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Last week was a big three-stage boost for my “We Are Your Nemesis … Fear Us!” trivia team.  We took the overall win last week and earned the $20 “Ruck Bucks” certificate, so that’s a major plus.  And in the overall cumulative standings, we’re now in third place among all Ruck teams, and tenth place…

So I understand it’s still the third week of the tournament, and there’s 16 weeks to play.  And although we did reasonably well last Monday at the Ruck, after two weeks of play we fell in the overall score from 7th to 17th place among all Catch The Mania teams participating – and, worse than…

Recap from last week.  My all-star trivia team, which for this tournament is known as “We Are Your Nemesis … Fear Us!”, came in second place in Week 1 of the Ruck trivia tournament.  If your team is looking to participate in this tournament of champions, here’s the rules and the parameters at this link.…

It took three tries, in writing that headline, to NOT type the words “Elbo Room.” For years, I played in the Elbo Room big money tournament.  My Street Academy trivia team won it twice, and came in second place twice.  But the minute the tournament became a “raffle” tourney, in that teams received raffle tickets…

Let’s just cut to the chase.  I’m not going to make this any easier or faster.  Just rip the Band-Aid off the wound so quickly that it’ll make someone scream Kelly Clarkson’s name. The e-mail o’ doom arrived yesterday.  As long as I don’t open that e-mail, there’s still a microscopic possibility that I’ve made…

This was the last thing I expected.  I’m so used to going to New York City and trying out for The Chance – the game show whose name I dare not speak, even though everybody who has read my blog for the past four years knows exactly who “The Chance” is. I’ve tried out for…

It’s been a part of my trivia schedule ever since the Elbo Room started hosting tournaments.  A Thursday night competition at the Delaware Avenue bar, a trivia tournament that often runs through the fall and winter (and sometimes there’s a spring tournament as well).  Teams play for weeks and weeks for the opportunity to participate…

It’s time to give the coveted Silver Shaker award back.  My Street Academy trivia team has held the Summer Bowl chalice, the symbol of supremacy in summertime team trivia in the Capital District, for the past year. Now we have to defend this championship against 29 other trivia squads. Trust me.  Street Academy will ALWAYS…

It’s the midsummer classic; the Summer Bowl, the trivia championship that’s held as the Saratoga flat track opens for business. This year, the invite-only tournament will take place at On Tap, the restaurant inside Latham’s Holiday Inn Express, this Sunday at 7:00 p.m.  Teams will be challenged on twenty different trivia questions of history, pop…

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve played my Monday night trivia game at the Ruck, the Troy rugby-themed tavern, instead of at my usual Monday evening locale, Brown’s Brewing.  Maybe I just wanted to mix things up – the Ruck has the 70-question “Catch the Mania” trivia game, as opposed to the 20-question “Trivia…