Empty Glasses wins October Quiz Cash

Empty Glasses won $150 cash in the October Quiz Cash contest

Empty Glasses donned the trivia crown for October and took home $150. The team captured the lead by the second week of the month and continued to pad its lead in subsequent weeks. Jammie Dodgers, Dirty Dixies and Chasin’ Trivia put up a stiff challenge at times, but Empty Glasses cruised to victory.

Guys & Dolls and Jammie Dodgers won the free rounds of beer.

Trivial tidbits from the night included:

• Early in her career Madonna earned notoriety when she exposed her hairy axilla, which is the medical term for the armpit.
• Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, says teachers have the germiest job. Cashiers rank No. 2.
• Before he began wearing makeup as a member of Kiss, Gene Simmons earned a brief living as an elementary school teacher in Harlem.

Final standings for October:

1. Empty Glasses – 321 points
2. Jammie Dodgers – 313
3. Dirty Dixies – 306
4. Chasin’ Trivia – 296
5. Guys & Dolls – 255
6. We Suck – 186
7. Suck It Trebek – 74
8. J&G – 58
9. The Pop Tarts – 57
10. Team F my L – 48
11. The Utters – 45
12. My Bitchy Ex-Wife – 43
13. Sign Language – 42
14. Golden Girls – 35
15. Scary Gary – 35
16. Sanford’s Melrose Place – 34

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