Trivia at The B.East

A group of us from work decided to gather for an evening of trivia tonight at The B.East, a newish burger place on Lygon Street in East Brunswick that has taken over the space that used to house Turkish restaurant Baba.  Onagh and I threw caution (and diet) to the wind and ordered ourselves burgers and chili cheese fries to share.  Both were decent but the make or break dish for me was the ice cream sundae, which was an absolute disappointment.  News flash to the owners: if you are going to charge $9 for a sundae you better be using gourmet ice cream and lots of hot fudge sauce.  Instead we got budget vanilla ice cream, one spoonful of fudge sauce, some Freddo frogs, whipped cream, and a sparkler that must have been an attempt distract us from the disaster we were about to eat.

Thankfully the Rock and Pop Culture trivia was more entertaining.  The evening was hosted by Triple R’s Jess McGuire and Shock Record’s George H. and we had three rounds of film, tv and music trivia.  It may just be that I'm getting old, but many of the questions seemed kind of easy to me.  By the end of the night our table managed to tie for third place, which was pretty good considering the number of teams playing.  To make up for the sundae we stopped and got some gelati from Gelobar a few doors down before heading home.

Trivia Night for Make Poverty History

Tonight after work I joined Marnie and her friends for a night of trivia at the Trades Hall in Carlton. It was a benefit for the 2009 Make Poverty History Internship Program. After a short introduction and film clip our evening of trivia began. There were three rounds of questions- two were general trivia and one was music. There were also two silent rounds where you had to match a person or character to a quote, and music graphs where you had to figure out the song and artist. Our team was behind by a couple points after two rounds, but we triumphed and took the whole thing by the end of the night. We divided up the great prizes for first place amongst our group and I came away with a gift certificate for a 60 minute organic facial at endota spa in the city. It was a fun night for a good cause.

Trivia at The Drunken Poet

Last night I joined Tash, her sister and their friends at The Drunken Poet for trivia night. It's a cute Irish pub across the street from the Vic Market. The questions over 8 rounds covered general knowledge, movies, music, sports, geography and celebrity faces. Our team did quite well and actually won the night! This may become a Tuesday night tradition.