlestations before the music quiz kicked off.
Westword’s “Backstreet Zombie Fornicators” came in sixth place with 55 points.
The Denver Post’s “We All Banged Pat Calhoun” came in second after leading for the majority of the quiz.
We’re Just Here fa the Happy might’ve come in last place but came in third for effort.
Playdough Factory came sported a respectable 40 points.
The Slump Busters make a brief visit to the Snug for the all-music quiz. Word has it they are lighting up suckers and knocking out chumps intellectually at other pubs including the Rackhouse.
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