I love trivia and I’ve always wanted to go to Capone’s because of the free pizza deal. You get a WHOLE free cheese pizza with every drink you buy. Free pizza + trivia? What could be funner than that?

We arrived early because I had never been there before and wanted to make sure I got a seat. Luckily, Capone’s is a rather large dive-y bar and it was quite empty at 8:00 on a Tuesday. We had our pizza, which was really good for free pizza and waited for trivia to start. More people arrived and Gideon, our charming old-timey host, walked around trying to get teams together to compete. There were 3 teams competing for one prize: a glorious pitcher of beer. We were team uncoolkids competing against team just a second and team batcave.

The first round was fan-boy trivia and this time it was all about video games, which I know nothing about. At the end of the round, he passed out some white lined paper and gave us the names of a bunch of video games and we had to write down who the hero was. I got 2 points just for having a pen! I think we only got a couple right, but my random wrong answer of Marmaduke as one of the heroes got us an additional 3 points.

The next round was pop culture and we got all of these right. He had us finish the first line of a tv show theme song and name the show. I was BORN to play this game, having watched way too much television as a child and also possessing an idiot-savant like ability for remembering song lyrics. During the second part of this round, Gideon would describe a scene from a movie and you had to give him the name of the song and the artist that was playing during said scene. This was my favorite round. It was a lot of fun. Also, I knew all the answers so I felt all smart and stuff.

The next round was not as fun. It was all about booze and this time specifically about rum, which none of the teams really knew anything about. I guess the $500 my Dad spent so I could go to bartending school really was a waste. Sorry Dad. This was when team just a second bowed out. I asked if we could have their points but was denied.

Then it was time for Brooklyn trivia, which lucky for me, my teammates seemed to know a lot about. For the bonus round, you had to name 4 movies that featured The Brooklyn Bridge. We put Lonely Guy, Manhattan, The Baxter, and If Lucy Fell. They were all right, but our host hadn’t seen Lonely Guy or If Lucy Fell so he looked them up online because he didn’t believe us. We ended up being right, so we got extra points. Told you so Gideon.

The lightning round about Nations was really the deciding factor for this game. We kicked some team batcave butt. Gideon would give us a phrase, for example ’splitting the bill’ and we would respond with ‘going dutch’. Get it?

In the end, the winner was……..team uncoolkids!!! yay!! We won a lovely pitcher of Newcastle. It was a super fun cheap casual no frills kinda night. Perfect for a Tuesday night especially if you’re a little low on funds, like I was. I will definitely be back.

The Triviacrats happens every Tuesday night at 9pm at Capone’s Bar, N 9th St between Driggs and Roebling and it’s FREE.