A Country of Oskars
We love putting this quiz on for you every week – mostly because we’re rude and nosy and like hearing your stories about how you ended up answering questions about Renaissance painters/turtles at our favorite bar on Sølvgade.
I hung around a bit after quiz this week to talk with the winners, not-winners, and some of our long-time teams who are heading back to their home countries at the end of the year. Here’s my unsolicited commentary:
For the team with an American Midwesterner – there aren’t many of us here in Denmark, so we have to keep telling people what a corn dog is.
For the team that provided Icelandic pronunciation hints – I’m sorry the first thing I mentioned was the app.
For the team that asked me for romantic advice - someone gave you their number at quiz(!), a place where everyone specifically agrees not to be a jerk, so yeah, text them back.
For everyone else? I’m personally glad you know all the words to I Will Survive, I appreciated your enthusiasm about specific aardvarks, and promise to not ask Nordic stock market questions for the rest of the year.
In the winners and not-winners circles this week it was nothing but feel-good hits. Long-time team Quizzly Bears came out on top, followed by (presumed) newcomers Quiz-Mats, and exchange-student team One Last Ride went out with a bang in a third-place shootout with The Nordicans. Merry Quizmas experienced the full force of the Most Average prize, splitting a single Tuborg Classic between five people, and It’s My Birthday stayed on-brand with a round of shots in last place.
Here's the week 50 board for everyone else:
1 . Quizzly Bears 65
2 . Quiz-Mats 63
3 . One Last Ride 59
3 . The Nordicans 59
4 . The Quizzards 57
4 . Ze Germans and Friends 57
5 . C U Next Tuesday 55
5 . MERGER 55
6 . American Idiots 54
6 . Østerbros 54
6 . Pretty Preps 54
7 . Quizzerkonerne 52
7 . Social Rickrollers 52
8 . Brahms 1st 51
8 . Watercooler Chit Chat 51
9 . Heinrich XIII Cabinet 50
10 . Merry Quizmas (most average!) 46
11 . Quiz Pro Quo 45
11 . Unemployed Queens 45
12 . Mr + Mr Smith 42
12 . The Leftovers 42
13 . The Six from Six 41
14 . Zambombas 40
15 . Thank You Thomas 39
16 . Musketeers 36
17 . Kong Frederik X 35
18 . There's No Way!!! 33
19 . Madame Moustache 32
20 . I Like Sandwich 22
21 . It's My Birthday (last place!) 21
22 . The Shameful Ones (late join) 13
This was our last show for the year – you’ll have Guest Quizmaster Emeritus Christian in week 51, then we’ll see you after the holiday in January!
