How many wives did Brigham Young have? Where does God (at least the Mormon version) live? How much alcohol is in a mini-bottle? Do you know the answers to these and other important questions? We live in a world where truth is definitely stranger than fiction. Did you know, for instance, that because we'll be drinking alcohol, we're all going to Spirit Prison?
If you know your Utah trivia, or are willing to fake it, join us this Tuesday for Utah Trivia night. You'll get a set of questions and a set of answers (but to someone else's questions), and your job is to go out on a mission to match them all up. Unlike actual Mormons, however, we'll be slugging down beers and swearing and thinking impure thoughts while in pursuit of our Quest For Truth. As for the polygamy part... that's outside the scope of this exercise.
Tuesday, April 2
5:30 til 8 PM (when the band shows up and they start charging cover)
Hotel Utah Saloon
500 4th Street (at Bryant) in SF
Muni: 9X - AX - BX, 12, 15, 16AX - BX, 27, 30, 45, 47
Caltrain Station (on Townsend, two blocks away)
The Rules
1. Upon arrival, go to The Temple (where we'll be holding all the answers, and approved questions)
2. Receive a Temple Blessing which will manifest as a set of question/answer pairs. You will soon realize Satan has been up to mischief and your questions & answers do not match each other. Your task: find pairs that DO match and be enlightened.
3. Commune with your bretheren. And sistren. Whatever. Talk to the other participants & compare notes. Or withold information. Or barter your answers for a drink through a third party. Somehow, locate the person(s) who hold the answers to your questions, and likewise match the answers you hold with their rightful questions. (Cheating is allowed, as long as you can get away with it. But remember - God is watching!)
4. Each time you've found a matching pair, both holders may approach The Temple for Judgement.
5. If you've matched up correctly, the Veil will be parted & Truth revealed. Each of you will get a point - and another set of questions and answers. If you're wrong, that question/answer pair is returned to The Temple and you get no points.
6. Keep this up until all the questions/answers have been matched up, or you run out of drinking money. Remember that good Mormons tithe 10 percent of their funds to The Church. (You don't necessarily have to be a good Mormon, but it might help in the question/answer department, if you know what we mean...)*
7. The winner is the one with the most points at the end of the evening. The prize? Well, eternal salvation, of course. And your own planet, if you're male. if you're female, you get to be perpetually pregnant. The person with the lowest score gets converted to a Catholic, with all the levels of Hell that that entails.
* To anyone who still doesn't get it - it is completely permissible to bribe the Temple. We prefer stouts and darker ales, if you're wondering...
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