BULLHEAD CITY – Bullhead City will have the music in it aplenty this week.
Jessica Tary, owner of J and J Events, has held movie trivia nights as a specialty occasion in and around regular trivia nights every Thursday.
This week, it will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Miracle Mile Event Center, 2580 Miracle Mile.
“We do regular trivia every Thursday and that’s kind of branched off into doing specialty nights,” Tary said. “Music nights, we play music, we sing, we dance, and then teams have to try and guess what they have to answer questions. Sometimes it’s the artist’s name, sometimes it’s the song title, sometimes it’s something else, but it all revolves around music. One of the most popular categories for regular trivia.
“We branched into bringing that into a night where it’s just music.”
J&J holds 12-week trivia tournament and at the end of each, they run a specialty event, usually wrapping that period with music.
let’s see. We run 12-week trivia tournaments and I tend to do it at the end of each 12 weeks. So you can expect it about 4 times a year.
“We have a big league that plays trivia and one of the favorite categories for them is music,” Tary said. “So it’s a popular one.
“Trivia you can do weekly and you can come up with different categories and ideas and people will flock to that, but if you try doing it too often, you know, the saying like a good thing can be burnt out very easily. Music is just kind of that novelty item where, OK, you’ve got this regular trivia every week, but I want to give you something special at the end.”
The capacity for a trivia night is usually 120 attendees, and Tary said these will average 80 to 90 when it comes around. Price to attend is $5 a person and one can play individually or on a team up to six members. All ages can participate.
“There’s prizes for the winners – I have a prize wheel they get to spin and whatever their team wins, they win that prize,” she said. “The buy-in to play goes toward the prizes.
“We have six rounds and 10 questions per round. The categories are never the same. I do something different every time for each category, but the music genre ranges from the 1940s up until today’s music and all different genres. I try to stick to the most popular genres because let’s face it you have 80 people in a room, and maybe two people are going to know a bunch of jazz songs, you know what I mean?”
The next trivia league is set to start March 20.
“It’s the same location and the upcoming league is full,” Tary said. “We have room in the buildings for 20-21ish tables. I like to keep it at 20 – we have 19 teams who have already signed up for the league. I’ve got that one rotating table that lets people come in and try it out and see if the league is something that they want to continue or sign up for.”
For more information one can visit www.jjevtsinfo.com.
Alan Dale
