QUIZ RECAP

A slower night down at the old Promenade but not every trivia needs 30+ teams to bring the house down. Especially not when you've got a core group of your diehard in-house regular trivia teams showing up to outwit, outsmart and outlast one another in a real no holds barred knockdown trivia challenge.

In honor of their triple digit win tonight, let's break down the history of one of our longest playing teams here at Barney's Santa Monica: Benjamin Quizraeli.

Benny Quiz used to actually be two separate teams. John was a member of Quiz Quiztofferson while Nick and James competed against him as a team with a regularly rotating name. Nick and James are staples of the bar, having formerly worked at a movie theater around the corner in college, and estimate that they've now been playing trivia (or enjoying the flow of alcohol) at Barney's for the past 9 years. John comes in at 7. About two years ago, the members of John's team moved to various parts of the continental United States for their various jobs and John was a one man trivia killing machine. That's no exaggeration - I mean, he didn't kill anyone, but he's very very very good at this game. John is a man who knows his periodic table just as well as he knows his Taylor Swift discography. A white whale like that wasn't going to be floating in the proverbial Barney Ocean for long. And sure enough, Nick and James asked to play - the team was rechristened as Benjamin Quizraeli - and the trio have been kicking ass and taking names ever since. Sadly, Nick is moving to Scotland in September and James is contemplating finally heading north to Seattle in the near future so it appears John will be a free agent once again. But I hear rumblings that Don't Worry Beyonce is looking to make a sizable offer on our trivial Moby Dick...

NOTE: Pictured above, with your willing host, is NOT the first place team but tonight's last place team who mistakenly believed that being "put on the website" may have led to some kind of social media following and fame. Oh, youth.