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 2nd, 2009
First of all, gang, come on down to Ella Street Social Club tonight (and every Monday) at 6:00 for Triviology with Kyle and booze with GREAT happy hour prices! Next, on to future events . . .
The big news this week is the same as last week – my two special events to be held this Saturday, June 6th. They don’t come any bigger than World Quizzing Championship, though – I will host the Portland quiz, which will be held at The Spare Room at noon. Why so early? Because you’ll be answering the same questions as players on six different continents, because they will have long since finished their quizzes and will be eagerly awaiting our results, and because I’m not willing to host it any earlier than noon! If you’ve ever wondered who your team MVP is, here’s your chance to go head to head with your crew and see who comes out on top (maximum team size is one!). The quiz will be divided into two halves – an hour each with a break in between, including eight different categories: Culture, Lifestyles, Media, World, Entertainment, History, Sciences, and Sport. Your final score will be tallied by combining the scores of your seven best topics – in other words, if you totally blow the sports round, fear not – it’ll be eliminated anyway! Maybe (?!) I’m a nerd, but I think it’ll be fun to see how Portland scores against Latvia, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Liberia, Argentina, Australia, etc. I do regret that Russia is not participating, though – so that we could rekindle a little cold war rivalry and send them threatening messages Rocky IV style!
Later that Saturday evening, join Trivia Jock Scott for I Don’t Feel Tardy 2, my second annual music trivia quiz! Put together a well-rounded team of five (or fewer) to answer questions about ALL kinds of music, including a video clip round, and a couple of audio clip rounds. The arena is Peter’s 19th Hole, the time is 7:00, and the prize is money off your bar tab!
Here are your champions for the week of 5/24/09 – 5/28/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
SLICK BEAVER
Sunday @ 9:00
1204 SE Clay
THERE’S NO “I” IN “MEAT”
Monday @ 6:00
714 SW 20th Place
STILL, WHERE DID THE TRIVIA COME FROM?
Monday @ 8:00
2221 SE Hawthorne
MIDAS – OUCH, MY BALLS!
Tuesday @ 7:30
4901 SE Hawthorne
LITTLE BABY GRABBO
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
MINIMUS MAXIMUS
Thursday @ 9:00
301 SE Morrison
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
WOULD ONE OF YOU LADIES LIKE TO MEET ME IN THE RESTROOM?
Thanks for playing with me, everybody!
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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May 24th, 2009
For those of you that are in town this weekend, rest assured that the Triviology will rock forth as usual at all of my venues. For you, the quizzers of Portland, I will leave my Sunday crawfish races and my sweet tea w/Makers behind to make the trivia at East Burn at 6:00, and at Ladd’s Inn at 9:00.
Folks, I’ve got big news about a couple of awesome special events on Saturday, June 6th. Most of you already know that on that night, Trivia Jock Scott will be hosting a music themed lunar quiz at Peter’s 19th Hole at 7:00. In addition, I have just joined the ranks of the 2009 World Quizzing Championships, and will host the Portland chapter of the competition at noon the same day! Why so early? Because the same quiz takes place all around the world at approximately the same time. Your team of one will be competing with individuals in Ireland, Malaysia, Lithuania, Australia, Bangladesh, Argentina, Liberia, etc. to be the most excellent participating quizzer in the world! It’s free to play, but the glory you may receive is endless. The quiz is about 2 & 1/2 – 3 hours long, and is about half pop culture & half academia, divided into several short, thematic rounds. In other words . . . my regulars will find the format familiar, and are likely to kick Norwegian and Philippine ass! To give folks an idea of the kind of questions they’ll be facing, I’ll use past World Quiz questions in many of my Whammy rounds in the next couple of weeks. I’m still settling on a venue for this event; in the meantime, let me know if you might be interested in playing so that I can get a general idea of participation. I hope you guys are as excited about this as I am – this is gonna be good!
I just love Willamette Week’s annual Drink Guide, but I love it even more when they throw props my way. In their infinite wisdom, they chose two of my venues for their Top Five list of quiz nights (and reserved a third slot for my friends at That’s So Gay Trivia, though their fabulous quiz is actually on Sundays), and dubbed me “Portland’s trivia queen”! I’m not the regal sort, yet I will answer your call, Willamtte Week; I accept the sceptre you have bewtowed upon me, and will indeed “reign supreme” as the mistress of minutia, and the empress of the ephemera. Maybe I’ll start wearing pearls and big hats, too. Here’s my first regal edict: have a fun, safe Memorial Day weekend!
Here are your champions for the week of 5/17/09 – 5/21/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
STILL, WHERE DID THE TRIVIA COME FROM?
Sunday @ 9:00
1204 SE Clay
PUJOLES LEADS THE LEAGUE IN RUNS
Monday @ 6:00
714 SW 20th Place
DRUNKEN UNICORNS
Monday @ 8:00
2221 SE Hawthorne
Tuesday @ 7:30
4901 SE Hawthorne
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SYPHILIS
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
WHERE THE HELL ARE MY TEAMMATES?
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
MAJOR DANGER AND CAPTAIN WHAT?
Thursday @ 9:00
301 SE Morrison
IT’S IN THE HALL IF YOU WANT IT
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
PIMP STICKS
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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