
April Fools' weekend brought seventeen registered teams to Front Street Brewery Taproom on Friday night, making it the biggest field in Taproom Trivia history. Fourteen of those teams showed up to play, filling the craft brewery's riverfront space at 421 West River Drive in Davenport with an energy that's been building week after week. And by the end of the night, one team had done something nobody's done at the Taproom before — lead from start to finish without ever being seriously threatened.
The "Anti-Dentites" were the story of the night, and it wasn't even close.
Four rounds of trivia tested the room across wildly different categories: Round 1 took on April Fools, Hoaxes, Pranks & Conspiracy Theories. Round 2 shifted to Baseball & Ballads. Round 3 was a 30-question True or False Speed Round. And Round 4 closed it out with Beer & Whine — a fitting finale for a craft brewery crowd.
The Anti-Dentites grabbed the lead after Round 1 and never looked back. By the time R2 Baseball & Ballads was in the books, they had 48,834 points, won both rounds and had a comfortable cushion. The True or False Speed Round in R3 added 228,000 more to their total. And in R4 Beer & Whine, they slammed the door shut. Wire-to-wire dominance — 496,834 points when the dust settled.
But the numbers underneath the final score tell an even more impressive story. The Anti-Dentites answered 75 out of 88 questions correctly across all four rounds — an 85% accuracy rate, the highest among any team that played the full night. They didn't just win the points race; they won the knowledge race too. In a game where wagering can carry a team with mediocre accuracy into the top five, the Anti-Dentites proved they didn't need the wagers as a crutch. They simply knew more than everyone else in the room, and they bet accordingly.
The second-place story might be even more remarkable. "C plus plus" — a returning player previously known as "C and c" — didn't even show up until Round 2. They missed Round 1 entirely. And they still finished second overall with 352,556 points. How? By going 19 out of 20 in R2 Baseball & Ballads (tying for the best accuracy in any standard round all night), following that with 23 out of 30 in the True or False Speed Round, and then unleashing a monster R4 that produced 295,500 points in a single round — the biggest single-round R4 score in Taproom Trivia history. If C plus plus had been there from the opening question, the championship conversation might have gone very differently.
Then there's "Dot Dot Dot," who finished fourth overall but quietly put together the single most impressive individual round performance of the entire evening: 29 out of 30 in R3 True or False. Ninety-seven percent accuracy. One question away from perfection in a 30-question speed round. They finished with 264,049 points, but that R3 performance deserves its own headline.
"Dang it!" produced one of the wildest swings of the night, going just 8 out of 20 in R1 — near the bottom of the pack — before flipping a switch and going 19 out of 20 in R2 Baseball & Ballads, tying C plus plus for the best accuracy in a non-speed round. But R3 and R4 brought them back to earth, and they couldn't crack the top five.
The divergence between the points leaderboard and the knowledge leaderboard was one of the most fascinating storylines of the night. "Speculate Wildly" answered 69 questions correctly across all four rounds — tied with "Blue Worms" for the second-most correct answers in the entire room — but finished just 8th in points with 62,208. Meanwhile, "Hawks!" showed up only for Round 4, answered just 12 questions correctly, and finished 6th with 166,000 points. Knowledge gets you in the game, but the wagers put you on the podium. That tension between accuracy and strategy is what makes this format so electric.
Room-wide, the 14 active teams combined for 909 total answers across the four rounds. Overall accuracy landed at 70.5% — the highest room accuracy in Taproom Trivia's eight tracked weeks of data, continuing a trend that has seen this craft beer crowd climb from 58.9% in earlier weeks to 66% on March 20th to now clearing 70%.
Round 1 April Fools was the toughest at 58.9% (with three questions dipping below 20% accuracy, including Google's Gmail prank at a flat 0%). Round 2 Baseball & Ballads was the easiest at 73%. The True or False Speed Round landed at 74.7% despite its 30-question volume, and Beer & Whine closed at 73.7%.
The Taproom crowd continues to be the most accurate and sophisticated trivia audience in the Gleeful Events family, and the attendance trajectory backs that up — from seven players on March 20th to fourteen on March 27th to seventeen registered on April 3rd. Front Street Brewery Taproom is becoming the Friday night destination in the Quad Cities for people who take their trivia (and their craft beer) seriously.
Final Standings: 1st — "Anti-Dentites" — 496,834 2nd — "C plus plus" — 352,556 3rd — "Blue Worms" — 308,664 4th — "Dot Dot Dot" — 264,049 5th — "Shreks and the city" — 252,365 6th — "Hawks!" — 166,000 7th — "Hawkeye Fans" — 134,380 8th — "Speculate Wildly" — 62,208 9th — "4 Lokos" — 51,391 10th — "Dang it!" — 51,092 11th — "Still those people" — 32,500 12th — "Terry" — 26,396 13th — "Sip Happens" — 17,952 14th — "1st Rule of Mug Club..." — 3,252
Correct Answers Leaderboard: "Anti-Dentites" — 75/88 (85%) "Blue Worms" — 69/85 (81%) "Speculate Wildly" — 69/87 (79%) "C plus plus" — 58/68 (85%) missed R1 "Dot Dot Dot" — 68/87 (78%)
Taproom Trivia runs every Friday at 6:30 PM at Front Street Brewery Taproom, 421 West River Drive in Davenport. Grab a flight of their house-brewed craft beers and come test your brain. Hosted by Gleeful Events.

Owner & Event Host, Gleeful Events
Arnie Davis is the founder of Gleeful Events, bringing interactive entertainment — trivia nights, karaoke, game shows, DJ services, and more — to bars, restaurants, and private events across the Quad Cities and beyond. When he's not hosting unforgettable nights out, he's dreaming up new ways to bring people together.
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