Our first World Cafe Live VS. quiz was Office vs Parks and Rec, and we had a Scrantonicity cover band (get it?). Our second one was Game of Thrones vs Lord of the Rings, and we had an awesome burlesque troupe doing Game of Thrones burlesque (it was awesome). Our 3rd quiz is June 11th, and I’ve lined up three of the funniest comedians in Philadelphia: Chip Chantry (recently had the #1 comedy album on tunes), Jake Mattera (two time finalist in Philly’s Funniest), and Brandon Vincent Jackson (2016 Runner up in Philly’s Funniest). Seriously, this is an All-Star lineup, and that’s IN ADDITION to what promises to be a great quiz in an awesome venue. And all for only $10 a pop.

For those who haven’t yet attended, these quizzes are Quizzo Bowl quality, complete with video rounds, fun prizes, the works. So if you are a fan of great quizzes and terrific comedy, make sure you get a squad together next Tuesday night! You can RSVP and get tickets here.

It’s Ultimate Quiz week this week (more details on that soon) and one of those quizzes will be on Friday at the Bourse Food Hall. Action starts at 6. Tons of specials and some big prizes for the winners. Among our specials are:

• $5 beers from Grubhouse
• $8 draft wines, $10 Chocolate martinis at Chocodiem
• 2 for 1 Flying Fish Abbey Doubles at TAPS.

Prizes for winners include:

• 1st Place: $50 gift card to Grubhouse and 10 person mini-Sundae party at Scoop DeVille
• 2nd Place: $25 gift cards from Mighty Melt and Prescription Chicken
• 3rd Place: $25 gift card from TAPS
• 4th Place; $10 gift card from Lalo

All new quiz, totally different from the weekly quiz. Hope to see you Friday!

Our 15th edition of the Bracket-tacular is this year! And we’ve got some more great prizes; $150 in gift certs to Shibe, a bottle of whiskey from our friends at Manatawney Stillworks, and a $50 gift cert from O’Neals. To sign up, go here, enter your email, and get a 30% off discount code to Shibe Sports! Good luck!

We are headed down the home stretch before Quizzo Bowl XV, and as it stands I have 150 tickets sold and about 110 left. I will have tickets for sale on me at quizzo this week if you want to buy them from me, or you can buy them online here. They are $25 a pop for the rest of the week, $30 at the door. I will be selling them at the following locations this week (note that Sidecar is closed tonight for staff training):

TUESDAY

• Dilworth Plaza 6 pm
• O’Neals 8 pm

WEDNESDAY

• Locust Rendezvous 6:15 pm
• Founding Fathers 8:30 pm

THURSDAY 

• Birra 8 pm
• Bards 9:15 pm

So this is it: if you want to play my best quiz of the year, listen to a great band, win your share of tons of giveaways, and have one of the best Saturday nights of your year, get your squad together and get your tickets this week!

PHILADELPHIA – Slowey and the Boats will provide the Aloha, and Johnny Goodtimes will supply the trivia, at the longest running trivia event of it’s kind in America. It’s the 15th edition of Quizzo Bowl, and the fifth straight one at the World Cafe Live.

The event is open to the public, and teams will be competing in teams of up to eight players for over $1200 worth of prizes. Taking home the title won’t be easy, however. Among the teams expected to compete are five time winners Sofa Kingdom, as well as the defending champs the Cracked Eggheads. There will be an extra $100 bonus prize to any team that can win their first title this year, knocking off all previous champions.

For JGT, the quiz will be a homecoming of sorts: he lived in Hawaii from 1998-2000, where he trained dolphins. For insurance reasons, there will be no dolphins at this event.

There will,however, be tons of prize giveaways, great live music, Hawaiian drink specials, Philly comedians, and plenty of surprises. In past years we’ve seen breakdancers, human pretzels, and even an engagement.

Tickets are on sale online now, and Goodtimes will also have them for sale at his weekly quizzes. To learn more about this unique Philly event and how you can participate, GO HERE. And for updates, be sure to follow our event FB page here. 

Hey gang, we’re getting a late start and we’ve got more kids than ever on the list, so please do me a favor and help spread the word on this! Here’s our situation:  For kids who have a gift next to their name, please put your name and email address on the sheet  and send that gift if possible (shoes seem to be a popular gift). For kids that do not have a gift listed, please either send me $25-$50 via Paypal (johnny@johnnygoodtimes.com) and let me know which name to check off the list or send a Visa gift card in their name and Cheri (head of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign) and I will go shopping for them right before Christmas. As for you, in addition to doing something awesome for your city, you’ll get a 30% off code to shop at Shibe Sports. 

The good news is that we’ve got a bit more room for storage this year, as we opened a pop-up store at Gloucester Premium Outlets, and you can mail your gifts there. Please have gifts/gift cards mailed to:

If you’d prefer to just drop your gifts off, please feel free to do so at Shibe Sports in Center City, at 137 South 13th Street. Thanks in advance for your incredible generosity, and hopefully we can get every name knocked off this list!

WHO: Fans of one of the greatest films ever committed to celluloid.

WHAT: The first annual Big Lebowski quizzo fundraiser.

WHEN: Sunday, November 4th, 2018.

WHERE: Lucky Strike Bowling, 1336 Chestnut Street.

WHY: Why not? The Eagles have a bye week, so you’ll be looking for something fun to do on a Sunday…this is it.

SO WHAT’S THE SCOOP? We’re going to start with a quiz on the Big Lebowski at 5:30 pm, drink some White Russians, try some brand new beer from Cape May Brewing Company, and see how much you know about the Big Lebowski. Then we’re gonna put on some bowling shoes and hit the lanes WHILE we watch the Big Lebowski on the projector screens.

HOW MUCH ARE TICKETS? Tickets are $25 a pop, and that includes quizzo, bowling, AND $10 donated to The Dude Hates Cancer.

WHERE DO I GET TICKETS? You can get tickets here. I would advise getting them before the night of. If you purchase them online, you can a) pay w/ credit card and b) guarantee yourself first dibs on a lane. Online charge is only $1.87 per ticket.

WILL THERE BE PRIZES? Yes, there will be prizes for best Lebowski costume, rattiest bathrobe, the winning quizzo team, and best bowling score.

IS THERE A SPONSOR? Yes, wanna send a shoutout to Love Your Block, which is not only run by quizzo regulars but who are helping to put the event together.

IS THERE AN EVENT PAGE? Yep, be sure to get updates on our Facebook event page.