Archives » December, 2008

The Grassy Noel

Last post of 2008!  And what a year it’s been.  First of all, a huge thanks to Carl who does all the technical stuff on the site and this year gave it its new look.  I think he took the photo at the top as well.  Second thanks to everyone who has mailed me details [...]

One versus three alternatives

Two postings this week, will post next week as usual though there probably won’t be much to report.  And there will most likely be the usual QuizList review of the quizzing year.  This used to be the QuizList Awards with categories you’d expect like ‘QuizMaster of the Year’ but others also including ‘The High Moral [...]

Berlin

… was the most original answer I received to the ‘mystery city’ question, but unfortunately not correct.  Still, the answerer had hit on something which not all of you realised – the city isn’t in the UK…
 
Let’s recap.  Back in October I realised I had been in London thirteen years.  I decided to set thirteen [...]

A load of balls

Watch out for occasional updates over the next week if I find any Christmas quizzes.  Others, as we know, are affected by people’s holidays and bank holidays, and here’s a message from Eddie the not so Fat Controller about his quizzes (Bailey etc):
‘I shall be away from Saturday 20th December until Sunday 4th January 2009. [...]

Every Loser Wins

Congratulations to NC for his jackpot win on Thursday (’On what river does Perth stand?’) and thank heavens I didn’t go up as I was the only person who didn’t know the answer.  Sign of the times:  big cash jackpots are not being stored in pubs much any more and we got our winnings by [...]