Trident Booksellers & Café kicked off its new YA Passport series last night with a YA trivia night. Katie, Cindy, and I represented The Horn Book, though I’m not sure we represented very well. (I’m also not sure whether Horn Book founder Bertha Mahony Miller would’ve liked our team name — Bertha’s Bitches — or whether that would’ve added to her shame in us.)

It’s no secret that Horn Bookers love trivia. But here’s the thing: this was a YA-specific event at a bookstore, and booksellers have next-level YA knowledge. So, apparently, did a lot of the participants. They knew the last names of everyone from Eleanor in Eleanor & Park to Inej in Six of Crows. They knew the third books in trilogies and in longer series. They could identify YA movie adaptations from a single, non-obvious image.

Our team could do all of that sometimes. But not enough times to be among the top three teams announced at the end of the night. Congratulations to top-placing Team Percague (a “ship name” for characters in the forthcoming Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, which just happens to be authored by event host Mackenzi Lee).

I hasten to add that we had a great time, great food, and great swag, and ran into lots of old friends. And that there’s an odd joy in muttering, with increasing intensity, “I know this. I knooooooooow this!”

The YA Passport series is a new line of YA events at Trident. The next one, on January 23rd, will feature authors Adam Silvera and Jaye Robin Brown. And probably an audience full of YA experts.

For more Boston-local book happenings, see our events calendar.