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Alameda club patrons enjoy trivia nights at Fireside Lounge, elsewhere

Island man hosts contests for customers to get their geek on four evenings a week at local bars, cannabis shop.

Paul Kilduff for Bay Area News Group

Holding trivia contests to entice imbibers into local watering holes — a tradition that can trace its roots to 1970s England — has made a comeback of late in Alameda, where participants at The Fireside Lounge gather on a recent Tuesday evening around the reigning king of the Island’s trivia contests, Kirkland Melton III, who holds forth throughout town four nights a week.

Paul Kilduff for Bay Area News Group

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