QuizList

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. Normal Quiz service starts with The Bailey 5th Jan 9.00pm’.

Enjoy your break!

Now, where were we with quiz machine games?  There is a large sub-category which I would term Games Played by NC Which Appear To Go On For Ever And During Which I Sit It Out With a Drink.  These include ‘Golden Boot’, ‘Bullseye’ (I just don’t get what you’re supposed to do with the darts), and that old faithful, ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’.  The last of these has, I believe, questions rising from easier to harder (except I don’t think there’s much of a difference).  Then if you want to cash out you get some silly thing like four pictures of ‘celebs’ and you have to put them in the order they were born.  Result:  failure.

Speaking of of tv-based games, there are some good ones, and next week I’ll attempt to explain what I think is the best of the lot.  But ‘Golden Balls’ is passable, with decent questions.  You have to hit ‘balls’ placed in front of contestants and answer questions, and I find that sometimes you are hitting the balls so hard that you haven’t notice you are being prompted to eliminate a contestant and have eliminated someone who’s holding some money.  If you get through to the cash phase, anticipate a ‘Killer’ ball, which will slash your winnings, towards the end.  And if I haven’t explained it very well, that’s because I don’t really know what I’m doing, but it’s still sometimes possible to win a few quid…

Mystery city, clue 13:  yes, the final clue!  Get your guesses in!  The city’s oldest pub is named after an ancient prophetic device which apparently could answer every question you posed it.  Which means it would be a useful mascot in pub quizzes.  The question that most frequently causes confusion is ‘Whose round is it?’