Posts Tagged ‘NYC’
Partner Shout-Outs: VH1 Save The Music Trivia Night
One week from today, on Tuesday, June 14th, we are thrilled to be producing a very special trivia fund raiser for VH1 Save The Music, a foundation devoted to keeping music education in public schools. I have long been passionate about this cause, a passion which I share with my wife, a New York City…
Read MoreWhy New York City Team Building Events Are Tops
New York City corporate team building events are awesome. That may seem like a rather broad, stereotypical NYC-centric statement, but it’s true. Our city is really like no other in terms of diversity, density and sheer variety of options for truly everything imaginable, and team building activities are no exception. Prior to starting a professional…
Read MoreHitting the Right Note: Using Trivia for Fund Raising
Since becoming a blogger, I have used this space to explore the many aspects of using live trivia as a means of corporate event entertainment, employee team building or brand awareness. Today, I would like to discuss another important use for trivia events, and that is to raise funds for a good cause. Trivia events…
Read MoreEnd of an Era – Saying Goodbye to a Longtime Pub Quiz
In the summer of 2006, I first stepped foot into a new bar that had just opened in my neighborhood on the Upper East Side. It was at this large Irish pub that I had my first experience with “real” Irish bartenders, played my very first trivia night and, not long thereafter, embarked on an…
Read MoreMaintaining a Packed House on Pub Quiz Night
By November 2006, barely 2 months after starting my new gig as the volunteer “quizmaster” at Manhattan’s Gael Pub, the bar had to buy a new laptop so that I could score the 30+ teams each week on Excel, rather than by hand. I was still in shock with the overwhelming response I’d received in…
Read MoreBuilding a New Pub Quiz from Scratch
As described in an earlier post about my start in the trivia events world, by September of 2006 I had only been hosting my new trivia night at The Gael Pub for a month, and had already been rewarded with a loyal turnout of…well, strangers! Over 50 of them, coming out of nowhere. Who WERE…
Read MoreBecoming an Established Trivia Host
In the Summer of 2006, I unexpectedly landed a gig as the “quizmaster” at The Gael Pub, a new Irish pub on the UES that had recently begun a weekly trivia night. After committing to this challenge, it took me a couple of weeks to get the hang of the format, as well as to…
Read MoreSo You’re a Quizmaster – Now What?
In the summer of 2006, I found myself in a most unexpected position: working a weekly side gig as a “quizmaster” at a local UES Irish pub, while maintaining a full-time job. This side gig was quirky, not too difficult and didn’t pay anything (other than a couple of free beers) but you know what?…
Read MoreA Quizmaster is Born
Probably the most common question I am asked when people find out I own a trivia company is, “How did you get into this?” It’s a valid question, one that I’ve been asking myself for almost 5 years now. The answer? It just kind of happened. In the Summer of 2006, I was living on…
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