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At what point does a team become too big?

Is texting a mate really such a bad thing?

What's the correct course of action when you're doing a pub quiz and you get the answer right but the quiz man says it's wrong even though you know you're wrong and he's right?

And so on and so forth.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

the third question comes up all too often. and the answet is 'pipe shut', because quizmasters have fragile egos.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

But what if it means you end up losing by just one point, simply because he didn't know the difference between the UK's Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

But if you had won that extra point wouldn't the result have been a tie? And that is REALLY unsatisfying and anti-climactic.

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

How about you punch his lights out, and the ensuing civil court case would define the difference between the two indisputably?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

1. If there's no official limit on team size, the only limit is how many people can discuss an answer without being overheard by neighbouring teams.
2. Texting = bad. Swapping answers with other teams = good. There's a quiz I know where the quiz master comes round at half time offering two clues a team
3. Suck it up, keep coming back and you'll be on the good end of a similar decision sooner or later (the no-video-replay-in-football effect)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

a) 4 is good, 5 is acceptable, if there are 6 or more of you form 2 teams.

b) Texting a mate is always the action of an utter cunt.

c) Unless the prize is a sizeable cash sum, never argue with the quiz master. On no account bring a book with you next week to prove that you were right, unless you like looking like a twat.

d) Don't copy my answers on your way to the bog.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

a) no limit but this quiz i was in last night deducts one point for each member over size of 6 for teams over size of 6.

b) yeah. as is texting. ~~AQA is okay because that costs you a quid a go.~~

c) What's the correct course of action when you're doing a pub quiz and you get the answer right but the quiz man says it's wrong even though you know you're wrong and he's right?

lol??? if you're wrong and he's right then you're wrong?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

as is WAPing i mean (or is it WAPPING?)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

sometimes quizmasters are SO WRONG. i hate pub mystique.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

i think quiz teams of 4 are the best though.

but then i again i like it when small teams triumph over a 12 men juggernaut.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

when quiz masters are wrong that's when you bring out your laptop and WIFI to google.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

What's the correct course of action when you're doing a pub quiz and you get the answer right but the quiz man says it's wrong even though you know he's wrong and you're right?

Heh, I had to do this once. The quiz man was J.Beadle.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, huge teams never seem to win as they are usually too busy getting pissed and fighting.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and shouting out answers does not make you hilarious and cool. We understand. You don't like quizes. So fuck off somewhere else.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was once in a quiz where the top two places were taken by one group of about 15 people who split into two teams but still worked together; when they were unsure of an answer they'd put one guess on one paper, one on the other and so on.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

what about going "YAYYYYY" to every correct answer you got, at the end of the quiz when they reveal the answers?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

i do this only for stupid obvious answers, to take the piss out of other tables.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's great. Also, shouting out obviously wrong answers is good.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even do pub quizes any more, but I'm still a Quiz Nazi.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

What about coming up with a "wacky" and "zany" name for your team, perhaps one that's loosely based on the day's headlines?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Like "Blunket's writing the answers down" you mean?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've twice been to pub quizzes where our team's been forced to split in two. Both times, one of those teams has then won it on their own - and I think for one of them, the other team came second, without any conferring.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

What about coming up with a "wacky" and "zany" name for your team, perhaps one that's loosely based on the day's headlines?
-- Hello Sunshine (fiver_the_bunn...), November 2nd, 2005 12:40 PM. (Hello Sunshine) (later) (link)

isn't that mandatory?!!??!?!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost were there only two teams?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite pub quiz team name ever (not mine, sadly) was on the day of the car crash: "Die Di Dodi, Dodi Di Die"

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

What about coming up with a "wacky" and "zany" name for your team, perhaps one that's loosely based on the day's headlines?

There will always be at least one team with a name like that; one team with a rude name; one team with a blunt real name like "Fred"; and one team called something Monkey(s). They are the rules.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost were there only two teams?

Aha, no.

You were *there* at the other one.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Only fools do pub quizzes. Real live cats understand how quiz machines work and just rub £20 out of them each time they roll up for a drink.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dom, what triv machines can you drop a straight 20 on nowadays? I usually just pop over to it every so often to top up me beer money.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Winning Lines if you can find it was always the king of the straight £20. Pepsi Chart Challenge. Top of the Pops 2, Cluedo, and Frog In A Blender are all capable of a £20 on pure skill without having to rely on luck (unlike, say, Millionaire or Bullseye). Some swear blind that Silver Falls is the king of the modern quiz machines and is their mealticket, but I can't take from it at all.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

The new Itboxes are underloaded with good games though. Shit like Fantastic Four and that horrid Greatest Game In The World thing are only good for losing money on and giving the machine a slap afterwards.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Pepsi seems to be disappearing, I haven't had a Cluedo 20 for months, and I don't think I've seen Frog do a 20 jackpot. Millionaire can drop a 20 on pure skill easier than any of those, tho I haven't done one for a bit. Got a tenner the other week and bottled out.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

The £20 questions on Millionaire are surprisingly easy when you get to them, it's those £64,000 questions about hometowns that'll throw you.

Frog actually only does a £10 jackpot, my mistake, but that may be the easiest tenner you'll ever earn in your life. Literally, I've been on the £10 round with that and the questions have been the level of 200 and 300 questions on Millionaire.

What's your Cluedo tactic? Avoid the corner rooms and wait for the secret passage bonus?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Plus there's the problem of how fun Hex Appeal is, and how little money it'll win you.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also: the anniversary edition of Trivial Pursuit is pretty easy... is it just me or has Haunted House started paying out a lot less since its re-emergence?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to go for the fiver first on Cluedo, light up the 6 suspects without taking a room. I've never played tactically for the jackpot, but I'm getting lazy, drunk and inattentive in my triv playing dotage.

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

It is still worth tracking down Winning Lines machines when you can because it's just so easy....

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen Winning Lines.

Our local has Pepsi Chart and Stand & Deliver paying out every time you play them. OK, every time I play them. Dom OTM about Hex Appeal, I don't think I've taken more than a fiver out of it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's the old trick with Stand and Deliver (and Football Crazy, but not Cryptic Clues, which all run along the same format) where, if the pay out is £1 for 100 points and £2 for 200 points, deliberately getting the answers wrong, so the next game the machine has a seizure and basically throws money at you (£1 for every 100 point increment). This only works once a reset for each machine though, so tragedy lurks at every corner.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

this is a fascinating insight into the working minds of today's pub gambling elite, but we're getting off the point here!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxxxxxpost forest pines.

was this at the shepherd?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

A pub in Paisley recently reintroduced the fantastic Weakest Link machine the other week. I chinned it for £20 and they removed it the next day. This is the *third* Weakest Link machine I've taken the Jackpot out of and gone to the pub the next day to find it gone. However it was nice, for nostalgia, to have it back.

Tops I've taken out of Fantastic Four has been a fiver - it's quite shit, isn't it. However for one glorious (and bored) week my name was at the top of every Football Crazy and Stand and Deliver scoreboard in Paisley.

What's Winning Lines?

Oh, yeah, pub quizzes piss me off now. Mostly due to other people and most of the reasons stated by other pub quiz rockists upthread (I am a total pub quiz rockist).

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I once had 17 of the top 20 scores on the original Q Music quiz on the Bowland student union bar at Lancaster Uni.

Winning Lines is on the standalone quiz machines along with stuff like Pepsi, Millionaire, Hangman 2, and those weird gem and mining puzzle games that mad people play. Based on the old national lottery Winning Lines game, it basically has twelve really easy numerical questions before you go onto the cashboard, which can be as little as 10 correct answers for the jackpot.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I run the pub quiz in our local. We usually have about 8-10 teams but have had up to 20.

At what point does a team become too big?
I'm not actually bothered about big teams unless they're ludicrously big (like 12 people or something). I think big teams are actually less efficient as they end up arguing about the answers.

Is texting a mate really such a bad thing?
Yes. If I catch you doing this (or using a diary etc) I'll deduct you points and embarrass you in front of the rest of the pub by pointing out what you've done.
Swapping answers with other teams = good
And that too! (mind you, a bit pointless in our quiz as there's only one prize)

What's the correct course of action when you're doing a pub quiz and you get the answer right but the quiz man says it's wrong even though you know you're wrong and he's right?

You're still wrong :)

No, actually, I've not had this happen many times, but usually
(a) it's obviously an error because loads of teams have got a different answer, in which case I'll void the question
(b) there's actually two (or more) correct answers instead of one, in which case I'll take either

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Please explain to me these quiz machines where you can win money?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

They are machines. You put money in. You answer some quiz questions. You get more money back out (if you are a smart-arse clever-clogs like what we on this thread are). You find them in pubs. They subsidise my weekend drinking.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I run occasional table quizzes and my rule is that if I say '€40 for a table of 4 people', it means it's €40 if you turn up with one, two, three or four people. Any more than that and I'm going to charge you an extra tenner per person. It's for charidee, you know.

I will only entertain answer queries from people if they approach the table quietly and discuss the problem in a reasonable, non-combative way that doesn't make me look like shit in front of people. Otherwise, you're out of the pool.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

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