Ahhhh…what we would give for a Roman holiday! Some scooter time throughout the Eternal City. Well, we’ll settle for trivia night tonight at Zaffiro’s Pizzeria and Bar in the Marcus Parkwood 17 complex in Waite Park.

The Triva Ninjas Trivia Night Challenge gets underway promptly at 6:30 tonight, Wednesday, September 4, 2013.

Tonight, we’ll ask you everything from general trivia to current events to sports and music and…well, if we told you any more, you might do a little research ahead of time. It’s actually more fun to see what you know without a heads-up. Call it the Ninjas’ own Roman holiday.

However, we like to give clues as to what’s going on — both here on our website and on our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/TriviaNinjas.

Each week we give you one of the contest questions in advance so you have points walking into Zaffiro’s on Trivia Night.

So, here’s your Freebie Question of the Week:

Vin Diesel has been in every movie in the “Fast and Furious” series except the second one. What character did he play in those movies?

 

Phone Home

Call ahead and reserve a table at Zaffiro’s for tonight’s contest. Just call 320.230.0061. You’ll be glad you did. So will your hard-working wait staff.

 

Rules R Us

It’s easier to post the rules each week so if Ninja Pete misses something, you will still be aware. So be aware. Be very, very aware.

1. No electronic devices allowed. No texting, phones, tablets, Psychic Friends Network, paper cups and string, nothing. And don’t be bringing in notes, either. If you’re caught cheating, your team will be disqualified and you’ll be publicly scorned and ridiculed.

2. DON’T SHOUT OUT THE ANSWERS! I mean, don’t shout out the answers. Let everyone else have fun playing, too, you killjoy.

3. Tonight’s contest involves five rounds of 10 questions each — one round of visual/image questions, ten audio/music questions and thirty spoken word questions.

4. Unless we say otherwise, if we ask for someone’s name, we want the last name. Give us the first name if you like, but if you give us the wrong first name, your answer is wrong. If we ask for a character, either the first or last name is okay. But remember, if any part of the name is wrong, it’s all wrong.

5. All questions are worth 500 points. Teams with the correct answer split those points. So five teams who correctly answer a given question will get 100 points each. Get it?

6. The Ninjas’ answer is the only correct answer. Dispute if you like and we’ll consider it. But our decisions are final.

7. Spelling doesn’t count unless we say it does. We’re not mean like those Jeopardy dudes.

8. Clues can be found each week at our website, TriviaNinjas.com as well as our Facebook page. A freebie question is posted each Wednesday on our website.

9. The top three teams with the most points at the end of the contest win prizes.

10. The winning team will randomly draw one of the other teams to answer one question in the Super Ninja Second Chance Challenge for a valuable prize.

11. Be generous to your wait-staff. They’re working hard to ensure you have a great night. And they may know the answer to that question your team doesn’t know.

Okay, enough rules. We’ll see you at 6:30, Wednesday night, September 4, 2013.

Until then, see you at the movies!