Last night was the first Wednesday of the month, which means that I, my girlfriend, and a bunch of our friends, participate it the legendary Pub Quiz here in town. It's a knock-down, drag-out trivia competition, including a video round, a picture round, and a missing link round. There up to eight people on each team, and our team in particular is kind of the New York Yankees of trivia teams. Well, without the being completely evil part. We're the one everyone wants to beat, and we're also the one that usually wins.
Each of the eight have their own areas of expertise. Mine, obviously, are quantum mechanics and comic books. So last night, we got this question: This super heroine made her first appearance in All-Star Comics #8. It couldn't be Wonder Woman, I thought. That was too obvious. Besides, her first appearance was in Sensation Comics, right? I used to have the hardback treasury edition. It's what her First Appearance Action Figure is based on. So it'd have to be someone else. I chose Hawkgirl.
Can you believe that it was Wonder Woman? I thought our host got it wrong, and on the way home, called my Mom and had her check the answer. Okay, I didn't call her at 11:30pm to have her check Wikipedia, she'd left a message earlier in the night and said to call, and she's more of a night owl than me, so I was returning said call. She's usually on the computer doing real estate stuff, so having her check wasn't that much of an effort.
And our host was right. I felt horrible all that night. I mean, it's a comic question, I should know that cold. There are any number of questions on Pub Quiz that we think are between A and B and we pick A when it should be B. That's fine. But me not knowing a comics question, geez, that's like not knowing my own middle name.
Worse yet, when the scores were all tallied, we were tied with another team. That one question could have been the difference. So we went into the tie-breaker round. We had to get two points. I got the first one for our team, and teammate Dave and I were simultaneous in getting our second winning point. So, I feel vindicated at least a little bit.
Oh, yeah, and here's a newly-colored page from Buzzboy!