pub quiz

i was attending one at The Frog & Forget Me Not near Clapham Common for a while but not these days...shame...i like the idea of an ILM pub quiz - this probably happened already as well

I sometimes go to more than one a week. The regular one is the Oxford Mail Quiz League, which ensures my pic is in said local rag every few weeks. Last night my team, the Shelley Arms had a narrow victory (one point!) over the Wobbly Watermen. This is the question which we answered correctly to clinch it (modesty prevents me from saying who knew the answer):

Which country was formerly known as French Sudan?

Thank you ladies and gentleman you've been a marvellous audience my name is Jess Conrad wrap up warm in This Pullover over Christmas park your sledges nicely goodnight.

ah, dale collins. a spectre which haunts the farthest recesses of my oxford mind. he wasn't even good enough to get onto the oxford channel was he? (unlike danny cox, who makes all oxonian ladies faint, and bill heine, who just makes people faint, period). i have never knowingly listened to fox fm and its better muzik mix puke.

his quizzes were peppered with snatches of theme tunes from Pot Black to Grandstand and we had to hand in our answer sheets to him as the Countdown music erm, counted down. Didda dida didda der der (dum!).

Still "wowing" the "punters" at the Fox & Hounds near Donny Bridge on Sunday evenings, I believed. His former haunt, the St.-Annes-stoodie-bar-staffed Horse & Jockey is being converted into flats as I type.

We won the (Approach, Bethnal Green) pub quiz jackpot on Tuesday, also on tie-break, down to the wire ect. Was only £44 (comparatively small total) between 4, but there is a glow associated with real money as opposed to bar tokens (which we also still have £10 worth of) that you get for just placing in the general quizzes. And I nicked the lovely Hoegaarden pint glass that the jackpot came in, which makes me feel like a child when I drink out of it due to its chunkiness.

Pub quizzes seem to pay for themselves, which is nice.

Damn that Mike Jones and his brane of all knowledge.

These days a Columbian girl doed the SOAS quiz as I have to go to school that night.

Last year, we did a grand Tour de Quiz of five quizzes in five evenings, bettered a few weeks ago with seven quizzes in five evenings

All linked pages are in Norwegian, I'm afraid...

close proximity to the pint pot karaoke night afters is obviously a bonus

Won in a landslide at Presidents' Day quiz. Our team was called Taft Punk.

They used one of my go-to questions: Which prez was born Leslie King Jr?

Ford. Why did he change his name?

Going quizzing this evening...it's a ridiculous quiz with a "classic rock" music round worth as many points as all the other rounds combined, but it's good fun.

I believe his stepfather adopted him.

xp

A friend is running one tonight in Jersey City at a place 3 blocks from the Grove St PATH:

http://www.themerchantnj.com/

we won! and it was just my friend steve and i, whereas nearly all the other teams had 4.

He's worked in cartography, so he came up with the names of the only two "double landlocked" nations on earth. (ie, you have to go through 2 bordering countries to get to water.)

My wife, her coworker, and I won a global-affairs-themed pub quiz a couple weeks ago. Had a similar sense of pride b/c some of the teams we beat had four (or more).

The double-landlocked question is fascinating. I want to think about it.

uzbekistan and liechtenstein

Zimbabwe and Central African Republic?

OK, just checked -- that's totally off.

I think Liechtenstein must be one of them.

central african republic is bordered by five countries that are each bordered by at least five countries though.

idk i knew uzbekistan already but took abt 15 seconds to suss liechtenstein

they would likely be either in central asia (furthest distance from oceans, large nations), central africa (distant from sea but smaller nations hence more borders) or european micronations

uzbekistan and liechtenstein

Oh, I guess that's it. But only if the Caspian Sea doesn't count.

the landlocked ocean....

my teammate considered C.A.F. and correctly dismissed it. It's been a long time since I knew such details.

Most mortifyingly, I missed the only baseball question of the night.

good work nakh

C.A.R. i meant

central africa (distant from sea but smaller nations hence more borders)

This was basically why I guessed Zimbabwe and C.A.R. -- but if my sense of African geography was better, I'd have realized they weren't it.

for some reason i was talking about the central african republic, i was trying to remember which president it was who murdered schoolchildren who refused to purchase their uniforms from his own company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B%C3%A9del_Bokassa

trivia tnite at 8 in Jersey City... i'll go if i can find replacement(s) for my vacationing teammate

http://www.themerchantnj.com/

I luff pub quizzes. I also haff a dance practice at 7.30. >:|

A hearty fuck you to the team called "James Earl Ray" on MLK's birthday in my league.

I completely subsidise my eating out and drinking with pub quizzes. Last week's haul - £55 (£25 in cash, £30 in pub vouchers). Wonder if we can beat that this week?

NYers...Jersey City not that far away, 5 mins from PATH. (ALSO LAST ONE TIL FALL). at 8 this evening.

http://www.themerchantnj.com/

Last week's haul was £170 in cash and £30 in bar vouchers and a meal for 2 and a day pass to a local spa. Pub quizzes are awesome.

finished out of the money

one answer was Brigham Young Jeezy

hey London! does anyone have a good quiz with lots of music questions that's on a Wednesday night? or, dream of dreams, a music-only quiz?

I, too, am interested in knowing about this.

There's a film quiz tonight at the Boogaloo (they do a music quiz but not tonight :( ) but it apparently starts in 2 minutes

There's a purely music quiz at Aces and 8s in Tufnell Park on Tuesdays if that helps. It was a bit too hard for me when I did it.

this is for in a couple of weeks. I found a bunch of music-specific ones on Sundays and Mondays and Tuesdays, but this is planning in case a couple of people flying in on a Wednesday morning aren't too jetlagged.

This one on Wednesdays says It’s a quiz like no other! This unforgettable music quiz takes Jerusalem Bar & Kitchen by a storm! Make sure you head to Jerusalem Bar London on the last Wednesday of each month to take part. Check out our Events page for more information., but has no information at all on their events page.

My pal is hosting one with a JFK-assassination section in a couple weeks; someone wanted to know if we get 3 shots at every question.

Is this for Wed the 27th kit? Might pop along if you find one.

So my team, PT 109, won last night... I think we were one of the few to identify "Warmth of the Sun" in the audio round (which Brian Wilson wrote the day of the Kennedy shooting). Also had to identify actors and character names from pics of the cast of JFK and the Seinfeld "second spitter" episode. (obv as a Mets fan I could ID Roger McDowell)

Controversy ahoy in our local last weekend, as we lost by a point. One of the photos in the picture round was of Dustin Diamond, who played Screech in Saved by the Bell. We couldn't remember his name, so left it blank, then found out that the team that beat us had been given a point for writing Screech. The question was "name the actor", so we understandably didn't put down the character name, assuming that Screech was just going to be wrong because that wasn't the name of the actor. FFS.

glaring gap in your team there ails

quizmaster at my fav quiz gave us a wee trophy last time we were there for winning so often

Not as bad as a few weeks before, when the question was "what sport do the Philadelpia Atoms play". We wrote down football and the lassie goes "the correct answer for two points is soccer but if you put football I gave you a point". WTF, did we MOVE COUNTRY? (also they don't even exist any more, and haven't for about 25 years, but whatevs)

We get booed and accused of cheating by jealous other teams because we win so often. I'd prefer a wee trophy :-(

That Screech point is some BULLSHIT.

chap - yes! I'll phone the one up there when I'm in London and check.

that sounds ugly - the other regulars at ours all love and respect us

We don't really care because we have lots of lovely free booze and food and money and we know we're not cheating, and the folk who run the quiz know we're not cheating.

yes that's a point - the pot at our quiz is never v large

so that pub whose website claims to have a music quiz on the last Wednesday of every month has the following schedule, not listed anywhere:

Wednesday 20th November
Wednesday 4th December
Wednesday 11th December
Wednesday 18th December

Thinking about ways I could get a bit of extra pocket money without having to work tremendously hard, I struck on the idea of running a pub quiz.

Anyone here got any experience of this? Is it even worth doing (assuming I can get heads through the door, which I assume is the hard bit)?

There's a big old pub near my house that is struggling to pull in the punters but would be a perfect place to hold it, and the landlord seems open to the idea.

So is this a foolish gambit, or could it be a bit of fun with nothing to lose?

What rounds? Guess you have to know your punters a bit?

Classic - movies, intros (have a working sound system that you don't have to fiddle with), current affairs, picture round, etc
Dud - streams, lakes and waterways (one of the worst rounds I've endured)

I love a pub quiz but ime you need to be clear about any weird questions, how many rounds there are, when the breaks will be, who marks the papers, and what to do if someone's cheating on a phone. Also whether you'll accept EITHER "Cyberdyne Systems Model 101" OR "T-800" as an acceptable correct answer.

Are you looking to write it yourself or buy in from an experienced company and just host it?

If doing it DIY, you need to think about how long it'll take to write, how much it'll cost to print answer sheets. Do you want to do picture rounds as that'll be a different set of colour pics each week rather than just blank paper or a plain-ish grid. What are the prizes and are the pub providing them, or are you, or are people paying an entry fee and that's the prize money? How much therefore are you invoicing the pub for each week, and does that cover paying someone to host if you're unavailable.

I would write it myself. I think it might be fun. I've got it in my head I'd like to make it a bit unusual rather than just the usual questions and answers. There are already a bunch of pub quizzes in the area, so making it a bit different might work. Plus the pub is big and kinda quiet but also on a main strip in the city - it might intrigue people enough to go.

I was thinking of doing things like having a round called "The Really F*cking Difficult Round" where correct answers are worth 5 points each, and then following it up with "The Really F*cking Easy Round", where you have to answer wrongly or you get 5 points deducted (or maybe wrong answers are worth minus points, I dunno, I'm still figuring it out).

I'm not good at sport knowledge, so rather than going around looking up sports trivia and potentially getting in arguments with people who know better, I was thinking of making it literally a sports round, like a mini-obstacle course, or a toy golf putting challenge taken on by a nominated team member (the pub is big enough to set something up like this).

Defo up for doing music rounds - I think the pub has a PA, I could bring my laptop to trigger sounds. I'd love to get a big screen up for visuals, but I don't think I have the tech.

Speaking to the pub, I suggested the prize would be something from the bar. But obviously it would need to be up to them to supply it and therefore worth their while.
I think about £2 per head tends to be the going rate, so I'd definitely want to make sure enough people turned up. I'd probably market it in a similar way to how I do my club nights: Give it an identity and try to build up some enthusiasm via Facebook/Insta/local events listings sites etc.

All I know is my other half hosted a 'fun and quirky' pub quiz in lieu of a celebration party (friends only) and spent absolutely AGES thinking of rounds and perfecting the questions and ordering the props... Was fun though, had physical games type rounds. I've got a few ideas for rounds if you want - that may or may not work, ha. But I can see it becoming a time suck! OTOH over Covid we were making up our own quizzes to do over Zoom and once you get into the groove it was easy enough.

Just remember people are going to talk all over you when you're explaining 'wrong answers only' no matter how many times you explain it

It's their loss! Mind you, I can be very loud on the mic - I don't intend to hold back.

Cheers kinder, if this comes to fruition I'll let you know

I think it's a great idea, but yeah, probably a lot of advance preparation.. especially if you want to have current events from the last couple weeks