Tuesday Trivia at Mikie Squared

So last night Mitch and I headed out to Mikey/Mikie Squared (its spelled differently dependign on the website) for their tuesday night trivia. Lets start with the logistics. Trivia starts at 8:30 pm and the happy hour includes 3$ yuengling, 5$ mango martini (the martini selection changes every week) and no food specials. As far as happy hour/Tuesday night specials this is one of the WORST in Hoboken. When I mentioned this (tactfully of course) to the bartender he replied rather snidely that it was bc they give out such good trivia prizes. And after a while i realized this remark was probably true. 1st place winner gets a $50 GC to their next Mikey Squared experience, 2nd place $30 bucks and 3rd place $20. Not bad prizes to just go and answer trivia all night.

So trivia starts, and I have to say I have played trivia in DC, NYC, school (I know I know I'm a dork) and I have NEVER played trivia liek this before. It was actually quite annoying. Usually when I play trivia in NYC (Joshua Tree on the West Side Tues. at 8) its 3 rounds of 10 questions, with a joker option (this means on any one round you can try to double your possible points by jokering)- this is standard trivia playing. Mikie squared did NOT play this way. They handed out little tiny slips of paper upon which you put your teram name, the answer and then you can choose whether you want that question to be worth 1, 3, or 5 points. There are 3 questions per round a 4 rounds. Now I say the trivia aspect was annoying- and it was, but then they gave out raffled off prizes in between the rounds. Which was actually a nice touch. One chick even walked out with an IPOD Shuffle - alas Mitch and I did not win --- IT WAS RIGGED - not that I'm bitter or anything : ). In fact Mitch and I did not win anything, we were a disaster. I answered all of two questions correctly, one was how many different characters does michael J fox pl,ay in the movie back to the future part II. (5) and the other was On saved by the bell what the name of the club that the gang gets into using fake IDs (the attic) - Which didn't even count for us bc it ended up being the tie breakign question between 1st and 2nd place. Even i realize how unbelievably pathetic that is, so I can't reaaaaally complain too too much about not winning anything.

At the end of the night we spent 60 bucks on the bill, for a plate of nachos, 5 well drinks, 2 yuenglings and 3 martinis. We had fun realizign how stupid we are, and we wihtout a doubt gather up a larger contigent next time for a chance to win... the raffle prizes.

PLEASE do not think you have a shot of winning the trivia portion of the evening unless you intend to cheat. BC as far as I could tell the top two winners from last night without a doubt cheated. 1st place handed in their answer for one of the questions AFTER the answer was announced. And I personally saw the 2nd place winners using their blackberrys. I'm not sure about 3rd place- perhaps they were honest but I somehow doubt it.

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