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O'Brien's is the longest-running pub quiz in the Los Angeles area, active since 1998. While a number of regulars have been Jeopardy!

Quiz draws a full house of movie fans from across the city. O’Briens Pub Quiz has been featured in Los Angeles magazine, Los Angeles Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, KPCC, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Los Angeles Times. contestants, most of the players each week have not been on the show. All are welcome to enjoy the fun and challenge and the hospitality, food, and drink offered by the O’Briens staff.

10/17/2024

Tonight’s quiz will start as soon after 8 pm as we can. We will have to wait until the baseball game is over.

04/18/2024

Congratulations to our friend Alison Betts on her 5th Jeopardy win and ToC qualification!! Alison is scheduled to be our quiz host on Wednesday, May 1st.

The first new TOCer has arisen! Welcome Alison Betts to the next ! Tournament of Champions.

03/04/2024

The Oscar Quiz is this Wednesday at 8 pm pacific at O'Briens on Wilshire in Santa Monica! This week you can have teams of as many as 6 players and be eligible for prizes (vs. the usual limit of 5). Do plan to arrive early. We expect a full house.

02/06/2024

Save the date!! Our annual and famous Oscar quiz will be Wednesday, March 6 (the Weds before the Oscar ceremony). Start recruiting your movie savant friends now for your team!

10/26/2023

Are you following us on Instagram? We just posted photos from the costume contest at last night's spooky Halloween quiz. The theme was come as your favorite O'Briens pub quizzer.

115 Followers, 111 Following, 32 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from O'Brien's Pub Quiz ()

05/01/2023

This Wednesday, we will celebrate 25 years of O'Briens Pub Quiz! We started in May, 1998 and are still going strong. Our host on Wednesday will be long-time quizzer (and star of such movies as Inception, Avatar and Avatar: The Way Of Water) Dileep Rao (as seen below in a 2004 winning photo). Join us for the fun. There may also be cake. We start at 8 pm.

03/27/2023

Our host schedule is now updated through June, 2023. Details on the website below. On May 3, we will celebrate 25 years of O'Briens Pub Quizzes!

Schedule Celebrating 24 Years of O’Brien’s Pub Quiz O’Brien’s Irish Pub on Wilshire Blvd2226 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica 90403 For the most up-to-date information about the status of this week’s quiz, follow us on Twitter (). The quiz is in-person and we follow Los Angeles C...

02/26/2023

A message about our upcoming Oscars Quiz from co-host Hans von Walter - Hello all! Adam Waldowski and I are very excited to host the annual O'Brien's Pub Oscars Quiz, coming to a red carpet near you on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 8pm. For this special event quiz, we will be raising the usual cap to maximum 6 individuals per team, for those teams competing for prizes. However, feel free to bring a whole group if your Oscars posse will be playing just for fun! Space will be limited so we definitely advise arriving early when possible.

12/12/2022

Our host schedule is now updated through March, 2023. Of note, the famed O'Brien's Oscar Quiz will be March 8. Also NO QUIZ on December 28 as we take a holiday break. Full schedule at the link below.

11/29/2022

A hearty welcome to everyone who is checking out our FB page as a result of the LA Times feature which named us one of the 15 best Trivia Nights in LA! In prior years, we have been recognized as a Best of LA by LA Magazine, LA Weekly and The Argonaut. And we have appeared in articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Toronto Globe and Mail, as well as radio stories on NPR and KPCC and a segment on ABC's Nightline.

What makes our quiz stand out? A blend of challenge and fun which is driven by the unique personalities of the weekly quiz hosts. They write and deliver all of their own material. And the host is different every week! No two weeks are the same.

Come on by and see for yourself. We play at O'Briens on Wilshire every Wednesday (except Dec 28 when we are off) starting at 8 pm.

09/22/2022

Our schedule for quiz hosts has just been updated through the end of the year into the first week of January, 2023.

05/11/2022

We recently passed a milestone - the 24th anniversary of the 1st O'Briens Pub Quiz (which I estimate took place April 29, 1998). Thank you to everyone who has supported the quiz and helped to keep it going for 24 years!! We remember our founder and first quizmaster, the late Khalil Ghannam. And much gratitude to the bar owners who have hosted us, especially Paul Diskin (many years at O'Briens on Main) and W***y O'Sullivan at our current home O'Brien's Irish Pub & Restaurant.

03/24/2022

Well done to the bar-full of teams that played the Oscar quiz last night and special kudos to host Dileep Rao and his co-author on the epic handout Derek Schiller! The Oscar quiz lived up to its reputation of challenge and fun. If you were there, we hope that you enjoyed it.

Speaking of handouts, Dileep and Derek topped even the amazing Oscar connections handout that they architected previously. The 2022 Oscar handout included 154 different answers! With Dileep's permission, I am posting it here. I will post a link to the answer key in the comments as well. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AJDRGMuV-s9n0oLU7oq4cIS8nANI5sPr/view?usp=sharing

03/07/2022

Greetings, O'Briens Pub Quiz fans! Our in-person games have been proceeding at the bar each Wednesday since our return in July. If you are in the area, please stop by.

We do want to let you know about a special event coming up in two weeks - our annual and famous Oscar Quiz on March 23rd! The quiz that evening (the Wednesday before the Oscar ceremony) will be all Oscar trivia. The host will be Dileep Rao, who has starred in 2 of the biggest box office films of all time. It will be a great night for movie fans and movie trivia fans. Hope to see you then.

11/13/2021

Thanks to everyone who came out in person and online for our first International Frankenquiz! It was a smash in person, with 27 teams turning out at 10:30pm in Krakow at the 2020 (2021) Quiz Olympiad, after a long day of quizzing, and still uproariously playing late into the night in true Santa Monica Special spirit.

Congratulations to "Only Here for the Beers", who despite their stated goals walked off with 139 points and O'Brien's gold, edging out "4 Handsomes" with 136 points and "F.W. De Klerk? More Like F.W. De Funct" (featuring multiple past Frankenquiz victors!) with 129 points. All three teams will be awarded some very classy Quiz Olympiad medals courtesy of Jane Allen—congratulations to you!

To our online crew, we are sorry for any trouble viewing our video of the event. We did our best to get the room tech, WiFi, and FB Live to cooperate, but realize that that feed may not have been visible. We still ran a terrific Frankenquiz, and if there is sufficient popular demand, we will look into making it available to you. Until next time!

11/04/2021

Big announcement coming soon about an upcoming virtual event . . .

07/22/2021

Unrelated to our quiz but may be of interest to Harry Potter fans. The Harry Potter Quiz Show is paying $75 per day for audience members for their upcoming taping in the LA area at the end of August. Details below. https://harrypotterquizshow.castingcrane.com/

Harry Potter Quiz Show

07/08/2021

If you were not able to join us for in person quizzing last night at O'Brien's Irish Pub & Restaurant, this is what it looked like. Thanks to the staff for the video walkthrough. https://twitter.com/ObriensIrishPub/status/1412975115751477250

“ restarted in-person trivia tonight, inside and out with questions on tv. https://t.co/cbSxpDgWr8”

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O'Brien's Frankenquiz is today Sun 1/10 at 2pm PT/5pm ET! - Individual Registration Form (prior registrations still valid): https://bit.ly/2Ly1oYS - Player Number Lookup (retrieve your existing ID here): https://bit.ly/366C3il - Quiz Info Page (answer forms & materials): https://sites.google.com/view/obriens-frankenquiz/home Donations: Venmo Willy (@William-OSullivan-8) or PayPal (williamosullivan1 or [email protected]) to support O'Brien's staff!

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O’Briens Pub Quiz is an independent effort with the regular players rotating as the host. Unlike many other trivia nights, the person reading the questions actually wrote them. Each week you get a different flavor of quiz as each quizmaster or quizmistress infuses it with their own personality. O’Briens has developed a unique reputation for its weekly mix of fun and challenge. And its annual Oscar Quiz draws a full house of movie fans from across the city. O’Briens Pub Quiz has been featured in Los Angeles magazine, Los Angeles Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, KPCC, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Los Angeles Times.

While a number of regulars have been Jeopardy! contestants, most of the players each week have not been on the show. All are welcome to enjoy the fun and challenge and the hospitality, food, and drink offered by the O’Briens staff.