In the Ottawa Trivia League, the same game is played in every location, with the scores
compared against one another. Each week, the top team
anywhere in Ottawa gets 10 pts, the next highest gets 9 pts, then 8, and so on. (These are raw scores,
without handicaps). Every bar's winner gets at least 1 pt. After 10
weeks, we determine a winner and start again!
We can let you know about pub trivia news, such as cancellations, score changes, new locations and other trivia events around town. when new games come up.
TOP SCORES: Latest Scores (for the week ending Jan 29)
49.0 United Trivia Workers Local 55/Pump II
48.0 Nerd Alert/Pump II
46.5 Egad No Bondage/Pump I
46.0 Nautically Themed Afghan Pashmina/Bank
45.5 Shark Week/Loon
45.0 Who Dat Ninja/YukYuks
44.0 Idiot Savants/Mow
43.5 President's Choice/Bank, Trivia Newton John/Sandy Hill
43.0 Porch Beers/Pump II, Team VI/Pump II, We Got Nothing/Bank
42.5 Magnificent Bastards/Mow, Epic Flail/Bank, Optimistic Shark Attack/Bank, I Lost on Jeopardy/Centrepointe
xxxx Take Me to Fitzgibbon/Irene's, Eats Shoots and Leaves/Rochester, Cheese and Apples/Rochester, Inspector Space Time/Canal, Kilted Shamrock/Gracie's, Pink Pie/Canal I [1 pt as top bar score not otherwise in the top 10]
Season Twenty-Three Results: Week Seven
43 Who Dat Ninja/YukYuks
33 Nerd Alert/Pump
31 Magnificent Bastards/Mow
30 Idiot Savants/Bank, United Trivia Workers Local 55/Pump
27 Cheese and Apples/YukYuks, Emergency Ponchos d'Urgence/Canal, Most Interesting Trivia Team in the World/YukYuks
22 Team VI/Irenes, Republic of Doyle/Mow
21 I Lost on Jeopardy/Centrepointe, Nautically Themed Pashmina Afghan/Bank
20 Backbenchers/Pump, Shark Week/Glebe
18 President's Choice/Bank, Overqualified and Underpaid/Mow
10 Egad No Bondage/Pump I, Go Green/Loon, SMRT/Mow, Titty Breakfast/Loon
9 Inspector Space Time/Canal, Bahai Sexuals/Bank, Almost Competenz/Loon
8 Just the Facts/Irene's, Generals of Disarray/Pump, Elephants in the Room/Loon, Eggporkalypse Now/Corner
7 Dr Penfield I Smell Burnt Toast/Loon, Overqualifed/Pump, [x] This Bitch/Pump, Simple Minds/Wellington
6 Manhole Covers/Loon
5 Take Me to Fitzgibbon/Irene's, Pour Sports/Bank
4 Jason and the Argonauts/Loon, Streetcars/Bank
3 C U Next Thursday Mr Grinch/Glebe, Trivia Newton John/Sandy Hill
2 Eats Shoots and Leaves/Rochester, We Got Nothing/Bank, Porch Beers/Pump II, White Noise/Kanata, Sunday Bacon/Bank, A Trivial Threat/Sandy Hill, Exiles/Bank, [News Pun]/Loon, Trivial Threat/YukYuks, Kilted Shamrock/Gracie's
1 Atlanticadians/Wellington Oak, I Love Lamb/Centrepointe, More Cowbell/Kanata, Cheese Quiz/Sandy Hill, Undecided/Sandy Hill, Polymaths/Sandy Hill, It's a Trap/Gracie's, RoLo/Kanata, Mediocre/Wellington, Pink Pie/Canal
Previous Winners
2011, Season 22: Nerd Alert (Lieutenants Pump)
2011, Season 21: Nerd Alert (Lieutenants Pump/Canal)
2011, Season 20: President's Choice (Bank Oak)
2011, Season 19: SMRT (Barley Mow)
2011, Season 18: President's Choice (Bank Oak)
2010, Season 17: Cheese and Apples (Pump/Yuk Yuks)
2010, Season 16: Nerd Alert (Canal Oak)
2010, Season 15: Nerd Alert (Canal Oak)
2010, Season 14: Small People of Confederation (Bank Oak)
2010, Season 13: Streetcars (Barley Mow)
2009, Season 12: Small People of Confederation (Bank Oak)
2009, Season 11: I Lost On Jeopardy (Canal Oak)
2009, Season 10: Wirecrats (Wellington Oak)
2009, Season 9: Wirecrats (Wellington Oak)
2009, Season 8: I Lost On Jeopardy (Canal Oak)
2008, Season 7: Magnificent Bastards (Barley Mow)
2008, Season 6: Wirecrats (Wellington Oak)
2008, Season 5: I Lost On Jeopardy (Canal Oak)
2008, Season 4: I Lost On Jeopardy (Canal Oak)
2008, Season 3: Pan Troglodytes (Bank Oak)
2007, Season 2: Wirecrats (Barley Mow)
2007, Season 1: Magnificent Bastards (Barley Mow)
Best Showings (by ranking)
[xxx] This, Bitch/Bank (S16: #18)
Adam's Mom/Sandy Hill Oak (S09: #12)
AJ/Darcy's & Luigi's (S21: #26)
Alex Trebek's Illegitimate Children/Sandy Hill (S13: #17)
Almost Competentz/Loon (S17: #16)
Amazing Superpups/Canal (S11: #22)
Atlanticadians/Wellington Oak (S22: #11)
Autoerotic Wrecking Club/Wellington (S10: #13)
Awesome-O/Wellington (S20: #30)
Average Schmoes/Glebe (S05: #8)
Backbenchers/Pump (S14: #2)
Bahai Sexuals/Bank (S22: #15)
Banana Stands/Mow (S04: #4)
Bayblab/Canal (S02: #8)
Biggest Discus/Wellington (S21: #28)
Bobo the Poisonous/Gracies (S19: #9)
Brain Cramps/Wellington (S12: #14)
Brew Crew/Darcy's & Luigi's (S20: #28)
Bushwhackers/Glebe (S12: #9)
CarLoBro/Pump (S14: #17)
Caspar's Cohort/Mow (S21: #17)
Cheese and Apples/Canal (S17: #1)
Closet Sophists (formerly Z-Stacks) (S11: #14)
Coin Stars/Woody's (S12: #15)
Cooler Heads/Pump (S12: #14)
Conan and the Conmen (We're#1) (S19: #29)
Costanza/Canal (S06: #4)
Crash Test Dummies/Loon (S13: #19)
Dead Parrots/Mow (S02: #9)
Delta Force/Bank (S08: #18)
Derricks/Shoeless Joes (S19: #35)
Diva Puffs/Bank (S18: #15)
Dr Penfield I Smell Burnt Toast/Loon (S17: #5)
Eats Shoots and Leaves (ex: Pimps and Hos)/YukYuks (S19: #16)
Egad No Bondage/Pump (formerly Trivia Newton John) (S22: #27)
Egg Management Fee/Loon (S22: #29)
Elephants in the Room/Bank (S09: #7)
Eleven Days Until the Emperor's Parade/Bank (S10: #8)
Emergency ponchos d'urgence (ex Paranoid Androids)/Canal (S13: #7)
Epic Flail/Glebe (S20: #21)
Exiles/Bank (S05: #2)
Fat People Guessing/Bank (ex WTFLOLOMG (S16: #17)
Five-Assed Monkeys/Loon (S19: #34)
Floor Crossers/Woody's (S16: #28)
Fonctionnaires/Canal (S17: #30)
Four Horsemeals of Eggporkalypse/Corner (S22: #24)
Fox Force Five/Wellington (S20: #31)
Friends of Doug/Loon (S19: #17)
Friends of Mr Cairo/Canal (S19: #18)
Frozen Veggie Monarchy/Bank(S22: #21)
Fruitcakes & Bicurious/YukYuks (S14: #8)
Generals of Disarray/Pump (S21: #27)
Giggitty Giggitties/Canal (S06: #8)
Go Green/Glebe (S08: #15)
GR8 Success/Sandy Hill (S20: #31)
Griffindorks/Loon (S16: #12)
Heidi's Heroes/Bank (S02: #9)
Here for the Beer/Bank (S06: #12)
Holy Roman Empire Jr/Darcy McGees (S19: #30)
Hot Buttered Elves/Mow (S03: #10)
I Am the Walrus (ex Gant Stacks)/Bank (S15: #18)
I Got Nothing/Bank (S17: #22)
I Lost On Jeopardy/Canal (S05: #1)
Idiot Savants/Mow (S17: #2)
Invisible Pink Unicorn/Bank (S05: #3)
It's a Trap/Glebe (S19: #22)
Jason and the Argonauts/Sandy Hill (S22: #25)
John Goodman Experience/Sandy Hill (S08: #16)
John Tesh Experience (ex Pan Troglodytes)/Bank (S03: #1)
Just the Facts/Bank (S17: #10)
Just the [x] of Us/Glebe (S22: #25)
Leon Carls/Bank (S04: #8)
Legen ... wait for it...dary/Wellington (S15, #16)
Les Quizerables/Pump (S19: #26)
Llewellyn/Sandy Hill (S10: #16)
Loops of Don Henley/Kanata (S20: #28)
Lucy and the Rascal Cats/Wellington (S09: #19)
Magnificent Bastards/Mow (S01: #1)
Mangy Pirate Cats/Glebe (S22: #21)
Manhole Covers/Loon (S18: #20)
Me and the Idiots/Mow (S10: #18)
Metcalfe Mafia/Woody's (S08: #18)
Midvale School for the Gifted/Wellington (S17: #14)
Mighty Eagle Book Club/Bank (S03: #5)
More Cowbell/Glebe (S22: #26)
Most Interesting Trivia Team in the World/Bank (S20: #6)
My Couch Pulls Out/Kanata (S21: #26)
Nautically Themed Afghan Pashmina/Bank (S20: #2)
Naturally Resourceful/YukYuks (S22: #25)
Nerd Alert/Canal (S15: #1)
Neighbourhood Nuts/Wellington (S08: #14)
[news pun]/Loon (S21: #25)
Noobs/Loon (S12: #14)
Nonchalant Freakout/Centrepoint (S22: #30)
Norah Dunbar's Young Children of Music/Gracie's (ex Snobburn Egos) (S06: #11)
Nortel Porn Stars (ex Live Poets Society)/Mow (S03: #5)
North Bay Rugby/Bank (S04: #4)
Optimistic Shark Attack/Bank (S05: #8)
Overqualified/Pump (S12: #3)
Overqualifed and Underpaid/Mow (S21: #9)
Pecan Sandy (ex Real World Ottawa)/Pump (S11: #14)
Pi-lons/Mow (S12: #12)
Poodles/Canal (S02: #4)
Polyawesome/Sandy Hill (S14: #19)
Polymaths/Sandy Hill (S13: #16)
Pour Sports/Bank (S16: #8)
Prairie Fyre/Wellington (S19: #19)
President's Choice/Bank (S18: #1)
Pulp Faction/Wellington (S17: #29)
Purple/Glebe (S06: #11)
Puzzlers/Shoeless Joes (S18: #28)
Quiz in My Pants/YukYuks (S12: #18)
Quiz It To Me Baby/Sandy Hill (S22: #27)
Quiz:Pull Out (S22: #25)
Republic of Doyle/Loon (S19: #2)
RoLo/Kanata (S22: #22)
Ron F'n Swansons/Wellington (S20: #28)
Rowdy Martinets/Wellington (S16: #19)
Sackvillians/Bank (S15: #14)
Sex Panthers/Sandy Hill (S08: #20)
Shark Week/Glebe (S22: #12)
Simple Minds/Wellington (S18: #9)
Small People of Confederation/Bank (S12: #1)
Smokin' Hot Lambos/Mow (S14: #16)
SMRT/Mow (S19: #1)
Snappy Synapses/Mow (S03: #9)
Snowball's Chance/Sandy Hill (S21: #10)
So Think You Can Guess/Sandy Hill (S11: #7)
Sour Cream/Bank (S21: #28)
Spoiler Alert (ex Secret Seven)/Bank (S05: #6)
Squaktapus/Hooley's (S17: #23)
Sticky Buns/Yuk Yuks (S18: #23)
Streetcars/Mow (S13: #1)
Suck It Trebeks/Bank (S14: #23)
Sunday Bacon/Bank (S12: #16)
Supa Team/Bank (S08: #19)
Sweetness/Sandy Hill (S10: #11)
Take Me to Fitzgibbon/Irene's (S22: #12)
Team Awesome/Glebe (S09: #17)
Team Car Ramrod/Glebe (S08: #15)
Team Cletus/Pump (S21: #26)
Team Cobras/Corner (S22: #22)
Team Discovery Channel/Loon (S15: #18)
Team Huge/Wellington (S15: #17)
Team Swimming in Brooks Laich's Eyes/Centrepoint (S22: #28)
Team VI/YukYuks (aka Gordon Rioters) (S13: #13)
Tenured and Untenured Radicals/Glebe (S12: #9)
That's What She Said/Wellington (S17: #22)
Three's Company/Hunt Club (S20: #31)
Tim/PJ (S22: #30)
Titty Breakfast/Bank (aka Pickle Butt) (S12: #16)
Toboggans/Sandy Hill (S22: #30)
Trivids/Mow (S09: #17)
Turkey's Dream/Loon (S12: #14)
U of Zero/YukYuks (S22: #26)
Undecided/Sandy Hill Oak (S13: #11)
Unexplained Pineapple/Canal (S15: #17)
United Trivia Workers Local 55/YukYuks (S22: #6)
Unwashed Young Professionals/YukYuks (S19: #25)
We Got Nothing/Bank (S18: #24)
We're Working On It/Corner (S21: #30)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot/Pump (S21: #25)
Who Dat Ninja/YukYuks (S21: #4)
Whole Shebang/Gracies (S20: #10)
Wiener Takes It All/Bank (S16: #15)
Wirecrats/YukYuks (S02: #1)
Wise-assers/PJs (S21: #29)
Work in Progress/Corner (S22: #30)
House rules:
A "country" or "nation" is any UN member, plus the Vatican, Taiwan and Kosovo.
If we ask for a pope or a monarch, we also want either the regnal number (Richard II) or the sobriquet (Richard the Lion-hearted). An answer of just "Richard" is assumed to be Richard I. (Exception: Elizabeth can refer to either one.)
We're indifferent to Junior, Senior and so forth. We won't penalize you if you say John Jacob Astor IV when it's John Jacob Astor III.
We usually use gender-neutral terms, so "actor" might mean a female actor, unless its the Oscar for "Best (Supporting) Actor."
Teams We Miss
Barley Mow: Mooseheads, Bengals, Bagger Vances, Barley Yobs, Special Edz, Groundhogs, James' Posse, Unsocialbles, T42, Jora, Salty Dogs, Dandelions, Repeates, Ladies in Waiting, Order of Evil Monkeys, Paul Paquet Fan Club, Hot Buttered Elves, Trivids
Centretown Oak: Venon and Spice to the Maxx, Otherwise It Would Just Be Dodgeball, Eleven Days Until the Emperor's Parade, Leon Carls, North Bay Rugby
Special guests: In the
Photo Gallery, we have some shots of
the Mow, including images of the nights that Ed Broadbent
and Global News came over, as well as shots of me and some
of the teams. Don Newman also shows up from time to time.
First game: The very game at
the Barley Mow was on September 7, 1998, although there were two games before that in the Kanata location. We've done it at
other bars since, but nobody else has had the patience (or
the business savvy) to keep it running and make it a
success, save for the Royal Oak, which began in September
2006, and then Woody's and the Arrow & Loon, which followed in January 2009. The Pump started January 2010, as did the Saturday game at the Loon.
Highest score: This depends on
how you look at it.
The Unsocialbles are the only team to ever register a
perfect score, doing so in 2000 when the maximum possible
score was 35.
In 2002, we started a 50-pt game. The highest ever
score was registered by Fran Mahovlich (sic) who got 49,
missing only the number question.
In 2007, we started league play and a 55-pt game: the
record so far is 53 by Nautically Themed Pashmina Afghan, set in July 2011.
Since we started the 55 pt game, the highest number of points "per capita" is 44, a record shared by Isaac, playing on his own as Team VI at the Arrow and Loon. He also had the highest score in the league that week.
Biggest handicap: The Wirecrats hold this
record, at -15, set at the Wellington Oak, beating the record they had set at the Mow. The Wirecrats and Team VI are the only teams to ever have active handicaps in three bars at once.
