QuizList

We begin with a quiz for every night of the week (on which quizzes usually happen) in Weymouth:
Rendezvous, Town Bridge, St Thomas Street, DT4 8AW:  Sunday quiz, £50 prize for winning team.
The Swan (Wetherspoons), 41/43 Thomas Street,  DT4 8EH:  Monday quiz, ‘Redtooth’ type format, £50 for winning team.
The Rock, 41 Abbotsbury Road,  DT4 0AQ:  Tuesday quiz.
The Black Dog, 3 St. Mary Street, DT4 8PB:  Wednesday quiz.
Moby Dick’s (formerly the Cork and Bottle), 85 The Esplanade,  DT4 7AT:  Thursday quiz.

Thanks also for the clarification on The Castle, Pentonville Road, in Islington:  it does run a Tuesday quiz, which apparently used to be on Mondays.

And good news for fans of my Thirteen Questions challenge:  a new one will begin next week, with suitably crap prize.

Not so good news for the person who went up to answer the following jackpot question (I wasn’t there so I am paraphrasing the question) ‘Ed Ricketts who did something something was the real-life basis for which character created by which Nobel Prize Winner?’  (The answer is ‘Doc’ in ‘Cannery Row’ by John Steinbeck., and I believe that you had to get all parts right.)  Not alone did no one in the pub know it, I suspect that no-one within the  hemisphere knew it.

The good weather has brought low attendance at some quizzes usually packed to the gills, so good advice at the moment might be to concentrate on those which have a fixed prize (rather than something dependent on cash takings….).