Prove it.  Come to the Wild Colonial Tavern for the famous (usually) twice-monthly Pub Quiz.  Form a team of one to four people and answer trivial questions in a variety of categories — history, 80’s television, current events, pilgrims, vampires, hockey, stupid celebrity baby names.  The final category is always 12 or so audible snippets of music you vaguely remember hating 20 years ago.  Cool prizes for win, place and show.  Beer on tap.

8pm, Wild Colonial, 250 South Water Street, 621-5644, wheelchair accessible

www.rhodeislandtrivia.com has been launched!  The Rhode Island Trivia Challenge is an online trivia game in support of the Amos House.  The Amos House is a non-profit social services agency that provides food and shelter to the homeless and poor of RI.  In order to play, you must pledge a donation to the Amos House, with a minimum donation of $5. The game will feature 20 new RI trivia questions each week, from November 10th-December 17th.  Following the games end, there will be a raffle drawing on December 18th, and all participants are eligible to win prizes from local sponsors.  Once you’ve registered, you can play as many times as you want, and even donate more than once, to increase your chances of winning.  All pledge donations will go directly to the Amos House.  Please play the game and help support the Amos House this holiday season!

There is absolutely no public humiliation at the Wild Colonial Tavern pub quiz — only your teammates have to know that you thought NAFTA was mosquito repellent.  All answers are written down on pieces of paper and handed in, more or less anonymously. Thing is, nobody cares. You are there to have fun and drink draft beer and if the chicken nachos are on the menu, eat that.  Questions come in a variety of categories like current events, movies and sports — so you are bound to know something.  You must know something, right?  There is also a music category with 12 or so audible snippets designed to drive you bonkers.  Fun prizes for win, place and show.

8pm, 250 South Water Street, 621.5644, free parking, wheelchair accessible

Pub Quiz tonight. Come spend the evening arguing with your friends (who will definitely talk you out of the correct answer about 90% of the time).  Form a team of one to four people — just show up. The rules are explained as you go along. (FYI — the correct answer was ‘Pliny the Elder’.)

8PM, The Wild Colonial Tavern, 250 South Water Street, plenty of free parking, 621.5644

“Be Nice or Leave” is the guiding philosophy at the Wild Colonial Tavern (T-shirts available).  On the whole the people that show up for the world-famous Pub Quiz are lovers not fighters (if by ‘lovers’ you mean ‘doughy liberal bed-wetters’).  But there was that one time.  Form a team of one to four people, join in the fun and win cool prizes.  There are several categories like current events, local trivia, movies… stuff like that.  And it always ends with a 12-question music category with audio snippets.  Some people worry that they will have to stand up in front of the room and make an ass of themselves looking stupid, and — like any other place where alcohol is served — you are free to do that.  But that has nothing to do with the quiz format — your  team simply writes its answers down on a piece of paper and hands it in. Great beer on tap.

starts 8pm/250 South Water Street/621.5644

You think you’re so smart?  Come in and prove it. Tonight is the world famous Pub Quiz at the Wild Colonial Tavern.  Teams are from one to four people. Get a few friends together and just show up. Categories of six questions each range from current events, Rhode Island, 80’s sci-fi movies… whatever the quiz masters are in the mood for really. It always ends with a 12-snippet audio music category. Cool prizes for win, place and show.

(special hours today: Due to the CVS Downtown 5k, the Wild Colonial will be open from 10am to 1pm.  The Waylanders will be playing music outside, so you can drink and dance and look at running people.)

starts 8pm/The Wild Colonial Tavern/250 South Water Street/621.5644

Tonight is the world-famous Pub Quiz at the Wild Colonial Tavern.  The quiz-masters will ask 6 questions in each of a variety of categories like current events, local trivia, movies, sci-fi… or maybe a completely idiosyncratic made-up crazy topic.  There is always a visual hand-out and the final music category will consist of 12 audio bites.  Teams can be one to four people, and the rules are explained as you go along.  Just show up with your friends. Except for the occasional stray dart it’s a real good time.  Cool prizes, good beer on tap, and there is a mirror in the ladies’ room

starts 8pm/250 South Water Street/621.5644/wheelchair accessible

Check out the Wild Colonial Tavern Pub Quiz tonight.  Good beer on tap.  Prizes for win, place and show.

starts 8PM/250 South Water Street/621.5644 

The holiday weekend notwithstanding, the famous Wild Colonial Tavern Pub Quiz will go on as scheduled (at least that’s what the person who answered the phone last night told me). Form your own team of one to four people and just show up. There are usually about 8 or 9 different categories of six questions each, and then the last category is music with about a dozen audio snippets you have to identify. The rules are explained as you go along. There are swell prizes for win, place and show (always the wildly popular WC pint glasses for coming in third).  In closing I would like to mention that this is one Irish bar that has gone ‘green’ in the best possible way — they have started recycling. Well done.
quiz starts 8PM/250 South Water Street/621.5644/wheelchair accessible

Tonight is Pub Quiz night at the famous Wild Colonial Tavern, voted the best bar in the universe every year since the beginning of time. Disputes are rare and always seem to involve squid. Mostly people just grumble and whine. (Wasn’t that a U2 album?) If you have never been, just show up. Form your own team of 1 - 4 people. The rules are explained as you play along. Categories of 6 questions each may cover topics such as sci-fi, pizza toppings, politics, the two Coreys…. I’m pretty sure ‘famous Irish-American boxers’ won’t be back… and it always ends with a 12 question audible music category. Cool prizes for win, place and show.

starts 8PM/Wild Colonial/250 South Water Street/621-5644/wheelchair accessible

It’s time again for the famous Pub Quiz at the Wild Colonial. Teams can be from one to four people, no pre-registration required, just show up. Categories usually include current events, local trivia, maybe history or sports, and often some idiosyncratic or seasonal questions. And the 80’s rear their ugly head with some frequency. It always ends with a music category (12 or more audio clips) which will often hew to a theme that has been developed by the hilarious quiz masters. There are prizes for win, place and show. I don’t know what the prizes will be tonight, but the people over at Narragansett Beer have been coming up with some cool stuff lately. The artwork on their merch is a cut above the rest and they actually make T-shirts for the moderately-sized human (a.k.a. Europeans) as well as standard American (XXXXXXXL). So here is the free publicity that such promotional items are supposed to produce — happy to do it.

starts 8PM/Wild Colonial Tavern/250 South Water St./621-5644/wheelchair accessible

Yes, there are many claims on your time this evening. It is Father’s Day of course, but frankly, the average quiz-male seems barely capable of growing a beard much less fathering a child, so that shouldn’t be an issue. Also, what will Mo have on the telly tonight? The Celtics, being Irish-ish, certainly have a huge claim on Mo’s allegiance, but the theater people at Pub Quiz form a large and loyal customer constituency and may demand that he tune in ‘The Tonys’.

I’m gonna go out on limb and predict that the Celtics fans will overpower the Tony people. Game on.

quiz starts 8PM/Wild Colonial Tavern/250 S. Water Street/621.5644

If you’ve never been, here’s the dope. The quiz-masters will ask 6 questions in each of a variety of categories like current events, 80’s TV shows, maybe sports… or maybe a completely idiosyncratic made-up crazy topic. There is always a visual hand-out and the final music category will consist of 12 audio bites. Teams are from one to four people, and it’s explained as you go along. Good beer on tap, and the game will be on the tv. I really don’t know what game I might be talking about.

8PM/The Wild Colonial Tavern/250 South Water Street/621-5644

It’s best to know a little bit about a lot of things if you want to finish in the money (and by money I mean t-shirts and glasses) at the famous Wild Colonial Pub Quiz. Come tonight and test your broad-but-superficial knowledge against other savants and know-it-alls. Yup, despite the holiday, it’s on. And if your mom don’t like it, tell her you hope to win her a real nice present (it helps if she’s a size XXXXL and likes Jose Cuervo). Form a team of one to four people who have a wide range of interests — good friends who will forgive you when you confidently talk them out of the correct answer. There will be several categories such as; current events, maybe sports, music (audible), maybe history or movies, and perhaps… tonight… mothers!

Starts at 8PM/The Wild Colonial Tavern/250 South Water Street/621-5644

Shown here is the MRI of a contestant who has just won a free plate of nachos at the Wild Colonial pub quiz (all lit up is the lateral frito-lobe, tucked just below the medulla con cheso). In addition to the prizes awarded for win, place and show in the regular quiz, there is always an extra nacho question. Just drop in and form your own team — from one to four people — the rules are explained as you go along. (If you can’t even figure out how to play, you are probably in over your head.) Cool prizes, great beer on tap, and a mirror in the ladies’ room.

8PM/Wild Colonial Tavern/250 South Water Street/621-5644/wheelchair accessible

Yup, it’s already two weeks later.  Tonight is the Pub Quiz at the Wild Colonial.  The quiz-masters will ask 6 questions in each of a variety of categories like current events, maybe history, maybe sports… or maybe a completely idiosyncratic made-up crazy topic.  There is always a visual hand-out and the final music category will consist of 12 audio bites.  Teams are up to four people, and it’s explained as you go along.  Except for the occasional stray dart it’s a real good time.  Cool prizes, good beer on tap, and there is a mirror in the ladies’ room.

8:00PM/Wild Colonial/250 South Water Street/621-5644/plenty of parking