QUIZ RECAP

They say that Santa knows who is naughty and who is nice. Hopefully Santa didn't have any special helpers at Longship Brewery tonight, because there were a few naughty teams causing trouble and coal might be in order. This was our Christmas themed show, filled with cookies, holiday music, and a Christmas themed set of questions.

We could tell that it was going to be a long night, when we were asked an interesting question from newcomers Coratti Kicking. Now, Coratti is the last name of one of the players on this team, but when they handed us their round one answer sheet, they also asked, "Does spelling count?" Then we saw "Coratti" and I was concerned that they had spelled their own team name wrong. Luckily they cleared that up pretty fast to prevent additional ribbing. This team also jokingly answered "Die Hard" for any Christmas related question they weren't sure about, only to almost miss the one question that was actually about Die Hard. Yippie-Ki-Yay.

We also had a tight race for the victory, as the top five teams stayed within ten points of one another in the standings for a majority of the game. There was also something of a Longship record, where in round six, there were four teams that successfully hit the double or nothing to really make scoring interesting. Although Beerspiration and Hawaiian Time put forth a valiant effort, but missed out on the top three spots by one point and four points, respectively. Final standings:

1st: Cyber Chemists
2nd: Indifferent Penguins
3rd: R.I.M (First ever game and placed third, well done!)

Then we came to this week's beer round: Wrap Battle. We spooked a few teams when they thought we meant singing was involved, but then it dawned on some people that we meant "gift" wrapping. Each team was given a very oddly shaped children's toy that would be difficult and unique to wrap. They were all given a roll of paper, tape, and scissors, and the team to provide us with the most elegantly wrapped gift would claim the beer. We were very impressed, and you can see some examples in this week's photos, but it was Cyber Chemists to pulled it out this week. Although we joked that we picked this just to have other people wrap all of our gifts for us, all of the toys were donated to Longship's Toys For Tots collection.

We wish everyone a happy holiday, and invite you all to join us next week (the day after Christmas) for a relaxing post family gathering game. We'd love to hear about all of the gifts you receive.