Tick Tock Lounge in the Springdale neighborhood serves up trivia every Thursday night

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Were you a star in history class? Maybe full of pop culture knowledge? Do you just know a whole lot of stuff? Tick Tock Lounge in the Springdale neighborhood on the city's east side could become your favorite Thursday hangout.

It has for Josh Bowling, who is such a regular bartenders have his drink order down pat.

"When I came in, my drink was already here," Josh Bowling said. "I didn't have to say anything."

The neighborhood bar at 2602 E. 10th St. near the Rural Street intersection and is owned by Derrick Judkins and his mother Tammy Bellamy-Jones. They've owned the bar for almost 11 years and had trivia nights for 10 of those years. Right now that's from 9-11 p.m. Thursdays.

Bowling has only missed a handful of trivia nights over the years, which is why there was no better place to spend his birthday this past January.

Added perk: his niece, Rachel Bowling, works at the bar.

She has worked at Tick Tock for about a year and a half and works every trivia night.

"It's so much fun," Rachel Bowling said. "The regulars are great."

Sean Hendrickson lives in Otterbein, a neighborhood nearby and has been coming to weekly trivia with his family since about 2013. His brother, Dave, has been attending trivia nights since 2015.

"There's lots of good food," Sean Hendrickson said.

He gave their chicken velvet soup a special shoutout. The soup best known from the L.S. Ayres Tearoom is one of their seasonal offerings.

RetroRecipes: Ayres Tea Room chicken salad and chicken velvet soup

Mike Webb is the host of trivia. He creates a slideshow of the questions and plays songs that coordinate with the questions. One of the trivia sections was about candy, so Webb played "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Webb likes to mix up the trivia themes. He has even created quizzes based on suggestions from regulars, which is all part of the fun.

This is the only trivia night Sean Hendrickson attends locally because of the trivia, the food and the service.

"Chelsea is the best. We come back for her," Sean Hendrickson said of Chelsea Patton, who's worked the bar for seven years.

Patton works every trivia night.

"I love it," Patton said.

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