Weekly Winner, Trivia Update

The scores are in along with a lot of 1st time players and some who have tried again after being away...Thanks for playing and lets get to this weeks TOP 5 Weekly Points winners...

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. kathlock	110	1
2. Soy-Boy	83	5
3. Dawtch	82	9
4.Operator9	80	3
5.Shoretown	75	20

It's the girl from Downunder AGAIN !! getting into the triple figures AGAIN !! she is on fire this month and I'm tempted to throw a whole week of baseball Trivia at her, but that wouldn't be nice !!

CONGRATS KATHLOCK !!

As far as #2 thru #5 we see 4 different players than we had last week...

Soy-Boy was number 2 and he stumbled yesterday after having a very strong week.

Our favorite player from Indiana Dawtch notched #3 .

The April 08' Champion , Operator 9 was 4th.

Finally, number 5 spot Shoretown , who has dabbled in the Trivia Challenge in the past, played 6 out of the last 7 days, and proves once again that in any given week anyone playing Tom's Trivia Challenge has a chance at being the Weekly Points Winner, a stat you will only find here at Tom's Hideaway.

Congrats to all and welcome to those 8 new or returning players that joined us in the past week including Shoretown we had Balla1, Bpoore05, Dale2006, Rain, Tresbelle16, Jayarr and prittypink1211...

This week I'm Going with 7 straight days of Fun Trivia Mix Questions...Good Luck to all !!

Old South Meeting House

On December 16, 1773, some 5000 colonists gathered at the Old South Meeting House to protest a tax and so, started a revolution with the Boston Tea Party.

Built in 1729, the Old South Meeting House was the largest building in colonial Boston, but is now towered over by the modern steel and glass buildings of today.

Boston is a beautiful city with a wonderful mix of old and new...



On a trip this past weekend I snapped a few shots of the city...

A new view of the Custom House from a park that used to be a a highway through the city until they put the highway in a tunnel with the costliest highway project ever... Big Dig

And another shot from the park , but , looking in the opposite direction, of Rowes Wharf where I left my Yacht above..I wish!!

Located across from the State House , beside the Boston Common is the Memorial to the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry which was one of the first black regiments in the US Military and fought in the Civil War and was depicted in the movie Glory starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington.

All in all my son Pat and I had a nice day strolling through the city, hope you enjoy the photos!!

Trivia Update July, Week 1

Because I lost the points stats from Sunday 06/29/08, we only have 6 days of points to determine the overall Points Leader for the week ending July 5, 2008!!

It's my mistake...but I think we can all live with it.

So...The players with the most points from Monday 6/30/08 to Saturday 7/05/08 are as follows:

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. kathlock	101	1
2. Shaun	76	4
3. Sally	73	11
4.PG	70	2
5. Pixiepants	61	5

Kathlock leads the pack !!

Congrats Kath and the rest of the players that made it in the top 5 in points this week.

I'm doing AWFUL but I'm not giving in yet!!

1, 2, 3 Clones !!!

click on picture to enlarge

The Panorama function on the the new camera is kinda cool... It looks like Pat is watching himself talk to himself !!

RE Weekly Winner's...I've crunched the numbers, I know the weekly winners but I am trying out a new Scheduled Post feature in Blogger so tune in after 5 AM EST on July 7, 2008 for the Weekly Points Winner stats and see if you made the list...

New Toy and an Old Song

I got myself a New Toy today...A Fuji Finepix S1000 10 Megapixel Digital Camera with a 12x Optical Zoom...

Wooo Hooo ..

I never buy myself anything so I splurged a little on this one.

It's of course so pictures here at Tom's Hideaway are of the best possible quality !!

Here are the first 2 shots:



Anne's Orchids



Minnie, resting on Dad's Shoe.


Now there will be a lot more to follow, both here and my poor lonely Hideaway Picture Blog !! So Lets Celebrate the new camera with an appropriate song titled

New Toy !!

Oh AY OH !!

That Lene Lovich what a snappy dresser!!

Another Email Post

Got this in the mail from

"gutterguy"

one of the Stars of Tom's Trivia Challenge

Hooked on phonics...

Jake is five and just learning to read. He points to a picture in a zoo book and proudly says,

"Look Mama, this is a frickin' elephant!"

His mother is horrified, "What did you call it?''

"A frickin' elephant, Mama. It says so right under the picture!"

African Elephant

New Month, New Week and I made a boo boo

There will be a slight difference in the weekly winner scores for this coming Sunday. They will be based on the scores everyone gets starting today thru Saturday the 5th.

I lost some of the stats from Sunday so for this week there will only be 5 days instead of 7 for the week. Next week everything will be back to normal, well as normal as it gets here anyway. Sorry!!

Congrats to Kathlock who topped all scorers for the past month !!

I see aintneverscared has thrown down her desire to OWN the Trivia Scores this month....



I see Dawtch taking the top spot 3 of the last 4 days

kathlock continues to show us how sharp an Aussie girl from DownUnder can be while PG has been dropping more games than the Red Sox..

Let's see if we can get a new 1st place finisher for July. I love Kathlock and PG and I want them playing every day..They make me want to do better so I'm urging everyone else to kick some butt this month and let's give those two champs a run for it.

Weekly Winner, Trivia Update

For the first time in weeks we have one of our top players missing in the weekly point competition and I am sure you will note who is absent from the top 5 point getters for this the last full week in June....does time ever fly..

The biggest point getter for the week ending June 28th, 2008...

Drum Roll Please

A BIG CONGRATS TO ...

DAWTCH !!!

She's been in the top 5 for the past 2 weeks and this week I get to ask everyone to visit her blog The Life & Times so you can tell her how impressed you are !!

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. dawtch	101	3
2. kathlock	98	1
3. .soy-boy	84	4
4. Tom	80	6
5. Shaun	83	5

Dawtch, I know you've had a busy week but you are the proof that no matter how busy it gets there is always enough time to play Tom's Trivia Challenge, Great Job!

kathlock, soy-boy, ME and Shaun took the other 4 slots this week...I have been knocked out of the top 5 overall stats and I am going to try real hard to get back in there by Wednesday.

As far as the Monthly winner to be announced on Wednesday....It's down to the same 2 people as last Month only this time their roles are reversed.

Good Luck everyone !!