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Sometimes the stars are aligned in just the right way. Sometimes the lucky penny lands right side up. And in last night’s round of trivia at Elbo Room, things worked out just fine for Street Academy, my trivia team. See, all tournament long we were booed, we were goofed on, we took a ton of…

If you go to Elbo Room to play trivia on a Thursday night, you learn something very quickly. The host, General James, puts up with a lot of stuff every time he hosts. The microphone works about 75% of the time.  The location in the bar where he hosts has the worst lighting imaginable, it’s…

Before I begin this week’s recap of the trivia tournament at Elbo Room, I need to let all trivia teams in the Capital District know about an upcoming event. A charity fundraising trivia competition, which will benefit the Relay for Life, will be held on Wednesday, May 26, at the American Legion North Albany Post…

Adding Jeremy and Alexis to my Thursday night Street Academy trivia team has really paid off.  More times than not, we’re either in the lead at the half (winning the free pitcher of beverage for doing so), but the final question – the one that could earn us playoff points for the finals – kills…

As we get into the homestretch of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament, my Street Academy team – Jeremy, Alexis and I – may not have as many qualifying points as the rest of the other seven teams in the tournament, but we are getting closer to the top with every game. We were in…

To my knowledge, it’s only happened once in Albany’s team trivia history.  Only once has a team answered every question right, without using any of their skips or “double-chance” option plays.  That was many years ago, when Stern Fans “went perfect” at the Arc sports bar in Watervliet. In the five years I’ve played competitive…

If you’re playing in a regular trivia tournament, in which the top prize is a bar gift certificate or whatever promotional tchotchkes were left over from the prize vault, missing a bonus question or a high value point question isn’t the end of the world. But if you’re playing for an eventual $1,500 prize, you…

Thanks to the attendance rule, in which one must show up for 75% of the 16-week tournament in order to qualify for the finals, there’s really no way my Street Academy team won’t make the cut.  At this point, it’s just show up, order food, and play. But I’m tired of just showing up and…

I arrived at Elbo Room.  I got the customary “BOOOOO” from the Skidmarks, and some jeers from Woo Hoo a Go Go.  General James handed me my answer slips. Oh… did I mention that he had already asked Question 12, and that if I hadn’t arrived within the next three questions, I would not have…

Some things that people don’t understand about competitive team trivia in the Albany bar scene.  There’s plenty of trash-talking. And most of it comes from the Skidmarks. A little background. The Skidmarks are a “legacy” team, meaning they were regulars when there were 30-40 teams playing every Tuesday night at Hooters in Crossgates Mall.  Hooters…