Showing posts with label The Bard's Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bard's Town. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Summer Tournament Eligibility

Are you eligible to play in the Summer Tournament? Find out here. All scores for the Summer Tournament are final. If you find your team number below, be sure to join us at Dundee Gastropub on July 14 at 8 p.m.

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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Bard's Town Recap - 6/3/15

Last night, a solid crowd of 15 teams came to play trivia at the Bard's Town. The fun mix of categories in last night's game included a round of identifying TV shows by their major characters, animated scenes in live-action movies, and #1 hits from the late 80s and early 90s. In the game, everybody wanted to rule the world, as many teams Kriss Krossed their way up the leaderboard, but ultimately it Intellectual Chocolate was able to "hold on for one more day," thanks to their perfect score on the final round. Only one of their team members wished to be photographed, but I can assure you they had a full team.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Playing Catch Up

It's been a busy couple of weeks. We're working on getting some new venues and many of us have been doing some early-summer traveling. Schedules are nearly back to normal, so maybe we'll jump back on the blog a little more often. We're also working on a couple of new ideas for the blog and we're hoping to revive Movie Monday and Fun Fact Friday very soon. Until then, here's a quick recap of a few games from the recent past.

Last night was Waterfront Wednesday, the one event in Louisville that completely and consistently drains attendance at trivia. Both Molly's and The Bard's Town had 10 teams. A truly sad showing.

The Blues round was very polarizing! Teams either loved it or hated it, which is a huge improvement over last week's one hit wonders of the 60's, which was so universally hated that it is safe to say, everybody is tired of one hit wonders in the music rounds.  There won't be any of those for a long time.  The movie mash-up round was a hit!  Even if the teams didn't get the answer right, everyone enjoyed the storylines.  Overall, a great and fun week!

Over at Molly's the winning team was What Appears to be a Drawing of a Penis.  They took an early lead and never let go.  With an insane score on the last round like the one they had, we're not entirely convinced they have an actual baby in the carrier but a Google computer disguised as a baby!  Secret weapon perhaps?

What Appears to be a Drawing of a Penis

At The Bard's Town, Say Our Name, Bitch won the game by 11 points. We didn't get a picture, but you can see their winning photo from last week posted below. They've won plenty of times. We had a tie breaker for second and third. Even though they didn't win (they placed fifth with two other teams), He Liked It and Put a Ring on It was by far the best team name this week. Congrats to the newly engaged couple, Anna and Michael.
Say Our Name, Bitch

Tie Breaker Question: Did you know, according to something we saw on the History Channel a few years ago, if a man uses a cell phone for four hours a day, on average, his sperm count decreases by 25%? Who knew? And we've got no clue if that's 25% reduction each day or over his lifetime. That's just the number given to us by that random TV show.


Tuesday night at The Granville it was a very close game. For the bulk of the game almost all of the teams were within 5 points of each other. Stephen Hawking Karaoke Machine started off strong with 2 perfect rounds. The first 2 rounds went over well with everyone as we had really good scores in those rounds. Things slowed down during the picture round, but it was a hard fought battle until the very end. Murder is All She Wrote took the game in the last round after playing second fiddle most of the game.

Murder is All She Wrote
At Molly's on Tuesday, it was a good match up and one of the two teams with Duggar-themed names (19 Counts of Molestation and Counting) ended up winning after scoring 37 in the final round. We got a kick out of The Moops, though. Not surprisingly, people especially enjoyed the beer round, though the Brewer/Brewster question stumped a lot of folks, as did the beer that made Milwaukee famous.
19 Counts of Molestation and Counting

Friday, May 15, 2015

Weekly Recap

Tuesday night was another small game at the Granville. The good news is that we were able to get some of the Granville employees in the game playing. It was a back and forth game between two teams with the Granville-billies pulling out the win in the last round.


Granville-billies
Over at Molly's, most folks confused St. Nicholas with St. Jude (simple mistake), did better than expected in the Keri Russell round, and knew more about the Bo Knows commercials than we would have thought. Several teams competed for the win, but in the last round, We Don't Know dominated.

We Don't Know

We moved things around on Wednesday. Chris is now at Molly's and Ben is now at The Bard's Town. We'll see how that works out.

Things seemed to go well The Bard's Town. We had 13 teams, which is a big improvement from the past couple of weeks (we'll blame the Derby events and great weather). The fictional games round was tough, but people enjoyed the '90s alternative Weird Al polka round. Not many Google+ users, but at least that question resulted in a lot of creative answers. If She Were Shorter and Shaved the Mustache started a bit slow but walked away a winner this week.

At Molly's, we had 15 teams! It was a very tight game with the leaders going back and forth all night. The  Louisville Strugglers had an amazing last round, taking them from 8th all the way to second but they were unable to hold off the Sea Shanties and Wet Panties, who took hold of the prize.

Sea Shanties and Wet Panties


At Great Flood Brewery, we had a smaller turn out than last week, but we finally got the sound worked out. There was a lot of uproar about a couple of the answers (The Beatles question, the Bears 1985 Super Bowl win). In the end, Natalie Portmanteau reigned victorious.

Over at DiOrio's, The 2 Non Blondes defeated 10 other teams. What, you guys thought two women couldn't dominate a sports and rec round?

The 2 Non Blondes

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Star Wars Trivia Night

Yesterday marked the inaugural Star Wars Trivia Night. We had 15 enthusiastic teams in attendance, and these folks were all ready to win!

After a quick summary of the rules, the game began with a relatively easy General Star Wars Trivia round. Fourteen of the 15 teams scored a perfect 10, even with some prequel questions thrown in. Some of them probably used a Force Sticker to reach that perfect score.

In between some of the rounds, we played quick mini-games while the scores were being tallied. The first mini-game was a Sound Like Chewie contest. Though the competition was fierce, Scott proved he was the closest thing to everyone's favorite fuzzball.



#starwarstrivia mini-game Sound-like-chewie
Posted by Louisville Trivia on Monday, May 4, 2015

Scott (on the right) sounded the most like Chewbacca (Image via Jessica Hayth)

Round Two was all about the Original Trilogy. Eight teams scored perfect in that round. Planet names, alien races, and foreign languages threw some of the teams off.

Round Three was the Picture Round. We had seven perfect scores in that round.

Can you answer these 10 questions?
After Round Three, we had another mini-game; Star Wars in Pop Culture. Four names were drawn from our raffle. Those folks were brought on stage, handed buzzers, and asked pop culture questions related to Star Wars. First person to five points won. Apparently the guys we pulled from the raffle don't like Spaceballs or Star Wars puns. After 12 questions, we had our winner.

The Pop Culture Champ (Images via Jessica Hayth)
Round Four was an audio round, asking questions like "Who said this," "Name that movie," and "What's the thing that should be pointed elsewhere."

"Hey. Point that thing someplace else!" (Screenshot)

There were four perfect scores in the audio round, and it was the last round in which any team got all answers correct. There were some sound issues, but the folks in the bar area were diligent and creative in trying to hear the clues.

Round Five was the Behind the Scenes Round. Questions became increasingly more difficult as the round progressed, leading to a question that most teams got wrong. "Nearly all the actors from the original trilogy continued acting after the films. Which actor (or actress) has had the most success if measured by the box office gross from their post-Star Wars filmography?" The answer may surprise you.

Warwick Davis (Image via Star Wars/flickr)
After Round Five was our final mini-game. Alphabetical Star Wars characters. Apparently, jumping up on stage during a specialty trivia night is just as terrifying as trying out for "Jeopardy!." We made it to the letter "D" before our first contestant dropped out. Then we made it to "G." The winning character was General Dodonna.

We made it to C-3PO, then it all went downhill. (Image via Jessica Hayth)

Thank you, General Dodonna! (Image via Jessica Hayth)
Round Six was the final round of the evening titled Jedi Mind Tricks. Designed to be the toughest round of the night, each correct answer was worth five points. Final words, orders of succession, and landing platforms stumped a few teams. At the end, we had to do two tie-breaker questions. One for third place and one for first/second.

Tie-breaker with Tauntaun Rescue Ranch and
This R5 Has a Bad Motivational Poster (Image via Jessica Hayth)

Star Wars Trivia Night Winners
This R5 Has a Bad Motivational Poster
(Image vie Jessica Hayth)

The winning team was This R5 Has a Bad Motivational Poster. As voted by The Bard's Town staff, the Best Team Name was Uncle Owen's Fried Chicken.

Louisville Trivia would like to thank The Bard's Town for supplying the venue on a day they're normally closed. We'd also like to thank The Destination and Andrew Heath for supplying the prizes for the mini-games. And lastly, we'd like to thank Jessica Hayth for taking photos throughout the evening.

Monday, May 4, 2015

Playing Catch Up: A Weekly Recap

Last week was busy. Just plain pull-your-hair-out busy. Derby week usually is in Louisville. To top it off, we've got this crazy idea to host a special event for Star Wars Day, which took up even more of our precious time. Hopefully that event goes off without a hitch tonight. So, here are a few quips and a few pics from last week's games.

Wednesday night at Molly's and The Bard's Town we had some special Derby questions, and there was a high variance of results. Most teams seemed to liked it, but one team at Molly's wrote "horse racing is cruelty to animals" on their answer sheet. Fair enough. At The Bard's Town, we had an issue with the betting question and the word "profit." Our mistake.

The 70s music round was a challenge too--many people recognized the songs, but figuring out the artists was a lot tougher. It was also nice to see that we were back up to our normal number of teams this week after Waterfront Wednesday. Molly's winning team The Odd Squad requested no paparazzi, so there's no photo of them this week. At The Bard's Town, Six Hour Peacock snagged the win by a nose.

Six Hour Peacock throwin' up gang signs.
On Thursday, or Thurby as we're apparently calling it now, we had our regular game at DiOrio's and a brand new game at a brand new venue. It was apparently a tough game with some lower than usual scores. At DiOrio's team Bork dominated every round except the last one, but still walked away victorious by a single point.

Also on Thursday, we welcomed Jill to the team as she hosted our inaugural night at Great Flood Brewing Company. We're working on perfecting the sound, and may move our setup, but overall it went fairly well. We had seven teams finish the game with Pepcid Posse in the lead at 60 points. We're looking forward to seeing you fine folks again this Thursday.

Pepcid Posse

Monday, April 27, 2015

Star Wars Trivia Night - One Week Away

One week from now, in a bar very,
very near....

It is a period of much fun.
Teams of geeks
gather at The Bard's Town
in Louisville, Kentucky
to play Star Wars trivia.

During the game, teams
of six players answer 
questions of varying difficulty 
and are able to use THE 
FORCE when questions 
become too hard.

In between rounds
players participate
in Mini Games
to help pass the time
and make the night
even more enjoyable
for everyone...

Date: May 4, 2015
Time: Doors open at 5, Sign-in starts at 6, Game starts at 7
Place: The Bard’s Town, 1801 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY
Cost: $50/Team CASH ONLY
Prizes: 1st Place - $200, 2nd Place - $100, 3rd Place - $50 (Other prizes offered by The Destination.)
Teams: Only 5 more teams can register. Only one person per team should register.


Round 1 – General Trivia – 1 point each
Round 2 – The Original Trilogy – 1 point each
Round 3 – Picture Round – 1 point each
Round 4 – Audio Round – 1 point each
Round 5 – Behind the Scenes – 1 point each
Round 6 – Jedi Mind Tricks (The really hard round) – 5 points each

Want to study up before the big night? Star Wars Trivia Night will cover only the six current movies. Feel free to watch the Christmas Special at your own risk. Round 5 is a behind the scenes look at the films, so you may want to dust off the DVDs and watch all the special features as well. 

May the 4th be with you!

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Wednesday Night Recap - Tax Day

Yesterday was the last day to file taxes in these great United States. As we often do, we designed a theme around that fact called "Cold. Hard. Cash." All-in-all it wasn't the best round we've ever done, but there were a ton of pop culture references, which made it fairly easy for folks. And who knew the Hungry, Hungry Hippos even had names?!

Over at Molly Malone's folks got a kick out of the picture round and Terrible Music round. Round five, which is designed to be a bit tougher, tripped a few people up. That's what we like to see. Team 309, going by the name Chipotle Burrito Bowl and 7 Limes, is the team to beat. They have won eight of the last 10 games they've played, they dominated the first five rounds this week, and there's no end in sight. We need someone to step up and challenge these guys next week!

At The Bard's Town, Chris took a hiatus to join Mark Hamill at the 2015 Star Wars Celebration. Scott took over hosting duties for the week with help from Jill, the newest addition to the Louisville Trivia team. Just like at Molly's, most of the teams enjoyed the picture round and the music round. In fact, there was some debate about just how terrible, or how amazing, some of the songs were. Round five was tough. Round six was probably a little too easy. We'll try to fix that for next week. Grumblecakes, the evening's winning team, started off with a great lead, faltered in rounds three and four when just about every other team did better than them, but that didn't matter because they came back in round six missing only one question. They were so confident, a team representative started the victory lap to grab the gift card well before it was announced they'd won.

Grumblecakes

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Last Night's Recap - March 25, 2015

Last night saw the return of Movie Title Mashup, a frequently-requested round. So frequently-requested, when we broke the news on Facebook, we quickly got a request for ANOTHER Movie Title Mashup for an upcoming Sunday night game.

In the final round, we found out about Australia's Blue Mountains National Park and America's World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument(s).

Now for some actor-inspired Gorillaz.


Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Star Wars Trivia Night Information


Star Wars Trivia Night. The perfect way to prove you’re not a stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder.

Date: May 4, 2015
Time: Doors open at 5, Sign-in starts at 6, Game starts at 7
Place: The Bard’s Town, 1801 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY
Cost: $50/Team CASH ONLY
Prizes: 1st Place - $200, 2nd Place - $100, 3rd Place - $50
Additional Prizes: Provided exclusively by The Destination
Register: Registration begins April 1

To celebrate Star Wars Day, Louisville Trivia has put together a 60-question Star Wars Trivia Night. There will be costumes, mini-games, prizes for the best team name, and more!

Trivia will cover all Star Wars movies from The Phantom Menace through The Return of the Jedi. There will be NO extended universe material, but there will be a “Behind the Scenes” round.

Use The Force! Purchase Force stickers, place one in a specific answer slot, and that answer becomes automatically correct. Only one Force sticker can be used per team per round.

So now what?! Gather your team. (Team size is limited to six people total.) Pick a team captain. Have your team captain ready to register on April 1 at noon. Registration details will be posted on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter at that time. Space is limited, so register quickly!

Entry fee is $50/team CASH ONLY at the door. Force stickers are $1 each (maximum of 5).

May the 4th be with you!

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Last Night's Recap - February 11

Brandon subbed in for Annie last night at Molly Malone's while she was off to Cedar Rapids for a work trip. Cedar Rapids in the middle of winter. Sounds fabulous!

We had a good number of teams playing and despite the UofL game being on, things went smoothly. There were a couple of hard-to-pronounce words in the Foot Round, but after some self-deprecating jokes, it went over well. The Love Song music round went well this time due to a quieter audience. We ended up with a three-way tie for 1st place with the winner, 5 Dwarfs, taking the tie breaker question.

Over at The Bard's Town, we had a smaller-than-usual crowd, but it was still a blast. Six Hour Peacock walked away with the win and bragging rights for the next week.


5 Dwarfs
Six Hour Peacock

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Last Night's Recap - January 28

So...last night was all kinds of messed up. We had a record number of teams at The Bard's Town (23!). We ran our of picture sheets, so we had to improvise and share. What wonderful players we have. Over at Molly's, we had a little trouble with the audio round, so we just decided to skip Round 5 all together. Hey, it happens. We'll try it again next week and make it work. No pictures of the winning teams. We'll work on that as well.

We did have a question about our '90s round and the predecessor of Darth Vader in 1999's The Phantom Menace. The question at hand? "What was the name of Darth Vader’s predecessor with trademark a black and red face, horns on his head, and who used a double edged light saber in 1999’s Star Wars: The Phantom Menace?" We'll let you be the judge.

Ray Park as Darth Maul
Christopher Lee as Darth Tyranus
At Molly's, the winning team was Turn On The Heat with 93 points.  At The Bard's Town, Six Hour Peacock had 94 points.


Thursday, January 22, 2015

Catching Up - Recaps from January 21 and 22


We were back at The Granville on Tuesday after last week's UofL-game-forced-hiatus. It was a small crowd, but an intense one. The winning team, Tequila Mockingbird, came back from behind and devastated the competition by winning the game by one point.

Tequila Mockingbird
Over at Molly Malone's, Scott took Tuesday night off and Chris hosted the game. A new team, the Mario Bros won. We always love when that happens.

Hump Day brought some high scores. The winning teams at Molly's (We Don't Know) and The Bard's Town (High Utilizers) both walked away with 96 points, just FOUR points shy of a perfect game. That ain't bad! 

We Don't Know
And as we learned at The Bard's Town, there are 3539 instances of the F word in the entire run of The Sopranos.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Last Night's Recap - Jauary 14



If We Lose I Go Into Labor

It was a fairly uneventful night. No major sound issues. It's almost like we know what we're doing. It was the second night in a row we talked about Eddie Izzard.We're not sure what that means. Looking forward to it again next week.

If We Lose I Go Into Labor grabbed the win at Molly Malone's. At The Bard's Town, the winning team was I Like This Guy, He Talks Fast and I'll be in Bed By 10.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Wednesday Night Recap - January 7

Annie's back and Chris* is here to stay! There were some technical hiccups at The Bard's Town, but with the help of The Bard's Town's own Scot, we got it all worked out. That PA system will forever be an enigma.
 


Drinkers Not Thinkers secured the win at Molly's. Kevin Bacon and Eggs took the lead at The Bard's Town. And we're full speed into a new season of scores.

*A little note from Chris after his first night: "I had alot of fun hosting trivia for the first time last night. Nathan Stalvey, you were right, The Bard's Town players are a super fun group of people; also they take no prisoners! There were a couple rookie mistakes made by me and there were some technical snags that will be ironed out by next Wednesday. Thank you to Louisville Trivia and to Scott Gibson for giving me this opportunity, I look forward to this in the months ahead! Also, thank you to The Bard's Town players for your patience and we'll see you all next week!"