Pop Quiz Team Trivia

"Bringing Trivia to the Old Timer has been the best business decision I've made in the last ten years. It has taken our slowest night and turned it into our second busiest night!"

-- Brian McNally, The Old Timer

Pop Quiz Team Trivia is the ideal event for a business outing, school assembly, or just a party. The two-hour game is the ultimate icebreaker, creating discussions and teamwork between friends and strangers. It is amazing how people get excited about what they know, and the thrill of competition.

The participants break into teams. They are given score sheets, answer sheets and pens. The quiz master explains the rules, asks a question and plays a song. Often, the song will correlate to the question, or answer.

Question: "What was the claim to fame of Louise Joy Brown? July 25, 1978"

Song played: "She's a beauty" by The Tubes (1983)

The teams have the length of the song, less than four minutes to negotiate an answer and how many points to bid. At the end of the song, the answer sheets are brought up to the scorekeeper and the host announces; "She was the first test tube baby." The crowd goes wild and we move onto the next question.

There are twenty questions, broken into four rounds, with score updates in between.

The teams with the most points win the prizes, which the organizer provides. Gift certificates, t-shirts, dvd/cd's, or cash make good prizes. There should be something for everyone on the team.

There is also a ten question, one-hour version of this game. It's a great way to start a night of dancing. The trivia host uses a complete sound system, and is also an accomplished disc jockey.

We are available most days and nights of the week. Prices and availability will be furnished upon request. For more information, please call, email or check out one of the weekly trivia games in the area.

Trivia Locations for DJ JBJ Entertainment Group

• Tuesdays 7:00PM - The Old Timer, Clinton MA
• Wednesdays 7:00PM - The Grey Hound, Worcester, MA
• Thursdays 8:00 PM - The Castlebar, Washington Street, Brighton, MA

Sample trivia questions

• With 10 wins, Whitey Ford holds the record for World Series Victories, who holds the record for World Series Losses? Whitey Ford with 8 losses.
• What was the nickname of Nazi general Erwin Rommel? The Desert Fox.
• According to the beloved children's book, where would you arrive if you traveled to the second star to the right and straight on til morning? Never Never Land.
• Costal is a term that refers to what part of the body? The ribs.
• What are the only four US states who start and end with the same letter? Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Ohio.

Trivia in the press

• Team Trivia DJ hits right notes
  "Question 1 in the Education Category: What Nashoba Regional School District administrator is the undisputed king of team trivia in Central Massachusetts?"
• Trivia Night has all the answers
  "Question: What is Trivia Night? Answer: An evening where people pit their knowledge of pop culture and academia against each other in a game for points and money prizes - with maybe a pint or two along the way. Worth investigating, I thought."
• Trivia hits two years and 100 games
  "If you haven't had a chance to play Tuesday Night Trivia at the Old Timer, you're missing a good time. You don't have to be a genius to participate. The questions are all over the map, and you'd be surprised what bits of useless knowledge are in your head. What was the name of the band that Kenny Rogers was in? First Edition. Why do I know that? It doesn't matter, that's the point of the game."
• Ugly Tuna Trivia
  "If it's a Tuesday night, I can usually be found playing Tuesday Night Trivia at the Old Timer in Clinton. Trivia Master Joel plays cool music while asking the questions, and teams of up to five people have the length of a song to come up with an answer. Each of the 20 questions is assigned a point value, and the goal is to garner the most points."
• Pub trivia combines drinking, thinking
  It's 10 p.m. at Mary Ann's on Beacon Street, and a Boston College senior is slumped over a table, clutching his head in one hand and a Bud Light in the other. But he's not drunk. He's thinking. The Jackson Five's "ABC" is playing in the background, and everyone in the bar is struggling to figure out what the four, single-letter motion picture ratings were in 1968.

Trivia links

MCO Productions