All articles filed in trivia

Last night, Martel’s at the Capital Hills Golf Course hosted the 2012 Relay for Life trivia competition.  It was a standard “Trivia Nights Live” matchup, with proceeds from the event going to charity. It was a good game all around, some of the questions were really competitive – one of the 10-pointers was “In what…

Hey guess what… See this picture? This is my picture “Barn Versus Weeds,” a 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem.  This picture won an award at one of the photo competitions last year. And now, a framed copy of this picture can be yours. All you have to…

As much as I enjoy playing competitive team trivia, I really really REALLY enjoy it when playing trivia helps raise money for a worthy cause. And this year, that means participating in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Trivia game. Get your friends and co-workers together, as the top trivia minds in the Capital…

“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together forever? Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. You know what I need?  I need more hellos.” – Charlie Brown, Snoopy Come Home Was it only…

I’ve had a long-running rivalry with Wayne Powers, the captain for the trivia team Blue Mooned.  We’ve played against each other in various trivia games and tournaments, and essentially his team wins a few times, my team wins a few more times. Recently, Wayne has attempted a very major leap in the team trivia department. …

First off, let me start by saying what an amazing and well-run event the Parsons Corporate Trivia Challenge was.  When I arrived at Jillian’s for the event, there was a staff of Parsons volunteers ready to answer all my questions as to where to sit, where to eat, and where to get the 50/50 raffle…

Looks like the upcoming Parsons Corporate Trivia Challenge, which will be held at Jillian’s Bar and Restaurant on North Pearl Street in Albany on Thursday, March 1, will be a big bad sellout. There will be 25 companies represented at the event, and since some of these companies are sending two or more squads, there…

First things first.  I need to take a moment and congratulate all the teams that participated in this Elbo Room trivia tournament.  All of you were competitive and all of you could have taken that big prize. That being said… thanks to Marguerite knowing the theme song to Grey’s Anatomy, and Jeremy knowing that Kid…