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My trivia hosting experience has improved over the past few months. I will admit to nerves and jitters the first couple of hosting dates, but now I feel more confident in my efforts. However … there is one teeny weeny issue that’s essentially derailed my best efforts for a technically perfect hosting event. My sound…

So this is cool. For the past two months, I’ve successfully hosted bar trivia at Beer Bones Bar & Grill in Latham / Loudonville. I get a regular rotation of teams, and it’s a good, solid evening of entertainment. And starting tonight … I’m hosting a second night of trivia. Welcome to Wednesday Night Trivia…

In 2024, I “retired” from the competitive team trivia community. After fifteen years of answering questions about every imaginable topic (and getting most of them correct), I felt that my playing time had run its course. Then, last July, one of my friends asked if I would consider being a substitute host for him; he…

Background. A couple of months ago, my friend Ed asked if there was any way that I could substitute for him as a trivia host for a few games this summer. I’ve played trivia for many years, but I hadn’t gone over to the hosting side – this would be an entirely new experience. No…

And in the end, I finished as a winner. Well, I didn’t win the tournament, if that’s what you thought I meant. No, I finally put the final flower in a 17-year-long garden of team trivia competition. From the first day I walked into a Tuesday night contest at Hooters in Crossgates Mall, to last…

It seems like an eternity ago. But nearly twenty years ago, I stopped into the Hooters at Crossgates Mall on a Tuesday night, and played competitive team trivia as a one-man team – and finished the night in third place, winning a bucket of chicken wings that would have fend a four-man squad. That was…

Although I haven’t done as many bar and tavern trivia events of late, I’m still eligible to participate in the Capital Region’s “championship” tournaments. And that includes the Summer Bowl, which my Street Academy team has won FOUR TIMES. I remember winning Summer Bowl I way back in 2010 on a question regarding holidays in…

The final question involved the category of “Up in Smoke.” My Street Academy trivia team had 125 points, tied for 10th place among 30 different teams. We were 17 points away from the lead, but needed a lot of luck to claim the big prize. We went all in. “In what year did Colorado and…