Category: Interviews

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Attitude Is Everything: One Team’s Inspiration

Author: Don Henry   Most Wednesdays, a team walks into Shooter’s Sports Grill in Loveland, takes their seats, and like most trivia teams, gets their pencil, answer pad and score sheet and enjoys a night of Last Call Trivia. Unlike most teams though, one or more team member always wears

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Terrie 4 Eva: Host of the Month

How does a regular, hardworking host wind up featured as a Last Call HOTM?  Hosts must be nominated by their regional manager, undergo a proprietary winnowing process, endure the physical challenge, and then, of course, TRIAL BY COMBAT!   This month’s champion is Terrie McGoron.  She hosts in Cincinnati.  Here’s

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The Best Kind Of Magic Can’t Be Forced

There’s a magic moment when a new trivia host breaks through the nervousness and connects with a team. Sometimes it’s because they are so sweet… and sometimes it’s because they won’t stop screaming requests for Disney Songs in between questions. I’ll let you guess which of the two led me

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It’s Not Exactly Rocket Surgery!

(One in an occasional series about boosting Trivia scores. . . )   Let’s take a few minutes to go back to something that you may have covered in middle school.   If you haven’t read Daniel Keys’ classic short story Flowers For Algernon please stop what you are doing,

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The Master Puppeteer of Trivia, Jim Bensin

We are going a bit further West with our latest Host of the Month feature. Host  Jim Bensin has the best-attended shows in Phoenix.  He’s developed that following due to his talent, humor and knack for connecting with teams.  I asked Jim my usual set of dumb questions:   RC:

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HOTM: Cincinnati’s Laura Fisher

Last Call Trivia sent a notice out to our regional managers about our new “Host of The Month” asking them to name some of their best hosts.

One who really stood out was Cincinnati’s Laura Fisher.

She hosts four nights a week, runs her own business (she is an amazing wedding photographer),  and showcases her personal photography on her blog. (You should check it all out. The series from Cincinnati’s Union Terminal is a great place to start.)

Despite all this, Laura somehow found the time to chat for a few minutes and answer my inane questions.

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“A Musical Drinking Game Helped Us Win $1000!”

The venerable members of the inaugural Team of the Month hail primarily from the western ‘burbs of Cleveland, where they emerged victorious in our Northeast Ohio Winter 2014 Trivia Finals. Moose Knuckle Sandwich (fka I Wish This Mic Was a D*ck) has been regulars at Avenue Tap House since January

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The Man Who Invented Sports

“SPORTS!!!”   We’ve all heard it. In the last year and a half, it’s slowly been replacing the time-honored trivia battle cry of “SCIENCE” as the thing most likely to be heard at a Last Call Trivia night in Cincinnati. And one man stands behind this transition.   A player.

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Introducing, Sugarheels!

As you saw earlier with Moose Knuckle Sandwich, we will be highlighting one Team of the Month each time around, and for February, I am delighted to introduce Sugarheel out of Cincinnati! In addition to their notable loyalty to Last Call and dedication to our products, we also selected Sugarheel

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