Pub Quiz!

Brad Hawkins · Post by **Brad Hawkins** » August 3rd, 2011, 3:04 pm

Any of you imps enjoy a good pub quiz? I feel like getting back into playing, and think a team of improvisers would rule over everything.

Right now, I'm gravitating towards the Geeks Who Drink quiz at Opal Divine's on Tuesdays. That's hardly set in stone.

Anyone want to form a team with me?

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » August 3rd, 2011, 5:25 pm

A few more details...

Like, do you know the time involved...start and end...

And just how good are people at these things...?

Post by **bradisntclever** » August 3rd, 2011, 9:44 pm

HerrHerr wrote:Like, do you know the time involved...start and end...

The quiz at Opal's Freehouse starts at 8 PM and ends at 10 PM almost always. Better seating is available the earlier you get there.

Post by **bradisntclever** » August 3rd, 2011, 9:51 pm

HerrHerr wrote:And just how good are people at these things...?

The theoretical maximum score at any Geeks Who Drink pub quiz is a 96. Opal's Freehouse averages over 20 teams each week (up to six players can play on each team) and the vast majority of scores tend to run from the low 50s to the mid 60s. The teams that win each week score in the low 70s, but there's maybe two or three who can hit that mark with some regularity (and no one team wins every single week).

The Geeks Who Drink format is really pop culture heavy and each round is themed. There's always two audio rounds: one on music (example rounds: Blame it on the Rain [songs about the Rain], Like Royalty (bands and song titles with royal terms in them) and one on movies or tv shows. There's always a visual round where you're asked to identify various things in a given category (this last week, we had someone photoshop different My Little Ponies to look like various pop culture characters). The other rounds all are written to be fun primarily, and have a good range in difficulty of questions.

The quiz is meant to be fun first and foremost, but it will require some talented people on your team to win.

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · August 4th, 2011, 8:51 am

i love pubs. and i love trivia (to the point i will get really super intense and everyone on this team would wind up hating me. :p). unfortunately, my Tuesday nights are taken up for the foreseeable future.

Chuy! · Post by **Chuy!** » August 4th, 2011, 11:42 am

Sorry, Brad, I already have a team of Your Dad's Friends members that dominate these quizzes when we get together... We actually were going to call ourselves Secretariat and go to all the Opal's quizzes winning that shit... And if it sounds like I'm bragging, I am. We rarely lose and even less rarely finish out of the money... Maybe I'll see your fledgling "team" around sometime...

Brad Hawkins · Post by **Brad Hawkins** » August 4th, 2011, 12:00 pm

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:i love pubs. and i love trivia (to the point i will get really super intense and everyone on this team would wind up hating me. :p). unfortunately, my Tuesday nights are taken up for the foreseeable future.

Well, like I say, it doesn't have to be that quiz.

Post by **happywaffle** » August 4th, 2011, 5:39 pm

I'd potentially be down for it.

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · August 5th, 2011, 8:50 am

Brad Hawkins wrote:
Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:i love pubs. and i love trivia (to the point i will get really super intense and everyone on this team would wind up hating me. :p). unfortunately, my Tuesday nights are taken up for the foreseeable future.
Well, like I say, it doesn't have to be that quiz.

if you find a good one on a night i'm available and everyone involved has the patience to put up with me...yeah, i'd be down.

lizardcatking · Post by **lizardcatking** » August 5th, 2011, 10:55 am

I would also be interested though my preference would be something more north (like Flying Saucer which apparently has one at 7 and one at 10) or Opal's north which is the busy improviser time of Sat 10pm). I can get over north though....

Todd

Brad Hawkins · Post by **Brad Hawkins** » August 5th, 2011, 12:27 pm

lizardcatking wrote:I would also be interested though my preference would be something more north (like Flying Saucer which apparently has one at 7 and one at 10) or Opal's north which is the busy improviser time of Sat 10pm). I can get over north though....

Todd

Yeah, I think weekends would be off the table in general...

tayover · Post by **tayover** » August 9th, 2011, 9:31 am

i'd be down! ryan (manpanion) and i are a two-person team and usually do "who wants a dollar?" on monday nights at shangri-la. same format as what brad described above. even with just two of us, we usually place in the top 3. so...we're badasses. what i'm saying is...you want me on your team. (shitty music is my specialty.)

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » August 9th, 2011, 11:21 am

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:
Brad Hawkins wrote:
Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell wrote:i love pubs. and i love trivia (to the point i will get really super intense and everyone on this team would wind up hating me. :p). unfortunately, my Tuesday nights are taken up for the foreseeable future.
Well, like I say, it doesn't have to be that quiz.
if you find a good one on a night i'm available and everyone involved has the patience to put up with me...yeah, i'd be down.

You and I should team up on this. I'm the same effing way. Competitive to the point of the point of obnoxiousness and beyond.

Thus were born "The Alienators".

Post by **bradisntclever** » August 9th, 2011, 11:53 am

tayover wrote:i'd be down! ryan (manpanion) and i are a two-person team and usually do "who wants a dollar?" on monday nights at shangri-la. same format as what brad described above. even with just two of us, we usually place in the top 3. so...we're badasses. what i'm saying is...you want me on your team. (shitty music is my specialty.)

Nick (the guy who heads up WWAD?) was a former quizmaster for Geeks Who Drink. He runs a fine quiz from what I've witnessed, but I wish he was a bit more ethical in execution and marketing techniques.