Your experience will vary depending on the trivia host, the knowledge diversity of your team and the rest of the competition. The game is long, so be ready for about 2-2.5 hours of time commitment.
Trivia night at many local bars has been a tradition for a few years now. Stump Trivia is the company that holds these events. On any given night with the exception of Friday and Saturday trivia is held at nearly a dozen bars in the Boston metro area.I went to my first trivia event a few weeks ago at Clery's accompanied by my co-workers. It's free to play trivia but food and drinks are at your own cost. We had a team of 5 which was just under the max of 6 people per team. The first step was to choose a team name which was fun in itself. Team names are usually puns on current event, so following that tradition we selected 'Heading to 6000' in reference to the falling stock market.
The game began with 4 questions per round. In the first half, teams assign odd number points (1,3,5,7) to each of the 4 questions, reflecting the confidence in their answers. In the second half, even number points (2,4,6,8) are assigned to each of the 4 answer choices per round. For example, if a team assigns 7 points to an answer and their answer turns out to be incorrect, they no longer have an option to assign 7 points to the remaining questions in the round. In general, teams have one song length to hand over their answer to the host. The correct answer is announced at the end of the song.
Questions are primarily about entertainment, sports and current news items. Here is a sample questions:
Q: What Denver based newspaper was recently shutdown after 150 years in operation?
A: The Rocky Mountain News
Bonus rounds are even more fun and it's where teams can breakaway with the lead or fall miserably behind.
Picture Bonus Round 1: The goal of this round is to name the people in the pictures. We had pictures of cheerleaders and some of them included Kirsten Dunst from Bring it On, model & wrestler Stacey Keebler and Katie Couric in her much younger cheerleading days.
Mystery Person Bonus Round 2: The goal of this round is to identify the mystery person in as few clues as possible. If you identify the person with only 1 clue, then the team gets 10 points. If it takes 2 clues, then 8 points and so forth until the 5th clue which is valued at 2 points. Our mystery person that night was Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross who I identified after the second clue.
Bonus Round 3: Matching list of 10 items. We had a list of 10 baseball players and the books they had written. With the sports experts on our team we correctly identified all 10!
With well over a couple dozen teams present that night, we ended up somewhere in the top ten. However, it took over 2 hours to finish the game which started at 8 pm and ended around 10:15 pm. Overall trivia night is fun, especially for competitive folks like myself.
Find a Stump Trivia event in your area: www.stumptrivia.com
Tips: Make sure you have at least one person with entertainment knowledge (i.e. music, movies, celebrities) and sports expert(s), particularly on local teams.
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