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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…

This is now week 5 of the trivia tournament, and since there is now a new rule stating that teams have to show up for at least 12 of the 16 weeks in order to qualify for the tournament, it means that teams can’t just show up for a couple of weeks, qualify, and then…

There was barely any parking spots to be found in downtown Troy last night, as I went out to play Wednesday night trivia at Meka’s Lounge. The whole downtown area was packed with green-wearing patrons and pubcrawlers, while most of Troy’s bars and taverns had Irish-themed entertainment and live acts like Hair of the Dog…

A few days ago, Wayne from the Blue Mooned trivia team questioned why, after my personal decision not to play competitive team trivia at a Recovery Room establishment, did I willingly walk into a Recovery Room sports bar in Troy on Super Bowl Sunday and play for football tickets.  He calls shenanigans. Well you know…

I would have had a better night if I stayed home and slept in.  Suffice it to say that when you burn off your two skips on the third and fourth questions (what city was originally known as Dairy Church, Pennsylvania; in what film did Jennifer Lopez play a member of a Scrabble club), and…

This week at Elbo Room, several legacy teams returned to the Delaware Avenue bar and grille for their chance to win free food and beer, as well as the $1,500 grand prize.  These were teams that hadn’t been at Elbo Room since the last tournament, and all of a sudden I saw Stern Fans, The…

When I played trivia at Brown’s years ago, there were several dominant trivia teams.  One of the more memorable trivia teams was a squad who took their name from an iconic scene in the Will Ferrell movie “Step Brothers,” where Ferrell and John C. McGinley make a music video called “Boats n’ Hoes.”  I’d link…