QuizList

Next update on or before Saturday 13 June – I’m away.

Which is why it’s nice to start with a new addition to the listings:

The Nightingale, 51 Nightingale Lane, Wanstead, E11 2EY
8:30pm every Tuesday
Free to enter, a drink for the winners.
This quiz also has mixed theme rounds and guest quizmasters.  Thanks to the correspondent who sent that in and apologies that my reply was a blank e-mail;  the mail server associated with this site is playing up again and I never know the mails are blank until I get the puzzled replies.  I’m seeing the technical genius behind this site, Carl, soon so hopefully he will have some suggestions about sorting it out.

I’m beginning to think there’s material for a PhD thesis on pub quiz team names.  I mentioned some last week which were well past their sell-by date;  then there’s the category of bad taste names based on news events (as in one a couple of years ago – fill in the blanks ‘***** ****** in the afternoon – he’s busy in the evenings’.  Mystified?  Mail me and risk a blank reply…).  Then there’s a whole subset of names which are guaranteed to annoy the particular QM overseeing the evening’s festivities, like ‘Let him have it, Chris’, a filmic reference which has resonances in terms of a notoriously hard to win jackpot…  QMs are fair game, and think of all the grief they give us;  digs at other teams probably shouldn’t be attempted, but I have heard a few, mostly aimed at those perceived as ‘professionals’. Pot and kettle, I would think.

Somewhat annoying are those names with obviously deep significance for the team themselves, which shouldn’t bother the rest of us but tend to intrude into our consciousness – for instance, who’s Mrs Neville?

Anyway, I wil leave you to ponder all this, as I am off once more – which reminds me of an apocryphal newspaper headline from many years ago, following the exploits of a well-known explorer:  ‘Doctor Fuchs off again’.  Now, that wouldn’t be such a bad team name….