Great Scott - it’s time to go Back to the Future! Here are your instructions: drive at exactly 88 mph until you reach Peter’s 19th Hole. You will arrive by 7:00 PM on Saturday, February 6th . . . but the year will be 1985!! I recommend wearing a protective down ski vest. Scott will be your “Doc” for the night, guiding you through the quizzery, and challenging your knowledge of the B2TF trilogy (but focusing on the first film). After the quiz, everyone will be safely delivered back to 2010, and the champion team will win a trophy and gift certificates to the bar. As an extra prize, we will also give out “flipper discs” of the Bourne triology - DVD on one side and Blu-Ray on the other! It remains to be seen who will win these strange, futuristic items - I have a feeling that they might be awarded to the Triviologists with the best costumes . . .

The weekend quizzery doesn’t end there, folks! On Sunday, I will host a pre-Super Bowl sports quiz from 1 - 3 on SuperBowl Sunday at the Rialto! The trivia will cover mulitple sports topics, and the champion team wins a trophy, and a $50 gift certificate to Rialto ($20 for 2nd place, $10 for 3rd). The quiz will of course be over before kick-off, so stick around and watch the game while enjoying happy hour food and drink prices if you wish. After the game, I will still host my standard Triviology at East Burn at 6:00.

I have created a COTT 2010 page laying out the details of this year’s Clash, but please feel free to call or Email me with any questions at all. In short, it is a two-tiered tournament, with back-to-back quizzes. The first quiz, The Olympian Open (held at 5:30), is open to absolutely anyone who wants to play, and the champion team goes up against the Titan teams as a wild card seed in the second quiz, the Titan Invitational (held at 8:00). Titan teams are those who have won at least 12 times at ANY of my quizzes, lunar or otherwise, in the preceding “trivia season,” which is the whole year since the last COTT. By the way, if you think you qualify as a Titan, and we haven’t spoken yet, contact me for confirmation - check out the Hall of Fame for the listing of 2009 champions. If you are chomping at the bit to be a Titan, you still have lots of chances to qualify - your best bets for winning are at Ella Street Social Club, Wxyz, and Kenton Club. Also, remember that if you play at all 10 of my venues, you have earned The Dekageddon, which adds one (and only one!) tally point to your wins for the season. Mind you, being an Olympian participant is MORE desirable in a way - the Olympian champions will win twice as much stuff as anybody else!

Speaking of champions, check out the sweet Gryffindor Firebolt (the trophy broom) & The Quidditch Cup, hoisted by the Harry Potter quiz champs, Get These Motherfuckin’ Snapes Off My Motherfuckin’ Nimbus 2000!

Expecto Pa-trivium - Harry Potter quiz tonight (Mon., Feb. 1st) at 7:00! If you know Ravenclaw from Hufflepuff, a quaffle from a snitch, and can say “wingardium leviosa” in just the right way, then this is the quiz for you! Hop a thestral or a Firebolt to Ella Street Social Club, where your hostess (and fellow Potter-head!) Margaret will challenge your knowledge of the Hogwarts world - all books and films are fair game. Trophy, prizes and glory for the champion team!

Thank to everyone that came to Xanadu trivia night - it was one of the funnest lunar quizzes ever! There were lots of fantastic costumes, including on the winning team, E. L. HOs:

. . . bursts of spontaneous singing and dancing:

. . . and a grueling “inspiration-off” to determine who would win my home-made leg-warmers!: