Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
For my birthday yesterday, I took a break from my laptop, and now I am paying for it. The end of the quarter entails a significant grading load. Not writing from time to time also comes with its own psychic load. I agree with Gloria Steinem when she says, “Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
This morning at a meeting I talked about how rich I am, just not monetarily. I have a healthy family, a ton of friends here in Davis and elsewhere, and many cultural activities to partake in. Thursday night I got to host Poetry Night, Friday I got to attend an avant-garde jazz concert titled “Citizen X” (two of the Broun Felinis performed with master guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly and inspirational poet Sadiq Bey), Saturday night I got to attend Stories on Stage, Davis, and yesterday I saw Captain Marvel, which earned a PG-13 for anti-alien violence and some saucy language. What a full extended-weekend!
In addition to tonight, I would love to see you this coming weekend at a fundraiser Friday night. Starting at 6:30 at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A Street, more than a dozen pub quiz teams will gather together to win large sums of money for their favorite local charities. Tickets cost $30, dinner included. Come hang out with the charitable all-stars of Davis, and compete to be named, by the Davis City Council, the “smartest people in Davis.” All the money goes to good causes. Find details on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/371974176945919/or just search for “Trivia for a Cause 2019.”
At tonight’s Pub Quiz, you will also be playing for bragging rights, as well as for restaurant credit. In addition to something mentioned above, the topics to be covered include Saturday Night Live, marijuana possession, places that sound French, endings of a wave, bongos, staplers, missing mandated meetings, places that opened in 2010, godlessness, contiguous states, Sunset Boulevard, American novelists, hosts, building clay, rabbits, seemingly inter-galactic substances, the acronym BHMC, personal rules that are followed and public rules that are not, film titles that are distasteful in retrospect, eight years on probation, women who sculpt grails, medical mishaps, shades of face, Chicago activities, ceaselessness, unusual uses for wheat, scamming, long marriages, $7.5 billion, the compulsion to dance, faraway winners, welcome brain stains, rubber, states in play, the shocks that continue and the shocks that cease, and Shakespeare.
Thanks to all of you for your birthday greetings. One of these years I will be older than either Shakespeare or Houdini, two of my heroes. I hope to see you this evening.
Your Quizmaster
Here are three trivia questions about March 10thfrom yesterday’s Davis Enterprise:
- Only one U.S. president applied for a patent, this one for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions. Name the president. Hint: He applied for the patent on March 10th.
- What former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation declined the position of baseball commissioner on March 10th, 1951?
- On March 10th, 1963, who scored 70 points in a game between the San Francisco Warriors and the Syracuse Nationals?
P.S. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart