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“Snapshot” – Spring Summer 2025 Season – McShane’s Pub (Updated September 3, 2025)

The purpose of this blog is to take a “snapshot” of each trivia game we’ve played at McShane’s this past season. I’ve also added the two games… Read more ““Snapshot” – Spring Summer 2025 Season – McShane’s Pub (Updated September 3, 2025)”

My trivia team Miskatonic University Fighting Cephalopods finally returned in earnest to playing live trivia games in 2024. By that I mean that we played for a… Read more “Year In Review 2024 – Our Trivial Pursuits”

I’ve been seeing lots of advertisements for companies that will, if you provide them with a swab of your DNA and a wad of cash, will analyze… Read more “If Someone Wants My DNA – They’ll Have To Get It The Old-Fashioned Way!”

We had a question about mustached U.S. presidents in our trivia game last night, which we got right, but got wrong on a technicality. We were supposed… Read more “U.S. Presidents – Sorted by Hairstyles (UPDATED MAY 28, 2025)”

Don’t have your own tent or recreational vehicle – but still want to go camping? No problem! The state of Michigan has a variety of different cabins,… Read more “(REVISED June 16, 2023) Cabins, Tents and Shelters You Can Rent in Michigan’s State Parks”

OK, so here are the things “only Archie would know” at his birthday trivia night (the ‘Pods team captain came in a respectable third place among all… Read more “All About Archie – Birthday Trivia!”

Me and my Miskatonic University Fighting Cephalopods trivia team played 83 total regulation trivia games in 2025 – general knowledge and music quiz games – compared to… Read more “Year In Review 2025 – Our Trivial Pursuits – By the Numbers”

As you can see here, it didn’t take him long to change Shockwave into a ship – without instructions!

I thought to myself earlier while out doing last minute holiday errands… “Why hasn’t anyone given the “Wicked” treatment to “How the Grinch Stole Christmas?” You know… Read more “Has Anyone Bothered to Look at the Grinch’s Side of the Story?”

A dear friend’s mom died recently. I had planned to go out for a trivia game tonight, but after spending the afternoon with her on my ancestral… Read more “No Trivial Pursuits This Week! Except Music Trivia😢”

This post is for anyone who is a Twin Peaks fan or has watched season 2 episode 1 of Fallout. In the season 2 opening episode of… Read more “Did the Fallout Producers Do This on Purpose? 🤔”

A couple of us decided that because of the balmy December evening after a couple of weeks of brutal cold and snow, we’d go check out the… Read more “Trivia Recap – Game #875 – December 16, 2025 – Red Rock BBQ – Sporcle Events – Ypsilanti, MI”

We paid a visit to a trivia spot tonight that we haven’t played for at least 12 years. Red Rock Barbecue in Ypsilanti, MI stopped offering trivia… Read more “Checked Out a New Old Trivia Spot Tonight”

A “new” Sporcle Events trivia spot has opened up close to me. Red Rock Downtown Barbecue – previously known sometime before 2012 as TC’s Speakeasy, then called… Read more “A “Sort of” New Trivia Spot Close to Me? What’s a Trivia Junkie to Do? 🤔😁”

Answers at the end. It’s been rough trying to hustle players for live trivia games these days. At the most recent round of Sporcle Events Globe Games,… Read more “Trivia Recap – Game # 873 – December 10, 2025 – Virtual Sporcle Events”