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!
December 5th, 2009
Hi, everybody! Item the first:
Trivia Jock Scott has a fun night of 1990s trivia ready to drop on your brains tonight! Let’s close out this decade by looking back at the last one – the politics, the music, the technology, the goatees . . . if it happened in the 90s, it’s fair game for the quizzery. Come to
Peter’s 19th Hole at 7:00 (Sat., Dec. 5th) for a chance at winning a trophy and gift certificates to the bar. I’ve also instructed Scott to bequeath a set of trading cards to a team of his choosing. These cards bear the likeness of a certain band who were spawned in the 80s, but hung tough into the 90s.
Item the second: Who Dat Ninja? Answer this timeless question Monday (Dec. 7th) at Ella Street Social Club. The 7:00 quiz will take us to the backstage of The Girlie Show, and challenge your knowledge of 30ROCK! Margaret will be your page for the evening, as Kenneth (who has also been known to knit bikinis) isn’t available. Margaret, who has a huge crush on Tina Fey, is also your new weekly trivia jockey at Ella St.! Kyle will continue to work his weekly Triviology gigs at Kenton Club& Wxyz, but the man has a “day job“, and didn’t realize how time consuming it would be to prepare and host quizzery three nights a week (I TOLD you, fool!). Thank you for warming Da Club up for Margaret, then passing the torch, Kyle – you do nice work!
Item the third: the holidays. On Christmas Eve, which is a Thursday, the trivia will NOT go on. On New Year’s Eve, also a Thursday, I will indeed make the trivia at
La Merde (not sure about
Kenton Clubyet). Also, I am going to visit my family in Cackalacky (that’s North Carolina, y’all) next week, but the quizzery must go on! While I’m gone (Dec. 10th – 19th),
my mighty legion of trivia jockeys will keep the Triviology going as regularly scheduled. By the way, if you show up early for La Merde this week, there may be a huge crowd milling about – fear not! There is a private party which is scheduled to end at 8:00, so they will be gone by the time
Michele starts the quizzery.
Item the fourth: hiatus from Peter’s 19th Hole. After this Wednesday’s quiz, the next weekly trivia night at this venue won’t be until January 6th. With various holiday shenanigans afoot, we’ve decided it’s better to just ride out the holidays for this venue. I’m sure gonna miss Jackie . . . she’s easily one of the best, not to mention nicest, bartenders in Portland!
Item the fifth: I was remiss in last week’s newsletter by failing to give a shout out to
The Portland Plan, while recapping the Stumptown Lowdown quiz. A member of Portlandia’s Robot Angina, who was a very close runner-up in the quizzery, is a city planner who invites us all to learn more about the strategic plan for Portland’s next 25 years at www.pdxplan.com.
And finally, I know it’s a shot in the dark, but I’m hoping that somebody has a copy of last week’sOregonian A&E. I’d love to give my mom the article with the blurb about my quizzery so that she can stick it on her refrigerator. It would make her happy, and she doesn’t do computers. If you’ve got one you’re willing to share, I’ll be your new BFF if you bring it to me at trivia this week! Thanks, folks, and have a great weekend. By the way, if you want to go to one of the Santa-related bacchanals this weekend, I highly recommend Miracle on 82nd Street: A Christmas Misadventure, co-hosted by Triviology’s own Michele – I hope to see you there!
Upcoming Special Events:
1990s TRIVIA NIGHT
Saturday, December 5th @ 7:00
30 ROCK OF LOVE – Tina Fey Day!
Monday, December 7th @ 7:00
CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS
Sunday, February 28th
We’ve once again secured The Spare Room for the annual Triviology tournament!
Triviology champions for the week of 11/29/09 – 12/3/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
JIVE TOFURKEY
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
MOTHERS OF RETENTION
Monday @ 8:00
2221 SE Hawthorne
MIDAS TOUCH MY BALLS
Tuesday @ 7:30
4901 SE Hawthorne
LINDA IS A WHORE
Tuesday @ 8:00
9920 NE Cascades Parkway
MYSTERY TEAM
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
PUKE & CRY
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
DAVE THOMAS JEFFERSON DAVIS
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
CAR WASH CRYBABY
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
Thursday @ 9:00
Thanks so much for playing Triviology, folks!
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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November 28th, 2009
Happy Turksgiving everybody! I’m holed up at home shunning the crowds, but at some point will venture out to grab an
Oregonian A& E. Today’s edition contains an article on fun stuff to do in Portland bars as the rains descend upon us . . . shuffleboard, skee-ball, and
Triviology –
check it out!
Here’s a fresh new way for you to be awesome all next week . . . bring canned foods or toys to any Triviology quiz.
Shaver Elementary School has an annual food drive, and we’re helping them out this year. Any non-perishable foods are welcome, OR any toys, whether new or used, for elementary school aged kids. I’ll have a special award for the team that donates the most stuff during the week. Some of you teams have quite a trophy collection . . . in fact, I’d love to see pictures of any “display cases” which surely litter your team lairs. The Industrial Evolutionists (aka
Genghis Khan, Motherfucker!) just added a cup to their growing collection, as they triumphed at the Stumptown Lowdown, with their wide and varied knowledge of Portland, Oregon.
I loved this quiz . . . largely because I love this town. Chances are good that I’ll make the Stumptown Lowdown an annual event. In case you missed it, here are a couple of samples from the picture ID round (no hints for picture #1, but #2 is a non-profit organization):
Folks, we have a rare opportunity to see humankind in space with the naked eye, while standing right here on Earth –
The International Space Station will be visible from Portland early in the morning on
December 6th, 7th & 8th! I also just saw it pass by in the south sky a few minutes ago from my front stoop. For some reason, David Bowie music was in my head, and though I was cold, I was imagining how much colder it is in space. Then a cop car drove down my one-way street the wrong way and brought me straight back to Earth.
Upcoming Special Events:
1990s TRIVIA NIGHT
Saturday, December 5th @ 7:00
30 ROCK OF LOVE – Tina Fey Day!
Monday, December 7th @ 7:00
CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS
Sunday, February 28th
Annual Triviology tournament – everyone’s invited!
Triviology champions for the week of 11/22/09 – 11/25/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTIONISTS
*Tonight was the Stumptown Lowdown – a quiz on Portland trivia!
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
MOTHERS OF RETENTION
Monday @ 8:00
2221 SE Hawthorne
MIDAS TOUCH MY BALLS
Tuesday @ 7:30
Tuesday @ 8:00
9920 NE Cascades Parkway
TEAM JENNIFER
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
THERE’S NO “I” IN MEAT
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
CHUMBLY WOMBLY
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
*Kenton was closed on Turksgiving!
Thursday @ 9:00
301 SE Morrison
*La Merde was also closed on Turksgiving!
Thanks so much for playing Triviology, folks!
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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