Archives » July, 2008

QL: tough on quizzes, tough on the causes of quizzes

Some newly notified quizzes, not a lot of detail so please check out before you set out: Brookhouse Pub, Kingshill Avenue, Hayes (may not be regular quizzes). Sun and Doves, 61-63 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9NS, 020 7733 1525 (Wednesdays). The White Hart, 96 Church Road, London SE19 2EZ (Mondays). A lot of pubs don’t [...]

Angie Baby

Yes, Pat Logue’s quiz in Sheephaven Bay has started, and thanks for letting me know. News also that the Larrik is no more (Sundays, Stroud Green/Finsbury Park). I know I passed a few pubs advertising quizzes which were new to me this week and as I was pretty far east and pretty far north on [...]

Mornington Crescent

Once in the early days of QuizList I wrote that I had had more good nights in the Oxford Arms (Camden Town), the Half Moon (Essex Road) and the Shepherds (Highgate) than in all the other quiz pubs put together; I think because with all of those pubs the quiz was only incidental to the [...]

Rainy Saturday

… and quizzing has definitely hit its summer lull.  I was at only one regular quiz this week and numbers were well down; I hear from my mates who go to a lot more that numbers were down in other venues as well.  Start of the summer holidays, some good weather, and sport (I suppose). [...]