ShanRock's Triviology: Portland's Best Quizzery Since 2005!
Trivia Jock ShanRock hosts fun and
unique trivia nights all over town, several times a week. It's only $5 per team to play, and the victorious crew walks away with prizes . . . and perhaps more importantly, glory! Have you tried the rest? Now try the best! Willamette Week's Best of Portland, that is! Also, I am thrilled to have been selected by the people of Portland as their Favorite Trivia Night in the Portland Mercury Reader's Choice Survey many times! In addition, I have been honored as Best Entertainer In North Portland, have won BarFly's Town's Terrific-est TJ several times, and had my La Merde quiz night awarded the Portland Monthly title of Best Bar To Play! Triviology and Portland have been making beautiful trivia together for over 20 years; join me for the next 200!
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Weekly Triviology Games!
Played on paper so you can interact with your new
frenemies...seeking allies and building rivalries!
$5 per team to play; max team size five
East Burn on Sundays at 5
The Waypost on Mondays at 7
The Shaku Bar on Tuesdays at 7
Dots on Wednesdays at 7 *No trivia Xmas Eve or NY Eve!
Bare Bones on Thursdays at 7 *No trivia Xmas Day
East Burn on Thursdays at 7 *No trivia Xmas Day
Special Events!
OSCAR QUIZZERY and Viewing Party 2025 Champions: CONCLABIA!
CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS:
The 20th Anniversary of Triviology!
Sunday, February 23rd
CHAMPIONS: Ska Rules, You Suck!
Titan Teams (14+ wins):
Rocky Horror Muppet Show (most wins of the season!)
Stuckhome Syndrome
Boy Stuff
Ska Rules You Suck
4th Place Ponies
The Wild Barabaras
Perminator 2: Judgement Spray
Studio 54
WILD CARD SEED: Muff Stuff!
This is the Super Bowl of trivia; the Oscars of pub quizzery...there will be one team to rule them all! Everyone is invited to compete in this annual two-tiered Triviology tournament for loads of trophies, prizes, and glory! Even if you have never played trivia before, you are welcome to join in the Olympian Open. After those teams receive prizes, the Olympian champion will be awarded their trophy and become the wild card seed which goes on to compete in the Titan Invitational, along with the winningest squads of the whole trivia season. The biggest prize that the overall Titan champions will receive is a free, private, customized quiz which ShanRock will host in your home, at your work, or for your favorite non-profit organization. Come one, come all! Any inquiries may be sent to shanrockstrivia@gmail.com.
OSCAR QUIZ & VIEWING PARTY 2024!
CHAMPIONS: Bea Arthur's Dick In Vera Wang!
CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS 2024!!!
CHAMPIONS: Boy Stuff!
The Titans of 2024:
Fetaljuice
Boy Stuff
Stuckhome Syndrome
Ska Rules You Suck
Muff Stuff
A Squirrel's Whisper
4th Place Ponies
LAST YEAR'S CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS CHAMPS!!!
Thank you to everyone who came out to join the fun! A good time was had by all...and glory abounded! Here are your 2022 Clash Of The Trivia Titan Champions...
1st place Titans: At Least We Came
2nd place Titans: Planet 9
Olympian Champion/Titan Wild Card Seed: Dave’s Not Here, Man
Favorite Foes: Diamond Dogs
Best Bartenders: East Burn
Favorite Venue: Cruzroom Annex
Hope you have a lovely Pride Month...and have a lovely Pride Life!!
Art by our friend, Mike Bennett!
Online Oscar Trivia 2021 Champs: Bea Arthur's Ding Dong!
The time you've spent cooped up watching movies all year is about to pay off; Oscar quizzery will reward you! This Academy Award season pits Lakeith vs. Kaluuya, Billie Holiday vs. Ma Rainey, Hillbillies vs. Hollywood elites...and nominees from previous years will be included as well. The game will be over in time for you to add a touch of glamour to your own pajama ensemble while you enjoy the red carpet; the Academy Awards begin at 5:00.
Clash of the Trivia Titans 2021 Champs: Midas Touch My Balls
2nd Place Titans: Sober Regrets
Olympian Open Champs: Drunken Regrets
**Thank you to Willamette Week and Business Insider for the recent articles on Triviology's video trivia games!**
DOMination: Fast & Furious Quizzery!
Saturday, June 6th, 7pm
Thanks to everyone who participated in this fun, ridiculous game, and congratulations to all the teams that won prizes! I am proud to say that 100% of the proceeds from this fundraiser went to Don’t Shoot Portland, a very worthy and important organization.
Clash of the Trivia Titans 2020 Champions!!!
1st Place Titan: Son of Sushi (from various venues)
2nd Place Titan: Sigourney Fever (from Zach's Shack)
3rd Place Titan: Shut The Fuck Up, Jeff! (from Lombard Pub)
1st Place Olympian: Darryl's Lesbian Haircut (from Bare Bones)
2nd Place Olympian: A Squirrel's Whisper (from Bare Bones)
Best Shit-Talkers: Nash Bridges (from Speakeasy)
Favorite Foes: Prancine (from Peter's)
Spirit Bunny Award: Sigourney Fever (from Zach's Shack)
Underdog Team: Cobros (from Lombard Pub)
Best Bartender: Michael at Lombard Pub
Favorite Venue: East Burn
Oscar Pub Quiz 2020 Champions: Bea Arthur's Dick in Vera Wang!
The Rick & Morty Trophy from a 2018 theme quiz!
2018 CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS CHAMPIONS!
1st Place Titan: It’s Raining Mennonites (from The Speakeasy)
2nd Place Titan: Interfaith Penis Alliance (from Bare Bones)
3rd Place Titan: TIE between I’m With Stupid (from Peter’s)
& Montavillains (from Bare Bones)
1st Place Olympian: Popeye The Sailor Moon (from The Waypost)
2nd Place Olympian: Darryl’s Lesbian Haircut (from Bare Bones)
Best Bartender: Michael at Lombard Pub! (Shoutout to Sadie at Peter’s for losing the trophy by only one vote!)
Best Venue: Bare Bones! (Shoutout to Marisa, whose awesome bartending is a big part of the Bare Bones love!)
Best Shit Talkers: 4th Place Ponies (from Bare Bones)
Favorite Foes: Montavillains (from Bare Bones)
Underdog Award: Power Bottoms (from The Waypost)
Spirit Bunny Award: Triple Axl Rose (from East Burn - a team of four Kurt Russells! See if you can guess which Kurt is from which film in the picture below!)
OSCAR QUIZ CHAMPIONS: LOOSE STUHLBARGS (a subsidiary of Team Boyfight™)!
Sunday, March 4th, 2018!
June 22nd, 2010
If you’ve got a case of the Mondays . . .
LOST: A Quiz The Island Demands was a super-fun lunar quiz! I especially enjoyed getting the whole bar to scream “WAAAAAAAALT!!!” in unison. I will soon post pictures of the sweet costumes people wore. For those of you that missed the quiz but wanted to be there, I’ve got several extra copies of the photo ID round which I’m happy to share with you. For those of you that played and did not win, ain’t no shame in it! There was a grueling three way tie for the win between The Hostiles, Walt’s Whispers (which included a graduate of Lost University), and ultimate champions Jacob Touched Hurley In A Taxi (one member of whom has the Lost numbers tattooed on his arm!). So clearly, the competition was fierce, and you all made it off The Island alive!
And in my next adventure, Triviology will finally breach NorthWest Portland! This very Sunday, June 27th, my newest trivia jockey, Jon, will launch weekly quizzery at Yur’s Bar & Grill at 8:00 – be there! This will bring my roster of weekly quizzes to a nice and Dirty Dozen (collect ’em all!). Some of you have met Jon; he co-hosted with me at Sewicklys last week, and the guy is a natural. And speaking of Sewickly’s, they now have a FaceBook page, so you can totally be their new best friend online, and see the pretty pictures they take of the quiz champions each week. And don’t forget that I, too, have a ShanRock FaceBook page, as well as a Triviology group.
I want to specially thank NorthWest Nursery Outlet for supplying beautiful tree samples for my Whammy rounds at Kenton Club and La Merde last week. This was a fun little round where everyone got to look at, touch, and smell cedar, Japanese Maple, juniper, gingko, spruce, etc. to identify them. NW Nursery Outlet is a family owned business, not to mention a trivia force to be reckoned with, in the form of Carpool Lane Prostitutes.
Debut of a new Triviology venue!
Sunday, June 27th @ 8:00
*Come to the debut of weekly quizzery with our freshest new trivia jockey!
Triviology champions for the week of 6/13/10 – 6/17/10:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 East Burnside
MILLION DOLLAR IDEAS = $5
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
ESPECIALLY IN THE MORNINGS
Monday @ 7:00
2342 SE Ankeny
I SMELL A CLAMBAKE
Monday @ 8:00
WEST URBAN STUFF
Tuesday @ 7:30
Tuesday @ 8:00
609 & 1/2 SE Taylor
DRUNKEN REGRET
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
PUBLIC EDUMACATORS
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
CARPOOL LANE PROSTITUTES
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
ODIE HINGIS
Thursday @ 9:00
Thanks for making quizzery with me, gang!
Your trivia jockey,
Shannon Donaldson
ShanRock’s Triviology
(503) 957-7806
“Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.” -Jacob Needleman
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June 12th, 2010
If you are reading this, you may already know and have played with ShanRock, founder and mastermind of Triviology. By now, you also know that she offers many
lunar quizzes, which focus on the finest programming which television has to offer. What you may not know is that she will assemble the greatest minds in Portland and give them unlimited fun and access to LOST trivia. In approximately 24 hours, after repeated reviewing of the episodes, you will assemble a team to be shipped to the heretofore top secret facility. This is the work to which you have committed yourself – you are bound not to keep this a secret.
Thank you, and namaste.
The SHANso Foundation
LOST: A Quiz The Island Demands
Saturday, June 12th @ 7:00
Triviology champions for the week of 6/6/10 – 6/10/10:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 East Burnside
KATHLEEN TURNER OVERDRIVE
Monday @ 7:00 *Mel Brooks Quiz
714 SE 20th Place
EXCUSE ME WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT
Monday @ 7:00
2342 SE Ankeny
THERE ARE 3 “I”s IN “INTIMIDATE
Monday @ 8:00
HILLARY & NORGAY
Tuesday @ 7:30
Tuesday @ 8:00
609 & 1/2 SE Taylor
MURDER APE
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
COUGAR’D OUT OF FIRST
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL-GAG
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
CAPTAIN COOL & TEAM AWESOME
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
KARL HUNGUS
Thursday @ 9:00
Thanks for making quizzery with me, gang!
Your trivia jockey,
Shannon Donaldson
ShanRock’s Triviology
(503) 957-7806
“Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.” -Jacob Needleman
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