Feb. 1, 2008 | The Clarion NEWS ^
Trivia Night at Square Root a big draw
by Risa Dimond
Managing Editor
Prepare your mind for Monday morning
and celebrate the end of a good weekend
by getting a team of friends together to
play trivia Sunday nights at The Square
Root, a local restaurant and bar in
downtown Brevard. You and your team
compete with other teams through rounds
of trivia questions and answers to win gift
certificates to the Square Root.
“Trivia is great,” says Spencer
‘Masterpiece’ Jones, trivia’s facilitator His
hint on having a wiiming team is to have a
team with a diverse age group. “It’s really
useful for the questions that may be before
the time of some players,” says Jones.
Before the Square Root, Jones played trivia
at The Mellow Mushroom in Asheville. He
thought it would be a great idea to bring
Trivia to Brevard so those who loved to
play didn’t have to trek to the city. In
Brevard, different hosts mn trivia and often
each night is a different theme like movies
or music.
The games begin at 9pm, but why not go
a little early for a bite to eat and some
relaxing beverages to psych yourself up
for the actual event. The Square Roots
menu offers appetizers, sandwiches, and
entrees as well as a full service bar
The questions vary from intellectual to
local geography to useless knowledge.
Some examples include: What is the
northern most island in Japan? What was
the name of Fat Albert’s gang? What’s
considered to be the banquet beer? Trivia
helps expand your brain so you’re able to
know little to nothing about everything.
To begin playing, your team has to come
up with a kick ass team name. Spencer will
provide each team with a scorecard and
scrap paper for answers. For each round,
of questions, you are given choices for how
many points you want your answers to be
worth. You can only use each point choices
once. You discuss the question with your
team, write down the answer and bring your
paper to Spencer to attain points for correct
answers. There is a half time bonus round
in which you don’t wager points for the
multiple part question, each correct answer
is worth 2 points with a possible total of 10
points. In the final bonus round, each team
wagers somewhere between 0 to 20 points,
like in final jeopardy, and it is the only time
in the game a team can lose points.
Each team’s points are tallied up after the
final bonus round and the nights wiiming
team is aimounced. First place winners
receive a fifty-dollar gift certificate and in
the past have received a sexy wresthngbelt
that the team gets to decorate. First place
wiimers are expected to return the following
Sunday night to defend their championship
title. The second place winning team
receives a twenty-five dollar gift certificate.
College students and locals Brevardians
flock to this event. It is a great way to
experience Brevard outside the walls of the
college. The Square Root and Jordan Street
Cafe, just around the comer, offer live music
most weekends plus a reasonable crowd
every night. When it comes to socializing
in Brevard, these two places are your best
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