Pub Quiz Trivia Volume 2: Wildcard Rounds
Copyright © 2011 by Bryan Young
Smashwords Edition
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America
First Printing: September 2011
This book is a collection of trivia used in the Big Shiny Geek Show Pub Quiz, hosted weekly by Bryan Young and Shannon Barnson. Pains have been taken to verify the accuracy of answers, but some questions (particularly those in the Current Events category) should be double-checked for accuracy before using them in a competitive setting.
This book is dedicated to Josh Stasinos, who writes the Pub Quiz I like to attend (Monday Nights at The Republican, Salt Lake City, Utah) and Shannon Barnson, my co-writer and co-host for the Pub Quiz I put on weekly (Wednesday Nights at Lucky 13, Salt Lake City, Utah).
Pub Quiz Trivia Volume 2:
Wildcard
Rounds
Introduction
I’m told Pub Quizzes have been popular in Europe for decades, and for some reason they’re just now catching on over here in the United States.
I attended my first quiz just a couple of years ago and was immediately hooked. What’s not to like about them? You get to hang out with your friends, drink good beer, and compete in a battle of knowledge against your neighbors. I started going pretty regularly, and my team was winning every now and again. I was having a great time.
Pretty soon, it was apparent to me and my co-host, Shannon Barnson, that we could make some money on the side hosting our very own quiz. We looked into working for some of the giant, corporate (and soulless) Pub Quizzes that run nights at bars across the country, but we thought we could do our own better. And I think we do.
Some of those first nights, figuring out how to write and word questions was a little tough, but we’ve done quizzes for more than 70 weeks in a row now and attract crowds of hundreds to compete in our quiz.
Since we have so many regulars, recycling quizzes and questions is fairly impossible, so I decided to take my old quizzes and publish them so you can use them in your own quizzes. You have in your hands the first of a four part series of pub quiz trivia books. This second volume contains 50 rounds of 10 questions, all having to do with a variety of different topics. (Part 1 is History and Current Events, Part 3 is Geek Trivia, and Part 4 is Film Trivia.) You will also be able to find them all collected in one volume.
We tend to run our quiz (The Big Shiny Geek Show Pub Quiz) with 8 rounds per night. General Trivia, Two Wildcard Rounds, Film, Music, Geeks Vs. Jocks, Lightning Round, and History and Current Events. Each round has 10 questions, and we take two breaks per night, once after the first three rounds, and another after the second three rounds. It gives us time to score and give standings to the teams.
It’s a lot of fun, and I suggest you try it sometime.
Wildcard rounds can (and are) about anything. There are few things more satisfying than announcing the topic of a Wildcard round and watching half the faces in the place light up because it’s a topic they know about, and the other half because they haven’t a clue. And since they run the gamut of subjects they’re impossible to study for.