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The date.  July 18, 2010. The event.  A summer gathering of the top trivia teams in the Capital District.  All the legends of bar and tavern trivia, including the Trivia Bowl 6 and Elbo Room Tournament champion Street Academy squad, in the hopes of winning the first-ever “Triple Crown of Trivia” – and doing so…

It did not start out as a good day.  I had spent the last 48 hours hacking and wheezing, my body violently battling a 24-hour cold that wanted to stay an extra day.  At about 445pm, I got a text message from my trivia teammate Jeremy that they might be late for the Elbo Room…

Last night, only six teams showed up for the final round of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament.  The last variable in terms of the standings, Big Red Machine, arrived and qualified, via the attendance rule (12 out of 16 games) for the final round next Thursday.  There.  Mystery over. Now let’s play the game. Actually,…

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…