QuizList

The Lord Palmerston, 33 Dartmouth Park Hill, NW5 1HU, 020  7485 1578, runs a quiz but someone has neglected to tell me what night.  Areas like Dartmouth Park (a little bit off the beaten track and a good pub culture) are frequently good for quizzes and in the past I attended the Dartmouth Arms quiz and enjoyed it – any news whether that is still going?

For some reason, I started thinking about what my least favourite things to do with quizzes are.  Aside from the obvious cheating and fiddling results, I think I could happily consign the following to Room 101:

1.   Rounds on advertising slogans.

2.   Picture rounds with bank and other logos.

3.   Female quiz players who scream at every correct answer (I won’t have what she’s having….)

4.   Quizmasters who try to prove that they’re cleverer than anyone else by setting ridiculous questions and complimenting their friends for getting them right.

5.   Team names which were mildly funny the first time you heard them but have tended to pall over the years (‘Norfolk and Chance’, ‘Quizteam Aguilera’ etc).

6.   Quiz questions on an area which is of intense personal interest to the QM but to no-one else (the winner here being the infamous ‘The next round is about my girlfriend’).

7.   People who say ‘It’s only a bit of fun’.

8.   A newly discovered (by me) medical syndrome called ‘Quizmaster’s Tourette’s’.  This is where the QM has to repeat particular words or syllables in a jocular fashion.  ‘And now, question 10.  Who – WHO – who was the last man to walk on the moon?’

9.   And finally….

10. Mister (Bastard) Men picture rounds.

Hope these are not too dissimilar to yours.  And now I am off to watch the rugby;  I have long warned NC not to follow a particular country at sport as they will always break your heart; let’s hope that for once our expectations will be confounded….