pub quiz article

we recently wrote an article for the undercurrent and thought we'd share it with you here as well. -

"Have you ever wondered how smart you were? I do all the time. Is your brain filled with useless facts? I know that mine is, and watching Jeopardy just doesn’t cut it. So, I joined with my podcast partner in crime, Adam to start a pub quiz. Of course, it was a natural choice for us to have it at the Landmark, our home away from home.
What is a pub quiz? Are the questions about bars? They could be, but really it’s just a team trivia night. Adam and I slave away all week for you, the quiz takers, creating questions that will challenge your brain. And on Wednesday we give you the opportunity to show how smart you are, enjoy some time with other people, answer questions, and have a cocktail. Each player contributes $5, and can either play the quiz alone or on a team of up to six people.
How does the pub quiz work? There are four rounds of questions. The first question of each round is a snippet of a song. You need to correctly identify the artist, title and tell us how long the song is. The length part is just used for tiebreakers, so don’t freak out if you don’t know that. The other nine questions of the round are all over the trivia spectrum. We had questions about sports, pop culture, movies, music and some basic trivia. We move through the questions at a good clip, but you have five minutes after the round to go over you answers, rethink what you wrote, or figure out that last one that was stumping you. Then we score each round and begin the next. When it’s all said and done, the team with the best overall score has a chance to win big. They draw a token from a bag, and if it’s the jackpot won they win a nice cash prize. If they draw one of the other chips, they win back at least their entry fees. That’s cool, right?
Wednesday, January 13 was our first pub quiz night. We were nervous and didn’t really know how many people would show up. We figured that if we had twenty people we’d be a success, and hoped for thirty. Fresno blew our minds and we had 62 people play. We actually turned away people because there just weren’t any more seats in the bar. Due to our success, we’ll be in the back dining room at the Landmark in the future. It can hold a lot more people, so we shouldn’t have to turn anyone away. The scores on the night we very close, and the winning team won only by 3/4 of a point! They didn’t pull the jackpot chip, so that rolls over to the next week. That winning team from the first night looks poised to be a juggernaut, come out the Landmark and see if you snatch victory away.
The details: Pub Quiz at the Landmark, 644 E. Olive. $5 a person, teams of 1-6. Registration @ 7:30, quiz starts @ 8pm sharp. More info available @ fresnopubquiz.blogspot.com"