"A pub quiz brings fun focus to a night out, whether you're just kicking back with friends, assuring a date you're not a complete idiot, or drinking alone and hoping to do something other than look at your phone (except you might have to-some games have players submit answers online instead of on paper). In Portland, scores of local bars (and restaurants and cart pods) have caught on to this way of keeping customers on their stools for a couple of hours,"
"As to the questions themselves, they might be an idiosyncratic mix prepped by a nerdy local or the output of a huge company running trivia nights across the country. Homegrown options include the long-running ShanRock's Triviology, which Shannon Donaldson started in 2005 with a trusty mix of pop culture and "book learnin'" (that's the name of round 3). Answer sheets are traded with other teams between rounds, so you're pretty much guaranteed to interact with other humans."
Pub quizzes provide focused, social entertainment on nights out or solo evenings, often keeping patrons seated for a couple of hours. Portland venues host pub-quiz nights every night except Saturday, with events run by local nerds or national companies. ShanRock's Triviology, started in 2005, mixes pop culture with a "book learnin'" round and uses answer-sheet trading to encourage team interaction. Trivia with Sam projects questions and includes a Final Jeopardy type of gamble. Some nights use double-point final rounds, enabling late comebacks. Untapped Trivia began at a growler fill house in 2016 and continued after 2020 with diverse topics and difficulty.
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