Archives » April, 2009

Bonnie and Albert

Looks like there’s some quiz activity in : The Prince Albert, Royal College Street, Camden Town,  NW1 0QS, 020 7485 0270. I’ve seen references to a Sunday night quiz there with an early-ish start and good prizes, but can’t find a reference to it on their website. However, there is mention of a wine tasting [...]

Here comes the science part – concentrate…

On a slow week for quizzes, I’ll return to a topic I promised you a long time ago to revisit.  That is the link (if any) between being good at quizzes and general intelligence.  In other words, if you are a quiz whiz, does it necessarily mean that you are also a brainbox? The simple [...]

A Tale of Two Quizzes

My mistake.  The two quizzes I mentioned last week weren’t both looking for contestants – one is the online quiz from More4, for which you might have seen quite a good ad on TV with Tony Robinson et al as a justifiably-hated ever-winning somewhat smug quiz team who resort to desperate measures.  Some of you [...]

Any D:Ream will do

‘How many people were in the band D:Ream?’ is one of those quiz questions you are bound to get wrong, whatever you put, as there are so many alternative answers.  There are others, which I will alert you to when I think of them. E-mail seems to be fixed and the Lord Palmerston quiz is [...]