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BEST TRIVIA: RX PIZZA AND BAR
Serving up slices of knowledge
Photo by Melanie McBride — THE BATTALION
Located in Downtown Bryan at 200 W. 26th St. and in South College Station at 1664 Greens Prairie Road, Rx Pizza and Bar hosts trivia nights every Thursday at 8 p.m.
Rx Pizza and Bar feeds mind, body with weekly Thursday night trivia By Aubrey Vogel @aubrey_vogel
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In California, you can’t legally buy a mousetrap without having what?” For questions like the one above and more, many locals and college students flock to the College Station and Bryan Rx Pizza and Bar locations on Thursdays nights from 8 to 10 p.m. for weekly trivia.
Working in the food industry since his sophomore year, Jake Mitchell, Class of 2009, along with his childhood friends, founded Rx Pizza and Bar in 2016 to share the love of the industry with Aggieland. Mitchell said because he enjoyed participating in bar trivia himself, he thought Rx was the perfect place to gather community members for some fun, following a week at work. “I played a lot of bar trivia. It’s just an activity that I thought was really fun, something I’ve done for years,” Mitchell said. “It’s one of the first event sort of things that I wanted to get going at the bar, and we started within
about six months of opening.” Long before the trivia begins, Mitchell said the building fills with hungry guests ready to dive into pizza and race to the finish to be crowned as the victor of trivia night. The restaurant houses patrons in the main area as well as a backroom and the patio area when the weather is accommodating. Before arriving on trivia nights, Mitchell encourages guests to check out the Rx Pizza and Bar Facebook page for weekly hints and watch for announcements of the occasional themed night, such as Harry Potter or Game of Thrones.
“If you follow Aggieland trivia, then you can have some guidance for two of the questions that will be asked during the night,” Mitchell said. “There’s a lot of questions, so two doesn’t necessarily guarantee you a win, but it’s helpful to know a couple.” Starting at 8 p.m., the trivia master takes over the restaurant and gears up guests to begin the two hours of questions. “It all gets announced over the PA [system], and people will physically write their trivia answers on a piece of paper, and then they run it up to the trivia master, who keeps track of all the scores,” Mitchell said.
