Toronto Pubs and Bar Guide

Quick: What’s the name of the robot in The Day The Earth Stood Still? What actress was known as “the peekaboo girl”? What’s the better-known handle of the artist Domenikos Theotokopoulus?

If the names Gort, Veronica Lake and El Greco are swimming through your cerebral cortex right now, you might want to consider a career in trivia. Or at least a night in it, at one of the many watering holes that make up Toronto’s thriving pub trivia scene.

Pub trivia, long the province of the tavern-happy Brits, has increasingly made its mark on this side of the pond. The trend in Toronto began courtesy of a couple of transplanted Limeys who rallied a clutch of other expats to get quizzing in the early 1980s, at the Artful Dodger Pub on Isabella....more