Quizmaster puts on bar trivia at a bunch of different places in town. What bars, you ask? Beat it, punk! Google that shit or go to their website, dingus!
The format is 2 hours or so of 6 rounds of 5 questions each. Each round has a respective category. Teams can have up to 8 players. There are prizes for 1st and 2nd place, and also for Best Team Name of the Night. Usually bar tabs of $10-$30. Special prizes sometimes, like beer and bottles of booze. I recently participated in an 8-week league play series that included appearances of the queel (go to the website, ya mongoloid) and some serious competition that resulted in my team being the overall winner! Whoop. There was also a contest to see which team drank the most over the series. We just missed out on that one too. All I got was a gross hangover from the 6 snakebites or kamikazis I drank in 30 seconds in a last push to snatch victory from the jaws of YO MAMA, MUHFUGGA.
This is a well organized, well run trivia night. Kevin the Quizmaster is a cool-ass dude and is your host at many of the participating venues, and I think he has a partner who does some as well. Quizmaster's website is great and becomes part of the game as that's where you get your weekly "quiz hint" in articles posted on the page devoted to your bar. They'll put a picture of you and your teammates' ugly mugs up there as well, provided you win or at least come up with a good name.
That part makes it really fun. By "good name" I mean offensive, funny, or both. The winner of the best name contest is chosen by audience reaction, sometimes laughs, sometimes applause, and once in a while, disgusted groans. My team name almost got me in a fight once. No joke! That was when I played at Replay, which is a douche magnet. See Luke R's review for more info on that slop ditch. The trivia nights really depend on your venue, so pick a place you would go to anyway.
My only (small) complaint is that I wish the questions were a bit harder, but I understand that Quizmaster needs to appeal to a broad audience. Unlike me, most folks aren't packing a staggeringly god-like knowledge base in their spectacularly wrinkled brain. Sometimes it's just too damn easy, so not quite 5 stars. If you own a bar and think you want some trivia drunks, give 'em a call! If you decide to go play, don't be a putz and use your cellphone to cheat, ya putz. Fun times, nerd! Go get 'em! read more