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Before I provide you with this week’s recap, I need to tell a story. It’s a story about being overconfident in a topic. Many years ago, on a Valentine’s Day trivia night, I was in the lead and looking to run the table in my trivia game.  I realized that trivia would fall on a…

By missing the first week of the Capital District’s Trivia Unification Tournament – where dozens of local bars and taverns host trivia competitions, and the top teams play a one-day, winner takes-all championship – I’m already behind the 8-ball.  Urgh. But a second-place showing last week at least garnered me points for the event.  Now…

The venues are still being set up.  The organizations are still partnering. But if this happens… Hell YES I’m participating.

Two years ago, a team of Times Union staffers won an inaugural charity trivia event.  Last year, Trinity Alliance of the Capital District – a team that I participated on – took the title. So last night was essentially a “rubber match” between both squads, as part of the annual SEFCU charity trivia tournament.  The…

Yesterday, over two dozen of the Capital District’s smartest trivia squads gathered at Pearl Street Pub in downtown Albany for one of the area’s major trivia championships, the Summer Bowl.  These teams vied for trivia supremacy, as well as the $500 prize and their names engraved upon the Silver Shaker trophy. Over the previous seven…

The first thing to do in today’s blog is congratulate the winners of the Spring Trivia League, the team of New Phone Who Dis? who fought their way up and nailed the final question, “In what decade were the Grammy Awards first presented?” (1950’s), and congratulations also to the second-place team, The Fist, who also…

Last night’s trivia game was a bummer in many ways.  And I couldn’t be the only person who got bummed out. I could call last night’s trivia exercise, “Right answer, wrong question.” Let me explain. One of the categories was on World Leaders – identify the leader from a picture, get the points.  I correctly…

With only a couple of weeks left in the trivia league series, I’m still at the bottom looking up.  And if I don’t start winning some playoff points AND SOON, I’ll be behind the 8-ball as the final round commences. So here we go. The mystery second category involved fast food trivia -we were shown…

Talk about a rough night at trivia.  Last night, every time I got a decent run put together, I ended up collapsing on a tough question and losing all my momentum.  Urgh. Take, for example … an eight-point question regarding who won the last NBA Finals that did not involve LeBron James.  I went with…