Chickentown? Tinkletown? Hinkletown!

It's the fourth week of quizzing, and this was the last week breakdown of Luke. We finished up with the trial, crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The team met on time. We had lunch together and got Secret Sponsor gifts. Everyone had a Valentine theme. Mine was a paper heart, crayons, and dark chocolate again. Sweet. My team got a group gift. It was a basket of bannans, each bannana had a quizzer's name on it. It was our second name badge for us for this week. Practice went as usual. There were quiz outs, errors, stupid answers from Michael. You know, the usual. We got a break halfway through. Mike, Bryan, and Tim took this time to ride a handcart. We had dinner, but I didn't eat too much because I was nervous. I had my Full Throtle Fury Energy Drink and dark chocolate.

The ride up to Hinkletown was full of questions. Dave got a break from asking questions. Tim asked Chelsea and Christine questions, while Mike and Bryan asked me questions. They helped me a lot. They gave me back some lost confidence. I'm not sure whether it was working in small groups or that I was getting more questions, or that Mike was asking them, it worked. We joked around a lot and that helped. We talked about the tomb that no one "was laid" in and that Joseph would rap that the chief priests would "try to catch Jesus teachin' dirty." Lol. You can't buy memories like those.

We had the first match of the night. It was against Paradise 3, at the time placed 13th. This would be the hardest match of the night. Boy, it was. Tim got one right, then errored out. I errored once and then missed a bonus before I quizzed out on question 12. Sadly, I was the only one to do so. At the end of question 14, we were tied at 55 points. Question 15, and Paradise 3 buzzed in. Our perfect win-loss record flased before my eyes. Paradise 3 errored on that, and we got the bonus right. We won 65-55. It was great that we won, but the score was unimpressive. That was the lowest we scored all year. That is also the lowest point margin we won by.

Between that match and our next one, I watched Hopewell 1 take on Akron 3. Tim, Mike and I might have been the only loud ones there. They said they were grateful for it. I'm glad to help in any way I can. In the beginning, it didn't seem to help. Only Bryant was able to quiz out. But then things got better. Hopewell 1 won by the end, but barely.

Now it was our turn to be on again. It was Bowmansville 2, third to last. I wasn't sure that we could get what we usually were able to do. At first, it seemed like we were nervous and uptight. After question 11, we were winning, but only by a score of 60 to 40. I was not ready to go through another match like the last one. But all of a sudden, we kicked in. We got 3 consecutive quizouts: Mike on question 12, Graham on question 13, Tim on question 14. To wrap it all up on the last question, Christine buzzed in, answered "the king of noble birth", went into review, got it right, and got team bonus. We won 135 to 40.

Now of course we were more fired up for our next match against Hinkletown 1. The home team in their sanctuary. No problem. Tim quizzed out as soon as question 4. I answered questions 5 to 7 consectively for a quiz out. Bryan got a bonus thrown of his way, he got it right! Congrats to Bryan Tedor on his first points ever!! Christine pulled through with team bonus again. Sadly, Michael was unable to get another quiz out. We did win, however, with score of 120 - 45.

Afterward, we went to the fellowship hall for cookies and drink. Mike decided he wanted to "make friends" AKA get some girls. He found one that he thought was pleasing to eye, but he was in for a surprise. She was an exchange student from Argentina! Nice try, Mike, but not this time. He wasn't too happy about that. As we were about to leave, the van didn't start up! The battery needed to be jump started. Fred tried to jump us, but his car was too small. Then someone came with 8-cylinder truck and that did the trick. We did get to leave the Hinkletown parking lot, and I got home at 11 PM.

Next week is the fun week! Stay tuned for a schedule on that!

Quizzing Question of the Post:
What 4 would a disciple rather say to his servant?