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 May 13)
51.5 SMRT/Mow
51.0 United Trivia Workers Local 55/Pump II, Cheese and Apples/Rochester
50.5 Who Dat Ninja/YukYuks
49.0 Nautically Themed Pashmina Afghan/Bank
48.5 Caspar's Cohort/Mow, Fruitcakes and Bicurious/YukYuks, I Lost on Jeopardy/Centrepointe, Narwalrus/Centerpointe, Spoiler Alert/Bank, Simple Minds/Wellington, Gryffindorks/Wellington
48.0 Dr Penfield I Smell Burnt Toast/Loon
47.5 Generals of Disarray/Pump II, Eats Shoots and Leaves/Rochester, Most Interesting Trivia Team in the World/YukYuks, Small People of Confederation/Bank
47.0 Optimistic Shark Attack/Bank, History Channel/Bank, Smart and Better/Centrepointe, Brain Cramps/Wellington, Five-Assed Monkeys/Loon
46.5 Streetcars/Mow, Nerd Alert/Pump II, Inspector Spacetime/Canal, Polymaths/Canal, Too Young for the Civil Service/Sandy Hill, Overqualified + Underpaid/Glebe
46.0 Egg Management Fees/Loon, Mangy Pirate Cats/Glebe, Idiot Savants/Mow, Great Caesar's Ghost/Rochester, Alaskans/Irene's, Snowball's Chance/Sandy Hill
xxxx Snappy Synapses/Pump I, Porch Beers/Pump I, Loops of Don Henle/Kanata [1 pt as top bar score not otherwise in the top 10]
Season Twenty-Five: Week One
10 SMRT/Mow
9 United Trivia Workers Local 55/Pump II, Cheese and Apples/Rochester
8 Who Dat Ninja/YukYuks
7 Nautically Themed Pashmina Afghan/Bank
6 Caspar's Cohort/Mow, Fruitcakes and Bicurious/YukYuks, I Lost on Jeopardy/Centrepointe, Narwalrus/Centerpointe, Spoiler Alert/Bank, Simple Minds/Wellington, Gryffindorks/Wellington
5 Dr Penfield I Smell Burnt Toast/Loon
4 Generals of Disarray/Pump II, Eats Shoots and Leaves/Rochester, Most Interesting Trivia Team in the World/YukYuks, Small People of Confederation/Bank
3 Optimistic Shark Attack/Bank, History Channel/Bank, Smart and Better/Centrepointe, Brain Cramps/Wellington, Five-Assed Monkeys/Loon
2 Streetcars/Mow, Nerd Alert/Pump II, Inspector Spacetime/Canal, Polymaths/Canal, Too Young for the Civil Service/Sandy Hill, Overqualified + Underpaid/Glebe
1 Snappy Synapses/Pump I, Mangy Pirate Cats/Glebe, Porch Beers/Pump I, Loops of Don Henle/Kanata, Egg Management Fees/Loon, Idiot Savants/Mow, Great Caesar's Ghost/Rochester, Alaskans/Irene's, Snowball's Chance/Sandy Hill
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)
Alaskans/Canal (S24: #28)
Alex Trebek's Illegitimate Children/Sandy Hill (S13: #17)
All Balls No Brains/Bank (S24: #21)
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)
Best Friends Club/Wellington (S23/#31)
Biggest Discus/Wellington (S24: #25)
Bobo the Poisonous/Gracies (S19: #9)
Brain Cramps/Wellington (S12: #14)
Brew Crew/Darcy's & Luigi's (S20: #28)
Bushwhackers/Glebe (S12: #9)
Care-ing for Trivia/Irene's (S23/#29)
CarLoBro/Pump (S14: #17)
Caspar's Cohort/Mow (S21: #17)
Centretown Rebel Alliance (ex Mighty Eagle Book Club/Bank) (S03: #5)
Chaos/Rochester (S23/#32)
Charles Bronson Community Centre/Loon (S23/#26)
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) (S23: #22)
Egg Management Fee/Loon (S22: #29)
Eggporkalypse Now/Corner (S23/#25)
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 (S24: #6)
Epic Flail/Glebe (S23: #14)
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 (S24: #20)
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)
Hop Ons/Wellington (S24: #24)
I Am the Walrus (ex Gant Stacks)/Bank (S15: #18)
I Lost On Jeopardy/Canal (S05: #1)
I Love Lamb/Centrepointe (S24/#13)
Idiot Savants/Mow (S17: #2)
Inspector Space Time/Canal (S23/#19)
Invisible Pink Unicorn/Bank (S05: #3)
It's a Trap/Glebe (S24: #16)
Jason and the Argonauts/Sandy Hill (S22: #25)
Jeremy Beadle's Claw/Loon (S24: #25)
John Goodman Experience/Sandy Hill (S08: #16)
Just the Facts/Bank (S17: #10)
Just the [x] of Us/Glebe (S22: #25)
Kilted Balls/Gracie's (S24/#28)
Knights of the Square Table/Sandy Hill (S24/#23)
Leon Carls/Bank (S04: #8)
Legen ... wait for it...dary/Wellington (S15, #16)
Level 4 Answers/Wellington (S24: #28)
I Love Lamb/Centrepointe (S24/#13)
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)
Mediocre/Wellington (S23/#32)
Metcalfe Mafia/Woody's (S08: #18)
Midvale School for the Gifted/Wellington (S17: #14)
More Cowbell/Glebe (S22: #26)
Most Interesting Trivia Team in the World/Bank (S23: #5)
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 (S24: #19)
Next Week's Winners (ex John Tesh Experience, ex Pan Troglodytes)/Bank (S03: #1)
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)
Oxford Commas/Irene's (S23/#28)
Overqualified/Pump (S12: #3)
Overqualifed and Underpaid/Mow (S24: #7)
Pecan Sandy (ex Real World Ottawa)/Pump (S11: #14)
Pi-lons/Mow (S12: #12)
Pink Pie/Canal (S24: #23)
Poodles/Canal (S02: #4)
Polyawesome/Sandy Hill (S14: #19)
Polymaths/Sandy Hill (S13: #16)
Porch Beers/Pump (S24/#24)
Pour Sports/Bank (S16: #8)
Prairie Fyre/Wellington (S19: #19)
President's Choice/Bank (S18: #1)
Project/Canal (S23/#27)
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 (S23: #11)
Simple Minds/Wellington (S18: #9)
Small People of Confederation/Bank (S12: #1)
Smarty Pantz/Centrepointe (S23/#31)
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) (S23: #6)
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)
A Trivial Threat/Sandy Hill (S23/#26)
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 (S24: #1)
Unwashed Young Professionals/YukYuks (S19: #25)
We Got Nothing/Bank (S17: #22)
We're Working On It/Corner (S21: #30)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot/Pump (S21: #25)
White Noise/Kanata (S24/#25)
Who Dat Ninja/YukYuks (S23: #1)
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.
A "movie" never means a TV movie, unless specified otherwise.
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 (We Never Got Ranked Above)
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
Bank 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 46, a record set by Megan MacLeod of Simple Mnds at the Wellington Oak.
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.
