In the Media

Press Inquiries: We think we're worthy of your mic, ink, pixels and lens. Direct press inquiries can be sent to our Director of PR and Marketing, John W. Smith, at jws@geekswhodrink.com or by phone at (303) 532-4737 x806. 

Geeks in the Press

A smattering of our press coverage.

Jump to Print, Television, Radio, Online, Best of Awards and Geek Bowl.

Print

June 2012
Geeks Who Drink leads the pub trivia nerd pack
"In the cutthroat business of pub trivia, one company has a nerdy edge."
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June 2012
Pub's quiz game garners a geeky following
"Twenty-first century nerds crawl out of their Dungeons and Dragons games and hit the town at Geeks Who Drink."
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August 2010
I'm a Geek Who Drinks ... Root Beer?
"I've been totally jazzed about telling all you drinkers, girl and otherwise, about how bad ass Geeks Who Drink on Mondays at the Barley House is. It is just 2 weeks old, but it is outstanding."
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May 2009
Geeks Who Drink: trivia for anti-social critics 
"So you see? Fun for everyone. But especially fun for anti-social fucktards like me. And maybe next time I see the Geeks out Drinking on a work night, I won't be so quick to turn tail and run. " 
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June 2009 
I’ll take ‘Totally Random Startups’ for $500 

"…There’s no Merv Griffin studio, just a crowded bar where a round of questions might involve a theatre-group reenactment of Encino Manand categories have names like, “Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Gangsta Rap.” Jeopardy it’s not.

Since starting in 2006, Geeks Who Drink has partnered with 45 taverns in Colorado and 15 in New Mexico, Texas, and Washington for a total of 60 quizzes nationally each week."

 
June 2010 
Combining beer and brain teasers, quiz nights take Salt Lake City by storm.
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January 2010
YOUR SPACE: Meet the king of the geeks
Profile of Quizmaster Aaron Retka. 
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February 2007
The Geek Bowl
Greg Howard, the owner, was dubious when Dicker and Peach approached him about the idea. "I said 'What — you really think people are going to come down here for that?'" But quiz night has been a boon to business, he says. In recent weeks, he’s had to haul in patio chairs for everyone to have a seat.

 

October 2008
'Geeks Who Drink' trivia arrives in Greeley 
"In the same way that a serious movie buff might hate 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan' or a music purist can't stand The Pussycat Dolls, John Dicker hates what he calls hack trivia" 
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August 2008
Pop Quiz: Geeks Who Drink Test Your Conventional Wisdom  
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July 2007 
Geeks go to Burt’s to think and drink 
“Geeks Who Drink follows the Irish tradition of pub quizzes. The game has eight rounds with eight questions in each round, and teams can have up to six players. Contestants write their answers on a piece of paper and give them to the quizmaster during each round.” 

 

 

 

 

August 2008
Trivia Night Gains Popularity In Edwards 
"Some people drink to forget, but on Wednesday nights at the Main St. Grill in Edwards, people drink to remember. That's because Geeks Who Drink now hosts a weekly trivia night in the restaurant and those who remember the answers to random questions may end up drinking for free." 
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May 2007
Trivial Pursuits 
“Which is really too bad, because I need to be doing my civic duty Tuesday night. Geeks Who Drink is hosting a City vs. City Pub Quiz, in which teams in Denver and Boulder compete against teams in Philadelphia and Seattle.” 
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January 2007
The quiz masters: Being a geek is cool again
"In the end, though, it's the constant imagination of the two founding Geeks that keep this quiz night unique and successful." 
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 October 2007
Booze Clues 
“Most nights at Burt's Tiki Lounge, it's loud, raucous, the bands rule the stage and the dance floor is packed. But not Mondays. For years, Mondays were the quiet night. Maybe a dozen people would show up to drink and shoot the breeze. But not anymore. Mondays have become one of the busiest nights at the Downtown bar since it started hosting the Geeks Who Drink pub quiz." 

 

 

September 2009 
Think you're as 'S-M-R-T' as Homer? 
From Cowabunga to D'oh! Test your knowledge of all things Simpson at pub quiz 
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February 2009
Cocktails and Competition 
“... Better to let Geeks Who Drink do all of the hard work for you: They pick the place and write the questions, and all you have to do is show up (hopefully with a few friends in tow) and drink to your liver’s discontent. Oh, and spill out the minutiae cluttering your brain, piece by piece.” 
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January 2009
If I’m not a Geek what am I?!?!?! 
I’ve always considered myself a bit of a geek. Music geek, language geek, movie geek, book geek…the list goes on and on. But on Wednesday night (at The Catamount) at Geeks Who Drink, I got schooled. Seriously schooled. My years of Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble and graduate school did nothing to help. 
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Television

"Attack of the Show," on G4 Network
January 2011

 


December 2007
Giraffe's can die if they lay down?!? 
Watch the full 9 News video on Geeks Who Drink.

Radio

January 2011
The Super Bowl For Geeks
“Tomorrow (January 30th) hundreds of nerds from around the country-- and they’d be proud to call themselves that-- will descend on Denver’s Fillmore Auditorium to test their knowledge of random facts in Geek Bowl V. It’s billed as the largest trivia competition in the US." 
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August 26th, 2009, 10AM 
Pub Trivia
"Trivia nights are popping up at bars in nearly every neighborhood. They fill pubs on slow nights and challenge the customers. Aside from the parting gifts and the potential for blogosphere fame, why do you attend trivia night?" 
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Online

March 2012
"I went down to the event thinking that, as a pretty nerdy lady, I could probably do well at this. But this crowd blew me away."
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October 2011
"A hipper version of pub quiz is coming to Jersey City this week, when the Colorado-based company Geeks Who Drink launches a weekly quiz at Pint."
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April 2010 
Zionized 38: Geeks Who Drink

December 2009 
Quizmaster: knowledge + booze = Geeks Who Drink 
Albuquerque weekly newspaper Q&A with Quizmaster-in-Chief John Dicker. 
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July 2008
Wonkette Drinking Teams Sweeping America
You people make us proud. Here is the “Big Sale On Truck Nutz” quiz team in the “Geeks Who Drink” competition at some bar, we think in Colorado.
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February 2009
Geeks Who Drink is pub quiz fun for the rest of us 
"OK, this post has been a long time coming. Many moons ago, I got word of Geeks Who Drink, pub quiz fun in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. (Warning, kids: Site contains adult language.) The geek connection was a no-brainer. But for reasons that defy logic, I never got around to posting about it."

Best of Awards

2012 "Best Trivia Night"
"All pub-quiz fans who'd long grown weary of cheating players (we can see you whipping out your smartphone over there, bro) and boring categories (geography again?) rejoiced when Geeks Who Drink brought their nationwide pub-quiz series to town last year."
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2012 "Best Test of Sobriety"
"Sure, you can try walking a straight line or reciting the alphabet backward, but perhaps the most surefire test of whether or not you’ve had too much to drink is if you can remember the name of Leela’s pet on Futurama, or who sang 'Be My Lover.'"
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2012 "Best Game Night"
Winner: Firehouse Pub & Grill
"Quiz night with the Geeks takes an edgy approach to testing one's knowledge across the board."
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2011 "Best Game Night"
Winner: Firehouse Pub & Grill
"...Firehouse hosts unbelievably cool events like last Wednesday’s Arrested Development-themed quiz..."
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2010 "Best Game Night"
Winner: Lion & Rose, Broadway
"Lots and lots of fun!"
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2010 Westword Web Awards: "Best Bar Blog"
"[Geeks Who Drink's] blog does a good job of making it sound like as much fun as it actually is."
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Best of Denver 2008: Best Free Drinks For Smarties
Sure, you know who was president during the Spanish-American War. But how about the language — other than English — featured in the Pixies song "Debaser"? 
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Best of Denver 2007: Best Drunken Gang
Anyone who's been to one of Geeks Who Drink's seventeen weekly pub quizzes knows that quizmasters John Dicker and Joel Peach have created something far bigger than your average trivia night. 
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Best of Boulder: Best way to show off your brain cells before you kill them
“Traditionally, geeks (aka nerds, brainiacs, bookworms or those-kids-who-pull-their-pants-up-way-too-high) have been a shy, anti-social group, choosing to stay at home watching Star Trek marathons on the Sci Fi Channel and inventing online avatars instead of venturing out into the frightening world of wedgies and swirlies.”
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Best Of 'Burque 2009: Best Weekly or Monthly Bar Event. 
Look at the people you surround yourself with. Can your friends shoot an Irish Car Bomb, then turn around and tell you what has the thickest fur in the animal kingdom? If the answer is yes, you're clearly at O'Niell's hanging with the Geeks Who Drink.

Best Of 'Burque 2008: Best Nerds' Night Out 4.3.08  
“There's so much going on in this city, surely there are categories (or should-be categories) that slipped our mind. That's why we're glad for this mental nudge-in-the-ribs. Here's a sampling of the best stuff we forgot this year.”  

Geek Bowl

January 2012
"It has the pageantry of the Academy Awards and the wit of "Jeopardy." Add some beer to the mix, and things get over the top. Anything can happen when hundreds of geeks descend upon Austin for the mother of all pub trivia competitions Saturday."
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Also, check out Austin 360's photo gallery from Geek Bowl VI. 

 
January 2010
Punt that other Game: Geek Bowl pits trivia teams Saturday at the Gothic
Geeks Who Drink, one of the country's biggest and best series of "pub quiz" nights...
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January 2009
Geek Bowl 2009: The geeks shall inherit the earth, presuming they know the answer
“Though the pub quiz is rumored to have been invented by the Egyptians shortly after they invented beer, the sport has only recently achieved the kind of worldwide status accorded to other top sports, like soccer, baseball and beer pong. And it is here, in Denver, where the top teams come to compete in the sport's biggest event: Geek Bowl.”
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February 2008
Alpha Dog
“The biggest Geeks Who Drink around here don't live in the college town of Fort Collins. They don't work in the hip capital city of Denver. No, friends, the winners of the 2008 Geek Bowl the pub-quiz Super Bowl of the Front Range are your neighbors here in Colorado Springs.” Click here for the entire article

February 2009
Brainiacs Crush Colorado
“They went up against 60 teams from all across Colorado, but when the final bell sounded, Coldcock!!! delivered the knockout blow.” Click here for the entire article