WHEREAS Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe might be the most famous NFL player among nerds since George Plimpton at least, and in true football fashion, he’s indicated that his knowledge of World Of Warcraft is beyond compare;

AND WHEREAS the web series The Experts claims to bring together specialists in all disciplines for a head-to-head-to-head competition to see who knows what they know best, best;

IT THUS STANDS TO REASON that the campaign to draft Herr Kluwe to be on an episode of The Experts is on. Ping him on Twitter @ChrisWarcraft and let him know you think this is a great idea. Because it frigging well is.

This week, The Experts features a standoff between experts on The Wire, Stephen Spielberg and Dancing With The Stars. If you haven’t watched this show yet, give it a shot:

This week’s QNA Trivia Podcast is live, featuring listings from our calendar, questions about the 1990s, the 1890s, and other famous people who share their name with our newest pope.

Plus, as the state of Massachusetts decides between the Modern Lovers’ Roadrunner and Aerosmith’s Dream On (like there’s any question) for their official state song. We can’t even make a show of staying on the fence.

Give it a listen, and if you like it, please, share it! (If not, let us know. We want to be good for you.)

And if you haven’t signed up for TCONA yet, what are you waiting for? The early bird discount isn’t running for much longer!

The new QNA Podcast is live, featuring a reminiscence of Canada’s folkie laureate, the late, great Stompin’ Tom Connors, who contributes a trivia round himself on Canadian geography. There’s questions about Magic, Michaels and Explosions, and we go into some of the upcoming trivia events happening around the country. (Our calendar of local events is here. Anything to add? Let us know!)

Check it out, subscribe, please share, and may the good lord take a likin’ to you, and blow you up real good.

Three experts go head-to-head-to-head: Star Wars vs. Dexter vs. The New Testament. It really is easy to develop a rooting interest for one expert or another every week. Check it out.

Although it’s pretty sparse just yet as of this posting, TCONA.com now has a proper events calendar.

We’ll migrate it over to the QNA site once we have the time to upgrade that, but it’s here for now.

If you have an event you’d like us to share with our constituents, please, drop us a line. We’re always happy to share quizzing in any form anywhere on the continent (or off of it). In fact, that’s kind of our mandate.

Jeremiah Warren put this little short film together last year about the history of trivia as a game. This is still a fairly new discipline, for all kinds of reasons, as he explains. But the ascendancy of trivia has only grown, especially since the 1980s, and we find ourselves in the middle of a golden trivial age. (It does seem to be a bit of an ad for the app Trivi.al, but that’s fine.)

The latest episode of the Quizzing North America Trivia Podcast features an interview with Christopher Short of Geeks Who Drink, talking about how this month’s Geek Bowl VII in Austin went down.

And questions? Yeah, there’s questions. We wouldn’t leave you hanging.

Fresh episodes will go live every Thursday. (Subscribe through RSS & iTunes here.)

These shots were culled from Dan Avila’s excellent series of shots taken at TCONA 2, held last August at Circus Circus in Las Vegas. You can find more of them in the TCONA’s Facebook discussion group.

Dan: Thanks. Danks.

Kelsie & Allison, working the Merch table.

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We’re proud to announce that The Experts, a game show hosted by Michael Shure (of Current TV’s The Young Turks) that features three players, all of whom are really into some topic, answering questions against each other, will be casting and taping episodes of their show at TCONA.

If you’ve never seen the show before, it’s … well, if you’ve ever seen the British show Mastermind, then think of it as an American indie-rock version of that. It’s real fast, a ton of fun, and you have a chance to win dozens (!) of dollars in prizes!

Have a look at the most recent episode, in which experts on Harry Potter, Robots and Parks And Recreation face off against each other. New episodes of this series go live every Monday.