The Grand Tavern

3601 Grand Ave
Oakland CA 94610
(510) 444-4644
About The Grand Tavern
Good food, hand-crafted cocktails and kind folks to feed your soul. Enjoy, friends. Your friendly neighborhood restaurant and full bar featuring unique cocktails, delicious burgers, fish and chips and nightly specials.

 

QUIZ RECAP

Thu Feb 20 2020
| by Quizmaster Shannon Holbrook
|

My 2nd week as a Quiz-mistress and we had 4 teams play with three of the teams coming to the grand tavern just to play Trivia! It was a tight game between Courtney & the Boyz and You're a Quizzard Harry! With the Quizzards taking the night. The Pantomime Mixers held their own and swooped in to win 2nd place in the tie breaker! We even had a drinking round. The questions: Which Muppet or Sesame st. Charachter would be a great presidential candidate. 4 votes for Oscar the Grouch. 2 for Miss Piggy and the Winner - Animal!!

shout out to Shelly and Max the amazing staff at Grand Tavern!! It's gonna be a great spring and summer with trivia on the patio!!

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 You're a Quizzard Harry! 40 3 1.000
2 Courtney & the Boyz 31 1 0.500
2 Pantomime Mixers 31 1 0.500
4 Hungry Bicheez 16 0 0.000

QUIZ RECAP

Thu Feb 13 2020
| by Quizmaster Shannon Holbrook
|

Picture it: 2020 February oddly warm for the Bay area! The Grand Tavern is the place. Tables are full of eater but only 1 table was ready to play! "Drinks on us if we win" was a date night turned Game night turn win! This couple was fun and eager to play and they really liked each other too! round 1 and 2 were just them. In the Middle of round 2 the other team showed up the "1st timers"! Now it's a game! The 1st timers made a good showing but on round 3 the literary questions , both teams only got 1 answer. This is some tough trivia! Overall everyone had a great time and we skipped the drinks round due to low attendance. By the end of the night there were 4 people on team "1st timers" and they are eager to return to play again! Special Thanks to Paul for dropping off pens and booklets and making my 1st night as Quizmaster a success! Shelly & Max are great at the Grand Tavern too! Looks like the start of a beautiful Trivia night.

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1* 1 Drinks on Us if we Win! 36 1 1.000
2* 1st timers 16 0 0.000
* Won Tiebreaker

QUIZ RECAP

Thu Feb 6 2020
| by Quizmaster Paul Benson
|

We had a nice turnout for our new 7:30pm time slot at The Grand Tavern. What's In a Name started out on the wrong foot, but they soon recovered, coming in second place behind Max Assist. Team Simon trailed in third place, but only by a few points...it could have been anyone's game! Special shoutout to our musical round #6, which led to an impromptu singing of "One" from A Chorus Line by all of the teams!

For the drinking round, I asked for everyone's ideal fantasy presidential candidate. There were a lot of fun and fantastic entries, but here is the winner:

Super Mario

  • always thinks about others
  • works well with others
  • eliminates turtle overcrowding issue
  • mushrooms legalized!

 

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 Max Assist 35 2 1.000
2 What's In a Name 31 1 0.500
3 Team Simon 26 0 0.000
* Won Tiebreaker