On Valentine’s Day, Lobo’s Pub hosted a trivia night with a romantic theme. Associated Students Productions (ASP) hosted the event that took place in Lobo’s Pub which stayed open later to serve food to the participants. The night started at 6:30 p.m. with students lining up outside of Lobo’s and then being seated inside. Once inside students were given a whiteboard and marker to write down answers. Five people were the maximum that could be on a team.While most did have five members, some teams only had three or two participants. Before the first question students were given some time to order any food or drinks as well as come up with team names. Many of the participants took their time in crafting the perfect team name as this took around 10 minutes to get everyone’s team name in.    

Several of the students who went to the event learned about it from fliers posted around campus. Ryan Shatkin, a History major said, “I didn’t really have anything else going on and saw the fliers so here I am.” The first question that kicked off this trivia night was, “Besides roses, what are the most common flowers purchased on Valentine’s day?” By the amount of groups that got this question right you could tell some groups were not as familiar with Valentine’s Day trivia. 

However this was not the case for Xavier Swanson, a second-year political science and economy major Swanson said, “We’re going to win because we are confident about being overconfident.” When it was revealed that orchids were the correct answer there was a mix of excited cheers and disappointed faces. The night went on with more questions including: “Who is the Greek goddess of beauty?” and “In which Italian city did Romeo and Juliet occur?” and “What are the names of the two main love interests that Spider-Man has in the comics?”  Not all questions were counted equally, questions that had multiple parts and random double-point questions made answering every question right crucial in order to win.    

After 25 questions that really tested everyone’s Valentine’s knowledge, a team by the name of slayers was crowned trivia night champions. The night ended around 7:30 p.m. which was earlier than the 8:30 p.m. that the flier showed. After the event students finished up the last of their meals and started to leave. Chris Hernandez, a second-year Biology major said, “ It was super fun, I wish they had more than one round. I really wanted another chance to win.” Even though they might have ended this trivia night a little early, Seawolves will get more chances to show off their trivia knowledge throughout this semester. 

ASP will be hosting a trivia night every second Tuesday of every month until May. The themes for each trivia night will be “Musical Madness in March” and “Tv and Film” in April and “Are You Smarter than a Highschooler?” in May.