Join us for Pub Quiz tonight, won’t you?
We’ve talked about Fresno’s weekly Pub Quiz before on this site, but I’m making a special point to do so again because this time I really want you there. Why? Because you won’t be competing against me.
Tonight I, along with Roque Rodriguez (the Cross Streets guy), will be hosting a one-time, winner-take-all Pub Quiz at Landmark in the Tower District. The folks who regularly host the Pub Quiz wanted a week off and a chance to play the trivia game themselves, so we were happy to step in.
Here’s what you need to know:
When: 7:30 p.m. registration, 8 p.m. quiz
Where: Landmark, 644 E. Olive Ave.
Who: Teams of 1-6 (if you don’t have a team, you can most likely show up and join one)
Cost: $5 per person
The questions will cover a variety of topics from pop culture to music to history to current events and more. If you have never been to Pub Quiz before, now is a good time to try it out. I’ve included rules and pertinent information from the Fresno Pub Quiz blog after the jump. Hope to see you there!
Rules/Format
1. Teams may be comprised of no more than six physically present individuals. No other people besides the team members can be at your table. I don’t want to hear any of that “They’re just going to sit here and not play” crap. There is no minimum team size. If you think you have the chops to take on teams of six people by yourself, then giddy-up. Hint: When building your team, go for the widest variety of subjects covered possible.You wouldn’t want a baseball team comprised of only shortstops.
2. No outside help for questions, and no inanimate team members. Please don’t call people on your cell phones, download web pages on your PDAs or sneak in volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica in your shorts. We’ll be watching you and the other teams will be watching you too. No one wants to lose to cheaters.
3. The quizmasters are the final arbiter of truth, beauty, fashion, justice, all questions and other matters of Pub Trivia policy. Even if the results appear unfair, inaccurate, rude or obscenely biological, don’t argue. It won’t help.
4. Any rule not included herein may be created on the spot by the quizmaster and enforced with brutal abandon.
5. The game is composed of four rounds of ten question each. At the end of each round, you’ll turn in your answers, we’ll grade them, and then make fun of your scores.
6. In the event of an overall tie, the tied teams shall be asked a tie-breaker question. The team with the correct (or closest to correct) answer will win the game. In the unlikely event that more than one team puts down the same winning answer, the round will go to the team that gets in their winning answer first.
Responses to "Join us for Pub Quiz tonight, won’t you?"
Whew.
I just learned the other day that, thankfully, MikeOz won’t be doing the music question.
I figured each answer would then be “Fashawn from his underground EP released only in the Ukraine.”
This way all our team has to study is celebrity gossip and film questions.
We already know one of the questions is going to be “Which Fresno underemployed hottie posed with the luckiest ‘sweep the leg’ guy on the Chukchansi turf.”
Naturally the answer will be:
Will Albritton
fresno pub quiz (you know, the regular hosts) also encourages you to come tonight. and other nights, too.
for regular info on what is going on, you can check in with us at
or on facebook – fresno pub quiz
or on twitter
i’m sure it’ll be great tonight, but no one does it better than us. (consider that smack talk, since we’re playing tonight and our measuring ourselves against hmac & brodiemash’s regular team.)
I find it perplexing that people keep comparing themselves to our team since a) we came in, like, 10th place last week, and b) we aren’t even competing this week.
You people need to learn to aim higher.
(Also: our questions are going to kick your questions asses.)
i can’t wait to have to explain how you really didn’t cheat and help out mike oz or samfromftk or any other members of your team playing if they do decently.
Did you have to explain how you didn’t really cheat when your best friends won the jackpot last week?
People are going to believe what they want, because nobody likes to lose. Eff ‘em.
nope, i just had to explain that they weren’t a “super team” built to win the big jackpot, that they won two weeks prior when it was 1 in 3, they’ve won like 3 other times prior, and that they’ve been almost every week but people don’t realize because they change their names every week.
so, i wouldn’t be surprised to have to deflect bitter comments should a blogocider do well. and you’re right on that last part.