Trivia Night

Librarians have the reputation of being good team members for Trivia Night. I'm better at it than when I started library school. Although, now, I have a new frustration--I frequently can't quite pull the fact out of my brain, but know exactly where I would look it up.

I've always thought librarians would be great at writing the questions. Jessamyn West at librarian.net has done it and links to her questions in this blog entry. I also like Andrea Mercado's outreach ideas at LibraryTechtonics. Even if the librarian doesn't write the questions, libraries can hook up with the idea and become known as the place with the answers.

In my area, trivia nights are not, generally, pub events. They are charity fund-raisers and usually held in schools or church basements. Andrea was worried about the alcohol connection, but I don't think that would be a problem in St. Louis. Of course, I'm not sure trivia nights draw the twenty and thirty-something audience that Andrea is trying to reach the way that a pub quiz might.

Andrea seems to be thinking of public libraries, are there pub quizzes or trivia nights on college campuses that could use the participation of academic librarians?
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