Event Profile: The U'Bar

In my effort to travel off the beaten trivia path, I checked out an event at a place called The U'Bar on Sunday. Polgara Weyland's movie trivia follows a straightforward format: she gives us a movie quote and we give her the movie. As trivia hosts seem to be wracking their creative brainstems trying to develop ever more complex games in order to differentiate themselves from each other (not that someone who developed Chaos Trivia and the Buccaneer Bowl would consider that a bad thing), it's nice to show up at a friendly club, hang out and dance for a while, and do some basic answering to basic questions. Very chill, in fact.

Polgara began doing her quiz two weekends ago and found herself stumping her patrons on many of the questions. This week, half a dozen trivia gluttons descended on (or ascended to, rather) the U'Bar skybox 3000m above Lusiana sim. Needless to say, she had little trouble finding a winner for most of the quotes this time around. The Sunday schedule is normally very competitive and chock full of good games, especially in the middle of the day, but a couple of the usual events did not take place this week, possibly due to a combination of Mother's Day and [MonoChrome]'s big weekend event the day before. The hole in the calendar allowed some of us to enjoy this laid-back little gem.

Sample questions:

[2009/05/10 13:41] Polgara Weyland: 2) "Are you the singing bush?"

[2009/05/10 14:07] Polgara Weyland: 9) "We have clearance, Clarence." Clarence: "Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"

[2009/05/10 14:16] Polgara Weyland: 11) "Snakes, why'd it have to be snakes?"

(answers given at the end of this post)

Such questions are easy to put together and easy to ask. They can be found via search engine, of course, but when the room is full of movie trivia buffs, most will be answered before anyone can scavenge IMDb, and Polgara says she will continue using movie quotes "until I run out of movies people know." Sounds promising!


On other days of the week, U'Bar is a dance club. "Our main event is the Cher & Carm show...done by the owners," says Polgara. "They usually do their radio show on Mondays and Thursdays, with contests of all kinds, and even have a link where you can watch them in the studio while they do the show." Although she is probably partial in her opinion, she does assure us that "It's absolutely fantastic!!!!!" This event will not be held for the next two weeks, but when I returned to take pictures around 1:00pm-ish on Tuesday, the place was hopping to DJed rock tunes, with a very amiable atmosphere and not a single spammy gesture during the ten minutes I was present.

The trivia began later than was stated in the events listing and finished up relatively quickly, but it moved at a comfortable pace while it was going on. The sixteen questions took place over an hour's span. On the side of pleasant surprises, the listing said that questions would pay out L$25 each; when Polgara accidentally announced that they would be L$50, she decided just to go with it. Payouts will normally be L$25 per question in the future, but this was our first indication of the coolness of Polgara.

The trivia will continue weekly on Sunday afternoons. The schedule will pick back up with its normal pm crowdedness next week, but if you enjoy movie quotes, dancing, and a change of setting, keep The U'Bar in mind.

Specs:
=> When: Sundays, 1:00 or 1:30 (check the calendar) to 3:00, but the trivia goes fast, so if you show up at 2:30, it may be over
=> Where: The U'Bar, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lusiana/120/207/3004
=> Host: Polgara Weyland
=> Prizes: Sixteen questions (though I don't know if that varies), L$25 each

Answers to questions in blog:
=> The Three Amigos
=> Airplane!
=> Raiders of the Lost Ark