QuizList

The Chancery Bar and Kitchen, 314 – 316 Lillie Road, Fulham,  SW6 7PS, 0871 9611802:  Monday quiz, apparently free.
The Crown, High Street, Harmondsworth, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 0AJ, 020 8759 1007:  fortnightly quiz on Wednesdays.
The Poet, 82 Middlesex Street,  EC2M E1 7EZ, 020 7422 0000: pop quiz fortnightly on Tuesdays.

Are pubs fighting the recession with more quizzes? Possibly.  However, what I usually hear about at this state of the year, and am not hearing about at the moment, is Christmas quizzes (some of which are usually good and have better prizes).  Are they a victim of cuts?  Anyway, would love to hear about some if you have any details.

To continue on quiz machine games.   I wasn’t out much this week as I was sick, so I have no examples of ‘humorous’ questions from ‘Pub Quiz’.  So, to cheer me up, let’s talk about my favourite quiz machine game:  ‘Trivia for Dummies’ (see above for its subtitle).  You put in your 50p, and only then do you see how many levels you have to get through to win a quid (or even two quid, which I can vaguely remember from a machine in Sheffield…),  Beyond that are some theoretical sums such as £10.  You answer questions and progress through various categories, using lifelines wisely, and when you reach a cash amount you have what seems like about 5 seconds to pick the odd one out among a screenful of those little guys from the ‘For Dummies’ books.  Now, sometimes it’s obvious like his eyes are melting off his face, and sometimes it’s really sneaky like something in the writing, and sometimes I don’t see it at all and we crash out.  I really like this game, possibly because it’s fast and furious and the tasks are varied,  with a sense of achievement if you manage to get through the ‘odd one out’, but it seems to be vanishing off machines so presumably it wasn’t making enough money.  Come to think of it, neither was I.

Mystery city, clue 11:  The most popular tourist attraction in the city is a house, but possibly not the kind of house you would first think of.