Long summer days mean more hours for the fun stuff. Like trivia, and board games, and Feud! Lucky for you, we've got plenty of all that on the calendar this June. Meanwhile, our insatiable appetite for expansion continues, meaning we'll be offering these in Queens AND Brooklyn going forward. Scroll to see what's coming to a neighborhood near you! And, while you're at it, try your hand at the Bonus Round at the end of this email. Here's a teaser:

The Beach Boys, or as they were originally known, The Pendeltons

Board Game Speed Dating Comes to Brooklyn

Hey, Brooklyn! We're headed your way: Find us at Squarrel Cafe in Boerum Hill on Tuesday, June 13 hosting Board Game Speed Dating for guys and ladies ages 27 to 39. Come test drive some board games, grab a dessert from Squarrel's delicious menu, and meet some new faces!

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More Board Game Speed Dating Nights

June 21: For men who date men in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn

June 22: Gender Inclusive event, ages 25-39, in Sunnyside, Queens- This event is for anyone in the LGBTQ+ community looking to meet folks

June 27: Men & Women, ages 22-30, in Park Slope, Brooklyn

July 6: Men & Women, ages 27-39, in Astoria, Queens

July 19: For women who date women in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Other Upcoming Events

June 15: Trivia Pub Crawl (Astoria)

July 8: Feud Night (Sunnyside)- No tickets needed, just come to Sanger Hall at 7pm. We'll be running this event the 2nd Saturday of every month going forward!

July 17: Zoom Trivia- Note that we'll be returning to the first Monday of every month for Zoom trivia starting in August

Help Design Our Next Game!

We need your opinions for our next Feud Night! Help us out by answering questions like this one: "If Muppets could get elected president, which one would?" Tell us your answer to this and more by taking our 25-question survey, linked below!

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Bring Quirk Events to You

We love designing private events! Get in touch to book us for an in-person or virtual Feud Night, board game party, or trivia game. Reach out to host@quirkevents.com for more details!

Bonus Round: They Were Called WHAT?

Can you name the famous band that was originally known by the other name written below?

1. Mookie Blaylock (This Seattle-based band named itself in 1990 after a New Jersey Nets player whose basketball card wound up in the tape case of one of their demos.)
2. Tom and Jerry (This famous duo went by the same name as the cartoon show when they were 15-year-old kids, before using their real names, even though they risked alienating segments of the country that weren't amenable to openly Jewish entertainers.)
3. On a Friday (This British band used to rehearse on Fridays after high school got out, hence the name, but eventually took inspiration from The Talking Heads for their name.)
4. Smile (This rock band’s awesomeness couldn’t be contained in such a vanilla name, which led the lead singer to declare about their name change, “Glamour is a part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageous.")
5. Kara’s Flowers (This famous band originally named themselves after a groupie who had a crush on all of them, but since it sounded like a girl group, they changed their name to the now-famous nonsense name that followed the trend of groups like Blink-182 and Matchbox 20.)
6. Sweet Children (This long-time band thought that “Sweet” wasn’t punk enough for them, so they changed to a name that refers to a period of time in which not much is done except smoking marijuana.)
7. Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem (This band - with a new name that is still six syllables long, refers to how they wanted to play music: majestic and chaotic, which they achieved, as anyone who has seen their bassist jumping around on stage can plainly see.)
8. The Polo Club (This rap group eventually changed its name, thinking it was too generic, to better reflect the fact that its three members are all long-time friends.)
9. FC6 (This Australian hip hop artist changed to his current name because his maternal great-great grandfather was Aboriginal of Gamilaraay descent.)

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Game on!