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I’m starting to believe that our trivia host, Kevin Baker, has a Wahlberg fascination.  At least twice during last night’s trivia game, he referenced the Boston entertainment family … first by asking what 1988 New Kids on the Block album was their smash LP (it was “Hangin’ Tough”), then later on asking to identify the…

Last night I had one of the strongest runs in a trivia game in a long, long time. Finished off the first round perfect and in the lead. Cleared the second round – identifying awards and trophies by seeing a picture of them – stayed in the lead. Went five-for-five in the “huddle round” by…

For all intents and purposes, last night’s trivia game was a wash for me.  And to be totally honest, I had a very schizophrenic run at trivia – I would miss easy questions and hit the hard ones, or I would get together several easy questions and then destroy my advantage by guessing wrongly on…

There’s a very simple, hard and fast rule about weekly competitive bar trivia games. No matter how many wins you have, no matter how successful you were last week or last weekend or last night … you can still end up in the middle of the pack today. Case in point. I was still on…

Before I start this trivia recap, I need to take a moment. I wouldn’t be playing competitive team trivia on Wednesdays had I not participated in all those Brown’s Brewing trivia matches of long ago.  Those Wednesday nights were lots of fun, and the fun was surely increased by trivia host Ryan West.  Over the…

Last year, I had a tremendous amount of fun as a member of the Stir Crazy trivia team.  We competed in the World Tavern Trivia national championships in Atlantic City, and out of over three dozen teams, we came in second place overall.  That was seventeen levels of awesome. This year, I’m joining the Stir…

Little by little, I think I’m getting the hang of this new competitive team trivia format.  It’s not easy … but I’m understanding it. While the original “Trivia Nights Live” trivia format had 20 questions with varying point levels, along with multiple-answer bonus questions, this new format features a music round (two points to name…