First Rule of GeekFight! Club:

Friday night, on the eve of the 3 Families' annual shopping sojourn to Hong Kong, Lola and I attended Geekfight!, a pop culture-centric quiz nite event at Quantum Cafe in Makati. The quiz's catergories were: Gadgets, Dinosaurs, Comic books, Music, Video Games, Crime Movies, Sci-Fi and the Geek IQ Portion, with bonus Star Wars round. I chose the name Capricornix, in honor of Caprica and Boy Bawang.

The one Gadget question they threw that surprised me was "What device is used to open the New Gods' boom tubes?" (A: Mother Box), since that was really more of a Comics question. Apparently they wanted to delve into fictional gadgets as well.

While no-one in our team (adopted members Ed and Frances --who thought the team name was an allusion to Asterix-- included) had much to offer by way of right answers in the Music category (we opted for funny ones, instead), the Comic Books category was a chance for me to have what Lola called my "smug face." The only ones I answered incorrectly was due to my not having read the books in question, no pun intended (Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 and Slam Dunk, specifically). Meanwhile Lols and Ed saved our butts in the Video Games category.

This was only the second quiz nite event I've attended, but the first one I managed to stay the whole evening for, and the evening ran late, much to Ma's frustration (told her I'd be done by 10, but it ran 'til 1AM). In terms of overall ranking we were No. 6 out of 15 participating teams. Least we made the top 10, in not the top 5.