Punt that other Game: Geek Bowl pits trivia teams Saturday at the Gothic
John Wenzel
January 29, 2010
Geeks Who Drink, one of the country's biggest and best series of "pub quiz" nights (they prefer that term over "trivia"), is certainly feeling it... More to the point, the Geek Bowl — its annual Super Bowl of trivia — sold out its 430 tickets in less than three hours in December.
Daniel Rubin: In Pursuit of Trivia
Daniel Rubin
January 28, 2010
While the competition for First won't be very close, I really think that battle for 2nd Place could be one for the ages! So tighten up your Birkenstocks, trim your neck hair, and eat your granola, Denver. Philadelphia is coming to town . . . and we're bringing hell with us.
YOUR SPACE: Meet the king of the geeks
Andrea Brown
January 11, 2010
Aaron Retka studied chimpanzees at the San Diego Zoo for his Colorado College thesis in anthropology. Those primates were tame compared to his current species: beer-soaked geeks and drunk hecklers. He’s a pub quizmaster. He’s part Alex Trebek, part Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Quizmaster: knowledge + booze = Geeks Who Drink
Jessica Cassyle Carr
December 17, 2009
In Denver in 2005, geeks John Dicker and Joel Peach began a business based on the pub quiz. Two years later they spread their tentacles of snarky trivia beyond the Centennial State and into Albuquerque. Nowadays the pub quiz called Geeks Who Drink can be found enriching multiple communities of booze-loving eggheads in Colorado, Texas, Virginia, Washington and New Mexico..
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.
4.3.08
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.”
Geeks Who Drink: trivia for anti-social critics
5.04.2009
Jason Sheehan
"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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Top 5… Geeks Who Drink
1.25.09
“Bar trivia is not trivial. It is in fact a kind of intellectual bloodsport, and its practitioners approach such contests with (metaphorical) fangs bared - as well as a few pints of beer and the occasional quiz team T-shirt.”
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'Geeks Who Drink' trivia arrives in Greeley
10.12.08
Dan England
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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Pop Quiz: Geeks Who Drink Test Your Conventional Wisdom
8.27.08
Joshua Zaffos
By now, Denver has probably figured out that a national party convention is all about intellectual discourse and drinking, and not necessarily in that order. With that in mind, we asked Geeks Who Drink, the pub quiz for “beer-soaked nerds” at bars in Denver and elsewhere, to gather some trivia on the convention.
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Trivia Night Gains Popularity In Edwards
8.10.08
Charlie Owen
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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Trivial Pursuits
5.11.07
Jennie Dorris
“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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Pursuit of ‘Trivial’ Glory
9.28.07
Kurt Brighton
“There’s tension in the air as you walk into CooperSmith’s Poolside on a Sunday evening and scout out a table. In the back area where it’s all about to Go Down, there is a shortage of chairs in the otherwise lightly populated bar.”
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Channel 9 News, NBC Denver 12/7/2007
Giraffe's can die if they lay down?!? Watch the full 9 News video on Geeks Who Drink.
Since January, the number of Geeks Who Drink rooms has doubled. There are now nights in Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs and Gunnison, and some of those are capable of drawing close to 38 teams every week.
"Some people wouldn't hesitate to call what we do a cult," says 28-year-old Peach. (Westword, Denver 8/23/2007)
The Geek Bowl: On this night at McCabe’s, the opening round involves the unlikely pairing of Adolf Hitler and ’80s movies... (The Gazette, Colorado Springs 2/20/07)
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.
The quiz masters: Being a geek is cool again: "It's really different than other trivia nights — a lot of them have easy questions. These are kinda out of left field here". (Boulder Daily Camera, 1/26/07)
In the end, though, it's the constant imagination of the two founding Geeks that keep this quiz night unique and successful.
Trivial Pursuit: Meet the ‘Geeks Who Drink: Becoming a Geek is pretty easy. There’s no fee, no registration and no shame in being able to name all of the Spice Girls’ real names. (Fort Collins Coloradoan, 1/19/07)
“Really it’s about bragging rights,” joked Scott VanTatenhove, a member of the night’s winning team, Can of Kornikova. “I spent $36,000 on my master’s degree and this is how I get to express my power over others.”
Bars' trivial pursuit offers quiz with a quaff: Geeks Who Drink are two guys on a trivial mission: They're out to make Denver pub-quiz crazy. (Denver Post, 09/25/06)
This is not a boring trivia game, Dicker insists. The questions are cunning, the teams are smart - and the quest quiz masters are bold-named.
"I think the idea that there are Denver celebrities is kind of amusing," says Dicker.
A Toast to Trivia: Pub patrons take their best shots at matching wits for points, pints (Rocky Mountain News, 06/16/2006)
"The Tuesday-night throng - a beery, tattooed, smoke-stained cavalcade - muttered and milled about Nallen's on Market Street while the bosses laid down rules via loudspeaker. The bout was about to begin, but this would be no free-for-all. If the Marquess of Queensberry had been present, he would have approved - a competition, nay, a combat, of such nature demanded focus and respect"
"This wasn't just some tequila-fueled bar brawl or meatheaded underground fight club. This was important. This was a pub quiz."
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A Trivial Pursuit: At Denver's pub quizzes, knowing useless facts pays off (5280 Magazine, February 2006)
"Do you know who made the first phone call to the moon? Which is the most shoplifted book in the world? What was added to Ken dolls in 1993? If you know these answers, it's time to get what you deserve for your encyclopedic knowledge of ephemera: free beer..."
"Take for instance, Nallen's Irish Pub, where on Tuesday nights Denver author John Dicker amuses recovering hipsters' photographic memories with rounds of current events, movie clips, and celebrity sleaze."
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Trivia Pursuits: Trivia Nights Are Sweeping Denver Without Question (Westword,07/21/2005)
"Sultry Spanish women may be hard to come by in this city, but bar trivia contests, thankfully, are not. Tuesdays seem to be the hottest night for the overeducated Denver masses to prove their intellectual worth. And where do such brainiacs head? Glad you asked..."
"John Dicker, ringmaster of the [8] p.m. Tuesday sessions at Nallen's Irish Pub, 1429 Market Street, proclaims, 'We arrogantly think that ours is the best quiz around.' Modeled after the popular sessions at a New York City watering hole, the gathering offers audio and video segments."
Click below for additional Colorado coverage:
A Toast to Trivia, The Rocky Mountain News;
Bars’ trivial pursuit offers quiz with a quaff, The Denver Post;
The Geek Bowl, The Gazette;
Booze Clues
10.12.07
Dan Mayfield, Journal Staff Writer
“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.
Sure, a pub quiz. Right. Like that's any fun. It may sound lame, but Geeks Who Drink specializes in the goofy, the vulgar, the absurd and the funny. Where else would you be asked to "Name That Poo," and be given a sheet with pictures of animals and their poo?
It's become the only night some folks come to bars Downtown and a good place for people to meet friends, or make new ones. It's still quiet, but in a way that's charged with the energy of people competing for fake mustache kits and ironic T-shirts... The Geeks Who Drink quiz will now also be hosted on Wednesday nights at O'Niell's Pub at 9 p.m.
Geeks go to Burt’s to think and drink
7.23.07
Marcella Ortega
“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.”
Geeks Who Drink is pub quiz fun for the rest of us
2.04.09
René A. Guzman
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.
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Think you're as 'S-M-R-T' as Homer?
Patrick Beach
September 10, 2009
From Cowabunga to D'oh! Test your knowledge of all things Simpson at pub quiz
Cocktails and Competition
2.16.09
Adam Schragin
“... 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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If I’m not a Geek what am I?!?!?!
01.16.09
Patricia Sauthoff
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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Pub Trivia
August 26th, 2009, 10AM
KUOW 94.9
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?
Geek Bowl 2009: The geeks shall inherit the earth, presuming they know the answer
1.26.09
Cory Casciato
“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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Alpha Dog
2.28.08
Jamie King
“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.”
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Brainiacs Crush Colorado
2.5.09
Simon McCormack
“They went up against 60 teams from all across Colorado, but when the final bell sounded, Coldcock!!! delivered the knockout blow.”
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“I’ll take ‘Totally Random Startups’ for $500”
June 2009
Scott Gornall
…There’s no Merv Griffin studio, just a crowded bar where a round of questions might involve a theatre-group reenactment of Encino Man and categories have names like, “Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Gangta 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.
Wonkette Drinking Teams Sweeping America
7.17.08
Ken Layne
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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Concerned Interview: John Dicker, Quizmaster-in-Chief for Geeks Who Drink
August 2009
godonnybrook
The tables have turned, my friend! Angora Holly Polo fires the tough questions at Quizmaster-in-Chief of Geeks Who Drink, John Dicker, in anticipation of his Simpsons trivia quiz coming up.
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