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The Best Themed Trivia Nights This Week (August 10–16, 2026)

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Welcome back, trivia people.

This is a week for people who read. Saturday, August 15 is Bookstore Romance Day, and two independent bookshops on opposite sides of the country are marking it with trivia. Around it, the whole week tilts literary: a romantasy night in New Hampshire, a hockey-romance quiz in Midtown Manhattan, and a nerdy books-and-birds night in California.

Meanwhile the wizarding world is having a week of its own — five separate Harry Potter trivia nights between Tuesday and Sunday, with three of them landing on the same Wednesday. And Connecticut’s Best Trivia Ever opens Monday in Milford with a Disney/Pixar night.

Here’s everything worth putting on your calendar between August 10th and 16th.

This Week’s Themed Trivia

This week’s events include:

  • Disney / Pixar
  • Harry Potter
  • Bookstore Romance Day
  • Romantasy
  • Gilmore Girls
  • New Girl
  • Marvel
  • Taylor Swift
  • Michael Jordan
  • Pro Wrestling
  • Murder Mystery
  • Christopher Nolan Movies
  • Stand By Me
  • Hip-Hop
  • Decades
  • 60s Music
  • 90s Nostalgia
  • 90s & 2000s Country
  • Broadway
  • Indiana Sports

Featured Themed Trivia Nights This Week

Disney/Pixar Night Opens the Week — Milford, CT

Connecticut’s Best Trivia Ever is back at Stonebridge in Milford on Monday, this time with Disney/Pixar Trivia Night.

This is the rare theme where the whole table can contribute and nobody sits out. Expect the animated canon in both directions — the hand-drawn era and the Pixar run — which means someone at your table needs to know both the sidekick names in Hercules and exactly how the ending of Toy Story 3 works. Bring the friend who cries at the first ten minutes of Up.

Disney/Pixar Trivia Night — Monday, August 10 — 7:00 PM

  • Venue: Stonebridge
  • Location: Milford, Connecticut
  • Date: Monday, August 10
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Hosted by: Best Trivia Ever

Best Trivia Ever is running two more themed nights later in the week:

  • Michael Jordan Trivia Night — MJ’s Sports Bar & Grill — Murfreesboro, TN — Thursday, August 13 — 7:00 PM. A Michael Jordan night at a bar called MJ’s is the kind of alignment you have to respect.
  • Decades Trivia Night — The Lawn Bar — Cincinnati, OH — Friday, August 14 — 7:00 PM. One round per decade, which rewards a team with a wide age range.

Possible team names:

  • To Infinity and Beyond Our Knowledge
  • Hakuna Ma-Vodka
  • The Incredi-Bills
  • Sleeping Beauties

Harry Potter Takes Over the Week — Five Nights, Five Cities

The wizarding world is in the middle of its biggest season in years, with the Sorcerer’s Stone 25th anniversary re-release landing August 27 and Back to Hogwarts Day on September 1. Venues are already warming up: five Harry Potter trivia nights run this week alone, and three of them are on Wednesday, August 12.

Happy Birthday Harry Potter Trivia — Tuesday, August 11 — 7:00 PM

A belated party for the Boy Who Lived, whose birthday is July 31. Rounds span the books and the films.

Harry Potter (Books) Trivia — Wednesday, August 12 — 7:00 PM

Books only, no film shortcuts — five rounds drawn from the original seven novels, so chapter-level detail actually counts. This is the first of three Harry Potter nights Slattery’s is running between now and September.

Harry Potter Movies Trivia — Wednesday, August 12 — 7:00 PM (two locations)

Chubby’s is running the same eight-film quiz at both Triangle locations on the same night. Pick whichever room is closer.

Harry Potter Trivia — Sunday, August 16 — 1:00 PM

A daytime option, hosted by Bakes & Bites — good if late nights aren’t your thing.

  • Venue: 4320 W 96th St
  • Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Date: Sunday, August 16
  • Time: 1:00 PM

There’s more coming through September — including a Back to Hogwarts party on September 1 itself and a Triwizard Trivia Tournament in North Carolina. We rounded up all of it in our Harry Potter trivia guide for August and September 2026, complete with 15 practice questions.

Possible team names:

  • Accio Bar Tab
  • The Chamber of Secrets Was an Inside Job
  • It’s Levi-O-sa, Not Levio-SA
  • Dumbledore’s Almost-Army

Bookstore Romance Day and a Very Literary Week

Saturday, August 15 is Bookstore Romance Day — an annual celebration of the romance genre at independent bookstores — and two shops are running trivia for it, one in New Jersey and one in Michigan. Both are ticketed and both are the kind of small-room event that sells out.

Bookstore Romance Day Trivia — Saturday, August 15 — 5:00 PM

  • Venue: Saxbys Haddonfield, hosted by Inkwood Books
  • Location: Haddonfield, New Jersey
  • Date: Saturday, August 15
  • Time: 5:00 PM
  • Cost: Ticketed

Bookstore Romance Day Trivia — Saturday, August 15 — 6:30 PM

  • Venue: Sidetrack Bookshop
  • Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
  • Date: Saturday, August 15
  • Time: 6:30 PM
  • Cost: Ticketed

The rest of the week keeps the theme going:

  • Romantasy Edition — Flag Hill Distillery & Winery — Lee, NH — Thursday, August 13 — 6:00 PM. Fae courts, enemies-to-lovers, and the booktok canon.
  • Talk Nerdy & Birdy Trivia — A Seat at the Table Books — Elk Grove, CA — Thursday, August 13 — 6:30 PM. Ticketed.
  • Heated Rivalry Trivia — Slattery’s Midtown Pub — New York, NY — Friday, August 14 — 7:00 PM. Rachel Reid’s hockey romance series, back for a second week running after Austin’s night.
  • Civic Trivia & Conversations — Bookery Manchester — Manchester, NH — Friday, August 14 — 6:00 PM.

Possible team names:

  • Enemies to Lovers to Teammates
  • One Bed Available
  • Third Act Breakup
  • Spice Level: Ambitious

Other Themed Trivia Nights This Week

Gilmore Girls

New Girl

Broadway

  • Amity Hall Uptown — New York, NY — Monday, August 10 — 6:30 PM (NYC Trivia by Broadway Community, ticketed)

Movies

  • Dr. Funk — San Jose, CA — Monday, August 10 — 7:30 PM (Stand By Me Trivia)
  • Strange Brew Pub — Norwich, CT — Wednesday, August 12 — 6:30 PM (Christopher Nolan Movies, ticketed)

Murder Mystery

  • Threes Brewing — Brooklyn, NY — Tuesday, August 11 — 7:00 PM (The Case of the Killer Ending, ticketed)
  • Lost Planet Brewing Company — Royersford, PA — Saturday, August 15 — 7:00 PM (The Case of the Poisoned Patron, ticketed)

Music

Marvel

Pro Wrestling

  • Element Eatery — Cincinnati, OH — Wednesday, August 12 — 7:00 PM

90s Nostalgia

Sports

Taylor Swift

Rotating Themes

  • Dempsey’s Food and Spirits — Columbus, OH — Wednesday, August 12 — 7:30 PM (Dempsey’s Themed Trivia Nights)
  • The Lawn Bar — Cincinnati, OH — Friday, August 14 — 7:00 PM (Decades Trivia Night)

Tips Before You Go

  • Wednesday, August 12 is the biggest night of the week — three Harry Potter quizzes across New York, Durham and Raleigh, plus Marvel in Ohio, pro wrestling in Cincinnati, hip-hop in Atlanta, 90s in Phoenix and Christopher Nolan movies in Connecticut.
  • Check the Harry Potter format before you commit. Slattery’s is books-only this week; Chubby’s is films-only. They are not interchangeable.
  • Both Bookstore Romance Day events are ticketed and in small rooms. Buy ahead — bookshop trivia sells out faster than bar trivia.
  • Richardson, TX gets a New Girl and Gilmore Girls double bill on Saturday, so that’s one night covering two fandoms.
  • KEG SOCIAL Orlando’s New Girl night starts at 10:00 PM Thursday and is 21+. Plan your evening accordingly.
  • Two Quirk Events murder mysteries run this week — Brooklyn on Tuesday, Royersford on Saturday — and they’re different cases, so you can do both without repeating.

See You at Trivia!

That’s the lineup for August 10–16. A Disney/Pixar opener in Milford, five Harry Potter nights building toward the anniversary season, and a Saturday where two independent bookstores turn Bookstore Romance Day into a quiz.

We’ll be back next week with a fresh batch of themes. Until then, gather your team, pick a fandom, and get out there.

See you at trivia.

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