Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Use your Useless Knowledge

So I’m not sure how the fascination of answering questions while drunk came around. But oddly enough it is damn fun, granted I do not have the think too long or hard about it. Plenty of bars and pubs around the city are channeling the craze of pop culture trivia. People get excited about this. It must be because the lack of quality TV on Mondays and Tuesdays. People are just happy to have found something to do on those typically boring nights. And did I mention that entering these quizzes is FREE. Just to entice the trivia addicts these pubs have food and drink specials also.

So before I go any farther you might be curious to where these trivia nights reside. One of the most popular and rowdiest would be at the Bitter End. Now please don’t come here expecting a nice, quiet, polite game of trivia. That is not the name of the game here. Team names are intended to make fun of the host and his mom. Comments get raunchy and juvenile, but I’d say that is right up my alley. If you can put up with it and even dish out the comments you always think but withhold, you’d dig this place.

If you are looking for something a little more wholesome, the Chieftain Pub is the place. The crowd would be a little older, which may translate to maturity. Chances are you are going to get an honest game of trivia here. With the location in downtown, it attracts a different crowd of trivia goers.

There are at least 18 bars and pubs in San Francisco that host trivia nights. I spotlighted two that lie on the opposite sides of the spectrum. With so many to choose from there is bound to be a place that suits the atmosphere you are comfortable with. The bottom line is to just enjoy yourself, and community drinking games that don’t cost you anymore than you drink, is not a bad night.