QuizList

The Bull and Last, Highgate Road, NW5 1QS, has an early-starting (7/7.30 or so)  Sunday  quiz, Redtooth format with decent prizes (£50 for the winning team and booze for runners-up).  I am, however, aware of a few comments on the difficulty of getting served, so maybe this is a victim of its own success.

The Bailey, Holloway Road, has stopped its long-running Monday night Fat Controller quiz after many years and (certainly in the earlier stages of this quiz) many good times and good wins there.  I’m sure Eddie’s quiz will be missed by all.

Quizmaster call:  a pub in Holborn needs a QM for an early (5 pm) and extremely short quiz on the night of Monday 27 July – if you are at all interested let me know and I will forward your details.

More this week of impossible jackpot questions and the contrasting pub cultures where they flourish.  I heard tales of three impossible jackpot questions being asked to stony silence in a pub this week, and when no-one could answer the QM patronised the audience with  ‘Oh, I’m surprised none of you know the answer to this, because X was the grandson of Y who did some totally unremarkable thing in 1952…’ or suchlike.  In contrast, an impossible question on a minority sport asked in another pub provoked roars of laughter from the audience.  However, the net result is still the same;  the jackpot rolls over till someone gets lucky or an easy question is slipped in to pacify the masses.

Second of my thirteen questions, leading to the one answer,  is:

2.  Divisible by nine.

Loved the early guesses:  ‘Porridge the TV series’ and ‘The QuizList website’.  If you look below, last week’s clue was ‘Is no-one in charge here?’  So the person with the temerity to guess ‘The QuizList website’ could only have been Carl, the co-organiser of the site.  Is either answer right?   Let’s wait and see.