The iconic pyramid atop Seattle's 26-story W Hotel might just remind you of the pyramid in front of the Louvre, in Paris. You can go see for yourself, after you win today's contest. more ›

In the distant future, when robots rule the earth (we all agree that this is definitely happening, right?) they may point their cold, metal fingers back at February 14 as the day that things started to change. This is the day that they'll have the first crack at beating humans at our own game-shows. more ›

Upon hearing that the illustrious Lindy West was hosting not only a trivia night, but a sex trivia night, I immediately assembled my smartest, smuttiest troops. I once stole her idea of having a Google News Alert for "feces"--I knew there was no way she could steer me wrong here. And, just as I expected, questions included stuff like "Which animal was recently observed by a Dutch scientist engaging in homosexual necrophilia?" (a duck), "True or false, elephants have been known to rape and kill rhinoceroses?" (true). The opening round was Guess-The-Celebrity-Penises, and the round immediately following halftime simply consisted of, with the rest of your team, making up a name for a sexual position and then drawing it. more ›

PRIMAL HUMOR: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb brings us Hunter Gatherers, in which "Pam and Richard are hosting their best friends, Wendy and Tom, for a monthly dinner get-together. An animal sacrifice kicks off the evening, followed by a little more sex, violence, deception, wrestling, and dancing than at previous parties." Umm, yes please. more ›

Bring your merry band of brainiacs to the Old Pequliar tonight to win valuable cash (if you're one of the top three teams), the Valiant Effort award of valuable swag (if you're in last place), or a special mystery prize. more ›

CLEANUP IN REACTOR B: Oh Hanford. In the '40s, Southeast Washington's Columbia Basin was a burgeoning industrial center, thanks to plutonium production as part of the Manhattan Project. Spoiler alert: There are future repercussions. As the winner of Best Film at last year's Local Sightings Film Festival, Grant Aaker and Josh Wallaert's documentary Arid Lands explores the many facets of the nuclear cleanup and the myriad players--Native Americans, farmers, developers, activists, fishermen, and scientists--in the community. The film plays at the NWFF through Thursday. more ›

Get your nerd on tonight at Seattlest trivia. Converge with your fellow brainiacs at the Old Pequliar to win valuable cash (if you're one of the top three teams), the Valiant Effort award of valuable swag (if you're in last place), or a special mystery prize during the audio round. more ›

DESIGN GEEK HEAVEN: Early on in Gary Hustwit's documentary about design, Andrew Blauvelt reveals why Japanese-style toothpicks have those two grooves at the top. And no, it's not because they look pretty. With that, the film snagged our trivia-loving heart. Hustwit presses on to explore the psychology, philosophy, sociology, history, and several other -ys of design. It's never less than fascinating. If you ever think about the mass-produced stuff around you, don't miss Objectified. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. // Northwest Film Forum // 1515 12th Ave. // $9 more ›

Eighteen teams packed the Old Pequliar last night to play Seattlest Trivia. Highlights: more ›

It's the first Tuesday in June! Which means it's time to get your nerd on at Seattlest trivia. Here's a warmup. You could win a free pitcher of beer if you know the answer to this question: What two companies founded in Seattle are now corporate siblings of Napster? Email your answer to james (at) seattlest.com. One team with the correct answer wins beer. more ›

June 6, 1889: Seattle aped "world-class cities" such as Chicago, London, Boston, and Peshtigo, WI, by losing our entire downtown to a fire. more ›

It's the first Tuesday in June! Which means it's time to get your nerd on at Seattlest trivia. Here's a warmup. You could win a free pitcher of beer if you know the answer to this question: What two companies founded in Seattle are now corporate siblings of Napster? Email your answer to james (at) seattlest.com. One team with the correct answer wins beer. more ›

It's the first Tuesday in May! Which means if you're a seventh son and your seventh son is born today, you've just sired a werewolf. It also means you could win a free pitcher of beer before Seattlest Trivia tonight if you can answer this question: What recent visitor to Seattle has a name that means "you are beautiful" or "you are wonderful"? Email your answer to james (at) seattlest.com. One team with the correct answer wins beer. Beyond that, it's the usual details: The quiz is at Ballard's Old Pequliar pub, it starts at 8:00 (though sign-up starts earlier, and tables run out earlier still), and it's $5 for a team of up to 5 players or $7 for a team of 6. The OP doubles the pot and teams 1-3 win cash. (Want more info? There's a Facebook group for the OP's Tuesday quiz.) One final disclaimer: Tonight's picture rounds won't be in color. Consider it an extra challenge. See you there! more ›

GEEK TRIVIA: The infamous Geeks Who Drink take over Ozzie's on LQA. This may surprise those of you who visit their site and read about "two geeks who drink and host pub quizzes throughout Colorado, Texas and New Mexico." But now they're here in Washington, too. The quiz is eight rounds of eight questions and is played by teams of up to six people. There are audio rounds, too. Expect to spend two to three hours drinking in friendly company, and possibly losing to a team called Reverend Horton Hears a Who. more ›

Once upon a time, Seattlest Trivia wasn't just a once-a-month thing. Every Tuesday at the Old Pequliar was hosted by a beloved Seattlest writer, or by us. more ›

It's the first Tuesday of the month! Which means you've got a chance to win a free pitcher of beer before Seattlest Trivia tonight. Just answer this question correctly: What do these works have in common: Peter Pan, "The Little Mermaid," Make Way for Ducklings, Rocky, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Honeymooners, and The Bob Newhart Show? Email your answer to james (at) seattlest.com. One team with the correct answer wins beer. Other than the free beer question, it's the usual details: It's at the Old Pequliar, the quiz starts at 8:00 (though signup starts earlier, and tables run out earlier still), and it's $5 for a team of up to 5 players or $7 for a team of 6. The OP doubles the pot and teams 1-3 win cash. (Want more info? There's a Facebook group for the OP's Tuesday quiz. The wall features a hint about tonight's quiz!) more ›

Four mentions trumps Milwaukee or Nashville, similarly sized cities with no direct mentions in Harper's Index. The Index (before we kicked the habit entirely, the only reason we subscribed to the magazine) has a fresh new search interface, which inspired us to go looking. The four mentions make an interesting snapshot of Seattle in highbrow pop culture since 1984: our high rate of CPR training, grunge-a-mania, the cult of Kurt Cobain, and the trumped-up charges against WTO protesters. Of course, our culture spreads indirectly, as well: Starbucks has hit the Index 5 times, Bill Gates 13 times, Microsoft 21 times, Amazon 4 times (though "amazon.com" only pulls up one of those mentions), and Boeing twice. more ›

Geeks Who Drink hosts pub quiz nights in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas Colorado--and they're expanding to Seattle on March 11. But you know what they need to make a quiz night work? A host. As head geek John Dicker wrote us in an email: "We provide all the questions, the quizmaster just needs to host and blog about it. It's a paid weekly gig." If you're interested, apply online. Let us know how it goes and maybe we'll see you at Ozzie's for your debut. more ›

We know what you're thinking: It's the first Tuesday of the month already? And yes, yes it is. Which means you've got this one chance to win a free pitcher of beer at tonight's Seattlest Trivia. Just answer this question correctly: What does Washington have in common with California, Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin? Email your answer to james at seattlest.com. One team with the correct answer wins beer. more ›

At the turn of the year, trivia-and-wordplay show Says You taped four shows at our own Town Hall. Two of those have already aired on KUOW; if our calculations are correct, tonight's show should be the third show taped, a special Seattle-focused edition. Many of the questions have a Seattle theme (including one that'll make EIC-emeritus Seth Kolloen pretty jazzed), and many of the people who submitted the questions were in the audience. This includes us—we contributed one of the words used in their regular bluffing game. We've long had a love-annoyance relationship with the show, which is often clever, sometimes in a typically NPR-ish kind of way, and sometimes indulges in word origin urban legends and zombie rules of grammar. It reminds us a little of hanging out at our parents' cocktail parties, during parlor games, if our parents had been Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. If you don't already know what "fumetti" means, tune in tonight at 6:00 on KUOW and see if you can guess. more ›

If so, your focus on detail could pay off big tonight at Seattlest Trivia at the Old Pequliar. Tonight's quiz is an all-2008 retrospective, 80 interrogatory nails in the coffin that was last year. The top 3 teams win cash, while the last place team wins unvaluable swag and a round of applause. Fourth place at halftime wins a free pitcher of beer--as does one lucky team that can answer this question and email the answer to james at seattlest.com before 6:00: Beyoncé and Akon were the only two musical acts to do what in 2008? Stuff to know before you go: The quiz starts at 8:00, sign-up starts at 7:45. You can have 5 players on your team for $5, or 6 players for $7. (That last brain costs extra.) All the rest will be revealed when you show up. See you there! more ›

Tuesday night, 15 teams competed for first place at Seattlest trivia. In the end, it was a tight battle between the top two: Donner and Blitzen Party and Team of Rivals. Team of Rivals pulled it out with 70 points, to D&B's 67. Third place went to Sexy Shoeless God of War, 8 points back at 59. Prizes: $100, $50, and $8, respectively. more ›

First things first: free beer. more ›

First things first: The answer to this week's free beer question. What unusual characteristic do these movies have in common? Elizabeth, A Bug's Life, Shanghai Knights, The Naked Gun, and The Great Mouse Detective more ›

Normally, Seattlest Trivia is the first Tuesday of the month. But there was apparently an election that day (no spoilers! We're 5 episodes behind) and everyone in the city was either glued to a TV set with their family or mafficking on First Avenue, so there was no trivia. more ›

Debate, schmebate. We know who we're voting for and the highlights will be all over YouTube tomorrow like moths on a porchlight. more ›

You've got just one week to register for the World Affairs Council's second annual Transnational Trivia Championship. Brainiacs from around Seattle will gather and compete at 7pm on Friday, October 10, at the Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion. more ›

DRINK FOR URBAN ART: The second Northwest location of Upper Playground, a San Francisco-based urban art and clothing store, opens this weekend--and there's a swanky cocktail party/gallery viewing at Chapel on Saturday night to celebrate. The clothing and accessories at Upper Playground are the epitome of dope, but what we're really into is the art. For a sample, check out these poster prints of various artists' renderings of Obama, going for $200 a piece. We're particularly fond of this one by Mear One, an artist who will be doing a "live painting" at the Chapel party. more ›

Larissa Kelly can stop looking over her shoulder. Local Jeopardy! champ Emily Thorsley was defeated by freelance journalist Greg Lindsay in her second game. We asked her a few questions about her experience. more ›

This evening, however, season 25 begins, and we get to find out if Thorsley can turn her win into a streak. Having played pub trivia against her many times, we know she's a formidable opponent, one who manages to know a lot of stuff about a broad range of topics. We won't be surprised if she becomes this season's Larissa Kelly ... though the next Ken Jennings might be a bit much to ask. more ›