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Wolf’s 1-11 was packed to the rafters with trivia teams.  Classic teams like Lynch’s Mob and Tres Hombres and Stern Fans.  New trivia teams like See You Next Tuesday and Send It In Jerome and Origami Swans.  And solid consistent squads like Clay Aiken’s Skidmarks, Brown Van Experience and Woo Hoo a Go Go.  The…

Now, the final recap of a previous Trivia Bowl.  This one took place in February 2009, and I was looking forward to a tough competition at Broadway Joe’s in downtown Albany. And it was a very tough competition.  It looked like 40 different teams had hunkered down at Broadway Joe’s, and the hosts from Baker’s…

Conan O’Brien got better treatment. Here’s the situation.  Back around September or so, Brown’s Brew Pub moved their Wednesday night trivia games to Monday nights at Revolution Hall.  Marc Palozzi and Anthony Chiera were hired to replace Zack Hilton as trivia hosts, and people could watch the Monday Night Football game on a big screen…

This coming Saturday at Wolf’s 1-11 is the sixth annual Trivia Bowl, and the top invitation-only teams will battle it out for the right to claim the championship Trivia Bowl. These teams were hand-picked by the hosts of the various Trivia Nights Live teams – Baker, General James, Murray, Charlie, and the rest.  Automatic berths…

Between the time I won the 2007 Trivia Bowl competition and the chance to defend my title at Trivia Bowl IV, a few things actually happened with the Trivia Bowl itself. Normally, the Trivia Bowl trophy was placed on display at Hooters in Crossgates Mall. I continued to play Tuesday night trivia at Hooters, and…

Okay.  Here’s how this works.  The eight teams that showed up were fully fortified and ready to go.  $2,500 was on the line – $2,000 for first place, $500 for second place, and dat’s it. Each question was worth a varying level of points, the harder the question, the more points you can earn.  You…

It’s nice to see when someone from the Capital District can get on a game show like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” or “Jeopardy!” and take home some money.  With that in mind, congratulations to Stephanie Ferreria, an Albany State student who took $10,000 from the producers of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”…

After my first failed attempt in 2006 to win the championship chalice of competitive team trivia, I vowed that I would do whatever it took to win.  Although I played team trivia as a solo act, the one-man wrecking crew of “Street Academy,” on occasion I would bring friends in and have teammates.  So by…

Oh man, if last night was the money round for the Elbo Room Trivia championship, I should have just gone home. A year off on one answer, a decade off on another, I couldn’t hit anything correct. And when the 20th and final question rolled around, although I had a semi-respectable 70 points on the…

As we get closer to February 6, and the day when the best trivia teams in the Capital District face off in Trivia Bowl VI, I thought I’d share some memories of past Trivia Bowls.  I wasn’t involved in the competitive bar team trivia scene until the summer of 2005, so I missed out on…