TALKING TRIVIA

  Chuck Yu of Trust the Butt made Overall Team of the Week in Week 4 with an impressive 18(6).  It was a long 4.5 hour trip down to Silver Spring MD. We met at Matchbox on a Saturday morning for their very affordable  Unlimited Bruch special and the following interview. Rich :  Congrats on Team of the Week for Week 4. How many team of the weeks have you made in your OQL career? I remember you had a recent 17(7), is that your best score ever? CY: Thanks! I’ve made a handful within my division but only overall once or twice. I’m about as capable of getting 1 direct as I am of getting 6 in a given week, so it’s still a fun thing to see myself up there every so often. I’ve never had a full house, and the 17(7) was my first time getting 7 directs, but I think my highest score was probably 18(6) sometime in my first few seasons.  Rich : How did you first get into OQLUSA  and tell us about the teams you have been on and how the team name was made? CY: As a lot of...

Longtime OQL USA vet Stephen Fleming-Cooper made Team of the Week in OQL USA in back to back weeks four and five. I caught up with him at Rumi's Kitchen in Atlanta for a nice Persian dinner and the following interview:    Rich: Congrats on Team of the Week for Week 4 and 5 of Season 18. How many team of the weeks have you made in your OQL career? Fleming-Cooper: To be honest, I don’t know. I don’t really keep track…I’m always here to help my team do as well as they can, and while the individual accolades are nice, they don’t stick with me as much. I think it’s somewhere in the teens, maybe? Rich : How did you first get into OQLUSA and UK and how tell us about the teams you have been on and how the team name was made?  Fleming-Cooper: I was invited into OQL USA by former player (and multi-time Jeopardy champion) Dave Leach, who was one of my college quiz bowl teammates. I was hooked immediately -- and even as our lineup has shifted over the years, I keep coming back becau...