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Trivia, Tonight.
On Tap at the Harbor.
8 PM.


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Tonight's question:
What heavyweight boxer defeated Joe Quarry in October of 1970, ending his involuntary 3 year hiatus from the sport?

First one to tell me after 7:30 gets a prize.

OTHER NEWS:
We have a new game in the Akron area.
It's at Musketeers Bar and Grill in Richfield.
It's on Wednesdays at 7pm - you can get more details here.
(When league play starts again you can play on Tuesdays AND Wednesdays to double your chances to qualify!)

You may have clicked through the ad on the blog a few weeks ago.

No worries if you didn't, but there is a way to get an extra clue about the upcoming shows. Well, possibly not a clue, but some insight into how I'm putting the show and playlist together. I usually try to have the songs tie in with the questions, and I usually have a few folks ask me each week about what songs I played, or who sang the oddball cover version they heard, etc.  

I've updated the Akron Triviators Amazon page to have a listing of songs I've played.  I'm not going to put every song I use up there, but I'll make sure to list a good sampling.  I'm trying to add songs to it BEFORE each show, so if you check that out, you'll have an idea of what's on my mind that day. 

If you actually click through and BUY anything from there I get a few pennies off of each song. Worried about being locked into Apple/Itunes? Check out this link - http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201113900 - you can get music from Amazon, with no DRM, and have it added to iTunes automagically!



Info on our Hosts:
Have you "liked" On Tap at the Harbor on Facebook?
If you haven't here's what you are missing:
* A weekly bonus question from me, good for a free shot
* Their upcoming live music events
* Info on great parties, events and contests

On Tap at the Harbor has an EXCELLENT beer selection. 


Your weekly link roundup:
Last Call USA NEOhio - Facebook
Last Call Productions - Facebook
Last Call USA's Weekly HINTS
Last Call USA's Trivia League
check LEAGUE SCORES here.
ROB at Last Call
You are HERE.
Our company store.
I published a book!

Now how much would you pay?

  NOT SOLD IN STORES! 

Trivia Tonight 8 PM.  On Tap at The Harbor.

Infomercials are on my mind today.

What 70's and 80's commercial icon was the mad genius behind such revolutionary inventions such as The Veg-O-Matic™, the Pocket Fisherman

™,  GLH-9™ (aka Hair-In-A-Can!), and a personal favorite of mine, Mr. Microphone™  ? 

Tell me, in person, anytime after 7:51 for a prize.

                             

Info on our Hosts:
Have you "liked" On Tap at the Harbor on Facebook?
If you haven't here's what you are missing:
* A weekly bonus question from me, good for a free shot
* Their upcoming live music events
* Info on great parties, events and contests

On Tap at the Harbor has an EXCELLENT beer selection.
Your weekly link roundup:
Last Call USA NEOhio - Facebook
Last Call Productions - Facebook
Last Call USA's Weekly HINTS
Last Call USA's Trivia League
check LEAGUE SCORES here.
ROB at Last Call
You are HERE.
Our company store.
I published a book!

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!!

 

Good enough.

New Show - Wednesdays 7pm - Musketeers in Richfield

Hey All!

We have a new game in the Greater Akron Area.  
(Who knew that "Greater Akron" was actually a thing?)

It started last week - I mentioned it to the folks who came out to On Tap at the Harbor last week.  I meant to add it to the email last week, but welcome to my brain.

It's on Wednesdays, 7pm at:
Musketeers  Bar and Grill in Richfield.
They are at:
3027 Brecksville Rd.Richfield, OH 44286
(That link takes you to the Google Maps for them.)


If you've never been there, you can get a feel for the place in this article from Mimi Vanderhaven. 

The TL/DR version is :
Great food, fantastic beer selection, great staff, and a fun atmosphere.

If that's not enough for you, they also have Last Call Trivia - every Wednesday.


The host is great, and ready to build a new venue for you to enjoy.
(No, it's not me.  Getting out one night a week is as much of a challenge as I can handle.)

It's going to be a good time - check it out!

- Rob

Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Triviators?

 

Sun is shining, and temps are rising.

Not long before the deck is open at On Tap.

Tonight! 8 PM!

Quickie - Tuesday Question 
Pulp Fiction:
The Shadow, pulp hero from the 1930's, knew "what evil lurks in the hearts of men!" Like all good action heroes, he had a secret identity.Actually, he had several. 
Tell me one of them.
First person to tell me, in person, after 7:12 pm, gets some prize.

Info on our Hosts:
Have you "liked" On Tap at the Harbor on Facebook?
If you haven't here's what you are missing:
* A weekly bonus question from me, good for a free shot
* Their upcoming live music events
* Info on great parties, events and contests

On Tap at the Harbor has an EXCELLENT beer selection.
Your weekly link roundup:
Last Call USA NEOhio - Facebook
Last Call Productions - Facebook
Last Call USA's Weekly HINTS
Last Call USA's Trivia League
check LEAGUE SCORES here.
ROB at Last Call
You are HERE.
Our company store.
I published a book!

 

And now, a word for a sponsor. . .

You may have noticed the Amazon Affiliate links on the blog.  For a long time, it's been just a referral link to the jokebook I published for kindle.

I finally updated it, and added several more items, and two new categories.

One is the "Songs Used" category.  (I'll update it with something creative at some point.)
It's literally a list of songs that I have played during trivia nights.  Not every song is on there, but a ton of them are.  I'm also going to update it (ideally BEFORE trivia) with songs I'll be using in my playlist for the next show.  Think of it as a bonus clue for being an obsessive geek.



(EDIT DONE LATER - I think the earlier version didn't make it clear - I didn't write or have anything to do with Shadow Unit, other than to be a fan of it, and its creators.  Sorry if this was confusing.) 

The other is the "Shadow Unit" category.  Shadow Unit is a bit hard to describe, so I am going to plagiarize from a Goodreads user "Sath":
In (creator) Emma Bull's own words, Shadow Unit is fan fiction for a tv series that never existed. Bull thought up this fantastic urban fantasy type tv series, taking ideas from her old favourites such as x-files and The Man from UNCLE, and then brought on board some of her writer friends to collaborate and write for it.

The series revolves around a small branch of the FBI, the 'Anomalous Crimes Task Force' also commonly called 'the shadow unit', whose job it is to identify and track down Gammas - humans infected an unknown entity (simply called the 'anomaly'). No one knows what the anomaly is, whether parasite, virus, bacteria etc, but it's effect on humans is to give them supernatural abilities, and then to bend their mind subtly to it's own purpose. Most Gammas end up using their abilities to harm or kill, and that's when the shadow unit gets called in.

The format of the book is as a collection of short stories, called episodes, each written by a different author, but all set within the same universe and timeline. The first episode Breathe makes a very good introduction to the series. As it brings in the character Daphne Worth who has just joined the Shadow Unit team, and is as new to all this as we - the readers - are. Worth was originaly an EMT , who trained up to join the team after a nasty encounter with a Gamma that resulted in the death of her colleagues. After meeting the team, Daphne gets to go on her first case. Several victims have been found suffocated to death without any apparent external cause. The Gamma that did it is still out there, and the team are racing against the clock to put all the evidence together and catch the Gamma before the Gamma takes its next victim.

(I made minor edits to that, mostly typos.  Muphr'ys Law means that I'll make several of my own here.)

There are 13 collections availible for Kindle so far.  The first episode is FREE.  You can get it here.

You can also read much of it online for free at their homebase at shadowunit.org.

I'll make a few cents on any sales from a click-through, but I am really showcasing Shadow Unit here because I think you'll enjoy them.  Check it out!

Keep your shirt on! Trivia Carnival - Mardi Gras at On Tap at the Harbor! - 3/4 - 8pm

You know what today is, right?

It's this:

MOST PLACES, if you want these:

You might have to do this:

OR:

You can keep your shirt on (if you like) and get goofy trinkets simply by opening your brain and sharing the contents. 

That's right.

Tuesday Trivia.

Tonight.

8 pm.

On Tap at The Harbor.

Tuesday Question

GOLDEN SHOWERS OF FUN:

What European city celebrates Carnival by hanging a stuffed donkey in effigy, which then (using water and a pump system) pees onto the crowd below?

First person to tell me, in person, after 7:09 pm, gets some beads.

(Or bead equivalent.  We'll see what I come up with.)

Or, as they say in the Big Easy:
"Laissez les bonnes choses vaincus et écrasés avant notre la puissance de notre cerveau!"

Info on our Hosts:
Have you "liked" On Tap at the Harbor on Facebook?
If you haven't here's what you are missing:
* A weekly bonus question from me, good for a free shot
* Their upcoming live music events
* Info on great parties, events and contests

On Tap at the Harbor has an EXCELLENT beer selection.
Your weekly link roundup:
Last Call USA NEOhio - Facebook
Last Call Productions - Facebook
Last Call USA's Weekly HINTS
Last Call USA's Trivia League
check LEAGUE SCORES here.
ROB at Last Call
You are HERE.
Our company store.
I published a book!