Month: April 2012

Philly Quiz This Sunday

We’ve got a very fun plan for Sunday. The big time Philly Quiz is going down at the Trestle Inn (11th and Callowhill) at 6:30 p.m. Let’s see exactly how much you know about your home city: there will be questions on everything from Aramingo to Zahav, questions on everyone from Frank Furness to Frank Rizzo. Sports, history, food, you name it, I’m going to try to cover as much ground as possible. This is going to be a celebration of the city. I sense that this could very well be a 5-rounder.

Furthermore, more great drink specials this time as well. $3 local canned beers (Sly Fox Pikeland Pils, Lancaster Rumspringa, and Yuengling) and $4 for their excellent Whiskey Sour. $5 gets you a shot of whiskey and a can of PBR. Gonna be a lot of fun. Oh, and double points for the JGTSpI.

And to get you in the mood, I’ll be posting Philly trivia questions all week on twitter.

UPDATE: Start time has been moved back to 6:30 sharp. I mean, let’s face it, when I say 6 I pretty much mean 6:30 anyway, but we just wanted to make sure we gave people time to get down there after watching the Flyers game. So start time is 6:30 sharp.

TV Week at Quizzo

It’s all television, all the time this week. From Philo Farnsworth to Milton Berle to Mike the Situation, this week we’ll find out how much you know about one of the silver screen. Going to be a fun quiz. We kick it off tonight at North Star at 7, where hummus is half-off and Kenzingers are $3. On to Sidecar, where all bitter beers are a buck off. Action starts at 9:15 p.m.  See ya tonight!

Right Now in Sports

We’re down to the Finals of Philly’s Most Infuriating, and remarkably, they both come from WIP. It’s Eskin vs. Cataldi to see who is most infuriating. You decide! Vote, and please spread the word!

We’ve been working on a project of Philly’s Most Underrated Athletes, and the new one should cause some controversy. The much maligned Bobby Abreu checks in at #6.

Cliff Lee pitched brilliantly on Wednesday and came away with a ND. The last Phillie to throw 10-shutout innings? Lefty, of course. And the Phils lost that one 1-0 as well.

The latest podcast for Comcast where we talk NFL schedule, the Bobby Valentine disaster in Boston, and Lee takes the Robots quiz.

In case you missed it last week, I wrote a pretty interesting piece on the history of Negro League baseball in Philadelphia for Hidden City Philly.

Here’s my latest for Philly Mag: 10 Things You Don’t Know About the Current Phillies.