BreadSoda (2233 Wisconsin Ave.) has a new quizmaster. Dalton Hirshorn has taken over the bar’s Monday night trivia contest, which starts at 7:30 and ends with one team winning $50 off its tab and a second team taking home “some beer-themed swag or perhaps a bottle of unusual flavored vodka,” Hirshorn tells us. The quiz was previously run by a trivia company, with questions that sometimes perplexed the host as much as the players, in our experience. But Hirshorn writes his own questions. His interests include “bad movies, art & architecture, history & whatnot,” he tells us, “but I do make an effort to make the questions as broad-based as possible.”

Where this leaves the dormant liquor license for JP’s—one of the few in the District that allows nude dancing—is unclear. The Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration approved the license’s transfer to a new owner, one Brian Petruska, in October, and it seemed JP’s would reopen, but negotiations on leasing the building must have foundered. Restrictions on where strip clubs can operate in the District are so onerous that it’s unlikely JP’s could reopen anywhere other than its old location, which was destroyed in a 2008 fire.

We’ve requested comment from involved parties but haven’t heard anything back yet.

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Rocklands (2418 Wisconsin Ave.) can now serve alcohol starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings, after the ABC Board approved its request to move its opening time forward one hour. Owner John Snedden says the extra hour will allow the restaurant to better serve its Sunday-morning crowd of football and steeplechase fans preparing to tailgate.

A man charged with threatening a staffer of Kitchen (2404 Wisconsin Ave.) has agreed to a plea deal in the case. Matthew Robertson was escorted from the restaurant on July 24 because he was setting napkins on fire, according to police and court documents. Once outside the bar, he produced a knife and waved it at a staffer, a police report said. On October 26, Robertson agreed to perform 48 hours of community service and stay out of trouble for six months. If he does so, the case against him will be dismissed.

Representatives from The Good Guys (2311 Wisconsin Ave.) were also scheduled to appear before the ABC Board on November 30 to answer questions about a May fight outside the club. According to a police report, two men attacked three other men after they all exited the club that night, causing bloody lips, a swollen eye, and a possible broken nose. The two attackers then fled the scene in a northbound taxi. While the fight began outside the club, one of the responding officers told an ABRA investigator that more attention from club staff might have averted the problem. “It would have helped if the front door bouncer could have remained outside during closing time to make sure all parties would have been sent on their way in separate directions,” he reportedly said.

Last February, a woman was found unconscious inside the bar then called Gin & Tonic—what’s now The Mason Inn (2408 Wisconsin Ave.). Representatives of the bar were scheduled to appear before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on November 30 to answer questions about the incident.

According to an Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration investigator’s report, a woman who attended a birthday party at the club on February 13 was discovered passed out in the ladies’ room, hunched over a toilet. Some friends brought her out to the street, where police arrived and an ambulance was summoned. Throughout, the woman was unconscious and unresponsive, the report stated. The investigator couldn’t determine the cause of the woman’s condition, because neither she nor the patron who discovered her returned his calls about the incident.