“It might save us from the hell that is karaoke,” declared MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He was talking about The Big Quiz Thing, the country’s No. 1 live trivia event, packing in 150-plus hipster-nerd acolytes twice a month for geeky-good competition. After seven years of delighting New Yorkers and others nationwide, the BQT brings its multimedia game-show spectacular to Philadelphia for a special music trivia blowout at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, with a big $200 grand prize.

Quizmaster Noah Tarnow, joined by sidekick EDP, and DJ GB, presents the ultimate high-tech, video-based test of meaningless musical information, for the glory of knowing that you possess more useless knowledge than your fellow rock nerds. Highlights include the BQT’s beloved signature games (this edition featuring The ’80s Music Video Mash-Up, the Pop-Music Thesaurus and Really, Really, Really Slow Songs), along with the, the Three-Way Finale, clever banter, audience smack-talking, and so much more. Plus, fabulous prizes, including $200 in cash, books, DVDs, Big Quiz Thing T-shirts and more. And even when players can’t hazard a guess, there’s hope: If a wrong answer makes the crowd laugh, it’s marked correct and earns a Smart-Ass Point. Everyone plays, everyone laughs.

Since 2002, the Big Quiz Thing has established itself as New York's premier source of trivia entertainment. It's entertained in special events and corporate retreats throughout the country, and Quizmaster Noah has hosted stand-up comedy, variety, and burlesque shows all along the East Coast.

Trivial times call for trivial trivia, and in a culture ruled by bite-size information and prepackaged wisdom, nothing rocks harder than the Big Quiz Thing.


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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 | Show 8pm | Upstairs Live

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