Five Golden Rings
Our favorite part of quiz isn’t asking the questions, it’s getting to learn cool stuff about Denmark, Europe, and all of the other places you are from.
We didn’t know that there is an entire Danish set of gifts for the song the 12 Days of Christmas (a duck? with acorns? on its feet?), that the Danish spelling of the disciple James’ name (Jakob) is more accurate than the English spelling when compared to the Greek translation (Ἰάκωβος, for our Greeks, Iacobus for our Latins). We also didn’t know any of the names of the World Cup goalkeepers - but you did!
It was a tough quiz this week, but our nearest and dearest friends behind the bar introduced a Most Average prize to take the edge off for our most average team - Los Hombres, who we are both mathematically indifferent toward and inclined to award a round from the Gløgg Pot to. Klap Lige Hesten had enough of Danish Mystery Liquid and passed on their last place prize - we can’t really blame them (sorry).
At the end, we had an exciting third place shootout between I Hope My Teammates Show Up and Tim and the Kite Corners, with knowledge of Scottish economists splitting the two into beer winners and not-beer winners - a most ironic capitalist outcome. Second place went to C U Next Tuesday, buoyed up by their partridge and pear tree knowledge, and three points ahead in first place we found the American Idiots.
We also learned that 20% of the American Idiots have seen Bernie Sanders washing his clothes in the river outside of the Coat Factory or whatever, so I guess that’s cool.
The rest of you have really nice coats. Like suspiciously nice. Here’s the board for week 48:
1 . American Idiots 66
2 . C U Next Tuesday 63
3 . I Hope My Teammates Show Up (perfect timed round!) 61
3 . Tim and the Kite Corners 61
4 . Three Musketeers 56
5 . Mads and the Hobos 52
6 . Little Single Lady 51
7 . Østerbros 50
8 . Babagonoushes 49
9 . Almost Virgins 48
9 . Black Gloves 48
10 . Los Hombres (most average!) 45
11 . Danmarks Største Quiz Presidenter 44
11 . Probably the Best Team in the World 44
12 . Slav Pilgrim vs. The World 43
13 . Johnson (only knower of popular Danish authors!) 41
13 . Punctual Ones 41
14 . Los Taquitos Chicos 36
15 . Lonely Fans Mini 34
16 . Sexy but Broke 31
17 . Mr. and Mr. Smith 30
18 . PPP 28
19 . Lasse og Theodor 27
20 . Mezcalitos 25
21 . Horse Girls 24
22 . Klap Lige Hesten (official last place!) 22
23 . Esters Tøjte 20
24 . A.S.S. 15
If you’ve read this far, we have a special treat for you. Next week? Designer sneakers. Don’t tell us we didn’t warn you.
