Pole Star

The Royal Star, 220 City Road, EC1V 2PN, 020 7253 7323.
Tuesday quiz, with 5 rounds of questions and beer/food voucher prizes.

The North Pole, 13-15 North Pole Road, W10 6QH, 020 8964 9384.
Monday quiz, alcohol and food prizes.

Don’t forget about the ‘Quizmaster wanted’ in Borough, as I have more details.

Let’s press on with more clues about the mystery city.

7.  An area of the city was mentioned in a UK No 1 hit of the late 70s.

8.  The city is not London, but has two areas with the same names as parts of London.  Coincidentally, they both start and finish with the same letter of the alphabet.

I suppose Christmas quizzes will be starting soon.  Don’t forget to memorise what your true love gave you on the various days of Christmas and the names of some geezer’s reindeer – those two are dead certs.  Oh, and where St Nicholas was Bishop of.  I’ll see can I find any good links to sites with this sort of trivia and keep you posted (post early).

Strange fact learned from a quiz machine this week:  Jimmy Hoffa’s middle name was ‘Riddle’.  Well, maybe.