Trivia Club is a lot of things, but yes 90% of Trivia Club is our weekly and bi-weekly events throughout Toronto! This is where you can find the 5% (that isn't Extra Curricular fun, of course) which shines a spotlight on our love for pop culture that doesn't come in the form of a question or answer. These are our website Features, the magazine articles, the newsletter pieces, the content!

Trivia Club Member Card - who participates Trivia Club? These folks! Our Trivia Club Member Cards celebrate long-time players, and their teams, by immortalizing them on playing cards! Get to know your friends and rivals!

Trivia Club Comedy 100 - the Comedy 100 is a crowd-sourced, community-voted list that looks to rank funny people from the past calendar year on their merits as performers in the world of comedy. Comedy is subjective, different things are funny to different people. We wanted to see where the similarities and differences lie and where it all might intersect.

Ask Trivia Club - have a question related to pop culture, comics, movies, or music, to trivia that you need a second opinion on? Heck, even a first-rate opinion? Ask Trivia Club’s host Russel Harder anything! Posit your question on twitter @trivia_club

Quarterly Awards - or Q+A for short, celebrate everything cool and creative, and anything that might be interesting to those who participate in Trivia Club!

Live events are the cornerstone of Trivia Club! In this section you’ll see what is coming up, what has recently occurred, and more details about all of our locations.

Current Locations - all the information on where and when you can find Trivia Club, as well as stats and milestones for each location.

Previous Locations - sometimes we have to discontinue events at a location, for any number of reasons. We still have participants to celebrate from the past however, and memories to relive!

The Saturday Night Live Fantasy is fantasy sports for the comedy nerd. Built around drafting cast members, predicting hosts, and guessing songs played by the musical guest, Trivia Club has turned the sport that is inherent in a comedy institution into your new favourite Fantasy League! Our Phil Hartman Trophy has been awarded since Season 39 of Saturday Night Live! Matthew S. has taken over scoring from Russel H. for Season 45.

SEASON	HARTMAN WINNER	POINTS	HARTMAN RUNNER-UP	POINTS
39 (2013/2014)	Matthew S. w/ The Ignorant Sluts	3,228	Russel H. w/ Million Dollar Bill Murrays	3,182
40 (2014/2015)	Matthew S. w/ The Ignorant Sluts	2,739	Russel H. w/ Billion Dollar Murrays	2,713
41 (2015/2016)	Megan M. w/ War Horse Can Dance	2,783	Russel H. w/ Billion Dollar Murrays	2,624
42 (2016/2017)	Matthew S. w/ The Ignorant Sluts	3,165	Megan M. w/ War Horse Can Dance	3,096
43 (2017/2018)	Rob M. w/ The Party Andersons	2,355	Megan M. w/ War Horse Can Dance	2,194
44 (2018/2019)	Russel H. w/ Billion Dollar Murrays	2,668	Rob M. w/ Hunter the Hungries Gotta Eat	2,666

Continuing the tradition established by the Totally Rad Show and /Film in 2008, the Summer Movie Wager asks Trivia Club’s sunniest and sandiest to rank the summer's biggest films, with bragging rights on the line!

YEAR	WINNER	POINTS	RUNNER-UP	POINTS
2013	Sarah C.	49	Jack C.	47
2014	Patrick D.	56	Rob M.	50
2015	Alex B.	51	Rob M.	48
2016	Stephane de S.	60	James C.	55
2017	James C.	58	Stephane de S.	53
2018	Peter M.	86	Russel H.	75
2019	Russel H.	63	Mark P.	59

Every office has an Oscar Pool, but Trivia Club tests your confidence in every choice you make by asking you to rank them from 24 to 1. Correct choices are as always important, but Confidence is key!

YEAR	WINNER	POINTS (PICKS)	RUNNER-UP	POINTS (PICKS)
2012/2013	Saad K.	(17)	--	--
2013/2014	Mathew S.	290 (22)	Rob M.	283 (22)
2014/2015	Oliver D.	270 (20)	Mark P.	246 (19)
2015/2016	Mark P.	257 (18)	Russel H.	243 (16)
2016/2017	Mark P.	242 (17)	Marc W.	224 (15)
2017/2018	Rob M.	275 (18)	Mark P.	271 (21)
2018/2019	Mark P.	229 (15)	Rob M.	209 (14)
2019/2020	Mark P.	258 (21)	Matthew S.	244 (19)

The Fall TV Death Pool celebrated network television by pre-picking the rotten apples from the bunch! Ultimately the fewer episodes your selected shows air, the better! The Death Pool was run for one season, as it looked to be one of the last traditional years of broadcast television before streaming truly made television a year-round joy.

EXPLAINING TRVs the Trivia Club team sabermetric

TRVs stands for True Versus (or as we like to call it in-house, the Trivia #), and it's a sabermetric celebration of all the stats that we collect on Trivia Club participants! In case your wondering, sabermetrics is something that was first used in baseball to compare the performance of individual players, and has since because an instrumental part of sports management. For Trivia Club and the TRVs, we wanted to create a number that gave weight to not only those teams that continued to come out and compete but also give ample weight to those teams that were the most successful throughout our history, overall and also per location. Every stat that we keep is included, wins, events, annual wins, win percentage, point totals, point averages, high scores, times that teams have crossed the Sesquicentennial Mark, as well as finished the night with less than zero. These numbers are then mathed together to create a Raw TRVs which is then divided against the average of all the teams within that stat group to then create a number that we track at the thousandth decimal place. Finally, we are not mathematicians here at triviaclub.ca so if there is anyway that this algorithm can be improved, let us know!

• .5 – Thundercats with 51.5 points defeated Grafton Celebrity All-Stars with 51 points at YOU'RE SO COOL @ CR#003 on June 13th, 2012, the first time a team won by the slimmest possible margin.
• .5 – 2 In The Pink, 1 In The Think defeated the field of three other teams, who finished with zero points @ Hi#017 on May 26th, 2014, and also set the record for the lowest total points for a winning team. 
• .5 – Team Name with 1 point defeated The Electric Mayhem with half a point @ CR#077 on August 20th, 2014.
• .5 –  Chillasaurus with 1.5 points defeated Last Place Team with one point @ CR#239 on November 8th, 2017.

TIES

• CO-WINNERS - SPARTACUS and Sailor Mercury’s Boobs are the only teams to ever tie, in victory, and share a Golden VHS. They did so at the second ever Trivia Club in May of 2012.
• ALL-WAY TIE - CR#049 was the first time that the entire field tied after the Trivia Finale, and a tie-breaker was used, which the Cunning Stunts were the only team to answer correctly.
• SUDDEN VICTORY - LD#081 was the first time that two teams had tied, tied again on the fifth question tiebreaker, and forced the Sudden Victory Box Office Bulls-eye! (647) 241 – 2325 (Lt. Dance) and The Electric Mayhem (Kevin, Matt, Pete, & Nish) each scored 132 points in the Finale, then both went all in with 20 tie-breaking points on the Fifth Question, and finally with the Sudden Victory Bulls-eye, Electric Mayhem were within 19 million of the actual Box Office of 2012’s "Sherlock Holmes", while (647) 241 – 2325 were within 8 million... for the Golden VHS win!
• TIE-SNATCHERS - LD#113 saw Lt. Dance once again tied up with a team at the end of the night! This time, The True Believers (Lt. Dance's Colm & Anthony), who scored 76 points in the Finale alongside The Schmeg$, needed only the Fifth Question tie-breaker for the Golden VHS win (also, oddly enough, the second time they had won Snatch on Golden VHS)!
• FIRST & ONE-HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SECOND -  CR#191 saw two teams in their first tie-breaker. For Ivanna Wynn it was their first night out at Trivia, while for Team Name it was their one-hundred and thirty-second! Both teams went all in with 20 tie-breaking points on the Fifth Question, and with Team Name getting the Fifth Question incorrect, newcomers Ivanna Wynn won their first Golden VHS with the correct answer!
• I BROKE A GOLDEN TIE - Really Makes U Think and Stepford Singles saw the first tie at The Rec Room, taking place at RR#046, and it was decided by another first! The tie-breaker Fifth Question was our anagram question and thus the two teams had the opportunity to race to the finish, with the first team to unravel the answer being awarded the Golden VHS... which the Stepford Singles did to win their first Trivia Club Championship!
• THE TIE-BREAKERS CLUB - RR#065 brought us the second tie at The Rec Room, which took place between Suck It Trebek and The Replacements! The Sudden Victory Bulls-eye was brought back, and Suck It Trebek were not only the closest to the bulls-eye for the box office of "Paul Blart: Mall Cop", but in winning the Golden VHS on the night, Suck It Trebek would also join the Five Timers Club with their FIFTH Golden VHS win!
• NEW DOGS, OLD TIES - BL#004 saw the first tie-breaker take place on the east-end of Toronto, as the Trivia Finale of our fourth event at Black Lab Brewing ended with two first-time competitors, FAHTBOPH and Les Quizerables, both finish with 126 points a piece! The initial tie-breaker, our fifth Pardo question, kept the tie between FAHTBOPH and Les Quizerables... so a Sudden Victory Box Office Bulls-eye was brought into play! For the animated film "Hotel Transylvania", Les Quizerables guessed within 48... but FAHTBOPH were within ONE to win the night and the Golden VHS!
• ONE LAST ROUND - One Last Round at Hitch, our final event at our longest-running location saw the very first tie-breaker. On the 2,345th and final night at Trivia Club's Black Label location we just had to exhaust every single trivia possibility! Hi#163 ended with Matt Smith as Going Off Without a Hitch tied with the Fighting Mongooses as 2001: A Mongoose Odyssey on the Finale question! The fifth question Pardo tie-breaker kept things tied, so it was only fitting that a Sudden Victory Box Office Bulls-eye came into play in which the two teams would guess the domestic take of the 2005 film "Hitch". Going Off Without a Hitch guessed within 40... but it was 2001: A Mongoose Odyssey who guessed within 4, to finally bring One Last Round to an end at our Home Away of Hitch!

POINTS
MOST IN A CALENDAR YEAR (TEAM; ALL LOCATIONS)
2012 – SPARTACUS w/ 352 pts
2013 – Cunning Stunts w/ 1,475 pts
2014 – Electric Mayhem w/ 1,922 pts
2015 – Cunning Stunts w/ 3,259 pts
2016 – Cunning Stunts w/ 3,129 pts
2017 – Cunning Stunts w/ 3,540 pts
2018 – Fighting Mongooses w/ 2,440 pts
2019 – Cookiefaced w/ 2,794 pts
2020 – Cookiefaced w/ 1,770.5 pts

FIRST RUNNERS-UP

Second place finishes in a calendar year. The Bastards, and Fighting Mongooses are the only teams to have the most second place finishes and the most Golden VHS wins in the same calendar year, doing so in 2015 and 2018. Unsurprisingly they also made the most appearances in those years, as well.

2012 – Cunning Stunts w/ 2

2016 – M. Night Shaym-Aliens w/ 14

2017 – 2 Fast 2 Curious (as Last Place Team) w/ 12

2018 – Fighting Mongooses w/ 12

2019 – Cookiefaced w/ 11

2020 – Cunning Stunts w/ 12

GOIN’ PETE!

PETE! has won a Golden VHS at five separate locations (Cardinal Rule, Lou Dawgs, Handlebar, Hitch, and The Rec Room), or as part of The Bastards, SPARTACUS, Cunning Stunts, Pete & Krissy, SHARK (Attack), We H8 Brittany, the Asquith A’s, Smokey & The Bearded, and The Dime Beggars. Not only were they the first person to win a Golden VHS at four separate locations solo, they are also the first person to win a Golden VHS solo! PETE! has won more then 40 Golden VHS tapes either by themselves or with a team,  a select group that also features Mark P. and Dylan K. of the Cunning Stunts and Kevin M. and Matthew S. of Electric Mayhem.

LOCATION LOCATION

Johnny H. and Sarah C. were the first participants to win a Golden VHS at two different locations (Cardinal Rule and Lou Dawgs), doing so as the Super Awesome Notorious Trivia All-Stars @ CR#009 in December 2012, and Matthew McConaugHEY Arnold @ LD#001 in March 2014.

ONE FOR ALL, ALL WITH TEN
For the first time in Countdown Takedown, our Price Is Right-style Game Show Game in which teams have to guess a number connected to a specific question without going over, all competing teams chose the same number and thus all teams were awarded 10 points. It was a potentially over confident Team Name that set the pace for four other teams @ CR#182.

FIRST, FIVE, AND ONE-HUNDRED
Our first two locations to celebrate one-hundred events, Cardinal Rule and Lou Dawg's BBQ, both saw teams win their first Golden VHS at the event. Treasure Butt won CR#100, while We H8 Brittany won LD#100! If that wasn't enough symmetry for you, both teams won on the night of the Century Mark with a total of five points! To close the loop, Treasure Butt were on hand at LD#100 and finished as runners-up with a single point. Our third location to celebrate one-hundred events did not feature Treasure Butt, but it did see a team win their first Golden VHS at the location! Lt. Dance's Estelle Getty Lee won Hi#100, and did so with much more then five points.

THE MORGAN DYNASTY

The Morgans are not only the first family to win a Golden VHS separate from each other (to our knowledge) but they also did so at three consecutive events as part of Electric Mayhem @ CR#062, The West Philadelphians @ Hi#016, and the M. Night Shyam-Aliens @ LD#007, between May 7^th and May 13^th of 2014.

THE SUMMER OF MAYHEM

In August 2014, The Electric Mayhem won three out of the four weeks at Cardinal Rule, losing only the third of the four weeks by half a point to Team Name!


THE ONE IN ONE AND TWENTY-ONE
With their May 3rd, 2016 victory, Treasure Butt won their first Golden VHS @ LD#099 after twenty-one prior appearances, the first appearance being September 23rd, 2014 @ LD#022. Treasure Butt did however win twice, on their first two appearances, at Cardinal Rule in 2015 @ CR#100 and CR#101.

THE TWO IN TWO AND TWENTY-TWO
Last Place Team took twenty appearances at Cardinal Rule before they won their first Golden VHS at their twenty-first event @ CR#174 on July 27th, 2016. Their first appearance was January 6th, 2016 @ CR#145. Their second Golden VHS? The very next Wednesday, at their twenty-second appearance on August 3rd, 2016.

TWO FOR TWO AT TWO
Lt. Dance began their Trivia Club legacy at Lou Dawg's at the 33rd edition of the show, under the name Popcorn Gallery, with a big win Golden VHS win to end 2014! Three weeks later, at the first Lou Dawg's Trivia Club event of 2015, the 34th edition, they won their second Golden VHS in as many appearances, this time under the name Gmail Roulette! As impressive a way to start things off, as that was, on their first appearance at Cardinal Rule later in 2015, on July 29th they won the 124th edition at our Original Home, as The Best Friends Gang! It would take another 65 events, and 479 days, but on their second appearance at Cardinal Rule, this time known as Fantastic Beats and Where 2 Drop Them, Lt. Dance would win their second Golden VHS!

TRI AND TRI AGAIN
With their December 7th, 2016 victory Trivial Knowledge won their first Golden VHS @ CR#193 after thirty-seven prior appearances, the most appearances at a single location before a Golden VHS victory. With their first appearance at Trivia Club being May 13th, 2015, that is a total of 1 year, 6 months, and 24 days before breaking through to the Golden circle. Their second victory took place on July 12th, 2017, at CR#222, only 187 days later.

THERE AND BACK AGAIN
The Man with the Candy was the third Golden VHS Champ in our time at Hitch, winning Hi#004 on October 28th, 2013. It was their second appearance, and though they had appeared at the first event as well, they would participate intermittently afterwards. So much in fact, that they're SECOND Golden VHS win would not come until Hi#090, on May 1st, 2017... a full 3 years, 6 months, and 4 days after their first Golden VHS. This is the longest time between VHS wins.

GRAND PRIX HOT STREAKS
In 2017 the Cunning Stunts won three Golden VHS in one calendar week across two locations! Winning the March 29th Golden VHS at CR#207, the April 3rd Golden VHS at Hi#088 to begin the Grand Championship of our fifth season, and finishing off their week long hot streak with a third win on April 5th at CR#208 once again. In 2015 The Electric Bastards won four consecutive events over the course of three weeks across three locations, during our third season's Grand Championship! The first win was at LD#047 on April 14th, followed the next day at CR#109 on April 15th. With the next weekly Lou Dawgs cancelled, the next win was April 22nd at CR#110, capped off the following Monday at Hi#039 on April 27th. Four in a row, and a nearly consecutive row of Triple Crown wins.

HOW WE ROLL
With the 200th edition of Trivia Club at Cardinal Rule, we began what we call the Ico Era of Trivia Club! No longer would the three categories of the third round be worth 10, 15, and 20 points respectively, now a d20, or 20-sided die, or (as we enjoy calling it) an icosahedron would be rolled and THAT would decide the point totals of our three Tri-Pardo categories. These are the critical hits and misses of the first year of the Ico Era.

20’s

TEAM	EVENT	CATEGORY	DATE
David Bowie’s Corporate Whores	CR#200	THIRD	02/08/17
Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes	Hi#086	SECOND	03/06/17
Cunning Stunts	CR#207	FIRST	03/29/17
AK-47	Hi#090	SECOND	05/01/17
Trivial Knowledge	CR#215	FIRST	05/31/17
M. Night Shaym-Aliens	CR#215	THIRD	05/31/17
Quiztin Tarantino	Hi#092	SECOND	06/12/17
Trivial Knowledge	CR#221	THIRD	07/05/17
Melinda from Corporate HQ	CR#222	SECOND	07/12/17
David Bowie’s Corporate Whores	CR#225	THIRD	08/02/17
Good Folks from Laramie Cigarettes	Hi#095	FIRST	08/07/17
Trivial Knowledge	CR#228	THIRD	08/23/17
Team Rocket	Hi#097	THIRD	09/11/17
Low Expectations	CR#231	THIRD	09/13/17
Hiltz vs Everybody	Hi#098	SECOND	09/18/17
Fighting Mongooses	Hi#098	THIRD	09/18/17
Better Late Than...	CR#234	SECOND	10/04/17
Cunning Stunts	CR#238	THIRD	11/01/17
Festive Mongooses	Hi#110	THIRD	12/18/17
Falconhead	FS#005	FIRST	02/21/18

1’s

TEAM	EVENT	CATEGORY	DATE
Unusual Suspects	CR#206	FIRST	03/22/17
Team Has No Name	CR#220	FIRST	06/28/17
Trivial Knowledge	CR#222	FIRST	07/12/17
M. Night Shaym-Aliens	Hi#099	FIRST	09/26/17
The Man with the Candy	Hi#108	FIRST	12/04/17
Falconhead	Hi#113	FIRST	02/05/18

• CR#200 saw a 10 rolled for the first category, a 15 rolled for the second category, and a 20 rolled for the third question. Because of course that happened. Why wouldn't it? 
• Trivial Knowledge was the first team to roll 20 two times, three times, and also to roll 20 and roll 1. 
• CR#215 and Hi#098 are the two events with the highest rolled Tri-Pardo with two 20's rolled, and an additional 18 rolled for 58 potential points up for grabs of the possible 60 points available in the Ico Era's third round. No teams were able to answer all three questions correctly at CR#215.
• Hi#098 saw the M. Night Shaym-Aliens earn the most points in a Tri-Pardo, getting all three questions correct for a total of 58 points. Five days prior at CR#231 saw Last Place Team earn the most points in a Tri-Pardo at Cardinal Rule up to that point, getting all three questions correct for a total of 56 points. The M. Night Shaym-Aliens however would also earn the most points in a Tri-Pardo at Cardinal Rule, with 57 points at CR#238.