Let's Get Trivial!

I have a regular London quiz night. I had a regular quiz night back in Perth, a mammoth five round event every Tuesday that always ended with the musical intro round (song and artist) but since being in London it's been a bit hit and miss. The biggest miss was by far the "silent" Great British quiz which was always going to be a loser because a) I don't know anything about anything about trains or football and in a gross generalisation they rank pretty highly in the British trivia consciousness and b) if you can't give a little cheer when you get the answer right, I don't want to know.

This quiz night is a winner. Four rounds of ten questions, a good mix including movies (my undoubted strength) and picture clues.

Last night I covered myself in glory by knowing that the actor who appeared in Alien, Top Gun and Steel Magnolias was Tom Skerritt (weaselly Tom Skerritt). I also knew that Sheryl Crowe sung the theme song to Tomorrow Never Dies and won myself a free drink. It is nice to have somewhere to flaunt the results my mispent leisure time. By far the best right answer we got didn't involve me at all. The picture clue was a blurry photo of a ship with a hole blown in the side. We had to say where the explosion had happened and this how we got it...

"Do you watch Friends? What's that country that Chandler says he's going away to visit?"
"Yemen?""

The ship was blown up in Yemen. One point! Go team!

Becski Got Back...On the Blogging

I get myself a blog and then what happens? The internet connection goes! Goddamn Orange, foiling my ability to write stuff about stuff. As a result I have several half baked posts that were relevant (not to mention cutting and incredibly funny) but I can no longer be bothered with. But I did see Spiderman 3...

Now I didn’t love the first one, I caught the last half of the second one and was glad I hadn’t bothered with the beginning and I just don’t get Tobey Maguire. But No 3 has two of my tv boyfriends in it. James Franco and Topher Grace can get all the big budget film roles they like, they will always be Daniel Desario and Eric Forman for me. Sure, some may think that pigeon holing actors into the first tv roles that made them famous is ultimately restrictive but I have no truck with those sorts.

And while I'm thinking of Freaks and Geeks, where is the UK DVD release? Huh, huh?