Photo: Old Hastings Mill Store Museum (archival photograph)

Vancouver Trivia Night at Hastings Mill Museum, Nov. 20

By Date Spark team · Published October 16, 2026

Vancouver Trivia comes to the Old Hastings Mill Store Museum on Friday, November 20, 2026, from 6 to 8 pm, in a building whose visitor page already plays like a quiz round, with correct answers that include a barge, a beach and six hours a week. Tickets run $25 to $50 on a sliding scale, and every level includes trivia admission, tea, treats and a copy of Freecouver: 101 free things to do in & around Vancouver.

Trivia, tea and a book of free ideas

The warm-up round comes from Miss604's listing. Whatever you pay, you get the same tea, the same treats, the same book and the same seat at the quiz, and all proceeds beyond the cost of the book support the museum. That makes the ticket price a question with no wrong answer between $25 and $50, only answers the museum likes more.

Round two is the trick question: can you just pay at the door? The museum says most of its events still are pay-at-the-door, that it now sells online tickets for select ones, and that anyone buying online should use only the official link in its event details and check each listing carefully. Any other link offering tickets is the person at the next table mouthing an answer at you: confident, helpful-looking and not on the official sheet.

An after-hours quiz at Alma and Point Grey Road

The geography round: 1575 Alma Street, in Hastings Mill Park at the corner of Alma and Point Grey Road, an address Vancouver's oldest surviving building did not start at. It arrived by barge, then reopened as a museum in 1932. The hours round is where confident locals drop points: Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 4 pm, mid-February through November, closed December and January. That is six open hours a week, so Friday at 6 pm looks like an answer to cross out with confidence, until the museum's own note that it may open outside regular hours for special events hands you the point back.

Then the lightning round, where the visitor page earns its reputation. Where is the washroom? The museum has no public ones and sends everyone to Jericho Beach, which is how a tea service turns into a navigation problem. Can wheelchairs and scooters get in? Yes, on the main floor only. Service dogs? Allowed. Parking? Limited, on Alma Street and nearby side streets, the only round of the night scored by the block.

Who should share the answer sheet

Best for the person who reads a visitor page all the way down to the washroom note and is quietly thrilled when it ends at a beach. The quiz wraps at 8 pm, the museum keeps everything beyond the book's cost, and because it then closes for December and January, it sends you home with 101 free things to do in & around Vancouver, the most generous out-of-office reply in the city. For two, the sliding scale is the first question you answer as a team.