1- Prizes, sometimes including cash, were awarded to top competing quartets in the early days of the international competition. What prize did our first champs, the Bartlesville Barflies, win? For extra credit, what was the prize given to the fourth place and lower quartets in that 1939 contest?
2- What did the top 15 quartets in the 1942 competition win?
3- What did the 1943 champs win? For extra credit, name this quartet and the current location of their prize.
Answers to Barbershop History - General Knowledge Quiz:
1- The Barflies were given a check for fifty bucks. Those quartets that came in fourth place or lower were each given boxes of throat lozenges. Was there a message there?
2- A wooden coffee table emblazoned with the Society logo. I am not making this up. You can find it on the Society website; I did. Fifteen coffee tables seems rather extravagant, doesn't it? Maybe a society member was in the wholesale furniture business!
3- A 20" X 24" oil portrait of the quartet painted by society member, Dick Sturges. The champs that year were the Four Harmonizers. The painting remains on display to this day in Harmony Hall.