John Cosgrove introduced the original pub quiz concept at Kieran’s Irish Pub in Minneapolis back in 1999, where he worked as a Pub Manager. For six years he filled the Titanic Lounge every month with a heady mix of trivia, humor and off-beat comments. Due to the diverse nature of the Pub Quiz attendees, John started to receive offers to bring his concept to a number of applications. These included grooms dinners, wedding receptions, fund raisers and corporate events.
In 2006, John developed his original Pub Quiz concept into the Cosgrove Trivia Challenge. The generation of interaction between the participants is the key to it’s success. Today, the Cosgrove Trivia Challenge is being marketed to those companies and organizations that are looking for something with a little more depth and value in terms of interaction and entertainment. John is committed to providing each event with its own individual, customized, top quality Trivia Challenge experience.
John Cosgrove has emceed hundreds of events, which in addition to ten years of restaurant management experience equates to an innate ability to read and pace a crowd. Being able to improvise in a large crowd setting is essential to the overall success of any event and with a sharp wit, keen sense of humor and that infamous Irish twinkle in his eye, John will not miss a beat. In addition, John has been a regular guest on the Cities 97 morning show providing listeners with insight and humor. He also had his own anecdotal and often satirical accounts of life back in Ireland and in Minnesota, published in the Rake Magazine and as a regular columnist in the Irish Gazette.
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