In which our ingenious amphibian adopts a cunning disguise, and is yet robbed of 3rd place by having fewer points than 3 other teams.

In a tribute to Dave's tribute to Joseph Heller, and in no way because the team had grown sick of the title Ethel the Frog, our ingenious amphibian adopted the name The dead man in Yossarian's tent last night as a cunning ruse by which to sneak up unawares upon our arch-nemeses (who had yet to be identified) and open this blog post with an inordinately long sentence (which I feel I have achieved).

Within a few moments of declaring this alias, the team a few places down from us on the big excel spreadsheet display had changed their name to Major Major Major Major, thus announcing to all and sundry that it was on, dear reader, like Donkey Kong. Also on our hit-list was a team calling itself Brian Slept with a China Man, ¹who clearly felt the need to resort to such underhand tactics as bringing a team of 15 people in order to beat us. Arse-cunts. Another name worthy of note, being the Fudge Packers. Fudge Packer, dear reader, turns out to be New Zealand slang for gay. And they call Australians crass and un-couth .... to which we respond by joking that they like to shag sheep, thereby demonstrating their point.

By the end of the night, dear reader, you will be pleased to learn that we had crushed both the Fudge Packers and, more importantly, Major Major Major Major underfoot. Brian on the other hand, no doubt due to having the answers supplied to him by that China man in return for his fudge packing services, went on to win the night on 78/100. Two other teams tied on 72, and we got 68.

Questions we failed to suck at.

1. What U2 song was dedicated to Billie Holliday? But for my somehow managing to mix Billie Holliday up with Buddy Holly, we would have gotten this a whole lot sooner.....
2. The flag of Ethiopia consists of of what three colours in vertical bands? Thanks go to Helena for inducing me to look at that flags web-site.
3. Who spreads herself over a piano in The Fabulous Baker Boys?
   
4. What European team won the 1982 World Cup(the real one)? I just felt the need here to point out that there are sports questions I actually know the answer to.
   

Questions we managed to suck at.

1. Who played the title Role in the 1980s Cop show T.J. Hooker?
2. What land carnivore is said to be able to smell humans from 20 miles away?
3. What is the only animal born with horns?
4. What is the highest altitude capital in Europe? A useful one to know, since it's not the one you'd (probably) suspect. Also, my office-mate is currently disputing the answer, and apparently has some grounds to do so....
   

¹A claim over which some doubt was expressed.