Event Recap: Golden Girls vs Designing Women Trivia Night
Last week, the TrivWorks team had the extraordinary opportunity to partner with two of New York City’s funniest comics, Eliot Glazer & H. Alan Scott, to produce a truly unique trivia event: Golden Girls vs Designing Women. Held at The Bell House, home of our large-scale public trivia events in order to mark the start of Brooklyn Pride Week, we welcomed almost 200 fanatics of both shows to participate in one of the most specifically-themed – and hilarious – trivia nights we’ve ever hosted!
Upon entering the Bell House’s main performance space, attendees were presented with an answer packet and pen from the palm tree-clad TrivWorks scoring table while a Golden Girls clip played on the big screen. Once the place was packed, we welcomed our two hosts onstage, each wearing their own specially-designed shirt and to their respective shows’ theme songs: H. Alan with Designing Women, and Eliot with Golden Girls (I’m willing to bet nobody has ever made an entrance through the crowd to “Thank You for Being a Friend” before).
Following a raucous opening banter which got the crowd fired up – as in, truly fired up, like they’d never been to an event specifically designed for them like this before (they hadn’t), our hosts dived right in to 4 rounds of trivia for the entire room. Alternating between Golden Girls and Designing Women questions, the audience was treated to categories titled “The Men,” “Who Said This?” “Very Special Episodes” and “In Real Life.”
In between rounds, the guys gave the audience a real treat with a variety of hysterical clips from the shows, as well as “lost” commercials and public service announcements featuring the stars of GGvDW.
Throughout the event, fun prizes were given away such as lipstick and leggings – however, the winning team got to come onstage and claim their grand prize package, which included not only official show T-shirts, mugs and a gift certificate to Junior’s, but a purple pendant that the Golden Girls’ Rue McClanahan actually OWNED, with papers of authentication to prove it!
Of course, we couldn’t possibly end a night such as this without treating the entire audience to cheesecake.
I behalf of the TrivWorks team, I would like to thank Eliot & H. Alan for their brilliance in coming up with this event, as well as their passion and enthusiasm for the shows to make sure it was truly a night to remember.
We would also like to thank the below media outlets, who provided such incredible coverage and helped ensure that NYC’s GG & DW enthusiasts knew about our event:
- Time Out New York
- F’d In Park Slope
- New York Magazine
- NEXT Magazine
- BrooklynNightOut.com
- Brooklyn Exposed
- Brokelyn
- Not For Tourists
- Manhattan User’s Guide
- MurphGuide
- Gowanus Your Face Off
- ParkSlope.com
- Park Slope Patch
- Carroll Gardens Patch
- The Skint
- Nifty NYC
- Scoutmob
- ReverbNation
- HowAboutWe.com
Were you there, and would like to share your experience? Do you have an ideas for what other large-scale trivia events we should offer? Please let us know by leaving a reply below, by becoming a fan of our Facebook page or hitting us up via Twitter @TrivWorks!
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Oh, and get a load of Eliot’s Bea Arthur tattoo. It’s real:
