Sofa Kingdom barely misses Top 10 All-Time List in a high-scoring affair at Dirty Frank's

The second team to win after a drought this week were Philadelphia quiz bullies Sofa Kingdom, who barely missed the Top Ten All-Time List. Pending my research on an Unreasonably Difficult round baseball question I might have to bump their score up 1 point for posterity, but this would still leave them one measly point short of Group V's #10 position. UPDATE: Yep, Frank Thomas missed the World Series too. I'm adding a point to Sofa Kingdom's score.

There were a lot of new faces I'd like to see back. One team called the bar after the game was over and your bouncer Captain informed me that a complaint was lodged about my Fort Ticonderoga question. That certainly hasn't happened before! The complaint was that the general whose name I wanted was merely a colonel at the time of the capture. Hey, I didn't say anything about anyone's rank at the time. For example when anyone asks the question "What general graduated at the top of his class at West Point in such-and-such year?" we obviously mean that this person was a successful cadet who later became a general. In any event, how many commanding American officers captured that fort in 1775..? (I'm not revealing the answer as it's a component of the Secret Theme round, questions below.) Hopefully this hasn't tainted anyone's view of the quiz and people shall return.

Everyone did very well and I don't think it's because the questions were unusually easy. Kudos to the whole darn room, I think 73 is the "highest lowest" score at Frank's ever.

Beautiful Gold: Sofa Kingdom 174 (revised)
So-So Silver: Einstein Disguised as Robin Hood 166
Shameful, Shameful Bronze: Group W 151

Also-rans:

Relentless 107
Kenya 102
The Southpaws 100
It's! People! 73