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Big Brother 10 is open

"Big Brother" is here yet again in the U.S. for the tenth time.  For the first time since "Big Brother 3", no one in the house is related in anyway, so there go all of my secret family theories.  The show seems to have more interesting people then last time. 

 

For one you have Jerry, the 75 year old Marine, he is the oldest person ever to participate in a reality show.  The house voted for him to become Head of Household, a first for the show, probably because they don't see him as a threat.  He hasn't really done much yet but I hope he does well. 

 

There seems to be only one alliance for now consisting of the Catholic school teacher, the devout Christian, and the guy working in telecommunications, I forgot their names but I should remember everyone's by next week.  It will be interesting to see how these three will play, will they play with integrity as their faith suggests or will they resort to what many players have done in the past, only time will tell.

 

The only annoying one in the house is Renny, the beauty salon owner from New Orleans.  She kept waking everyone up on the first night because she couldn't figure out how to open the door.  She has been nominated for eviction and hopefully the power of veto will not be used on her.  But hey, sometimes the annoying players last far too long in this game but I hope I'm wrong in this case.

New TV Premieres soon

To start off, the newest installment of "Big Brother" will begin tomorrow night (7/13), I hope there will be people who actually want to play the game this time.  There apparanetly is a strong Obama supporter on the show, it would be very entertaining if a McCain supporter or any conservative was on the show as well, that could be a show by itself.  I guess we'll all have to see on that one.  I'd be more excited about this if their hadn't been a Big Brother that aired during last winter, you got the writer's strike to thank for that one.

 

What I'm more excited about is on Monday night (7/14) when there will be new episodes of "Top Gear".  Even though these are not new to the Brits and most Americans don't even have the channel it is going to air on, I'm still exicted about these different episodes.  Very funny show and there are supercars? Sign me up. 

 

Apparently NBC is going to air an American version of this show and one of the hosts will be Adam Corolla.  I don't think this version will do nearly as well.  For one the BBC is a government runned station, essentially the "Top Gear" guys can do whatever they want with what they're presenting since they're not upsetting any sponsors since there are not any.  As with this U.S. version, the show is going to be much more about the sponsors and they won't be doing anything crazy or anything that will give the sponsors a negative view so I doubt that the show will be that funny.  It will probably be more like "Car and Driver", I don't think the American version will last that long.  Both of these shows will keep me busy until "Ugly Betty" comes back in late September.

Team Venture is back!

After the long wait, the third season of "The Venture Brothers" is here.  Even though the first episode did not talk much about Team Venture, it was entertaining nonetheless.  The next episode will be on tomorrow night on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim program you can also watch it on their website all this week.  For those who have seen the first season three episode "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny", try this quiz I made.

 

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Television/Shadowman-9-In-the-Cradle-of-Destiny-289911.html

 

 

Don't be scared by the Impossible rating, if you've seen the episode, this quiz is not that tough.  I will probably be working on quizzes for all of the season three episodes as they air.  I'm so glad this show is back, the writing is brilliant and the characters are top notch.

 

Questions about themonarch Part 3

Here are the last of mathking97's questions I will anwser here we go.

 

41. What's your favorite message board? the government chat board always has some debates going

42. What's your favorite country hourly? I've stopped playing it but USA was always easy for me

43. What's your favorite class? 124 is where it's at

44. Hobbies? Funtrivia, Triviabox, bowling, video games mostly grand theft auto and guitar hero, watching TV

45. Member status on Funtrivia? Been gold since March

46. Quizzes played? Currently 1361

47. Accuracy? 76%

48. Badges? 27 but I always want more

49. Blog posts? 7

50. Global Challenge division? I was in the Newtonian Club but after I knew I was out of Immortal contention I resetted to play Hardcore and keep resetting when I reach division 4.

51. Current Team? The New England Alliance

52. Approximate hours of sleep? 7 hours a night on weekdays and 9 hours on the weekends

53. Normal alarm set? N/A if I need to wake up early, I sleep earlier if I don't have to go anywhere I can sleep like a bear

54. Sleep Beginning time? Anywhere between 12:00am and 3:00am

55. Did you like anwsering these questions? Yes

56. Which questions were your favorite? The Funtrivia ones

57. Account created? September, 13th 2007

58. Class? Currently ranked 2nd in 124

59. First team? I created The New England Alliance and I have never left it even though I did get some offers from other teams

60. Experienced, Veteran, or Old Timer? I'm only experienced but I hope I stick around to be an old timer

 

Well those are 60 more things you know about me enjoy.

 

Questions about themonarch Part 2

Happy Cinco De Mayo everyone and as promised, here are 20 more of mathking97's questions I will anwser.

 

21. Books or movies? Movies, I like to see more than imagine

22. DVDs or tapes? DVDs

23. Playstation 2 or Nintendo Gamecube? Playstation 2

24. What's your favorite Funtrivia daily game? Team Game I wish I can do better at it though

25. Roller coasters or water slides? Whichever one has the shortest line, if that is not a factor then roller coasters

26. What's your favorite movie? Maybe Kingpin or Mrs. Doubtfire

27. What's your highest Lord of Obscurity score? 1102 I was one question off of the Obscure Researcher badge, ooh so close

28. More or less math problems? Less many of the problems are repetitive so it can get tiresome

29. Word problems or math problems?  Word there is a bit more to it

30. Science or History? History, if we can't learn from it, how can our future improve?

31. What's your favorite time of day? Night, it is more peaceful

32. Do you like drawing? I like watching drawings in the form of cartoons but I am terrible at actually doing it

33. Do you like acting? Yes it can be fun to act like some one else sometimes

34. Do you like soda? Yes I probably like Cherry Coke the most

35. Do you like technology? On the whole yes but it can get excessive

36. Do you like Great Britain? Sure I don't have any problems with our friends from across the pond

37. Songs or poems? Songs, music can have so many different messages

38. Winter or summer? Winter, I'd rather freeze then melt

39. What's your favorite Funtrivia team? The New England Alliance

40. What's your favorite game show? Quiz & Conquer much more strategy to it than Last One Standing

 

I'll see you all tomorrow with 20 more questions and anwsers.