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Northeast Trivia Tonight at Peter's 19th Hole
Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 by Kyle
From the desk of Shanrock Donaldson:
Don't let your competitive spirit moulder during the monsoon season . . . have some friendly indoor fun (or exact ruthless vengeance upon your vilest foe - your choice) at my trivia night! Come on down to Peter's any Wednesday night at 8 PM (not to be confused with "McPeet's" down the road) on the corner of NE Fremont and 57th Ave (more bar info at http://www.barflymag.com/bar/peters-19th-hole.html). It's free to play, and the bar supplies prizes (usually free drinks and appetizers). They also run drink specials for the length of the competition, which lasts about an hour and a half. Team size is limited to five; any more people than that can easily break into two separate teams. Questions are about half pop culture and half actual book learnin' . . . here are some of the rounds from which I cull my devious challenges:
CHOTCHKIES: miscellaneous trivia, including the Token Sports Question.
YOU COULD BE A CONTENDER!: Natalie Portmanteau (movie title meld), movie quotes, or movie song ID.
WHO BRINGS THE HEAVY?: all manner of scientific inquiry (the title comes from a student who asked a teacher friend of mine this question in an effort to understand gravity).
PICASSO'S PLAYHOUSE: craft something from playdough and write a caption (past commissions have included leprechauns with rainbow booty, new presidents with improved constitutions, moon people with messages to earthlings, & David Hasselhoff moments).
WHO AM I? I AM A WALRUS!: I drop information about a celebrity or historical figure of some kind, one piece at a time. The sooner you guess, the more points you get (the title comes from a mumbled Anthony Michael Hall quote a la "Breakfast Club").
YOU GON' GIT YER FEELINGS HURT: history, geography . . . basically social studies (my Social Studies teacher in Middle School used to utter this phrase, before opening a can of richly deserved whup-ass). POTATO POWER: TV and movie trivia.
WORD UP: novel quote ID OR literature, poetry, grammar, vocabulary, theater, comics, etc.
WHAMMY!: ya never know (past rounds have challenged teams' knowledge of Thomas Jefferson, Saturday Night Live cast members, US state quarters, Stephen King novels, etc.). I will sometimes have GUEST HOSTS for this round.
I DON'T FEEL TARDY: ID title and artist from brief song clips, AND rock out at the same time!! DOUBLE POINTS available here - bring a ringer!!
One more thing . . . I wasn't going to say anything about this, but I thought you should know . . . I overheard some people say last week that they thought were were chicken and wouldn't show up this Wednesday. You're not going to let them get away with that, are you?!?!
Your Trivia Jockey,
ShanRock
Don't let your competitive spirit moulder during the monsoon season . . . have some friendly indoor fun (or exact ruthless vengeance upon your vilest foe - your choice) at my trivia night! Come on down to Peter's any Wednesday night at 8 PM (not to be confused with "McPeet's" down the road) on the corner of NE Fremont and 57th Ave (more bar info at http://www.barflymag.com/bar/peters-19th-hole.html). It's free to play, and the bar supplies prizes (usually free drinks and appetizers). They also run drink specials for the length of the competition, which lasts about an hour and a half. Team size is limited to five; any more people than that can easily break into two separate teams. Questions are about half pop culture and half actual book learnin' . . . here are some of the rounds from which I cull my devious challenges:
CHOTCHKIES: miscellaneous trivia, including the Token Sports Question.
YOU COULD BE A CONTENDER!: Natalie Portmanteau (movie title meld), movie quotes, or movie song ID.
WHO BRINGS THE HEAVY?: all manner of scientific inquiry (the title comes from a student who asked a teacher friend of mine this question in an effort to understand gravity).
PICASSO'S PLAYHOUSE: craft something from playdough and write a caption (past commissions have included leprechauns with rainbow booty, new presidents with improved constitutions, moon people with messages to earthlings, & David Hasselhoff moments).
WHO AM I? I AM A WALRUS!: I drop information about a celebrity or historical figure of some kind, one piece at a time. The sooner you guess, the more points you get (the title comes from a mumbled Anthony Michael Hall quote a la "Breakfast Club").
YOU GON' GIT YER FEELINGS HURT: history, geography . . . basically social studies (my Social Studies teacher in Middle School used to utter this phrase, before opening a can of richly deserved whup-ass). POTATO POWER: TV and movie trivia.
WORD UP: novel quote ID OR literature, poetry, grammar, vocabulary, theater, comics, etc.
WHAMMY!: ya never know (past rounds have challenged teams' knowledge of Thomas Jefferson, Saturday Night Live cast members, US state quarters, Stephen King novels, etc.). I will sometimes have GUEST HOSTS for this round.
I DON'T FEEL TARDY: ID title and artist from brief song clips, AND rock out at the same time!! DOUBLE POINTS available here - bring a ringer!!
One more thing . . . I wasn't going to say anything about this, but I thought you should know . . . I overheard some people say last week that they thought were were chicken and wouldn't show up this Wednesday. You're not going to let them get away with that, are you?!?!
Your Trivia Jockey,
ShanRock
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