Europe

Before I start, I need to set a few things straight, for the record. Let me just say that New York is a fantastic city, full of fantastic things, fantastic people, yadda yadda yadda. Bottom line: it’s fantastic. I just want you to know that I recognize this about New Read more…

Adjustment period took less time this time. Probably because I was with Ann, and we were met at the arrivals hall by our good friend Mark. And the fact that I had been here just four weeks ago. It’s always good to come back to your home country. I’ve always Read more…

It was a strange night. First, we ran into some Springer and ex-Kluwer peoples in the bar and convinced them to participate in the pub quiz. Then it turned out that Ann had hit it on the head about the music round being devoted to Christmas songs (and it was Read more…

So we’re in the Ardennes. Thanks to the miracle of GPS technology we successfully navigated the wilds of Belgium to find “Le Vieux Chemin” in Anja’s new “monovolume” (which is how Europeans say “SUV”). Although we had some confusion with which house we had rented (Ann and Anja were emphatic Read more…

Yeah, we started out with a lot of promise. New player (Ingrid). Some good scores early on. Some good guesses (what is “diplopia”? Answer: double vision. Guess by Brian. Booya.). But somewhere along the way the questions became ridiculously hard and we started sucking, finishing with just 55 points, tying Read more…

My honey’s persistence in going all the way to Brussels for auditions to be on TV quiz shows finally paid off. Two weeks ago she got a call to participate in a taping of “Met de Mes op Tafel” (which translates to “With the Knife on the Table”). It’s a Read more…

So we only had three tonight, but we had good fun. I have to give Julia the “mad props” she deserves for pulling a couple of fantastic answers out of her butt: the finger whose nail grows fastest (middle) what you would get in Italy if you ordered “diciotto francobolli” Read more…

So I took a trip back to the States just this week and here are a few highlights of my trip: Thanks to Mark and Katrin for a fine fajita lunch the day I got in. Kira was as cute as ever, even when we were being mean and boxing Read more…

Right from the start we knew it was going to be sucky. The first round, a picture round, was all logos of Dutch companies with the text removed. And our only native Dutch team member cancelled ten minutes before the start of the quiz. Great. We got 3 out of Read more…

There were 18 teams, the most we’ve seen. We had a full complement of five (while we were surrounded by at least two tables who cheated with six players). The questions started off fairly easy but got harder. And we scored the most points we’ve ever scored. But, of course, Read more…