Springfield Trivia

If you haven’t played along with any of Dan Naumovich’s trivia quizzes, you’ve been missing out. The rules are simple. Answer the questions and don’t use the internet to find the answers – because you don’t have to know anything to do that. Cheating will backfire because when you get a perfect score on Dan’s quiz, you will likely be recruited to play with us at a trivia night, so when you don’t know something easy like the name of they key grip from the second season of All in the Family, we will know you used a virtual Mulligan. Shame.

The latest quiz is all about celebrity endorsements. Go give it a shot. And don’t you dare Google.

If you like that one, you’ll do well with at least one of the categories I’m writing for my next trivia night on February 20th. (hint-hint)

I’m not sure we’ve ever had 5 6 different trivia nights scheduled for the same night here before. This weekend will be the peak of the season so far, for sure.

Starting on the North side, the Kof C 4175 Women’s Auxiliary is hosting an event at 2801 West Street. If you’re planning on playing this one, make sure you call in your RSVP (525-1149 or 899-7281), because there will not be room for walk-ins.

Moving downtown, the Trivia Night Benefitting St. John’s Children’s Hospital will be held at the Dove Conference Center at the Prairie Heart Institute located next to St. John’s Hospital. This is a great venue for trivia.

Heading out to the other KC Hall, the UIS Accountancy program is hosting an event on Meadowbrook. Prize money to the first place team. Unfortunately, they didn’t leave an RSVP number or email address.

Heading down Rt. 4, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and the Chatham Junior Women’s Club are co-sponsoring a trivia night at St. Joseph’s. Gary and Mary Ann Stremsterfer, fixtures of the Springfield trivia scene are presenting the trivia. You won’t hear a bad question when Gary is in charge. The proceeds are benefiting charities and community projects.

Finally, further down Rt. 4, there will be a trivia night at the Auburn High School gym to benefit the AHS Drama Club. Folks in the southern part of the county, who can’t always make it into Springfield for a trivia night, here’s your chance. Call Kim Ladage at 217-438-6817 for more information.

UPDATE: Yet another trivia night has been added to the schedule! The Pleasant Plains Historical Society is hosting a trivia night at Clayville on Saturday. Contact Dan Usherwood at 217-691-4533 for more information.

So there’s no shortage of trivia this weekend. If that’s still not enough choices for you, there are 11 events in the St. Louis area. Enjoy!

I’m making a few changes to the website this week, starting with a new, friendlier form for submitting upcoming trivia nights.  I’ve also added links to the Facebook and Twitter pages.

Icons for all of the new features can be found in the top right corner.

Here’s one I used a few months ago for the Capital Elite All Stars trivia night. All of the ‘questions’ are a short description of the plot of a television show’s final episode. Can you name all the shows? The answers are included.

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Another week with four events – THREE tonight.

• FRIDAY:
  • Athens Boy Scout Troop 52 Trivia Night (7:00 pm)
  • YSPN Trivia Night (7:00 pm)
  • St. Agnes School Trivia Night (7:00 pm)
• SATURDAY:
  • Trivia Night at Floyd’s (7:00 pm)

Friday

• Real Life Church Trivia Night
  
• TriviaMania IV (Jacksonville)
  

Saturday

• Blueboys’ Basketball Trivia Night (Jacksonville)
  
• St. Joseph Parish Springfield Trivia Night
  

There are three events scheduled for this weekend.  The first is Friday night at the Hoogland, where I’ll be providing the questions and Jim Leach will be emceeing.  The proceeds for this event will benefit the Springfield Theatre Centre.

Saturday night you have a choice between the Cathedral Trivia Night, and ‘What’s in Your Noggin’, which is being held at St. John Vianney in Sherman and benefits Brother James Court.

Springfield Theatre Centre Trivia Night

Cathedral Trivia Night

What’s In Your Noggin’

It looks like you’ll have two trivia nights to choose from Friday night. Hospital Sisters of St. Francis is hosting an event at 4939 LaVerna Road AND I will be hosting an event at the Firefighters Lake Club for Capital Elite All Stars.

For more info on these events…

• Misson: Possible
• FFLC – Capital Elite All Stars

Remember that episode of Gilligan’s Island where Gilligan finds the crate of radioactive seeds that grow into enormous fruits and vegetables*?  Well that food was puny compared to the following items found in the US.  Your goal here is to name the cities in which these huge tributes to food are located.  The first to guess all six in the comments gets a special honor, with an actual retail value of almost nothing.

I’m trying out an idea for a possible trivia night category.  Have a look at this:

Add up the numbers associated with the five images and post the total in the comments.  Also, let me know if you think something like this would work as a category.