TRIVIAL PURSUITS. Manhattan User's Guide (MUG) just posted a list of games we can play, with an emphasis on trivia. Example: On Tuesday evening, January 31, 2006, there's a special Big Quiz Thing one-shot at Ars Nova (Hell's Kitchen).

Regularly scheduled trivia events (most listed by MUG) are

SUNDAYS
Pub Quiz at Freddy's Bar & Back Room (Downtown Brooklyn)

MONDAYS
Alternate Mondays: The Big Quiz Thing at The Slipper Room (Lower East Side)
First and third Mondays of each month: Pub Quiz at Last Exit (Atlantic between Clinton and Henry)

TUESDAYS
Tuesday Night Trivia at The Baggot Inn (Greenwich Village)

WEDNESDAY
Quizz-Off at Pete's Candy Store (Williamsburg)
"Drinking and Thinking" at Dempsey's Pub (Greenwich Village)

THURSDAYS
Trivia at Rocky Sullivan's (Gramercy)
Once a month: The Big Quiz Thing at Happy Ending Lounge (Lower East Side)

What about spelling bees, you ask? In Brooklyn, there's one every other Monday at Pete's Candy Store and there's one on fourth Mondays at the endangered Freddy's Bar & Back Room.