Fraters Libertas

When Did You Stop Beating Your Trivia Competitors?

In 2004 a new twist was added to the weekly Tuesday and Thursday night trivia competitions at Keegan's Irish Pub in Minneapolis. Every team that wins on any Tuesday or Thursday automatically receives a bid into a year end, trivia tournament of champions.

The Fraters squad likes to take care of bidness early and we locked up a spot on the very first Thursday in the new year. In fact since then we have locked out any other teams from qualifying by running the Thursday trivia table in 2004. Since we are magnanimous gentlemen and quite compassionate conservatives, we have elected to not participate in the next two Thursday night trivia competitions.

That's right. The window of opportunity is open. But act quickly, for it will not remain so for too long and we'd hate to see anyone get their fingers caught when we make our return in three weeks time, and slam it shut with extreme prejudice.

Meanwhile the once vaunted Tuesday night trivia champions from Team K are starting to sweat a bit. Here we are in the third week of January, and yet they have not been able to win a single Tuesday night competition in 2004. There are still forty nine opportunities for Team K to right the ship, but the longer they fail to qualify the more the pressure will build.

It's almost silly really. Here we sit with THREE tickets punched to the big dance already, while our noble rivals are empty handed. In a gesture of pity, we asked if it would be possible to transfer one, just one, of our victories to Team K in order to ease their weighty burden of failure. Terry, the publican of Keegan's, is a firm but fair man, and he judged that it really wouldn't be sporting if teams that had earned their spot in the sun were able to so easily pass it on to those less fortunate competitors. And in our hearts we know he's right.

And so Team K will have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps tonight, and fulfill the famous Churchill rallying cry to "Deserve Victory" (you know that would make a great bumper sticker). We'll be pulling for you guys. Win one for the Fraters.