Pub quizzes in Glasgow on a Thursday night

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Since there seems to be a lot of people on this board from Glasgow, can anyone recommend the above? Exact location unimportant, just as long as it's reasonably well run and in a decent pub. Cheers

― Iain Macdonald (the_article_don), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've noticed that the 13th Note bar run a pop quiz, I'm sure an ILX team cld do quite well there

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is very specific

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I only know of a Sunday quiz.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

See:

http://www.dpquiz.co.uk

for umpteen quizzes per week.

― Andrew Munro (andyboyo), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I know some in Paisley, which is probably of little help.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

The West End Bar, Blantyre. 22:30 till chucking out.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

what a weird thread. i go to one at Crosslands on Queen Margaret Drive on a thursday.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the help. I was reminiscing about a really good pub quiz that me and some friends used to go to on a Thursday night (1996 ish) at the Church on the Hill ( now Bar Buddha ) in Langside. I have a day off on Friday, and obviously I live in Glasgow; I knew from reading here that Glasgow is well represented on this board, so putting all of that together...

Thanks again

― MC Conrad pumped my uncle (the_article_don), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

The Hillington do a good one (I may be biased 'cause we accidentally came second on Thursday night) the drink is pretty crap as is the atmosphere but the questions and content's quite good.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to go to Gerry's Quiz in the Crosslands once, but it was called off cos Gerry got phoned into work at the last minute. Is it any good?

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

they do one in the Brunswick Cellars (is it still called that?) on Sauchiehall St on a monday and you have the chance to trouser sixty of your scottish pounds!

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

bloody hell - THURSDAY!

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

I used to go to the one in Crosslands when I was a student (which was over ten years ago). I'm glad it's still going. Are there still weird obsessives who sit in the corner writing the answers to every question in a book which they then use for cross-referencing against other questions?

I've been to the one in the Hillington! It was on a Sunday then though. Has it changed?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight I saw a sign up in The Duke (on Duke Street) which said "Pub Quiz - Thursday" and I thought of this thread! Their walls are covered in mirrors engraved with the names of their victorious dominoes teams, so perhaps some similar accolade may occur should you win the pub quiz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

i once went to a karaoke night at the lamp-post bar on duke street.

brrr.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

(also: at 10pm tonight, just outside the pavilion, i met the WORLD'S DRUNKEST MAN. he'd seemingly lost his jacket and all he could say/slur was "travelodge?" i tried pointing him in the right direction but he was last seen trying to get into my office. ah well. good on him; he'd probably do a better job of ru [rest of this post discontinued on lawyer's advice])

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

~~I still haven't been to that pub on Duke Street owned by the guy who owns the Halt.~~
I still haven't been to a pub on Duke Street.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Which is bad because I've lived in Dennistoun for four years and nine months.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

You're not missing anything.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

my dennistoun friends have advised me to avoid the pubs on duke st

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I used to grab a pint in the Crown Creighton(sp?) before Celtic matches but it's now stupidly busy so I go into the aforementioned Duke instead. It's alright I suppose - quiz machine and big sports screen and domino championship mirrors and Cold Guinness whether you like it or not.

I've been into a couple of the others when I used to visit a friend on Garthland Drive and I'd say your Dennistoun friends are about right.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

the lamp-post was near the high street end and had no windows. it sold regal cigs and that was it. oh, and the bogs were a very odd layout. dunno if it's still there.

still, it was my erstwhile colleage big bob's local, and he was ace. fuck's sake, dude once got run over by a land-rover. and the karaoke was actually quite good.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Has nobody been to the one owned by the Halt guy? It is meant to be pretty good and is the pub I'd go to if somebody would go with me. Ailsa and Onimo, maybe you should give me a call if you're drinking pre-match some time. Oh, and well done for last night btw (not that you had anything to do with it, but you know).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was in the Lamp Post once. We were going on a work "fact finding tour" of the Tennent's Brewery and the Lamp Post was the only place nearby open for us (about 9am, I think) to get a pre-tour drink.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I missed some words out there :-/

Oh well, you get the drift, I'm a pisshead.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

you can't whack an early-morning drink. i've done a couple of 6am bars in edinburgh - although i suppose i hadn't been to bed, so it doesn't count.

crack-of-dawn FAP, anyone?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Crack-of-dawn FAP sounds excellent*! Madchen, I shall call you next time we are pre-match drinking in Duke Street, but it's never usually a good time for a drink and a chat due to excessive amounts of Celtic fans and us rushing off to the match. And one of us having to drive.

I quite like the Duke even though their barmaids are completely fucking useless at pouring a pint of Guinness and they have the worst jukebox in the world and they don't have Premiership Plus so the pub across the road is getting to watch football with their pint and we get racing or VH1 Classic.

* it doesn't really, but are we going to do a pre-Xmas FAP sometime? NOT MONO.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

yes we are. when's good?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not ATP weekend. Otherwise I'm pretty much free all around, though schoolnights are a bit problematic.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you not a lady of leisure these days? :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, leisuring doesn't pay well enough :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

bugger. that was my next plan. oh well. so when are we doing this?

next thursday would be very good for me.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, that's a schoolnight. No can do. Job = miles away and I have to take the car and I have teh fear about driving the morning after ruinous drinking and I can't imagine how this won't be ruinous. I could do the Thursday after (the 7th) as I'm off to ATP on the Friday so get a bit of a lie in.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

IT IS A DATE.

details TBC.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

OK. We should take this over to the Glasgow thread. But I'm going to bed so I shall do so later.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

can i suggest McSorleys? might be a nice middle ground between indie hangout (mono) and places you might fear a stabbing.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

or what about that place that looks nice (but doesn't have a name above it, just some kinda colourist portrait thing) at charing cross between the kooh-i-noor indian restaurant and another indian restaurant? might have been bar jedi at some point or maybe not. it's got windows, the bar jedi didn't have windows.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 November 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good pub.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 23 November 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

bukowski's

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

or similar

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like the porch

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

chinaski's

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

or similar

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

i was told it's "where the dudes hang out". this is apparently a good thing, although i remain unconvinced.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

hanging out - classic or dude?

― Onimo has bone for the pink overload! (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

The gents has a fucking amazing hand dryer called THE ELIMINATOR.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Or similar.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

THE XECUTIONER

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

or similar

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

The gents has a fucking amazing hand dryer called THE ELIMINATOR.

i discovered one of these in molly malone's the other day. it's kinda frightening. mind, i'm a big wuss.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

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