A new venue and more on Wednesday with Pour House Pub Trivia!

Pour House pub trivia‘s Wednesday wished a warm welcome to Market Street Fusion! Glad to have you in the fold, folks – hope to be seeing more of you!

Check out Wednesday’s recap!

Applebees – Frederick, MD

Starting out today’s game with a question about the Wu-Tang Clan, we got to talk about possibly one of my favorite sketches on “Chapelle’s Show”, the Racial Draft (if you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend you look it up). I’ve always loved that sketch, so it was definitely fun to discuss. We also got to do a halftime sheet about cartoon dogs, with some great ones like Spunky from Rocko’s Modern Life, and unfortunately Scrappy Doo, who might be the worst. Also, I found out some teams don’t remember which is the dog and which is the cat between Ren and Stimpy (hint: it’s Ren).

We had a pretty close game throughout most of the first half, with the top four teams each separated by one point each. Unfortunately the cooking question turned out to be quite a heavy hitter, with everybody guessing Betty Crocker, when it was the Pillsbury Bakeoff. That caused quite a shakeup leading into the final round. The final question proved to be rather tough as well, with only a few teams getting it correct; turns out the actual location of Bohemia isn’t very well known.

With the results of that final question, in third place was Rent-A-Swag, who dropped from second place after the final question. Second place went to Car Ramrod, who jumped a few teams to grab the second place spot. Winning tonight’s game, the first in our Summer Fling season for 2015, was We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat, building up quite a lead heading into the final and then snagging the final answer as well, congrats! We’re going to start next week’s game with a question about Silicon Valley, the HBO series (I love that show!). That should be fun, so make sure to study up and come join us next week!

Until next time,
-Chad

Bar Louie – Rockville, MD

We kicked Summer Fling off with a bang at Bar Louie! Returning teams clashed with first-timers, and it all came down to some strategic betting on the final!

The game was close throughout as we learned about Olympic sprinting, Latin roots and cartoon dogs! We also learned all about the strengths and weaknesses of each team, as several answers were pulled by only one team.

As the game wound down, veteran team Bazinga bet to cover on the final, maintaining first. At the last second, a new team, Large Hadron Collider, snuck up into third, with Asian Brian and Those White People holding on in the middle. Bazinga has stuck to their namesake, but thrown us a hard first category: Triple 50/50, Sheldon or Leonard Quotes. Should be nigh impossible!!

See you next week!

-Nick

Summer Fling certainly flung this evening in Hagerstown! We had a 14 team pub trivia rager at Barefoot Bernies Wednesday to kick off this year’s Pub Trivia Summer Fling. We had our veterans in town playing as well as some folks we haven’t seen in a hot few and we had some new crews dip their feet in.

And the water was HOT tonight! The first half was fun and engaging with Tony the Tiger and Weird Al making cameos!

And then Round 3 hit. Round was fun, but in a “hurt me please” kinda way! There were some devils in there, disguised as Pillsbury Dough Boys apparently – which wins “Monster of the Night.”

By the time the final rolled in it was a tight game and exciting to see who was going to snap off the first ‘W’ of the Summer Fling season! And after the Bohemian craziness, our Top looked like this:

And that my friends was a Wednesday of fun! Hope to see y’all again next week when we kick off with a question about a fantastic board game: Ticket to Ride. Until then, have a great week and I will see you soon. DG 🙂

I was worried. Changing venues, I wasn’t sure if you all would make the switch to Market St Fusion and man, oh man, did you ever! We even had some guest teams who came to check out the new venue. Standing room only! I love playing to a packed house.

Thanks for hanging in with our growing pains, first night is always a bit tough. It’s Summer session now and we’ve got teams who are ready to roll – some good numbers going up! Dewey Decimators would have been 2nd but they were a bit overstaffed, so the very first top 3 at Fusion is Killin me Smalls in 3rd, Better late than Pregnant in 2nd (LOVE the new team name!) and it was Phlitches for the win! Nice job all! I hope to see you next week, same channel, same time, more staff 😉

We will start out with The Goonies! Truffle shuffle your way on in here 😉

~Samantha

Memories Charcoal House – Mount Airy, MD

It felt good to be back at Memories tonight to find my regulars ready to start fresh for Summer Fling! It was definitely great to get some relief from the crazy heat we had today, too!

We played it fast and loose tonight, with some seriously close scores going into the second half, but in the end, we may have had our most surprising standings yet! Taking home the third place prize tonight were my beloved Men & Pausers, looking sharp and playing well with a full team! In second with a mere foursome were our Mighty B’s, scaling the ranks and stealing the second place prize. But in first place, newcomers to Memories but PHT veterans, The Moops!

Some very impressive answers from them for sure, the only team correct in a few instances! Their choice for first category next week? Primates!! See you next Wednesday!

– Torie

The Summer season is off and running, and our first winners of the week are Two Girls and an Idiot, followed by Even More Jesus and Oscar’s Lethal Kiss.  Your first question next week will be on 1980s Music!  ~ Matt