Every fall and spring, the Museum of History & Industry recruits and trains volunteers to run its popular Pub Trivia outreach program. Volunteers work with existing trivia nights to research and write questions about local history on a regular basis. MOHAI provides special prizes for the team who wins the MOHAI round! The museum is currently recruiting volunteers for the Fall 2011 season.

Volunteer Duties:

• Attend two evening training sessions on Wednesday, September 7 & Tuesday, September 20
• Select an existing trivia night in the greater Seattle area with which to partner
• From October through December, regularly research and write trivia questions about local history to provide to your partner trivia night
• Attend your trivia night on a weekly or bi-monthly basis to serve as an enthusiastic representative of the museum
• Regularly provide MOHAI with brief written reports about the program

Please email kimberly.jacobsen@seattlehistory.org to request a volunteer application.

Have a hoppy beer and drop some local knowledge on the Pacific Northwest. On Monday, June 20th, Zayda Buddy’s in Ballard (5405 Leary Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107) will be hosting a Pacific Northwest themed trivia night sponsored by Conservation Northwest. Trivia starts at 7:00pm. Cash prizes and drink discounts given to the top two teams. There will also be a raffle. Trivia will be $3/person with a maximum team size of six. Raffle tickets will be $5 apiece.

Wednesday, June 15th, 7:00 pm, at the Palace Ballroom. Hosted by local talk radio celebrities Dave Ross and Luke Burbank along with chef Tom Douglas. Tickets are $25 a person, but that also includes appetizers and a drink. The grand prize is a suite (including tickets for 18 people) for a Sounders FC match. The event page on MyNorthwest.com has more information on the event and how to purchase tickets. Check it out for the full scoop.

On Thursday, May 19th, Jillian’s will host a trivia night to benefit the Medical Teams International Mobile Dental Program.

Trivia starts at 6:30pm. Cost is $10/person with phone-a-friend and smart phone lifelines available for $5. 100% of the proceeds will be directed to the Mobile Dental Program, so spend freely.

Contact trivia@medicalteams.org to pre-register. Registration will be available at the event as well, but is not guaranteed.

Have a hoppy beer and drop some local knowledge on the Pacific Northwest. On Tuesday, April 19th, the Noble Fir in Ballard (5316 Ballard Avenue NW, Seattle, WA, 98107) will be hosting the first ever monthly Pacific Northwest themed trivia night sponsored by Conservation Northwest. Trivia starts at 7:00pm. Cash prizes and drink discounts given to the top two teams. There will also be a raffle. Trivia will be $3/person with a maximum team size of six. Raffle tickets will be $5 apiece.

Fans of the late, great and thoroughly dysfunctional family sitcom Arrested Development may want to plan on making the trek out to the Redhook Brewery on Tuesday, April 5th, for the first ever Geeks Who Drink all “Arrested Development” quiz. Starts at 7:30 (same as the regular Tuesday night quiz at the Redhook). Cost is $5/person, with the cash purse (expected to be between $200 and $500) going to the winning team. More information can be found on their Facebook event page.

Also, if any other quizmasters have theme nights or special events that they’d like help promoting, feel free to drop us a line via the Contact page. We’re happy to help get the word out.

We have it on good authority that tickets are still available for Geek Bowl V, being held on January 29th, 2011 in Denver, CO.

Put on by Geeks Who Drink, who are responsible for more than a few Seattle-area quiz nights, this is billed as the largest pub trivia event in the United States (though we’re not certain the Fillmore Auditorium properly counts as a pub). 150 teams will compete from all over, with the top three taking home money and glory. (And the money is significant. Last year the top three teams split $4000 and the purse is expected to be even larger this year.)

We’re told that at least one Seattle team has confirmed as well as two Seattle-area quizmasters (Jon from the Ballard Loft and Sean from Redhook). If you’re interested in joining them, details and tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets. And be sure to drop us a line and let us know how you do.

What was Seattle’s first international exposition? What is the name of the elevator that lifted fairgoers into the World of Tomorrow during the 1962 World’s Fair?

Do you think you know your Seattle trivia? Join Seattle Center Foundation and Geeks Who Drink as they combine Seattle’s past with its favorite pastime: pub trivia. Come test your knowledge of Seattle Center history and the legacy of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.

Seattle Center Foundation is partnering with Geeks Who Drink to host pub quiz events through December 20th. One of each night’s trivia rounds will focus exclusively on the 1962 World’s Fair. The team that wins the entire night’s trivia challenge wins a set of six commemorative World’s Fair zombie glasses.

• Tuesday, 11/23, 7:30 PM at Buckley’s In Belltown
• Wednesday, 12/1, 8:00 PM at The Waterwheel Lounge
• Thursday, 12/2, 7:00 PM at The Hawk’s Nest
• Wednesday, 12/8, 7:00 PM at Ozzie’s
• Tuesday, 12/14, 8:00 PM at The Ballard Loft
• Monday, 12/20, 8:00 PM at The Blarney Stone

Angels vs. Mariners
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
7:10 p.m.

Know your Mariners trivia? Gather up your friends, form a trivia team and join us for the first ever Mariners Trivia Night at Safeco Field. We’ll have happy hour specials pre-game and a special Mariners Trivia Challenge hosted by 710 ESPN’s Matt Pitman.

Get your teams of 4-8 Mariners trivia geniuses together soon.

• DEADLINE TO PURCHASE: Tuesday, August 31 at 9:00 AM (or while space is still available!)
• Game Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 – 7:10 p.m.
• Tickets: $11 View Reserved (normally $20)

Mariners Trivia Night Schedule
Trivia Night will be held in Safeco Field’s Ellis Pavilion, which is located between the Home Plate Gate and Mariners Team Store on First Avenue.

• 5:10 p.m. – Doors open / team registration / happy hour starts
• 6:00 p.m. – Trivia starts
• 7:10 p.m. – Angels vs. Mariners

Prize: The winning team will have their seats upgraded to the front row and collect “Mariners Genius” T-shirts.

Prizes will also be awarded for best team name and the team wearing the most Mariners gear!

To order tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0F004436E4257300?did=trivia

With the cold weather upon us, you may be looking for a new place to curl up with a nice brewski and try your luck, and fortunately we have plenty of new trivia events to tell you about.

Helping to fill the gap left in the Snohomish County trivia scene after the tragic loss of Emory’s Lake House in last month’s fire is a new event on Tuesday nights at Boston’s in Mill Creek. It’s hosted by Kelly, who hosted at Emory’s before the fire. Kelly is also hosting a new trivia night on Wednesdays at the Fremont Dock in, you guessed it, Fremont.

We’ve also added information about trivia at the Ram restaurants in Kent and Northgate, joining the University Village location we’ve known about for some time. If you know of any others, we’d love to hear about them.

Lastly but certainly not leastly, Pierce County gets some love this week with news of trivia nights at The Silo in Sumner and the Steilacoom Pub & Grill in Steilacoom.