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  • This is pretty exciting. We are about to begin a ten week LIVE trivia league at the Walnut Street Winery in Rochester.  There is room for TEN teams to compete for the top three spots.  Your team can have up to four members playing on league nights (Tuesdays), plus alternates on the roster if you need [...]0November 10, 2011

    Coming Soon – Live Trivia League

  • Season 3 of the Quiz League will be kicking off soon…but first, there will be five warm up questions posted on the Facebook page that have to be solved. If you want to hurry the process, make sure you follow Springfield Trivia on Facebook and post your guesses in the comments of the warm [...]0October 11, 2011

    QL 3 Coming Soon!

  • If you have photos from local trivia nights posted on Facebook, please feel free to tag ‘Springfield Trivia’ in the pics to help promote local trivia events. Of course you’ll have to ‘Like’ the Facebook page first. 0October 5, 2011

    Got Pics?

  • After changing the look of the site every year from 2003-2008, this place has pretty much looked the same for the last 3 years.  It’s probably as good a time as any to paint the walls and rearrange the furniture, so expect a gradual change in the look and feel over the next few weeks. If [...]1September 30, 2011

    The “New” SpringfieldTrivia.com

  • Your humbled host, facing off with Jeopardy winners, Mike Leger and Shane Whitlock. Photo taken by yet another Jeopardy winner, Dan Avila. As some of you know, I just spent the weekend in Las Vegas for the first Trivia Championships of North America.  It would be rude of me to not share my [...]9July 12, 2011

    Back from Vegas

  • Here are a few things that will probably come up at a trivia night at some point in the future. This was the Dallas Mavericks’ first NBA championship. Dirk Nowitzki is the 2nd foreign-born player to win the Finals MVP award.  Tony Parker, who was born in Belgium was the first in 2007. Seven other foreign-born players [...]1June 13, 2011

    What to Remember About the 2011 NBA Finals

  • If you’re playing along with the Quiz League and haven’t yet joined us on Facebook or Twitter, you may be missing out on important updates.  Every little hint could make or break your score at this point. SpringfieldTrivia.com on Facebook SpringfieldTrivia.com on Twitter 0May 20, 2011

    Facebook Us.

  • I’ll be calculating the results from Round One today, and posting Round Two sometime tonight or tomorrow.  Stay tuned. And if you haven’t joined our Facebook page yet, you may want to do that.  There will be occasional hints posted there.  The new address for that is http://www.facebook.com/TriviaNights 0January 30, 2011

    Round One: Finished

  • There’s Friday night trivia tonight at the KC Hall (West) presented by the Springfield Ski Club, and benefitting the Red Cross.  Beware, purists…there will be Mulligans. Tomorrow night, Allen Reyne will be hosting a sold-out event at the Firefighters’ Lake Club.  These are always a good time, but if you want to play this one, you’ll [...]2January 28, 2011

    Weekend Trivia

  • Those of you with iPhones or Facebook accounts have access to the addictive and competitive (and free) trivia game, Qrank (pronounced “Crank”).  Every day is a new opportunity to face off against your friends and other local players in a 15 question quiz on entertainment, literature, science, business, sports, and current events. The game itself is [...]3January 20, 2011

    Qrank it up, Springfield!

  • It’s Thursday night.  There’s a healthy layer of snow on the ground.  You’re bound to be bored tonight, so get down to Willy P’s downtown tonight for trivia starting at 8pm.  The trivia is good, the drink specials are a bonus, and the prizes are big.  Last week I won Illini tickets and a gift [...]0January 20, 2011

    Thursday Night Trivia @ Willy P’s

  • Here’s a pretty good way to tell what people outside of Springfield know about our little town: Questions about Springfield, Illinois have come up 25 times on Jeopardy! since 1984.  Of those 25, 6 didn’t mention Abraham Lincoln.  Of those 6, only two asked about something other than the fact that Springfield is the capital of [...]0January 17, 2011

    What is “Springfield”, Alex?

  • I don’t cross-promote much here, but I do run another site called Springfield Rewind which is essentially a photo blog that takes a look at architectural changes around Springfield over the years. The 2nd Annual (obviously) Springfield Rewind Calendars are now available. If you are a fan of Springfield, architecture, or history, you will enjoy [...]0December 9, 2010

    A plug.

  • Back in that post I wrote about putting together a good trivia night, I made it a point to bring up question quality, but I didn’t really get into HOW to write a good question. Hopefully I can do that here. Before I get too far, if you’re only planning to run one trivia night [...]11November 27, 2010

    On Writing Questions

  • Writing a question tonight about Angela Lansbury’s character, Jessica Fletcher, I wondered if I could come up with a full category based on famous people or characters with Old English occupational surnames.   Of course, there would have to be a Don Draper question, and Adam Wainwright would definitely be in there.  I’d have Ben [...]5November 10, 2010

    What’s In a Name?

  • I get a lot of emails from people asking for advice on how to put together trivia nights. They are usually from people who are just in the planning stages of their first event, and they want to know how to get started. Now seems like a good time to write a quick guide to [...]7November 10, 2010

    How To Run a (Good) Trivia Night

  • Go click the ‘Like’ button on the new SpringfieldTrivia.com Facebook page to get updates, event notifications, and maybe even some hints for upcoming trivia night questions. 0October 27, 2010

    New Facebook Page

  • This Friday, Rochester faces Freeburg in the first round of the 4A football playoffs.  Freeburg’s sports teams are nicknamed “THE MIDGETS”.  I know! This will surely come up in a trivia night category someday, so here are a few more ‘interesting’ mascots from around the state of Illinois.  Can you think of any more?  And yes, [...]0October 26, 2010

    Wacky Mascot Names

  • This morning’s news started with the announcement that Tony Curtis had passed away at 85. Not long after that, I found out that Greg Giraldo, the comedian and judge on Last Comic Standing had also died. These two noteworthy celebrities shared their final day, September 29, 2010. It reminded me of June [...]3September 30, 2010

    “At least Thomas Jefferson Survives.”

  • Somebody, please go over to Naumo.com and take Dan’s quiz, all about the world of Saxophones. Until there’s a better response to this quiz, he is holding the answers and results hostage. I really need to find out how well I did, so I need you to stop what you’re doing right now [...]1September 29, 2010

    Sax Appeal

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      • BASKET OF HOPE 4th ANNUAL TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER (7:00 pm)
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      • World Quizzing Championships (12:00 pm)
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