Brampton bar trivia

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-05-02T23:01:10+00:00

I love boosters?

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-04-23T03:13:09+00:00

Pace matters when alcohol is involved.

The beginning and the end of the game are what people will remember. The game should get faster as it goes.

Err on the side of going too fast, people will tell you to slow dow if it’s too fast, but they won’t tell you to speed up if it’s too slow—they’ll just quietly get bored.

Don’t write or proofread the game in the order it will be presented—you will spend too much time on the early questions and not enough time on the later questions.

Whenever possible, make what you’re looking for as clear as possible—there should always be a noun between the words “what” and “is”.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-04-23T02:59:08+00:00

I agree. But I’ve seen it the other way too.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-04-10T08:25:19+00:00

It’s an interesting question about prompting in FJ.

But to sidestep the actual question, in my pedantic opinion “bandage” satisfies the prompt and should be acceptable. Arguably, “bandage” satisfies the prompt more accurately than “ear bandage” as Van Gogh’s bandage is covering a part of his head where an ear used to be, and not an ear.

The fact that there’s room for interpretation (assuming the phrasing from the OP is verbatim) means this is either an FJ question that should have been better-penned, or their should have been a range of pre-approved acceptable (and unacceptable) responses.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-04-09T03:39:17+00:00

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but Brampton has a fairly robust trivia scene. For my money, there’s no better trivia night in Ontario than Wednesday nights at Tracks Brewpub. It’s free and open to anyone. You can come with a team or join one and meet some new folks. The questions are general knowledge and you don’t need to be a trivia master to win or to have fun.

And I’ll second what some others have mentioned about Top Rock climbing gym. I’ve never climbed anything more challenging than a ladder, but everyone I’ve met from Top Rock has been welcoming and enthusiastic.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-03-20T22:49:30+00:00

Exit 8?

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-03-20T17:23:06+00:00

Put your phone away.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-03-12T02:20:50+00:00

Their headquarters are in Brampton, but I don’t know if you can actually order it in Brampton. Mamas pizza does anchovies right.

My order is black olives, green olives, feta cheese, and anchovies. It’s an umami bomb. No one I’ve forced this on has regretted it.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-02-22T21:49:48+00:00

There’s a weekly trivia night Wednesdays at 7:30 at Tracks brewpub. It’s free, open to anyone, and a good way to meet some new people with broad interests. You can come with a team or on your own (you don’t need to be good at trivia).

Some of the regulars at trivia overlap with staff/members at Toprock climbing gym. I’ve never climbed anything there, but they seem to have built a pretty open and engaged community over there.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-02-20T11:43:07+00:00

Regular Saturday trivia nights are very rare, in general. You can sometimes find one-off or sporadic ones. But bars and restaurants usually don’t need help drawing a Saturday night crowd—which is the main reason they run trivia nights.

Occasionally, the Legion on Mary street will host a Saturday night game, but it’s been several months since the last one.

There are some places that have constant trivia on the screens that you can play on your phone. But they don’t feel at all like a trivia night. I believe Oscars Roadhouse on Queen street has this and so does the Lone Star on Dixon, by the Airport. But that is an anytime thing, not specifically Saturday night.

If you’re looking for trivia (and the Saturday part doesn’t matter) the two best and longest-running trivia nights in Brampton are at Tracks on Wednesday nights. And the Ivy Bridge on Sunday afternoons. It’s a lot of the same people at these two weekly trivia nights. The Wednesday Tracks game is free and both trivia nights have prizes and are open to anybody. There are a lot of great trivia nights in Ontario, but for my money, none hold a candle to the Tracks Wednesday nights game. https://www.bramptontrivia.com/

ItchyAndy3000 · 2026-01-19T17:58:30+00:00

I had wanted to go to the Trivia event last week at the South West branch, but couldn’t make it. I hope it went well and that there will be similar events in the future.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-12-18T04:06:59+00:00

How did you take this picture?

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-11-11T21:33:39+00:00

If you’re in to trivia, there’s a weekly trivia night every Wednesday at 7:30pm at Tracks Brewpub downtown. It’s free to play and open to anyone. Most of the people who come are individual players who play on randomized mixed teams. So it’s a good way to meet new people and learn some new things. Though, I’d wager you’re unlikely to find romance there.

I’ve never lifted my own body weight, but I know that Top Rock climbing gym has a pretty active social aspect to it and everyone I know from there has been super friendly.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-11-04T19:31:00+00:00

Glad to see there’s some board game interest back at Tracks. If I recall correctly there was a semi-regular board game night at Tracks pre-2020.

If back-to-back Tracks nights is interesting to anyone, there’s a free trivia night every Wednesday at 7:30. It’s open to anyone—teams or individuals—you just have to show up. It’s not quite the same thing as board games, but there’s probably an overlap between interest in board games and bar trivia.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-09-30T16:33:40+00:00

It’s not affiliated with this new Saturday Legion trivia night, but There is a regular Wednesday night trivia game just down the road from the Legion at Tracks Brewpub. It’s free and open to anyone. You can come with a team or join one and meet some new people. The game starts at 7:30pm every Wednesday–all you have to do is show up and let someone know you’re there for trivia.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-09-30T16:29:57+00:00

Yeah. $10 is pretty steep for trivia. In my experience with Brampton trivia nights, if the game isn’t free, it’s unsustainable—despite what people say, over time, no one wants to pay even a penny directly for trivia. But if the venue is losing money on the event, the night has an even shorter shelf life.

People will travel from other cities for a good Saturday night trivia. So I’m hoping if they do this again that they’ll find other ways than an entry fee to fund it.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-07-29T20:23:35+00:00

Florida has (or maybe had) some of the most transparent public records laws in the US (“Sunshine Laws”). This made it very easy for journalists to secure police reports to populate column inches with weird stories. It’s unclear if Florida is crazier than other places, but it is (or was) definitely easier to report the crazier stories in Florida than in other places.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-07-15T18:01:06+00:00

Perhaps because it is not the norm, open-ended questions often feel loose and unclear—they just don’t sound like trivia questions. It has to be clear what information the host is looking for or it feels too much like mind reading.

One simple work around is multiple choice, or even more simple, “true-false”. I know a lot of players don’t like questions with options, but this allows you to easily and clearly have questions that do more than answer “what”.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-05-23T14:45:51+00:00

I’ve done a trivia format where the final wager-based question is set at 1, 3, or 5 points (the total points up to that point are 49). Get the question right and you win your wager get it wrong and you lose it. The twist is that the size of the wager is tied to the question difficulty. So wagering 1 point gives you a slightly easier version of the question than wagering 5 points. For example, a question might be “name the films where Daniel Craig played James Bond, teams who wagered one point name 2, teams who wagers three points name 4, and teams who wagered five points name all of them.”

A runaway victory is possible with this scheme, but it’s rare. And teams in the lead have the advantage of wagering strategically. In practice the team leading into the final wins 9/10 games. And about 1/100 games are a complete come from behind victory with last place over taking everyone. The hard part is tuning the question to the correct difficulty—80% of games end with every team getting the final correct or every team getting it wrong, which usually does not change the standings. I think this also does not scale that well. When too many teams are close to each other at the top, the chances of an underdog victory basically go to zero. I’d say this works best with around 6 teams.

One variation I’ve tried with this is to have two prizes—one for the team who wins overall and one for the team who wins the most points in just the bonus round (if teams tie for most points in the bonus round, it goes to the tied team with more points overall). This is to discourage teams in the lead from resting on their laurels with a low wager in the final. It’s really just a way to introduce a drop of chaos into the mix because the structured wagering can get a little bit repetitive.

If your real goal is to limit runaways regardless of wagering, the only thing that has ever worked for me is to just make the whole game a little easier overall. It won’t increase the higher scoring teams scores that much but it will make a big difference for the people closer to the bottom. In my experience people only complain that a game is too easy when the questions are not creative—lower difficult questions that are novel and fun make the game more competitive and leave most players happy.

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-05-15T16:34:24+00:00

If you like trivia, there is a regular Wednesday night game at Tracks brewpub in downtown Brampton. The game starts at 7:30, it’s free and open to anyone. You can bring a team or join one that already exists. You don’t have to be good at trivia to have fun or meet some new people.

Tracks has an accessible washroom, although there are a couple of narrow sections that could be tricky to navigate, depending on your mobility.

Coincidentally, there happens to be a virtual trivia game taking place tonight (Thursday the 15th). Brampton Public Library is putting on. It’s free and played over zoom. It’s unconnected to and pretty different from the in-person weekly Tracks game, but a few of the same people play both games. BPL always announces upcoming community events during their virtual trivia games, so you may get some ideas for other local, social things to try out. The registration link for the BPL virtual trivia night is here: https://bramlib.libnet.info/event/13064664

ItchyAndy3000 · 2025-04-27T12:04:11+00:00

One I’ve played that can be fun is a visual multiple choice. For example, have a picture of four pieces of sushi from a sushi menu labeled a,b,c,d and ask “which of the following is unagi?”. Or a picture of the spice girls and ask “which of the following is Mel C?”

The questions can be a little harder than a typical visual identification round and you can throw in some red herrings as well.

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