Round up your gifted gal pals for trivia night at Cans.
Q. What Bucktown bar features two-for-one appetizers on the same night as its trivia contest?
a. Cans Bar and Canteen
b. Estelle’s
c. Northside Bar and Grill
d. The Map Room
A. Cans
Dig out your old high school textbooks. Cans’ four-quarter-format trivia night features questions from all kinds of categories, including math, science and entertainment. Up to six people can be on a team. Be quick with your answers; when a song stops playing, your answer sheet is due.
Time: Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
Cost: Free
Prizes: Gift certificates for Cans, T-shirts, hats and more Cans swag
Q What Irish pub features $5 Stella Artois and $5 Absolut martini specials on trivia night?
a. Cullen’s
b. Finley Mahony’s
c. The Kerryman
d. Mystic Celt
A. Finley Mahony’s
This new Uptown bar draws regulars with five rounds of 10 general knowledge questions. Chef-partner Tom Chapman, an English ex-pat, says quiz nights are traditional in England and Ireland, so he and his partner thought they’d give it a try at their pub.
Time: Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Cost: Free
Prizes: First prize is a $25 gift voucher good at Finley’s; second prize is a $15 voucher.
Q . What Lincoln Park bar specializing in European beers offers a half-price ($5) burger with fries on trivia night?
a. Paddy Long’s
b. Prost
c. Gaslight
d. Grand Central
A. Paddy Long's
Kick back with a Belgian brew while "Quiz Kid Harry" asks six rounds of multimedia-format questions that range from "identify the distorted celebrity face" to "guess the TV theme song." Two to five people can be on a team. In addition to the $5 burger, specials include pints of Goose Island 312 and Sierra Nevada bottles for $3.50.
Time: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $5; reservations accepted
Prizes: Cash prizes to first- and second-place winners; amounts vary.
Q. Which Lincoln Park bar picks up 50 percent of the tab for the winner of its Wednesday-night trivia contest?
a. McGee’s
b. Kincade’s
c. The Local Option
d. Charlie’s Ale House
A. The Local Option
This relaxed bar’s trivia night features seven rounds of questions hosted by an emcee. The audio round is especially popular; the emcee plays a 10-second clip of a song, and teams of up to five people win one point for the correct artist and one point for the right song.
Time: Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Cost: Free
Prizes: First prize is 50 percent off the bill; second prize is 25 percent off; third prize is 10 percent off.
Q. Which Southport Avenue bar hosts multiple rounds of general knowledge trivia, the most popular of which is called the “Free Skillet Cookie” round?
a. Hye Bar
b. Schoolyard Tavern & Grill
c. Jack’s
d. SOPO
A. Schoolyard
Teams of three to five people fill up the cozy back room of this Lakeview mainstay every Tuesday night for a few hours of interactive trivia hosted by an energetic emcee. Specials include $5 appetizers, $4 Effen black cherry bombs, $2.50 Bud Light drafts and $3.75 Guinness, Harp and Smithwick’s.
Time: Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
Cost: $5
Prizes: Gift certificates for Schoolyard, a round of beer, a round of shots, T-shirts and—of course—the free skillet cookie
Q. Which North Center bar has a trivia round called “Dead or Canadian?”
a. Brownstone
b. O’Donovan’s
c. Katerina’s
d. The Globe Pub
Host Dave Ahrens writes questions for seven rounds of trivia with categories that range from "Dead or Canadian" to photo identification to television. Five or six members typically comprise a team.
Time: Tuesdays at
[ Emily Hiser Lobdell is a Metromix special contributor. ]
metromix@tribune.com
Updated January 3, 2008
