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!
November 27th, 2009
The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel isn’t just the title of Troy McClure’s new film, it’s the name of the winning team from Simpsons Triviology night!
The crowd at Simpsons night was the most diverse I think I’ve ever had – kids as young as 10 at one table, and old fellas who must’ve been in their 70s at another. And there were donuts for all – I had
Voodoo Doughnut put together the most Homer-esque dozen possible! My favorite round was the picture ID round
Michele made. Here are a couple of samples – can you identify the films which are being paid homage in these stills?
Tomorrow (Sunday, Nov. 22nd at 6:00) at
East Burn, I will host a quiz all about my favorite city – Portland, Oregon! The champion team wins a cheap trophy, and $25 gift certificate to East Burn. The Stumptown Lowdown will maintain a very similar format to standard Triviology (local geography, music, literature, culture, history, film &TV, etc.), complete with a picture ID round on the projector, in which you’ll name Portland landmarks. Try your hand at these, which I’ve already used at
Peter’s 19th Hole:
Here are a few other items to mark in your calendar . . . first of all, both of my Thursday Triviology venues will be closed on Thanksgiving, so you’ll have to settle for Trivial Pursuit with the family after dinner (hang on to any extra canned goods you have, though – next week I’m doing a food drive for a local elementary school). Then, since we are on the dawn of a new decade,
Trivia Jock Scott will host a quiz all about the 1990s at
Peter’s, on Saturday, Dec. 5th. And into 2010 – February 28th for the next annual
Clash of the Trivia Titans, and March 7th for the Oscars quiz at
East Burn right before a viewing party of the Academy Awards show.
Happy turkey day, everybody!
Upcoming Special Events:
1990s TRIVIA NIGHT
Saturday, December 5th @ 7:00
30 ROCK OF LOVE – Tina Fey Day!
Monday, December 7th @ 7:00
Triviology champions for the week of 11/15/09 – 11/19/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
ANN VEAL’S CHRISTIAN BONFIRE
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
I SMELL A CLAMBAKE
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
BUNGHOLE LIQUORS
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
BAT PENATAR
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
CHOCOLATE APOLCALYPSE
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
Thursday @ 9:00
301 SE Morrison
BOOM! GOES THE DYNAMITE
*And, since I skipped last week’s newsletter, here are the Triviology champions for the week of
11/8/09 – 11/12/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
BALLOON BOY GEORGE
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
NUTTER BUTTER FACE
Monday @ 8:00
2221 SE Hawthorne
Tuesday @ 7:30
Tuesday @ 8:00
9920 NE Cascades Parkway
THE CROATIANS
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
WISDOM TOOTHES
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTINEZ
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
FOOD AGGRESSIVE
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 7th, 2009
Team
Rock, Flag & Eagle went America all over everybody’s ass at
Ella St. Social Club on Monday by proving that they were The Champions of The Sun at the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia quiz!
Midas Touch My Balls came in a very close second, by the way, and also wore some seriously awesome costumes . . .
You can watch videos of both teams in action
on my FaceBook page. And if that circle of jerks from Philly ain’t your crew, you must be a Simpsons fan, right?! Saturday, November 7th, is your chance to unleash 20 years of collected knowledge of the show upon the world, in the hopes of winning a trophy, prizes, and donuts.
Peter’s 19th Hole, 7:00 – Simpsonites unite!
But wait, there’s more! On Sunday, November 22nd at
East Burn, I will be hosting a trivia night all about the coolest town around – Portland! Join me and Julian of
PDX Pipeline at 6:00, for an evening of Portland Pub Quizzery.
This Tuesday, I will be hosting a fundraiser for
ECO, a great local non-profit organization which provides science enrichment programs to kids. Therefore,
Drew has kindly agreed to host my
Sewickly’s quiz for the night. I’ll miss you guys, but I gotta do this for the children . . . for the CHILDREN!!!
I’d love some input from you guys on something. I am tentatively scheduling the 2010
Clash of The Trivia Titans, my annual trivia tournament, for Sunday, February 28th. My only potential concern is that this coincides with the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Because of the Superbowl, the Academy Awards, etc., my only other choice would be to push the date back to January or forward to March. So what do y’all think – after 2 & 1/2 weeks, will Olympic fever have made you sick? Are you willing to ditch the closing ceremonies so that you yourselves can become champions? What say you?
Upcoming Special Events:
SIMPSONS QUIZ NIGHT
Saturday, November 7th @ 7:00
PORTLAND PUB QUIZZERY
Sunday, November 22nd @ 6:00
Triviology champions for the week of 11/1/09 – 10/5/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
CAPTURE THE DREAM
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
Monday @ 8:00
2221 SE Hawthorne
Tuesday @ 7:30
Tuesday @ 8:00
9920 NE Cascades Parkway
MULTIPLE SCORGASMS
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
SO EMU FARM
Wednesday @ 8:00
4515 SE 41st
SNICKLEFRITZ
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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