Not Your Usual Pub Trivia Night!

 Been to a pub triva night? Tables of eight, ten questions per round, answers on paper, all that?

Well, that's one way to do pub trivia. Is that the way we do it at an Alpha Inn Goose Club Pub Trivia Night?

Maybe kinda, sortaaaaaahhh . . . well no.

At an Alpha Inn Goose Club Pub Trivia Night, we do have teams, but they're a lot bigger than eight. And we don't make you write your answers secretly on paper. No, when your team's chance to answer comes up, you can discuss out loud, make a consensus choice, or even sometimes be their champion and deal with a question on your own. Because at the Alpha Inn Goose Club, we play a bit more like game show rules.

Yes, questions will be grouped by Sherlock Holmes-based topics, and you may decide you want to see what questions my goose-ish co-host has for you.

"I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," observed Mr. Merryweather, gloomily. (REDH)

And that whole "keeping track of points" thing? Well, if you remember the tale from which we draw inspiration, you know that at the Alpha Inn, it's all about piling up the pence. Each correct answer gets you a shiny new souvenir pence. (Note to Greg Ruby: A new version!)

"This year out good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to receive a bird at Christmas." (BLUE)

But those aren't your only chances for some reward for your efforts. Like any game show, you might have a chance for go a little further and burglarize the countess's jewel-case for treasures. (Hint: This case has no actual jewels.) 

"The question for us now to solve is the sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other." (BLUE)

Hmm, what else, what else?

"If you have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin another investigation in which, also a bird will be the chief feature." (BLUE)

Like to ding a bell? That might happen at some point. Want to see a goose cough up a completely sanitary, non-throated blue carbuncle? (Canonical secret: Mrs. Oakshott's breed of geese had pockets under their wings that they only called "crops." Our goose is of that breed.) Want a shot at winning by doing nothing at all? You just never know for sure what might happen at an Alpha Inn Goose Club Pub Trivia night, except for two things: Having fun and learning at least one or two things you never knew before.

The key thing is that you don't have to know anything to enjoy this trivia night. 

Where and when is the next place the Alpha Inn Goose Club Trivia Night is going to occur?

Saturday night, July 29, after the Holmes in the Heartland dinner buffet at the Sheraton Westport Plaza and the whole day of fun that precedes it. More on all that to come in future blog posts, but you might want to go ahead and sign up now. 

"What do you think of that?" cried the detective, with the air of a showman exhibiting his show. (STUD)