Season XVI began for our Thursday night teams this week, and they came out in droves to get an early jump on those coveted standings points.  We welcomed 96 teams across 13 venues to close out this opening week.  Let's check out which teams topped the overall leaderboard: ROUND 1: Thursday's opening round began with a question about the many stops on the London Underground, as well as a bonus question about this famous statue of Peter Pan located at Kensington Gardens: After quick … [Read more...]

Thursday night featured the opening of our newest venue: The Grille at Flower Hill in Gaithersburg.  If you're ever in the area on a Thursday night, check out this great location and enjoy a game with our newest host Kristi.  Last night's game also featured the return of trivia to Lake Linganore in New Market.  All told, we welcomed 104 teams across 15 venues: ROUND 1: We took our teams to the "E.R." to begin Thursday's game, asking questions about the East River and the song "Eleanor … [Read more...]

September not only means the start of football season, but also the end of the Pour House Trivia Summer Fling season!  With the playoff fields from all four divisions molding into shape, which teams are revving up to make a run at the money?  Thursday night's game featured 89 teams across 13 venues: ROUND 1: Thursday's opening round started very well for most of our teams, but a pair of bonus questions quickly separated the top teams from the rest of the field.  First, we asked our teams … [Read more...]

For the last Thursday of August, we saw 91 teams across 12 venues, but in an odd twist, we tossed our hardest question of the night right out of the gate!  Who would recover to launch to the top of the leaderboard? ROUND 1: If you read yesterday's blog, you would know that Wednesday's first round featured three relatively easy bonus questions.  Thursday was a completely different story.  We began with a question on the always-popular topic of We Share a Last Name, except this version … [Read more...]

Thursday night trivia featured 97 teams across 12 Pour House venues.  Tonight's second half featured a number of (unfortunate) surprises, so let's get right to the nightly recap: ROUND 1: Thursday night's game opened with a Name That Decade question, as we asked for the decade which featured these three events.  Since all of these events also occurred in the same year, we offered a two-point bonus for any team that knew the exact year: EVENT 1: Manon Rhéaume becomes the first woman to … [Read more...]

Thursday night's blog entry is being delivered from fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada, where several members of the Pour House Trivia clan are taking in the sights and sounds of the Trivia Championships of North America.  For those of you that have not participated in this event, it's three days jam-packed with over a dozen different trivia events.  With that shameless plug out of the way, let's get to Thursday's recap, which pitted 101 teams at 12 different venues: ROUND 1: As usual, our first … [Read more...]

The last Thursday of July featured 107 teams across 12 Pour House Trivia venues, including a whopping 20 teams at Quincy's in Gaithersburg and 17 teams at Fish Market in Alexandria! ROUND 1: Thursday night's game began with most teams displaying their knowledge of Bible books and colors of the spectrum, but we quickly hit a road bump on the fourth question of the round: --> After joining the Union in 1889, which U.S. state became the first to adopt a state flag bearing the likeness … [Read more...]

It has been one hell of a month so far here at Pour House Trivia.  In the first three weeks of July, we've seen three teams top 180 points in a single game, one of which was a perfect game!  Tonight, we witnessed another remarkable feat, as The Fan Club became the first team in PHT history to win games on FOUR consecutive nights!  These folks are by far our most loyal players, as they have played at over a dozen venues over the years.  After numerous weeks with three wins, they survived a wicked … [Read more...]

Thursday night was all about comebacks, as a difficult final question led to numerous teams jumping up the standings board to claim unexpected victories!  At one of our most competitive venues, all three of the top teams missed the last question, giving one team its first victory in three months!  Overall, we welcomed 94 teams to ten different trivia venues on Thursday night.  Check out all the details: ROUND 1: Our Thursday night crew had no issue with most of the first round questions, as we … [Read more...]