The Famous Bar

154 S. Brand Blvd.
Glendale CA 91204
(818) 241-2888
  • PUB QUIZ—Thursdays @ 8:00pm
About The Famous Bar

The Famous craft cocktail lounge is located in Glendale's historic Huntley-Evans building, directly across the street from the Americana at Brand. It follows an eclectic and rich pedigree of establishments that have called this building home in the last century, most notably the early Glendale landmark, The Famous Department Store. The Famous, true to its heritage, embraces the classic art of fine craft cocktail creation, invented in the United States in 1856, using bitters, juices, syrups, and infusions, prepared in-house using fresh ingredients from local markets and growers. Cocktails served at The Famous are identical to those served nearly 100 years ago when the building was constructed.

QUIZ RECAP

Thu Dec 19 2019
| by Quizmaster Tim Barkas
|

Baby, it may be cold outside, but things were hot, hot, HOT inside The Famous on Brand in Glendale once gain this week, where a lucky collection of 7 teams engaged in a rousing and raucous session of King Trivia.

Oh yes! The Irish were jigging, the Quizards were spellbinding blanching and the Moustaches were in the house with TWO teams.

With the Tournament of Champions, right around the corner - where the best of the best King Trivia quizinators gather to put their intellectual acumen to the ultimate test - we wind up another year of memorable trivia quiz competitions.

Everyone at King Trivia wishes all of our dedicated players a warm and wonderful holiday season, and a very Happy New Year!

See ya next week.

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 Bee Lee Irish 85 6 1.000
2 10663 Yer a Quizard Harry 81 5 0.833
3 10347 Electric Moustache 67 4 0.667
4 Analog Moustache 59 2 0.417
4 Well...Kyle's Mom...! 59 2 0.417
6 222 East 51 1 0.167
7 Ratchet Glendale 38 0 0.000

QUIZ RECAP

Thu Dec 12 2019
| by Quizmaster Tim Barkas
|

Baby, it may be cold outside, but things were hot, hot, HOT inside The Famous on Brand in Glendale this week, where a lucky collection of 13 teams engaged in a rousing and raucous session of King Trivia.

Oh yes! The Divas were dancing, the Blanches were blanching and the Jeopardy crew were drinking - as is their wont - on their way to another first place finish.

"We rule! We rule the world!" declared Jeopardy member Doug upon hearing their winning final score. But not so fast, Doug! If you really wanna rule the trivia world, you must compete and succeed at the Tournament of Champions, where the best of the best gather to put their intellectual acumen to the ultimate test.

The ten-thousand dollar (that's right! I said $10,000!!) TOC will be held on January 25th, and tickets are on sale now. Doug will be there, certainly. You can be, too! Spectators are welcome. Especially if you heckle Doug and his teammates Matty, Mike, Rory and Stephanie.

Trust me on this: they'd heckle you, if they could. Oh yeah. They're hecklers of the most heckling sort. So have at it! Give 'em heck! See ya next week.

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1 10643 Because Jeopardy Won't Let Us Drink 78 12 1.000
2 15581 The Blanches 69 11 0.917
3 18753 Quiz in my pants 65 10 0.833
4 10296 Bad News Barristers 63 9 0.750
5 19446 Team Vitamin D! 62 8 0.667
6 I Swear My Friend is Coming 56 7 0.583
7 Hail Ourselves 38 4 0.417
7 Here Comes Treble (Class of '84) 38 4 0.417
7 The Oddballs 38 4 0.417
10 The Jeffersons 35 3 0.250
11 Three Whispers 25 2 0.167
12 CSMC 19 1 0.083
13 Dancing Intellectual Divas 17 0 0.000

QUIZ RECAP

Thu Dec 5 2019
| by Quizmaster Tim Barkas
|

We had a boisterous, raucous, full throttle session of trivia quizmania this week at The Famous on Brand in Glendale. When the dust settled, two tenacious teams were tied for the top spot, with Because Jeopardy Won't Let Us Drink edging out The Fanny Packs in the tiebreaker.

But WAIT! There's MORE!! The Barristers, feat. Michael! finished in a dead heat for third place with the energized Electric Moustache, who were definitely plugged in with a high-voltage effort. But alas, The Barristers blew their fuse with a winning tiebreaker effort, leaving the Moustache crew to wonder what might have been had Michael not contributed to the Barrister's winning ways.

But WAIT! There's MORE!

As faithful readers well know, this quizmaster likes to give a shout-out to those clever quizinators who opt for a timely, of-the-moment, zeitgeist-capturing team name, And we had us a doozie last night, which is why I bow down in appreciation to Literally Just Perineum Sunning for their pithy rearguard moniker.

I'm sure Josh Brolin would agree that this was a top-drawer -- okay, let's make that a bottom-drawer -- but nonetheless excellent choice for an unexpectedly delightful team name. And really, there are no ifs, ands, or butts about it.

See y'all next week.

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1* 10643 Because Jeopardy Won't Let Us Drink 72 10 0.955
1 The Fanny Packs 72 10 0.955
3* 10296 The Barristers, feat. Michael! 63 8 0.773
3 10347 Electric Moustache 63 8 0.773
5 Iron Man Has a Problem 51 7 0.636
6 17575 There's a speakeasy in the bathroom 49 6 0.545
7 Literally Just Perineum Sunning 47 5 0.455
8 15581 The Blanches 46 4 0.364
9 The Winning Team 34 3 0.273
10 GNO 33 2 0.182
11 McFatterson 32 1 0.091
12 Take Off Your Pants and Jackie! 31 0 0.000
* Won Tiebreaker