Team Trivia at McBride’s
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December
12/10/2008 Bump:
Reminder - you can engage in fun trivia at McBride’s tonight and next Wednesday. Then off for the rest of the year.
12/2/2008:
Want to test your trivia knowledge and have a few beers at the same time?
Well other than sitting at home and watching Jeopardy! you can head over to Willie McBride’s tomorrow night (Grand between 6th and 7th - behind A&P) - for Team Trivia Night!
Team Trivia every Wednesday
Craig Campbell - who runs Team Trivia - had this to say:
“My trivia nights tend to consist of general questions that are aimed at having fun and not being intentionally too difficult. The categories I tend to focus on include Entertainment (T.V., Movies, Music, etc), Geography, History, Sports (tends to be more current), Science, and Current Events. Along with asking questions from these various categories, I also utilize different formats for questions themselves. I some of these formats include “True or False”, multiple choice, “Name that Movie” (I play an audio clip of a movie), “Who’s the Artist” (I play a song), multi-part questions, and straight one answer questions. There are beer specials, including $2 Bud Light draft and $3 Miller Lite bottles. There are also great prizes for the winners, including gift certificates of 10, 20, and 30 dollars.”
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1. homeworld | December 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
What time does it start?
2. elainetyger | December 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
homeworld wrote:
8pm per the sidebar at left.
3. homeworld | December 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
elainetyger wrote:
Where is this sidebar? Where it says “Today in Hoboken”?
4. Stabone130 | December 4th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I went to Team Trivia night and had a good time. Wasn’t too crowded (which meant trivia started a bit late). The karaoke guy was a cool guy, the questions were good, overall everyone on our team had fun.
However, most of the people were just using their cell phones to look up answers…which meant they pretty much won the prizes. Not the karaoke guy’s fault…he’s not a policeman, I don’t really expect him to call people out on it…but it kinda sucked the fun out of it a bit. And gives honest people zero chance at winning a gift certificate!
5. Biff McFly | December 10th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Yea I went last week too and am 99% sure the winning team was constantly on their phone to get answers. I don’t think they got 1 wrong. From our seats we could see 2 of them with their backs to the question guy as they typed away. For a $30 gift certificate this is pretty low.
Be aware, trivia doesn’t start until 8:30 and last week it was closer to 9. $2 buds were nice.
6. sullyx | December 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
stabone and biff, if you see someone cheating call them out on it!! Mike the old trivia guy would never stand for that and I doubt Craig would if you brought it to his attention. I find it more annoying when people are calling out answers.
7. 9 | December 10th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Stabone, you should have immediately called shenanigans.
8. Biff McFly | December 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
the questiosn guy said it about 3x. he was fully aware of it. what are you going to do? grab the guys iphone to see where he is looking?
9. Easy-E | December 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I was thinking about checking this out, but really what’s the point of some piece of shit is going to blatantly cheat and get away with it??
10. emarche | December 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Biff McFly wrote:
http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/Personal.htm
11. Easy-E | December 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
emarche wrote:
HAHAHA. Emarche, you read my mind.
12. Town Drunk | December 10th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I played trivia at Trinity with a few of my friends over the summer. There were teams that were obviously cheating and would win every week with scores close to 100 when everyone else was in the mid 70s tops. After the second week we realized that they were using their phones to look at the answers. We still showed up every week and played knowing that we didn’t have a chance to win, and we still had fun. A $30 gift certificate to me isn’t enough for me to even bother cheating. So if someone wants to cheat, it didn’t bother me. we were just there to have fun and we did regardless.
13. Stabone130 | December 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
hehe, I did call Shenanigans! My teammate and I were calling out every single person who was typing away — we mentioned it to Craig who made an annoucement on the mic….but he was more concerned about getting beers. He also didnt penalize anyone who was cheating. Lame.
Really, at the time it was a huge deal. We were there for the beers & to have fun. But I wouldn’t go back knowing there are cheaters who win prizes — and actually trying to use my brain to come up with answers gets me nowhere.
14. Stabone130 | December 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Stabone130 wrote:
Oops, I meant at the time, it wasn’t a huge deal.
Its only Trivia. Just wouldnt go back.
15. cbot1980 | December 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hey all,
Well this is Craig the Trivia Guy. I’d like to first apologize for the cheating. I’d like to think people would be honest and just try to have some fun (that’s what I did when I used to play). With that in mind I will be be more vigilant and willing to disqualify a team for cheating (particularly when it is blatant). Again I’m sorry for the cheating and I hope everyone and anyone reading this comes for a fun night (of honest trivia answering!!!!)
16. Biff McFly | December 11th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Nice work Craig. Lay the law down on their candy asses. I’ll be back just to see you smash a few iphones on the floor.
17. cbot1980 | December 11th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Thanks Biff!!
Well I hope everyone who came last night had a great time and for anyone who couldn’t make it (and would like to come some other night) I made an announcement that if caught cheating the team would be disqualified. I do appreciate all of your concerns and suggestions (please keep them coming). As for one comment regarding myself “only being concerned with getting beers” I would like to say that that is completely wrong. I will readily admit I dropped the ball regarding the cheaters, but I do not appreciate inherently incorrect descriptions of myself. I do take my responsibilities as the Trivia Guy seriously and I do have work I do while hosting Trivia (and keeping it entertaining). I do not appreciate there being impression of me being a drunkard who doesn’t take their job seriously (cause that is not me). With this in mind I do enjoy the drink, but I usually only have 2 beers over the course of the night (since I’m busy taking care of the music and the game overall). Just wanted to correct that. Again thanks for the comments and keep them coming!!!
18. cbot1980 | December 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Oh also check out my Facebook page….search for The Trivia Guy. I just started it, so it’s still a work in progress….