Graney’s Stout Trivia: If 9 Were 6

The fun part about playing competitive team trivia in the Capital District is that you can win some great stuff.  And by “great stuff,” I mean your could snag anything from restaurant gift certificates to cash money.  And in some instances, you can win some big-ticket items – and when I say “big ticket items,”…

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Blue lines and placards

I’ve recently started playing – well, the proper term is WINNING BIG – at the Wednesday night trivia game at Graney’s Stout.  I’m participating in a 9-week tournament, in which teams have a chance to score four Jets-at-Dolphins football tickets, plus two nights of hotel accommodations in Miami.  No airfare, though – I’ll have to…

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The Results of Summer Bowl III

It’s Sunday morning, and I’m trying to keep my mind focused.  Took the cameras out for some early morning shooting.  Went grocery shopping.  Bought some N-gauge train tracks.  I’ll explain the N-gauge train tracks in another blog post. Now it’s time to head over to Recovery Sports Bar and Grille in Troy, site of this…

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Recursion of the Chance

The minute I received my seventh “postcard o’ doom” from The Chance, telling me I wasn’t worthy of participation, I immediately taped it on the wall with the other six rejections, then went to set up another appointment.  Another trip to New York City.  Another recursion back to try again, to re-audition, to re-apply, to…

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Summer Bowl III is coming

It’s the midyear championships of professional team trivia in the Capital District. On Sunday, July 15, the weekend before the Saratoga flat track opens for its summer season, the top trivia teams tackle tough topics and try to trounce their competition in the Summer Bowl.  This year’s event, which will be held at Troy’s Recovery…

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Relay for Life Trivia 2012 Results

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…

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“Barn Versus Weeds” and “Night Train to Heaven” and Relay for Life and #AfricatoCanada

Just an update on things. My framed 8×10 picture of “Barn Versus Weeds,” the 2010 Kodachrome shot of a Greenfield Center,N.Y. barn with a bad vegetation problem, has been delivered to the people involved with this Wednesday’s “Relay for Life” trivia competition. And from what I understand, there’s a lot of people who want to…

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“Barn Versus Weeds” and Relay for Life Trivia

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…

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May 30: This year’s Relay for Life Trivia Game!

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…

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